USA MIDWEST PROVINCE SPRING 2018

A Jesuit Pope Also in This Issue: Celebrating Five Years n Becoming a Yogi in Action n with Praying for the Church and Society n What is First Studies?

Dear Friends,

Sixty years ago, a young man from Argentina named Jorge Mario Bergoglio entered the Society of as a novice. Fifty-five years later, he became the first-ever Jesuit pope. In the five years since he was elected, Pope Francis has energized the faithful and people of all faiths through his warm, humble leadership and his care for all people — especially those at the margins — and for the earth itself. I was honored to meet Pope Francis in 2016 at the ’ 36th and hope that you enjoy our cover story on him, which highlights how his “Jesuit DNA” shapes the way he leads and ministers.

In this issue, you also will read articles from Jesuits who are in the world, finding new ways to reach people with this message.

Fr. Timothy Meier, SJ, uses his neuroscience background to help United States military personnel suffering from PTSD; Bobby Karle, SJ, has created a ministry blending Yoga and Ignatian spirituality; Eric Immel, SJ, reaches out to students at the innovative Arrupe College of Loyola University Chicago. And two of our nurses who attend to the senior Jesuits, Terry Kult and Jane Glynn-Nass, share a heartfelt first-person observation of men who have given their lives to the service of others and now find joy in praying for the Church and the Society.

This issue also highlights some of the many ways that the Midwest Jesuits and you, our lay collaborators, are making a positive difference in the world.

This Easter season, please know that the Midwest Jesuits pray for you in a special way, and we ask you to pray for us.

Sincerely yours in Christ,

Brian G. Paulson, SJ Provincial, USA Midwest Province

Fr. Brian Paulson, SJ, provincial of the USA Midwest Province, greets Pope Francis at the Society of Jesus’ General Congregation in 2016 ®

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A Jesuit Road Trip Page 4

ON THE COVER Celebrating the fifth anniversary of the first-ever Jesuit pope. Page 8.

In Fall 2014, Fr. Ed Schmidt, SJ, made a personal pilgrimage to Jesuit-named sites throughout the Midwest Province. Enjoy excerpts from his travelogue.

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Page 13 Page 16 Missioned to Pray for the Church Reaching Students Where They Are JOIN THE JESUIT and Society. As Associate Dean of Student Success PRAYER COMMUNITY! It’s true that Jesuits never retire. In their at Arrupe College, Eric Immel, SJ, says senior years, Jesuits take on a special it is important to encounter students as JesuitPrayer.org mission: to pray for the Church and “Children of God.” Society. ■■Daily Scripture, Ignatian reflection, and Ignatian prayer ■■Free iPhone, iPad, and ALSO IN THIS ISSUE Android Apps ■■Submit a prayer request News...... 2–3 Formation ...... 14–15 In Memoriam...... 19 ■■Download prayer cards A Heart on Fire...... 6 On the Frontiers ...... 17 Spirituality...... 20 ■■Free daily email A Jesuit’s Journey...... 7 Assignments...... 18 Advancement...... 21 NEWS

St. Ignatius Cleveland Baseball St. Camillus Senior Jesuits Move Internship Offers Youth Ministry, Team to Compete in Italy into Their New Home Communal Living Experience

The baseball team from St. Ignatius Cleveland is excit- Fr. Bob Brodzeller, SJ, and Carol Werner, activities direc- The 2017-18 Ignite Internship team at the Jesuit ed to compete in a tournament in Italy this summer. tor at St. Camillus senior Jesuit healthcare community. Spiritual Center in Milford, Ohio.

The “Baseball Cats” of St. Ignatius High The Jesuits of the St. Camillus senior Jesuit The Jesuit Spiritual Center at Milford, Ohio, School in Cleveland will travel to Italy to healthcare community moved into their new has launched a residential internship program play a four-game exhibition series with the community space in February, a necessary called the Ignite Internship, a program Nettuno Baseball Club during a 10-day stay move made possible by the With Others. designed to give young adults youth ministry from July 19 to 28. For Others. campaign for Senior Jesuit experience, while also providing spiritual Head Baseball Coach and Assistant Healthcare. nourishment for students around the Midwest. Athletic Director Brad Ganor plans to take the The move into a new community space The interns live together in community and Wildcats to a host of historical sites during was necessitated by the historically high serve as members of the youth ministry team, the team’s trip to Italy. The Baseball Cats will numbers of senior Jesuits. As the number which facilitates approximately 75 retreats for visit Pompeii, Rome, Vatican, Coliseum, and of senior Jesuits grew, it became apparent about 6,000 students. participate in Mass at St. Ignatius Loyola that the old St. Camillus community would no “My experience with young adults is that Church in Rome. longer be adequate to provide for current and they want to be involved with something.” “It has been a dream of mine to take an future Jesuits in need of healthcare. says Eric Nichols, assistant director of youth international trip with our baseball program “These men are living longer and, with ministry. “We thought that instead of offering and that dream will become a reality when that, comes increased healthcare needs,” another retreat, we should offer them a we travel to Italy in July 2018,” Ganor said. says Father Brian Paulson, SJ, provincial chance to serve.” “I feel my job is to coach baseball but more of the USA Midwest Province. “There is During the internship program, participants importantly provide opportunities for kids to a significant population of Jesuits in their live in the historic Rock House on the grounds create memories that will last a lifetime. I 70s, 80s, and 90s. Here in the Midwest we of the Jesuit Spiritual Center. The house was think this trip will do that.” project that we will need both the Colombiere renovated in 2017. Previous iterations of the Baseball is quite popular in Nettuno, Center in Michigan as well as St. Camillus in program were part-time and did not include a located 40 miles south of Rome, where U.S. Milwaukee for the next 15-20 years. They will communal living experience. servicemen introduced the game in 1944 and both be full or close to full.” Each intern has their own private room and 1945. Nettuno’s team competes in the Italian The project broke ground on April 14, a community food stipend to cover all meals, Baseball League and plays in the 10,000-seat 2016, and was completed in early 2018. The as well as a personal monthly stipend, and Stadio Steno Borghese. Jesuits residing in the community, with the health insurance. The school’s global education initiatives help of St. Camillus staff and volunteers, were “We’re really looking for someone who increasingly include international trips through fully moved into the new community by the has the desire to live their life for something the Athletic Department. Most notably, St. end of February. more,“ says Stephen Poat, director of ministry. Ignatius rugby team traveled to Ireland in This new community is part of the $25 “If they have youth ministry experience or a 2015, France in 2017, and will head to South million capital campaign With Others. For musical talent, great, but they don’t have to. Africa this April. Others. The campaign is ongoing to raise They have to be looking for the ’.’” For more information, visit Ignatius.edu. funds for the healthcare needs of current and Applications for the 2018-19 year are due future Jesuits. To find out more, read page 13 by April 15. To learn more about the program, and visit WithOthersForOthers.org. visit JesuitSpiritualCenter.com.

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Loyola University Chicago Cristo Rey Milwaukee Moving to New Leaders Named at Jesuit Textbook Wins High Honors at Larger Facility Schools and Universities Vatican

Loyola University Chicago’s Institute of Environmental An artist’s rendering of the new Cristo Rey Milwaukee Tim Reilly, a St. Xavier alum, has returned to his alma Sustainability receives their award in Vatican City. location. mater to be the new president.

