It was during my Tertianship in 2010, the last stage of formal formation of Jesuit Life, that I had a real
cannonball experience like that of St. Ignatius, which totally changed my direction from building and repairing
people’s broken houses into repairing the broken and wounded hearts and minds of people and thus building
their lives.
The author is the Superior of the Jesuits of Kandy district,
Sri Lanka Jesuit Province.
