No Easy Matter
June 14th, 2023 by G.
Mosen Francisco had remarked to Ignacio one day that living with a saint was no easy matter. Ignacio had answered him: “Dear Mosen, living with anyone, even a normal person, is no easy matter.”
-Gironella, Even the Cypresses Believe in God (Harriett de Onis trans., 1958)
In Spanish,
Mosén Francisco había comentado un día con Ignacio que la convivencia con un santo era difícil. Ignacio había contestado:
—Querido mosén, es difícil la convivencia con cualquiera, con una persona normal, con quien sea.
I was tickled.