Healing Earth, an online textbook from After three years of sustained enrollment There will be many new faces at Jesuit Loyola University Chicago’s Institute of and growth, Cristo Rey Jesuit High School schools and universities this coming fall as Environmental Sustainability, was presented Milwaukee is moving to a larger location. several presidential announcements were with the Vatican’s Expanded Reason Award Students and faculty are expected to move released in recent months. for its innovative approach to answering Pope into the facility in Fall of 2019. In December, Dr. Michael D. Johnson, Francis’ call to care for the Earth. “We have exceeded enrollment Ph.D, was announced as John Carroll “We know how necessary it is to educate projections thanks to tremendous community University’s new president, succeeding interim students as whole persons — as intellectually support for our urban work-study model,” said president Dr. Jeanne M. Colleran, Ph.D. inquisitive, morally developing, and spiritually Cristo Rey Jesuit High School Milwaukee “The passion that the students, faculty, graced human beings,” says Dr. Michael president Andy Stith. “This new building will staff, and alumni have for John Carroll is Schuck, professor of theology at Loyola. “But provide the space and amenities needed to inspiring, and I am grateful for the opportunity we also know that there are few teaching continue providing our students with a high- to lead this community,” says Dr. Johnson. resources that can guide exploration of the quality education and we’re excited about the Later that week, Tim Reilly was announced scientific, ethical, and spiritual dimensions next chapter for Cristo Rey Jesuit High School as the first lay president of St. Xavier High of today’s environmental challenges in one Milwaukee.” School in Cincinnati. Reilly, who is an alum textbook.” This new location is a part of Cristo Rey (1976), parent of alums, and former board Healing Earth is a free-access online Jesuit High School Milwaukee’s long-term member, came to St. Xavier from St. Ignatius textbook in environmental science, ethics, strategic plan. The school is in its third year Loyola School in Cincinnati, where he has spirituality, and action designed for upper level with an enrollment of 324 students and is served as principal since 1995. He succeeded secondary school students, beginning college currently located at 1215 S. 45th Street in Father Timothy Howe, SJ, who was named and university students, and adult learners. West Milwaukee. The new building will be president of Colegio San Ignacio de Loyola, The award, given through a partnership at 1818 W. National Avenue in Milwaukee. the Jesuit secondary school in San Juan, between the Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict The school will welcome its fourth class of Puerto Rico. XVI Vatican Foundation and the University students in the fall of 2018 and will graduate Then, in early January, Fr. William Francisco de Vitoria in , came with the its first class of seniors in the spring of 2019. Verbryke, SJ, was named president of Brebeuf opportunity to meet the pope, participate in Based on current enrollment and admissions Jesuit Preparatory School in Indianapolis, a two-day awards conference, and receive a activity, Cristo Rey Jesuit High School projects succeeding Fr. Jack Dennis, SJ. €25,000 ($29,500) honorarium. a total ongoing enrollment of 500 students. “I look forward to working with the “This pope is my hero” says Dr. Nancy The new location is more than double the exceptional leadership team, faculty, and staff Tuchman, founding dean of the Institute size of the school’s current facility and can to continue Brebeuf’s history of excellence,” of Environmental Sustainability. “He’s not accommodate all the programming required says Fr. Verbryke. only a solid-gold ethical world leader, but for Cristo Rey’s college preparatory and work- For more information on Jesuit schools, he is spot-on about our need to care for our study programming. visit JesuitsMidwest.org/WhatWeDo environment.”

Jesuits | A publication of the Midwest Jesuits | Spring 2018 | Page 3 HISTORY RoadA Jesuit Tr ip Notes from a travelogue by Fr. Ed Schmidt, SJ A monument to Fr. Pierre-Jean De Smet at Lake De Smet in Wyoming don’t know when I picked up my love University, I for maps and geography, but it was I moved on Upper early. In my musings and map scratching to Ann Arbor and then on August 31 to Peninsula. I found a motel and then took a few years ago, I started to notice the the Pere Marquette River at Ludington, a walk. Later I drove out to the Marquette number of places in the U.S. that bear Michigan. The river also widens here to National Museum, which I had seen years the names of Jesuits. There are quite a form Pere Marquette Lake. It was here before. Back in the center of town I found few, some more obvious than others, like that Jacques Marquette died on May 18, – somewhat by accident – Marquette Michigan’s St. Ignace or Marquette. In 1675. Park. A marker there says that this is his the fall of 2014, I made a road trip across Late in the afternoon I visited the burial site. the country to visit the Jesuit-named sites. marker at the place where Marquette was Next morning I went back to the park My first destination was just a bit first buried. It is a large stone cross in with the Marquette grave. Not much off the road to Cincinnati, a suburb of a beautiful setting, though between the room for pious thoughts. The road I’d Louisville called St. Regis Park. St. John shrine and Lake Michigan there are some Francis Regis worked in villages in the new homes. Presuming this is the correct driven on last night was now gone, all mountains of eastern France at a time site of his death, it does not quite fit the ripped up and guarded at each end by of a lot of religious fighting. His grave contemporary descriptions. Besides the flaggers. A phone squawked in the back became a pilgrimage destination, and he new houses along the shore, some sand of an open car across the ripped up became a patron of pilgrims. The hotels dunes have formed between here and the street. I moved on just before the weed that bear his name seem to reflect this, open Lake Michigan. But still it was an whackers came by. though their standards of luxury hardly evocative setting. Heading east along Lake Huron, I reflect this simple man. My next stop was Charlevoix, reached a spot from which I could see After a night with the community at about 140 miles away, with a lot of rain Marquette Island and Marquette Bay. John Carroll to slow things down. But Marquette is a large island in a group once I got there I found along the northern shore of Lake Huron; it a really neat town. It it is a summer home to visitors but has no is named for the Jesuit roads or access other than private boat. Pierre François Xavier From there I went north to Sault Ste. de Charlevoix, who Marie, which has strong connections to traveled out west from Jesuit history. Quebec to map and From Marquette, Michigan, I drove describe what French on to Wisconsin. Marquette is clearly a authorities considered big name around here. Claude Allouez, their possessions. his Jesuit superior out on these missions, I moved on to is not so famous. A monument to his St. Ignace, crossing the memory crowns a hill there. Mackinac Bridge to the If Claude Allouez is not so well known Allouez, Wisconsin

