By March 12th rumors became reality, and we have spent most of Lent at home dealing with the constant threat of PowerSchool outages as well as the new phenomenon of Zoom bombing. I wasn’t very far into my reading of The Long Loneliness before talk at school began to center on the possibility of shutting down for a few weeks, if not months. On Ash Wednesday, as I opened this year’s book and began to read I could never have imagined what lay ahead for me, for all of us at Saint Ignatius, and for the entire world.
The Long Loneliness, the autobiography of Servant of God Dorothy Day, is always a good book to pull off the shelf, but this Lent it resonates in ways that the co-founder of the Catholic Worker movement could never have imagined. This year I chose a work that was more relevant than I ever could have imagined. At the beginning of each Lent I look through the shelves of books in our home to find some classic text from the Catholic spiritual tradition to read throughout the penitential season.
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