Regarding his experience with the disease, he explained that you can think about what happened on two levels.
“Initially I took it like an adolescent, as a challenging rematch: from being prostrate to learning to walk again, to speak, perhaps it was a question of a bit of arrogance: who is going to keep me still now, after having been through this?”
“Then one gradually changes and what remains is: This difficulty is nothing compared to others, and it seems to me a wiser way to look at it. I really find it very enlightening not to take it so much as a rematch.”
At one point during his ordeal, Alberione recalled, “I prayed that if I wasn't going to be a priest that I would die.”
The day they explained to him the complex situation he was going through due to his health, he recounted, “before I fell asleep I said: so I'm not going to be a priest.”
“The fact that I woke up and assimilated the days that I had spent in a coma was an answer. It has certainly been a turning point in my life, a starting point,” he admitted.
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