As a chaplain at OHSU, Fernando Serna daily helps patients and families deal with distress and the concomitant decisions that crisis, especially ones with vital health concerns, brings. The brokenness and beauty in these hospital rooms reverberates behind his articulation on what grounds his attentive healing and caring ministry. Some of us may think of scripture as antiquated or irrelevant, but the inspired words of the gospel came not just in remembering what Jesus did but what the community who remembered was experiencing in their everyday lives — how Jesus’ Spirit and his dream of Kingdom abided with them even under excruciating circumstances.
Please listen as Fernando helps form us as ones ready to go into the “field hospital” as Pope Francis beckons us. Receive how the “finger of God” directs his life choices thereby helping him guide others through crucial life changes. Like Fernando, we are baptized for “ambassadorship,” a servanthood of love and forgiveness.