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as Marquette, still he lends his name Allouez and De Pere were the last goals like those places where you see deer to a little town; to two of them to be of the first half of my trip. I left them crossing signs. De Smet is really taken precise, Allouez and New Allouez, and behind with a sense of accomplishment. up by memories and places associated their Allouez Township. Just to see if I stopped in Milwaukee briefly to visit a with Laura Ingalls Wilder. This is where friend at Marquette University High and he was remembered, I asked the young she sets of lot of her book Little House woman at the BP station who he was; she then proceeded on to Chicago. on the Prairie. I went into a gift shop didn’t know. In fact, he worked longer The second half of my journey began than Marquette and in more places. on Sunday, September 21. Just to review just for some directions. The woman Most Jesuits are more like Allouez than my goal and ground rules for deciding there told me about Washington Park Marquette in that their lives are quiet. where to visit, I intended to visit all at the other end of town (not far away!) As I drove on, I thought about how the cities, towns, counties, and also the where there is a statue of De Smet. A little Marquette and the other early explorers geographic features in the United States further on I spotted a tourist info office, found their way here with no paper that are named for Jesuits. Forests, parks, which also seemed to be city hall. Two maps, no Google map search. They had streets, buildings, schools, churches, women there were interested in my quest. local guides who they trusted, much as I etc. are not included since it would be One had written a history of the statue impossible to visit all of these in the two have often asked for directions. It wasn’t and the other had been around for its A monument to Fr. Pierre-Jean De Smet at Lake De Smet in Wyoming Marquette who put his name on the map months I have been given. dedication. The statue is a replica of one directly. It was others who wanted to There had been a lot of reference to in Dendermonde, Belgium, De Smet’s note: He was here! Jacques Marquette in the previous week, On Sunday morning I drove through and I knew there was more to come. birthplace. town to St. Church in De Aptly enough, I passed by Marquette I really got into the English version of Pere, which borders Allouez. The church University. the inscription on the statue: “As a lasting must be near to where Claude Allouez I crossed the Mississippi to Marquette, tribute to the memory of Father Pierre built his mission named for Xavier, Iowa. Marquette’s party was more likely Jean De Smet of the Society of Jesus who though I do not know if the exact spot on the eastern bank at Prairie du Chien, for over 30 years offered his life in the which is near where the Wisconsin flows is known. The location is just above the service of the Indian people traveling far into the Mississippi. This beyond the Rocky Mountains and sharing is where the French group first spied the great Father of with them his deep love of God and Waters that they had heard so Country.” much about. Here they turned So what did I accomplish? I connected south, going with the current. a lot with Jesuit history and the many A statue group in the town ways in which the missionaries connected includes Marquette along with with the people. For every famous one other early explorers. with mountains and lakes and cities I did not go with the named for him, there are hundreds who flow from here, but headed worked with equal zeal and imagination northwest towards today’s destination, De Smet, South to serve the mission. Dakota. De Smet was a If having things named for one were a Belgian Jesuit who traveled as contest, Marquette would certainly win. a missionary through the upper Strangely, Regis is second, ahead of St. Midwest and the Northwest as Ignatius Loyola even if one counts his Charlevoix, Michigan well as the Canadian Rockies. ghost towns. These places are places He was a strong advocate for because the things that happened there last set of the indigenous communities, are remembered in story and monument, rapids before the Fox River empties into and one photo shows him with a group of in admiration and in prayer. The places Green Bay, an arm of Lake Michigan. indigenous leaders at the White House. could be inspiring or maybe just These rapids received the name Les As I drove north towards De Smet Rapides des Pères, “the Rapids of the the next day, I was thinking of how to curiosities, but the miles between them Fathers,” referring to the Jesuits who describe this land. Corn, wheat, other for me were filled with memories and lived there; over the years the name was things growing in the fields. Occasionally prayers and gratitude. And the story goes rendered simply as De Pere. broken by a patch of trees that looked on! @

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Jack McLinden, SJ, and his family, at St. Thomas More in St. Paul, Minnesota You Can Have Me By Jack McLinden, SJ f I saw You on the street / and You said decided to apply to the Jesuits that year. Cincinnati, have all forced me to feel my “Icome and follow me…” My formation so far has been full of weaknesses and vulnerabilities. I could These words from the song You Can experiences that have challenged me only rely on God. In doing so, I learned Have Me by Sidewalk Prophets came to do things I never thought I could do. that God is always with me and that on the radio one summer day. I had just Yet the way God has accompanied me God’s grace can transform even the most graduated from Ignatius High has deepened my desire to follow Christ challenging circumstances. Each of these School in Cleveland and the words spoke wherever he might lead me. For example, experiences had their low moments and to me in a life-changing way. The song I remember saying before I entered the trials, but ultimately, they brought me paints the picture of meeting Christ on Jesuits that I could not imagine teaching closer to Christ and deepened my desire the street in our everyday life and being someone the English language. However, to follow Him. called by him, just like the first apostles in my very first experience of ministry Currently, I am studying philosophy, were called from the seashore. When I as a Jesuit, I was asked to serve at an theology, and women’s and gender thought about Christ calling me, I thought adult education center for folks who were studies at , where of the priesthood. learning English. God certainly has a my desire to follow Christ continues to I headed off to college at Bucknell sense of humor! I loved this experience, grow and be formed. Both my studies and University just a few weeks later with though, and it has made me more open my service in the local community have a deep sense of excitement for the new and available to Christ’s call. challenged me to work for reconciliation, experiences ahead, but also with a I have had many other experiences to value and care for all people, and to be desire to discern God’s call for me. In in formation that have challenged me ever open and available to Christ’s call. @ the summer before my senior year, I to grow in ways I never would have attended the Six Weeks, a Jesuit program imagined. Often the most difficult at ’ Shrine in Midland, Ontario. experiences have been the most I lived in the Jesuit community, worked rewarding. Traveling across the country Jack McLinden, SJ, is a second- at the Shrine, and learned about the on a Greyhound bus for pilgrimage, year Jesuit scholastic in the first Jesuit martyrs for whom the Shrine is learning Spanish while living in Lima, studies program at St. Louis named. While I was discerning there, I Perú, or even working at a cross-state University. He entered the Society of Jesus in 2014. felt a renewed call to follow Christ, and I rival school, St. Xavier High School in

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Fr. Jim Creighton, SJ, attends Mass at the Colombiere Jesuit Community in Clarkston, Michigan.

God’s Will Be Done By Amy Korpi, staff writer n Ignatian spirituality, finding — or ministries that filled a need perceived by finding God’s will.” Idiscerning — the will of God involves the Society.” The results, based on his personality two principles: consolation (when we Fr. Creighton’s roles in those ministries profile, talents, and tendencies, were sense an experience or decision is moving included assistant director of novices and to seek goals in education and clinical us toward God) and desolation (when we then rector of the large Jesuit community pastoral care. These findings eventually led sense something is moving us away from back at Saint Ignatius College Prep in Fr. Creighton to studies at the University God). Chicago in the 1960s and 1970s. While of Chicago, “which had a rather advanced For Father James (Jim) Creighton, SJ, completing this latter assignment, he says, educational program,” he says. the desire to know God’s will began in “Fr. Pedro Arrupe, SJ, suggested that I Recalling the rigor of the curriculum, Chicago. “As a teenager at Saint Ignatius consider adding an extra half year to my Fr. Creighton declares, “Older man that College Prep, I viewed the priesthood as rectorship because my successor had not I was, I had come there to learn — and a vocation ‘higher’ than any other way yet finished his last year of Jesuit training. that was the secret! It reminded me of St. of life,” he recalls. “Later, as a novice And when Father General ‘suggested,’ I Ignatius learning Latin with students who in the Society of Jesus at Milford, Ohio, considered that to be the will of God — were decades younger than he in Paris. it became obvious that there is a higher and was consoled.” But this was Chicago, and I was consoled! way of life, regardless of occupation or When he needed a new residence, Wherever God will lead, I will go.” vocation. And that is seeking the will of Fr. Creighton found an opening at the Fr. Creighton ultimately worked God.” provincial residence in Oak Park, Illinois. his way to becoming a director at the “Of course, that’s not so easy for any “It was a creative time with the staff University of Chicago’s three hospitals, of us,” Fr. Creighton continues. “From of Jesuits there,” he recalls. “And they as well as a clinical pastoral educator and my early days as a Jesuit to my last Jesuit were discussing ‘career testing’ as an its first Roman Catholic chaplain. annual retreat, I have prayed to find interesting aid for Jesuits in relation to “In all of this,” he concludes, “I learned God’s will and tried to do it, during a life their apostolic works.” that by taking risks and trusting myself that did, in fact, include the priesthood Intrigued by the idea, Fr. Creighton to God’s guidance, God’s will does find as a gift of God and many other gifts found a career testing program in ways to fill needs, and God’s will be that have been the will of God. Actually, Chicago. “It felt like entering some kind done. That’s the higher way.” @ I have sensed consolation in various of modern scientific means appropriate to

