Receive Lord My Entire Freedom...
This prayer of self offering by St. Ignatius of Loyola struck me earlier this week as I read it after Mass. This prayer is the epitome of my grandma Kathy's journey with our Lord. She has been on a journey with Alzheimer's disease for years. She is in the final stages of this disease and just yesterday had another one of her seizures that have come with this illness. She has been on my heart every moment since I got the text about her seizure yesterday morning. When I was fourteen years old, I sat on the floor watching my grandma talking to my mom about her recent diagnosis. She was wiping away tears while saying that if God wanted this for her, then she knew He would bring good from it. I witnessed her walk into the Sacrament of Confession soon afterwards and knew she was going in to tell the priest that she knew she needed forgiveness but could not even remember what her failings had been. She gave God everything! As a young teenager, I could not fully understand...