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by Irma Zaleski

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A number of years ago, I spent two weeks at Madonna House. Although I had already known the community for a few years and thought I knew them quite well, my short stay made me realize how little, in fact, I had known or understood how demanding and difficult their life could be.

And so, at the end of the two weeks, when I was saying good-bye to Jean Fox, who was then the director general of women, I could not resist asking her a question that had occurred to me several times during my stay.

“How was it possible,” I asked her, “that living so closely together you have not yet murdered each other?”

She laughed and said, “We are severely tempted at times, but we try not to forget what our foundress often said: a community can only survive if it is based on constant forgiveness.”

Excerpted from Restoration, March 2010

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