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By William Bole

Pope Francis visits a house in Rome for people with intellectual challenges. (CNS photo/L’Osservatore Romano via Reuters)

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he story is often told: Pope Francis is steering away from what he has named as which is grounded in the Spiritual Ton a return flight to Rome, following “clericalism” (which dwells on priestly Exercises of St. , who the World Youth Day celebration in Rio status and authority) and toward an ethic sought to promote self-awareness, a de Janeiro. He walks back to the press of service (Francis says the church’s joyful sense of freedom, and a willingness compartment and surprises everyone shepherds must have the “smell of the to take risks. with an impromptu news conference, sheep,” always staying close to the People … standing in the aisle for 81 minutes and of God). The day after he was elected, Pope answering every question thrown at him He has energized countless people, Francis picked up a phone and called by reporters. Asked about homosexuality, religious and lay, Jesuits and their many the pope makes what would become his the Jesuit Curia in Rome. “This is Pope collaborators, who have gravitated Francis. May I speak to Fr. General?” emblematic utterance: “If a person is gay toward what Francis likes to call “the and seeks the Lord and has good will, he asked a flustered receptionist, who periphery,” the social margins. He has was a little incredulous. Francis had to who am I to judge that person?” convince the man that it was really the Seldom told — and less understood — pope calling, not a prankster. Switched is something else Francis said during that NO SMALL PART OF THE eventually to the office of Fr. Adolfo spontaneous exchange. “And I think like JESUIT CHARISM IS THAT Nicolás, SJ, then-Superior General of the a Jesuit,” he explained. IT’S A MISSIONARY ORDER, Society of Jesus, Francis began making It has been five years since white ITS MEMBERS “READY TO GO arrangements for the two to meet — not smoke wafted from a tiny chimney ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD TO at the Apostolic Palace, where popes have atop the Sistine Chapel, signaling that HELP FORM SOULS.” traditionally resided, but at a residence the papal conclave had chosen a new for visiting clergy and lay people where successor of St. Peter, first Bishop of furnished the example of a pope “who is he stayed during the conclave. It was an Rome. Just over an hour later, a little- not untouchable, who is open to criticism, early indication that Pope Francis planned known Argentine cardinal named Jorge open to changing his mind,” and who to decamp from the sprawling papal Mario Bergoglio appeared on the balcony wants to lead “a more human church,” apartment and move into the simpler of St. Peter’s Basilica — the first Jesuit says Father Gustavo Morello, SJ, a quarters of the guesthouse, on the edge pope, the first pope to hail from the sociology professor at Boston College. of Vatican City. It’s where he continues Americas, and the first to take the name All of that and more is traceable to to live. “Francis.” what some call Francis’s “Jesuit DNA,” If there are just a few keywords of this For a few years, there was constant debate among religious pundits as to whether this approachable pope with a message of mercy had as yet brought change and reform to Catholic life Pope Francis greets an elderly woman in worldwide. Father Timothy P. Kesicki, SJ, Asuncion, Paraguay. (CNS photo/Paul Haring) president of the Washington-based Jesuit Conference of Canada and the United States, points out that to this day, “He hasn’t changed one definitive teaching of the church.” Yet, Fr. Kesicki and many others are now quick to add that the pope who thinks like a Jesuit has changed, perhaps forever, the way a universal pontiff carries out his ministry, and his pastoral spirit has proved infectious for untold numbers of Catholics and non- Catholics alike. He is pontificating in a new key, making it clear that a fundamental task of the faithful is not so much to follow rules but to discern what God is calling them to do. He is altering the culture of the clergy,

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papacy, one of them is surely “periphery.” early December of this past year. “Think Fr. Kesicki explains that every religious Another is “discernment.” Francis the of St. Peter Claver,” the pope said, order has its own charism, its way of Jesuit is constantly seeking to discern referring to the 17th century Spanish carrying out the church’s work. No small how God is working in his life, and as Jesuit and missionary. “He knew how to part of the Jesuit charism is that it’s a pope, he is nurturing that kind of spiritual discern and knew that God wanted him missionary order, its members “ready to discernment at all levels of the church, to spend his life among the black slaves. go anywhere in the world to help form notes Father Peter Bisson, SJ, provincial Meanwhile some esteemed theologians souls,” the priest says. “As a Jesuit, you of the English Canada Province. “How were discussing whether or not they” — go out to the periphery. You go out to is the spirit moving among us? Where the slaves — “had a soul.” the poor, the disenfranchised, refugees, is the joy? Where is the fear? And what those disaffected by the church. You go is the will of the Lord?” the provincial HE COMMUNICATES HIS SOUL, out to the people. Pope Francis has that says, relating some Ignatian-style GOD’S SPIRIT, IN ENCOUNTERS missionary spirit. That’s what makes him questions for discernment. That’s how ... AND IN HIS MESSAGES TO a Jesuit.” Jesuits and others steeped in this tradition AUDIENCES, HE HELPS YOU Gillian Ahlgren is another Catholic characteristically seek to “find God in UNDERSTAND THE GOSPEL whose work has been reshaped by all things.” As for Francis, Fr. Bisson ENCOUNTERS DIFFERENTLY. this papacy. A theology professor at adds: “He’s not afraid of finding God in Xavier University in Cincinnati, she has unexpected places. He expects to find During that November 29 conversation, been struck by the quality and depth God in those places,” especially on the held in the long, narrow chapel of the of Francis’s one-on-one interactions, margins. archbishop’s house in Yangon, a Jesuit even when he moves among throngs of Francis himself says, “The Jesuit must asked why the pope always finds time to pilgrims like the thousands who turn be a master of discernment, for himself meet with fellow Jesuits during his far- out for the regular papal audiences. and others.” He made that comment flung travels. Francis replied that he does Ahlgren has attended a few of those when he met with 31 Jesuits based in so “not to forget that I am a missionary,” Vatican audiences, including one in which Myanmar during his visit to that country to which he added, provoking laughs — Francis worked his way to the far end of and Bangladesh in late November and “and that I must convert sinners!” an immense hall to bless a small child,

Pope Francis meeting with Jesuits in Myanmar in 2017. (Fr. Wilbert Mireh, SJ)

