On this day

1-8-1974

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Saint Josemaría arrived in Ecuador, South America. He was unable to see anybody until August 10 because he was suffering from altitude sickness, or soroche as it is called in Quito. Somebody said how sorry they were that the 3000 meter altitude was giving him such a hard time. He replied, “But I’m having a great time here in Quito!” “But the altitude, the height, Father…,” they said. He answered, “I’m not a man of the heights, so Quito has been no joke. But it was our Lord, who knows when he’s joking, and who plays with us. Look, the Holy Spirit says so: ludens coram eo omni tempore, ludens in orbe terrarum, (‘playing before him always, playing in his inhabited world,’ Proverbs 8:30-31) – throughout the world he is playing with us, like a father plays with a little child.”