Vocations in a wounded century

»Hurtado spoke with passion about something that he himself experienced and felt filled his life with meaning and energy.« These lucid words of Francisco Jiménez contain, implicitly, the appropriate method for studying Father Hurtado: his words and actions are always in close dialogue with his own inner experience. His life is a dialogue between the external and the internal; between history and spirit. The spiritual richness and solidity of Alberto Hurtado, far from making him »impermeable« to the history that surrounds him, allow him to »plunge" into it with great freedom: he was deeply impacted by what was happening around him, allowed himself to be questioned, and sought to elaborate a personal synthesis from certain basic convictions of faith that accompanied him always.