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Pope Francis Warming Center In 2015, a quarter-century after it was originally built in Detroit, the Ss. Peter and Paul Jesuit Church’s warming center was re-named as the Pope Pope Francis greets Fr. Timothy Kesicki, SJ. Francis Center, to honor the pope’s deep commitment to the poor. Built in 1990, the warming center opened its doors to those facing whose mother broke into tears. ones focusing on Laudato Si’: On Care homelessness, offering warmth and hot “He communicates his soul, God’s for Our Common Home, Francis’s 2015 beverages. Since then, more than 145,000 spirit, in encounters,” Ahlgren says, and encyclical on ecology. people have come seeking physical and in his messages to audiences, “he helps … spiritual care, including meals, coffee, you understand the Gospel encounters socks, showers, and laundry. differently.” It’s no accident that two of Francis’s Inspired by Francis, Ahlgren and major documents have “joy” in the “Because we have become so much Xavier launched in 2014 the Institute titles — Amoris Laetitia (“The Joy of more than a warming center, we needed for Spirituality and . The Love”), on marriage and family, and a name that adequately reflects all institute immediately began holding The Joy of the Gospel. Fr. Kesicki of the we do,” says Fr. Timothy McCabe, SJ, full-day workshops in parishes and Jesuit Conference notes, “You can’t give director of the Pope Francis Center. “The schools on Francis’s 2013 apostolic witness to Christ risen if you don’t have name ‘Pope Francis Center’ is fitting joy in your heart. And in Francis, you exhortation Evangelii Gaudium (“The because the pope has captured the always encounter a joyful man. He never Joy of the Gospel”), which presents his world’s imagination and inspires us with looks beaten down.” Indeed, reflecting vision of evangelization and calls for his special love and concern for the poor “pastoral ministry in a missionary style,” on reasons for joy is part of the Spiritual and afflicted.” less preoccupied with doctrinal rules Exercises — another Ignatian trait Francis On an average day, 170 people will be than with Christian essentials such as has carried with him. mercy (another Francis keyword). The “He is the perfect witness to the Jesuit welcomed to the center. The organization workshops in English and Spanish were vocation,” Fr. Kesicki adds. “If you want also provides access to doctors, dentists, primarily for church ministers, social to know what a Jesuit is, you couldn’t lawyers, mental health professionals, workers, and others in the nonprofit have any better example than Pope and housing providers through their free sector, aimed in part at helping them Francis.” @ clinics. encounter the people they serve “in a To learn more about how to deeply meaningful way,” Ahlgren says. support the mission of the Pope Upwards of 3,000 people from both William Bole is a journalist in Boston who writes Francis Center or to volunteer, visit frequently about the Jesuits. Catholic and Protestant congregations PopeFrancisCenter.org joined in those workshops and subsequent

Jesuits | A publication of the Midwest Jesuits | Spring 2018 | Page 11 IN THE WORLD

The {Whistle} Priest

Fr. Ryan Duns, SJ, teaches viewers how to play the By Fr. Ryan Duns, SJ Irish tin whistle through his videos on YouTube.

elieve it or not, there was a time the tin whistle priest! My wife and I I am at my ministerial best when I am Bwhen playing the tin whistle, let listen to you in our bedroom!” Reading most in the background: when I disappear alone the piano accordion, was not a the astonishment on my face, he quickly in order to allow others to come to know recipe for instant popularity among one’s added, “We’re lay missionaries, and and love Jesus Christ in and through peers. Thirty years ago, back when I we’ve been learning to play the whistle the liturgy and to respond to his call to began to learn to play Irish music, my for the last six months.” discipleship in their daily lives. lessons were a way for me to participate On a more serious note, the tin whistle My ministerial, musical, and priestly in my family’s Irish heritage. Since I has proved to be something of a skeleton goal, is to help connect others to the wasn’t coordinated enough to dance, key allowing me to enter into people’s rhythm at the heart of creation. As a my parents handed me a tin whistle and lives. I know people who would not Jesuit, I want others to feel drawn into then, a few years later, put an accordion normally talk with a priest but who, after the rhythm of the , where they in my lap. Little could I have imagined playing tunes together, open up areas of can overcome fear and inhibition to sing then how the gift of music lessons would their hearts they would otherwise keep and dance in the company of Jesus. As become such an integral and vibrant part concealed. When I play the accordion for a music teacher, I always encourage my of my priestly ministry. Irish dancers, I’m able to celebrate the students — regardless of their musical For millions of viewers on YouTube, Eucharist for dancers and their families talent — to find their place within the I am known simply as “The Whistle and bring my two passions — the Gospel tradition of Irish music. Each one has at Priest.” Back in 2006, I taught an “Intro and Irish music — together. Sometimes I least one note to contribute. So, too, am to the Tin Whistle” course at Fordham even find the tin whistle gives me a way I convinced by the Gospel: Each one of University and put instructional videos of preaching without words. A slow air, us is called to contribute a note — even online as an aide to my students. In the with its haunting melody, can reach into sharps and flats — and take our place in past decade, I have uploaded more than otherwise inaccessible parts of the human the symphony of God’s kingdom. @ 130 videos, which have been viewed soul. more than 5 million times. Above all else, I think, my training in On an almost daily basis, I receive Irish music has taught me the grace of emails from people all over the world disappearance. As someone who often Fr. Ryan Duns, SJ, was ordained telling me how they have been using my plays for Irish dancers, I know I am at my a Jesuit priest in 2015 and seeks videos to learn Irish music. Once, in an best when I recede into the background to spread the Gospel through his airport, I was grabbed from behind and an and allow the dancers to do what they are life, blog, and Irish music. excited young guy blurted out, “You’re called to do — dance. Similarly, I know

Page 12 | Jesuits | A publication of the Midwest Jesuits | Spring 2018 LIVING THE MAGIS

Every week, members of the St. Camillus and Colombiere senior Jesuit healthcare communities pray over intentions submitted through JesuitPrayer.org, an online ministry of the Midwest Province.

Jane Glynn-Nass (right) escorts Fr. Thomas McShane, SJ, to his new room at the St. Camillus senior Jesuit healthcare community. Praying for the Church & Society

By Jane Glynn-Nass and Terry Kult

hen a vowed man in the Society From our privileged view, as healthcare This move to praying for the Society Wof Jesus receives the mission to givers, the answer is yes: Those and the Church is not necessarily easy “pray for the Church and the Society” missioned to prayer have been called to or natural because of where they have there is indeed a pause in his day. As the front lines, to fervently offer petitions been. Those of us in the role of Jesuit nurse companions, we have seen them in for peace and salvation of mankind. caregiver see the men perhaps vulnerable, their preparation for years to accept this The Jesuits who have been called to but always serving, even serving the assignment to pray for the Church as a Colombiere in Clarkston, Michigan, and caregiver in ways a Jesuit may not even whole, as well as the Society of Jesus. St. Camillus in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, realize. The interaction between a Jesuit It may not be what their hearts desire or come with a combined 6,000 plus years and caregiver is grace-filled; often the their friends believe is necessary. Many of serving God’s people. They are active caregiver receives much more than is Jesuits feel that they still have much more given. to do and are not ready, but the mission is THE INTERACTION BETWEEN A The Colombiere and St. Camillus a mystery at times. What will this change JESUIT AND CARE GIVER IS senior Jesuit healthcare communities live bring? GRACE-FILLED their prayer each day as they are humbled It is a privilege to walk with Jesuits in with health challenges and share their these transitions. One man shared that and holy men who have spent most of spirit and wisdom. The communities are “Praying is not about my achievements. It their lives serving the Church and Society holy places of prayer, reflection, and care. seems to be more about why I joined the so that each has become a better place. In For some it is a place for recovery, for Society. My desire to serve others at all this new assignment they have the time for others it is not a Jesuit’s final home, but costs, speak for the voiceless, challenge prayer in a different manner. These Jesuits a place to prepare for his heavenly home the heart of the powerful. And now I are on the “all-star team” for prayer. forever. @ have been called by the vow of obedience Prayer is one of God’s most powerful and fraternal love to quiet myself and weapons. They are called to heal this abandon my ego and to pray for the world and ready it for tomorrow’s Church Society and the Church.” with their prayer. They have proven and Jane Glynn-Nass, RN, BSN, is the Provincial Some men wonder “Why now, oh prepared their hearts to give voice to Assistant for healthcare in the USA Midwest Province. Lord?” Others have said, “I became a the petitions and needs of others. Now Terry Kult, APRN, is the Healthcare Coordinator for Jesuit to serve, how can I do that now?” they must surrender themselves to be the the Omaha and Minneapolis/St. Paul region of the USA For many it seems too soon to be off the vessel that pours out hopes and fears to Midwest Province. front lines. Unless this is the front lines? the Lord.

