Steven Salido Fisher explores questions of resilience and meaning. Drawing wisdom from his Catholic faith and Mexican heritage, these questions have led him to disaster relief work in Alaska, and later to deeply beautiful residencies in Casa Juan Diego and the Su Casa Catholic Worker — shelters dedicated to sanctuary for immigrant women and men from Latin America. Now a hospital chaplain at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, he writes about his experiences as an essential piece of his vocational mosaic.

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Perspective

Oblivion and salvation in the ark of the honeybees

Perspective: A tamed nature is not what I ask of the honeybees to be in their company. Allowing them to be wild does not change the fact that I love them — on some days, even envy them.

Perspective

A hospital chaplain reflects on the power of memory during COVID-19

Perspective: I'm writing because it's been three months since Rodolfo died. I write to show you a complicated, extraordinary life. I want to reveal what I know of that life to you and how it ended.

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On the power and promised protection of La Virgen de Guadalupe

Perspective: The story of La Virgen de Guadalupe as I know it begins at my abuela's bedside, where, as my siblings hummed Santa Marias beside me, I'd slouch my posture and begin counting the stars on La Virgen's cloak.