“Die before you die”

― C.S. Lewis

During my year of studying Classical Humanities at our seminary in Spain, I was edified by a particular seminarian. He was an exceptional soccer player, perhaps one of our best, yet one day when I was made captain of the team, he told me that he would stay in goal for the whole game, because he could see that the other young men were restless and needed to run around. He did not enjoy playing goalie, but this was typical of his hidden charity. He was always thinking of others. The next day, that seminarian left on a road trip and never returned…a truck hit his car and he did not survive. He had gone to Confession the night before and I only heard great stories about his random acts of charity and his cheerfulness from the seminarians who knew him well. Br. Eduardo "died before he died"…what a witness!