Jesuits | A publication of the Midwest Jesuits | Spring 2018 | Page 13 FORMATION

Jesuit scholastics and brothers in the first studies program in 2017. FirstWhat is Studies? By Ben Gartland, Communications Specialist

efore he decided to become a Jesuit, “You need to prepare yourself for a also very formational. They live in Jesuit BEmanuel Werner, SJ, a scholastic major transition in your life when you houses and formation programs to help in the first studies program at Fordham, move on to First Studies,” says Werner. them fully develop as Jesuits.” was a licensed clinical counselor at a “You make a major life commitment in Fr. Lannon is the Midwest Jesuits’ psychiatric hospital. He says a general your first vows, you change cities, and Provincial Assistant for formation. One of principle in psychology is to try not to then you begin a new way of life. There’s his responsibilities is to work with Jesuits make more than one major life change in a lot changing right away” who are about to complete their time as a year. One of the unique aspects of the novices to recommend to the provincial For Jesuits moving from the novitiate Jesuits is the process of becoming one. where the novices should spend their next to first studies, however, they make three. It can take 10 years or more for a Jesuit few years for first studies. who is on track to becoming a priest to “I talk to them about their desires Jesuit “Scholastics“ and Brothers complete the four sections required for for the future as Jesuits and what their his formation. After two years as a novice interests might be, their academic After a Jesuit on the track to becoming a where one learns how to live like a Jesuit, background and where they think they priest professes first vows, he is referred to as a “scholastic” until he is ordained. Jesuits they proclaim their first vows of chastity, want to go regarding listening to God’s who have taken vows as a brother continue poverty, and obedience, then move on call for them about first studies,” says Fr. their equally rigorous formation as “Brother.” to first studies either as a scholastic or a Lannon. “Most will say ‘I’m available to brother. go anywhere.’” Are you or someone you know “First studies is an academic program Anywhere can be one of four sites interested in becoming a Jesuit? where a Jesuit must complete 30 credit in North America: Loyola University Learn more at BeAJesuit.org hours or more in philosophy and six in Chicago, Fordham University in New theology,” says Fr. Tim Lannon, SJ, “It’s York City, St. Louis University, and,

Page 14 | Jesuits | A publication of the Midwest Jesuits | Spring 2018 FORMATION rarely, Regis College in Toronto. After you’re out in the real world a little more,” your spots and figure out how is it that I meeting with the novices, Fr. Lannon says Carrillo. “You start to see what really will get at least 20 minutes of that kind of consults with the novitiate staff, spends matters and what is really important.” silence.” time in prayer, provides recommendations When back in the “real world,” those in The program, however, is both a to the provincial, then discusses first studies will take multiple graduate- rewarding and essential part of formation. placement with the provincial assistants level classes during the semester while The studies give the Jesuit a base in for formation from the other provinces adjusting to a new location and a renewed philosophy before they move on to in the United States. After all of the purpose in their formation. The intense regency, the next stage in formation. consideration, a decision is made by the classes and study can fill up a schedule “First studies has been an opportunity provincial on where to mission the Jesuit. quickly, so, in addition to attending Mass to delve into thinking critically about Arturo Carrillo, SJ, was missioned to daily, they must learn how to balance reality, people, and other factors that are St. Louis University in 2017. In his first their prayer life they developed in the involved in it,” says Werner. “I think year as a Jesuit scholastic, he says first novitiate to their schedule. the great gift of philosophy is beginning studies can be very different from the “I like to make sure the basics of self- to learn the heart of human reason and novitiate. care and well-being are taken care of,” hardship, and how eventually we come “At the novitiate you don’t have says Werner. “I try to get enough sleep, up against something that’s completely electronics such as a laptop or cell I try to exercise at least every other day, beyond us, and yet we still want to phone, so when you get into your studies if only for thirty minutes to an hour. A approach things that are not immediately program you get all this technology back, prayer life is essential. You have to pick present to us.” @

First Studies Formation Timeline The newly vowed Jesuit moves into academic work as a brother or a scholastic. Theology Novitiate He studies philosophy and Jesuit scholastics usually Tertianship A novice learns to create theology, and he deepens move on to formal theology Sometime after ordina- a community which grows his Jesuit identity through studies which prepare them tion, a Jesuit revisits the in prayer, knowledge of the other ministerial work which Regency for priestly ordination, but foundational documents Society, apostolic work, and strengthens or challenges The Jesuit brother or the Jesuit brother might and history of the Society of personal enrichment. At the his gifts. Brothers may con- scholastic moves into active study theology for a shorter Jesus and makes the 30-day end of these two years, he tinue with further studies Jesuit ministry, usually time as a way to enhance Spiritual Exercises again — pronounces vows of poverty, based on their personal gifts teaching at a high school or his effectiveness for in a sense reaffirming his chastity, and obedience. and the needs in the Society. university. ministry. vocation.

Jesuits in the first studies program at Loyola University Chicago.

Jesuits | A publication of the Midwest Jesuits | Spring 2018 | Page 15 SOCIAL AND INTERNATIONAL Reaching Students Where They Are

Eric Immel, SJ, at Arrupe College of Loyola University Chicago.

