LF: When did you first know that God loved you?
AW: I can’t name a “first” time, but a vivid experience of that realization came during my senior year (Catholic high school) retreat at the Jesuit Retreat House outside of Atlanta. In late-night prayer time in the Blessed Sacrament chapel (in typical late 70s style, strewn with pillows for sitting on the floor), I was seized by the truth of God’s love for me in a powerful way.
LF: Describe a prayer practice that is meaningful to you.
AW: Lectio Divina as well as the Mass. In the Mass, I am acutely aware not only of God’s presence but of my communion with God’s people in that space, all over the world and through space and time.
LF: What’s something you’ve learned from the Bible or from the Mass or the Sacraments that has always stayed with you?
AW: As I said above, the Communion of Saints.