By Eric Immel, SJ he day ran long, and the streetlight thought about moving back to her old she must rise up, face the tremendous Tjust outside my window shone neighborhood. She knew it was better adversity in her life, and persist no matter brightly. I had just begun contemplating for her to live away from there; the what. whether my late night in the office distance gave her a chance to focus and And perhaps, in the pressure she feels warranted an Uber home, when a student take care of herself. But still, she felt a to persist, she realizes how we see her walked in and dropped onto the couch. responsibility to her siblings. She was and feels defeated. She realizes that when She stretched out her legs, looked at me, lost. Emotion welled up in her. people talk about her, they talk about the and smiled. As her tears subsided, she took a deep problems she faces, and not the gifts she “Hey, Dean Eric — you got a minute?” breath, looked at me and said, “Eric — brings. I smiled back. As if I had a choice. I’m sorry for being such a burden.” What if, when she walked through I work at Arrupe College, a What could have prompted such a our doors, we didn’t think of first- groundbreaking program at Loyola statement from her? The answer is no generation, low income, students of University Chicago that seeks to secret: she feels like one. And not just color as in deficit, but rather, as bearing dramatically reimagine how we offer to me, but to the whole educational tremendous wealth? What if we saw her and execute Jesuit, liberal arts education. world she lives in. I’m sure that, without experiences, her way of thinking, her way Arrupe seeks to help young people build a meaning to, we have made her feel that of communicating, her very way of being, bridge toward valuable avenues of greater way. as full of gifts and potential? Truly, what success and opportunity; after completing When she entered the pool of potential could be more in line with the Gospel of an Associate’s degree, our students pursue college students, she was immediately Jesus? To welcome people as they are either entrance into Bachelor’s degree characterized as three things: first- and see them as a child of God, perfectly programs or meaningful employment. generation, low income, student of made and deserving of everything good I’ve been there now a year and a half, and color. And sadly, while these three the world can offer. This way of thinking in that time, I’ve learned that if my door characteristics are true ways to describe about students is, I believe, vital to our is open, someone is coming in. her on paper, they are rooted in the success at Arrupe College. @ The student started slow, sharing a perspective of socialized consumers of bit about her romantic relationship, traditional higher education who, as it her schoolwork, and the ways she stands, are not generally first-generation, Eric Immel, SJ, is a Jesuit was struggling in both. Then, I asked low income, or students of color. And, to scholastic in the Regency stage of his formation, serving as about her family. She told me about our mind, these characteristics create a Associate Dean for Student her grandmothers and how she’d walk deficit; her identity as a first-generation, Success at Arrupe College of between their houses as a little girl. She low income student of color immediately Loyola University Chicago. told me about how she got homesick and creates a forced narrative by which

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Fr. Timothy Meier, SJ, has served United States military personnel all over the world as a chaplain for 11 years.

Reflections on Ministry, Trauma, & Grief From a Military Chaplain

By Fr. Timothy Meier, SJ hile I was loving my dream job as Center and School to equip me to explain technologies with veterans who are Wundergraduate research coordinator to trauma survivors, their loved ones, and survivors of trauma I could never even and director of the honors program in their military buddies what happens in have imagined before, I’m honored to the Department of Biological Sciences the human brain when a serious threat is have gained the professional, military, at Stanford University, the Society of perceived. Trauma can occur when our and spiritual credibility to be taken Jesus finally called me (14 years after brains perceive an immediate threat to seriously by them and to have been ordination) to the two-summer tertianship life, liberty, bodily integrity — or core invited to accompany them on their program in California beginning in 2005. values — regarding ourselves or someone journey toward recovery from their own During my engagement with the for whom we’re in a relationship of love, traumatic stress injuries. Spiritual Exercises that summer, much Father John O’Malley, SJ, was to my surprise (or, perhaps, horror), I I FELT SURE THAT THE MESSAGE researching his book The First Jesuits recognized a call to ministry in and with I’D RECEIVED DURING THE while I lived in his community at the military. Given that I was 49 years old EXERCISES HAD BEEN DELIVERED the Jesuit Theologate in Cambridge, and had never served in the military, that TO THE WRONG ADDRESS. Massachusetts, in the late 1980s. One I’d never even liked war movies, and that phrase he used again and again — “the receiving a draft number at the end of the ministry of consolation” — to describe War terrified me (even though responsibility, or care; in the midst of Jesuit self-understanding in those early the draft was effectively over by then), intense negative emotion (terror, horror, decades of the Society of Jesus, has I felt sure that the message I’d received revulsion, rage, etc.) and a recognition of taken on new and deeper meaning in my during the Exercises had been delivered powerlessness before the perceived threat. own Jesuit life since becoming an Army to the wrong address. Trauma can bring grief, and that grief chaplain and embarking on the journey God clearly has a sense of humor, I’ve can become toxic, despite our best efforts. of healing with servicemembers and learned. Grief is not a mental illness, though it can veterans who have survived trauma. @ Whereas I’d been concerned that certainly feel like one, probably because my having "more degrees than a every new grief brings up every old grief. thermometer" would prove a hindrance to During the last 11 years of my ministry my effectiveness as a military chaplain, to military personnel, I’ve come to know my civilian doctorate in molecular too many twenty-somethings who are Fr. Timothy Meier, SJ, is a neurobiology from Stanford has actually shouldering more than their fair share of Midwest Jesuit priest serving as a synergized with courses offered by the grief. military chaplain in California. Department of Pastoral Ministry Training These days, as I regularly interact at the U.S. Army Medical Department in person, by phone, or through other

Jesuits | A publication of the Midwest Jesuits | Spring 2018 | Page 17 Assignments

Schools Jesuit Community

Fr. Timothy Howe, SJ, Fr. William Fr. Robert Ochs, SJ, Fr. Patrick Peppard, SJ, Fr. George Von Fr. Jared Wicks, SJ, will become president Verbryke, SJ, will has been missioned has been missioned Kaenel, SJ, has been has been missioned of Colegio San become President to pray for the Church to pray for the Church missioned to pray to pray for the Church Ignacio in San Juan, of Brebeuf Jesuit and Society. and Society. He was for the Church and and Society. He was Puerto Rico, starting Prep in Indianapolis previously pastoral Society. previously a senior July 2018. He was starting July 2018. assistant at Ss Peter priest and scholar in previously president He was previously & Paul Jesuit Church residence at Pontifical at St. Xavier High vice president for in Detroit. College Josephinum School in Cincinnati. mission and identity in Columbus, Ohio. at Brebeuf. Parish Fr. Patrick Casey, SJ, of the Peru Province, has joined the Ann Arbor Jesuit community and provides pastoral ministry at St. Mary’s Student Parish.

e e Pope Francis’ Assignments

Pope Francis served in many different ministries before he became pope in 2013.

Entered the High School Ordained a Master of Superior of Rector of the Auxillary Archbishop of Pope Society of literature and Jesuit priest Novices in the Province Philosophical Bishop of Buenos Aires (2013– Jesus as a psychology in Argentina Argentina of Argentina and Buenos Aires (1998–2013) Present) Novice (1958) teacher at (1969) (1971–1973) (1973–1979) Theological (1992–1998) Colegio de la faculty of San Immaculada Miguel Concepcion (1980–1986) (1964–1965)

Page 18 | Jesuits | A publication of the Midwest Jesuits | Spring 2018 To read more about the lives of Jesuits who have gone home to God, visit us at www.JesuitsMidwest.org/Memoriam In Memoriam We give thanks for the following Jesuits who have gone home to God.

Fr. Eugene J. Fr. Thomas F. Fr. James E. Fr. Robert H. Fr. Vincent A. Br. William J. Nevins, SJ Ackenbrandt, SJ O’Reilly, SJ Schmidt, SJ Hagerman, SJ Foster, SJ Mar. 28, 1932 – Jan. 6, 1930 – June 12, 1926 – July 26, 1938 – Jan. 19, 1922 – July 2, 1929 – Feb. 2, 2018 Jan. 8, 2018 Jan. 5, 2018 Sept. 26, 2017 Sept. 10, 2017 Sept. 2, 2017 “Gene was a gentle, “Tom celebrated the “Jim’s smile and “He was a man of “Vince was a genuine “A quiet, gentle, steady kind, soft-spoken man Eucharist with great self-deprecation prayer and practical gentleman who always man, he remained who always had a smile devotion at Colombiere put everyone wisdom and systematic had something good to calm no matter for those he met. He and at nearby Our he encountered in his thinking and say about other people. what emergencies was a magician and Lady of the Lakes. Tom immediately at ease. action. Hence, he He was also very arose — in a place ventriloquist and used was an avid reader When a person was in communicated with generous and helpful; where emergencies his talents to teach especially in the areas Jim’s presence, they conviction, clarity, and and when asked to do were common. He about God’s love and of philosophy, theology, knew that Jim cared kindness. He was a something, Vince would is remembered with to bring joy to others and art history. For for and respected them. community man and respond ’Sure’ and special affection by — especially children about 20 years he The twinkle in his eye team person who begin the task.” the Jesuits with whom in hospitals. Gene’s hosted a theology let everyone know created an atmosphere he lived and shared ventriloquist dummy, discussion group at that he was not only which increased the Latin, math, and ministry.” Shamus, was an Irish Colombiere Center enjoying their company synergy of the Jesuit physics teacher at St. monk who wore a green for lay friends and but was truly grateful staff members so that Ignatius High School in Plumber, electrician, habit.” interested Jesuits. for the time he spent they implemented Cleveland; superior of locksmith, carpenter, Tom’s academic writing with them. He often their mission with the Collegian Program and general Registrar of West continued to influence said: “I don’t try to commitment and at the University of maintenance worker, Baden College; students as recently as change people. I just creativity.” Detroit; Physics teacher Superintendent of secretary to the this past year.” accept them.” Through at University of Detroit Buildings and Grounds Chicago provincial; his words and actions Director of the Jesuit High School and at Holy Rosary Jesuit pastoral visitation team English and Latin Jim showed others Juniorate, the Province Academy, Rector of the Community in Pine at Holy Family Church teacher at St. Xavier the way to a deeper Coordinator for Jesuit Community. Ridge, SD. in Chicago; chaplain at High School; Religious encounter with his one Formation [PCF] and Cook County Hospital studies professor at true love: Jesus Christ.” the Superior of the (Chicago), Children’s University of Detroit Regional Theology Hospital of Michigan and Wheeling Jesuit Teacher and President Centre [RTC] in Patna, (Detroit), St. John College; Theology at St. Ignatius High India. Hospital (Detroit), Good teacher at St. Ignatius School in Cleveland; Samaritan Hospital High School, teacher at teacher at Walsh Jesuit (Cincinnati), John Jesuit High School in High School; teacher H. Stroger Hospital New Orleans; associate at Loyola Secondary (Chicago). He also was pastor at Gesu Church School in Wau, Sudan; associate pastor at Holy (Toledo), St. David pastor of St. Francis de Family Church. Church (Davie, Florida), Sales parish in Detroit; and St. Maurice chaplain and counselor Church (Fr. Lauderdale); at Loyola High School. Colombiere Center.

Jesuits | A publication of the Midwest Jesuits | Spring 2018 | Page 19 SPIRITUALITY

Becoming a Yogi in Action

By Bobby Karle, SJ

attended my first yoga class in 2009 I while serving as a campus minister at the University of Detroit Jesuit High School. I had recently returned from two years as a Jesuit volunteer in Belize and was on the fence about entering the Jesuits. I was immediately intrigued by the way this new “American fad” transported me into a state of deep consolation. Yoga brought together so many different parts of myself: the physical, athletic, spiritual desire for community, intimacy, and a sense of the sacred. It left me feeling calm, connected, grounded, and more in touch with my deep desires. Was this of God? Could this be compatible with my Catholic faith? Whatever it may have been, yoga and Puerto Rican clients of the center, Yoga is a collaborative effort between helped me find the clarity and conviction and the Fordham class — called “Chapel Jesuits and non-Jesuit yoga teachers to apply and enter the Jesuits in August Yoga” because it took place in Our offering workshops, day retreats, and 2010. Lady’s Chapel — became a very popular multi-day residential retreats that share During the first summer of philosophy Ignatian-based yoga class that continues the foundations and core principles of studies at Fordham University in 2013, I today under the direction of campus Ignatian spirituality and yoga. participated in a 200-hour yoga training minister Carol Gibney. Over the past four The programs offer instruction program and lived at the University of and a half years, I’ve had the privilege to and guidance to experience these San Francisco Jesuit community with teach yoga in jails; on the Pine Ridge and two traditions to support the spiritual Frank Buckley, a Jesuit priest and yoga Rosebud reservations; to the homeless in journey. Ignatian Yoga also aims to teacher. For one month, I spent six the Tenderloin District of San Francisco; accompany yoga teachers in Catholic days a week in a studio with 40 other at The Center at Blessed Sacrament settings and share Ignatian spirituality students learning alignment, sequencing, Parish in Hollywood; at Ss. Peter and and yoga with people on the frontiers philosophy, meditation, and other aspects Paul Church in downtown Detroit; and and margins of society, including people of yoga. On Tuesday nights, I attended abroad in Australia, Belize, Spain, and facing homelessness, addiction, and the donation-based Yoga on the Labyrinth rural villages of Northeast India. incarceration, as well as lapsed Catholics class at Grace Cathedral with 300 to 400 As I’ve immersed myself in Ignatian and spiritual seekers. I am profoundly others. Wonder and awe filled my entire spirituality and yoga, these two traditions grateful for my Jesuit vocation and being as I moved and breathed along with have grown increasingly interconnected. the many wonderful opportunities and the diverse sea of people in this beautiful When studying or practicing one, I think connections it has provided. @ Christian cathedral. Could this ever about the other. With one foot on the happen in a Catholic church? I was going Ignatian spirituality path and the other on to try. the path of yoga, I began to offer retreat Bobby Karle, SJ, a Detroit Upon returning to New York City, I experiences that integrate the two. native, is a teacher at Brebeuf started teaching yoga at a local Bronx Out of these retreats emerged Ignatian Jesuit Preparatory School in food pantry called POTS (Part of the Yoga, an organization I co-founded Indianapolis and a co-founder of Ignatian Yoga. To learn more, Solution) and at Fordham University. in 2017 with Alan Haras, a master get involved, or attend an event, The food pantry yoga class evolved into yoga teacher, yoga studio owner, and visit ignatianyoga.com or email Spanish-language yoga for the Dominican Ignatian-based spiritual director. Ignatian [email protected]

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SPECIAL THANKS Eastern Africa Province — June 12–26 Spain — November 3–12 Fr. Glen Chun, SJ; Spiritual leader: Dan O’Hare, SJ Spiritual leader: Fr. Eric Sundrup, SJ Nora Dabrowski; Ann Greene; Fr. Timothy Lannon, SJ; Dave McNulty; Midwest Jesuits and colleagues are immersed in a variety of interna- Br. John Moriconi, SJ; Dan O’Brien; John Sealey; Becky Sindelar; FOR MORE tional projects. We participate in twinning relationships, or convenios, INFORMATION Fr. James Stoeger, SJ CONTACT: with Jesuit provinces in Eastern Africa, Kohima (Northeast India), and Jeff Smart Peru. Twinning emphasizes a cross-cultural, two-way partnership that [email protected] FOR MORE INFORMATION includes financial support and, more importantly, apostolic, formation, 773-975-6920 WWW.JESUITSMIDWEST.ORG and educational exchanges across provinces.

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MIDWEST JESUITS ORDINATION ORDINATION OF June 9, 2018 ANDRIJ HLABSE 10:00 a.m. Church of the Gesu July 15, 2018 1145 W. Wisconsin Ave. 2:30 p.m. Milwaukee, WI 53233 St. Josaphat Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral 5720 State Road Parma, OH 44134

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