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JOE KRAEMER, SJ: I BELIEVE in GRACE by Tracey Primrose Summer 2019 The Newsletter for Friends of Jesuits West JOE KRAEMER, SJ: I BELIEVE IN GRACE by Tracey Primrose It reads like something only a Juilliard, Joe spent the next 15 years leading the school’s elite Hollywood scriptwriter could program to develop young playwrights. He also wrote his own dream up, but Joe Kraemer, SJ, plays, which Juilliard staged, and taught part-time at Barnard knows that the author of his College. He attended Mass and worked in homeless ministry, vocation story isn’t worried about but his vocational discernment was on the back burner. an improbable idea. So, what put him Joe grew up in the small town on the path to of Richmond, Indiana. His family, priesthood? Just which includes two brothers, was another plot twist. devoted to their local parish, St. Through his college Andrew’s, where Joe attended roommate, Joe grade school and served on the became acquainted altar. He wasn’t contemplating a with one of actor vocation back then — he was more interested in the crisp $10 Martin Sheen’s sons. Members of the Sheen family with Joe bills he earned serving at weddings and funerals. Kraemer, SJ (right) Turns out the family was looking for a That would soon change when a pair of visiting priests creative director to develop projects on the Warner Brothers came to St. Andrew’s to lead a retreat. One priest made the lot. Joe happily headed to Tinseltown and had a number of congregation laugh, the other challenged them to aspire to great solid projects in development when son Charlie Sheen had a things. Intrigued by the dynamic pair in black, Joe asked his dad, famous meltdown and the production company closed. Joe was “Who are these guys?” The answer: “They’re Jesuits.” suddenly out of work. At Hillsdale College in Michigan, Joe earned a bachelor’s degree “I had been working since I was 13. I had never been fired or in English and spent a semester working in Washington, D.C., lost a job. Suddenly, I was missing this work that had been on Capitol Hill. His night job at The Shakespeare Theatre at the occupying my whole life.” Folger landed him a permanent position after graduation, where he caught the eye of Michael Kahn, the company’s legendary With time on his hands, Joe found himself drawn to Jesuit artistic director. Kahn was soon named Director of Drama at the Masses at Loyola Marymount University’s Sacred Heart Chapel. Juilliard School in New York and began recruiting talent. After several visits, he met Br. Jim Siwicki, SJ, then serving as a vocation director. Br. Siwicki asked Joe if he had considered a Joe remembers receiving the call asking him to join the vocation to the Jesuits, adding, “If you’re thinking of applying, Juilliard team. “It was the summer of 1992, and I had gone to a do it now.” Benedictine monastery in Minnesota to discern a vocation, and that’s where Michael tracked me down. I still have no idea how Joe was 43. It was now or never. And although friends in New he found me in the middle of nowhere.” York and LA thought he was crazy (who goes from working for Charlie Sheen to working for Jesus?), he applied to the Jesuits It didn’t feel like God was calling Joe to be a monk, so he and was accepted in 2013. It was a vocation more than two followed his mentor to the Big Apple. As literary manager at decades in the making. continues on page 8 IN THIS ISSUE: Provincial's Letter Jubilarians News In Memoriam Advancement Director's Letter Page 2 Page 3 Page 5 Page 10 Page 11 PROVINCIAL‘S LETTER OLD NETS & NEW CALLS Dear Friends, Summer 2019 In this issue of Companions, you will meet several Jesuit Jubilarians celebrating milestones this year. Fr. Richard Cobb, SJ, has been a Jesuit for 70 years, Fr. Gary Smith, SJ, is 60 years a Jesuit and Fr. Charles Phipps, SJ, is marking the 60th FR. SCOTT SANTAROSA, SJ anniversary of his ordination. They are but three of a large group of Jesuits who are Provincial commemorating special anniversaries in 2019. Many of our Jubilarians, who are well into their 80s, are still involved in active ministry. Their work is often unheralded, which FR. MICHAEL BAYARD, SJ is why we are grateful to bring you their stories. Socius This August, I will also celebrate an anniversary — it has been 30 years since I became SIOBHÁN LAWLOR a Jesuit. While difficult to reconcile the decades, I know that my own happiness in this Provincial Assistant for Advancement Jesuit life has made time fly by in a blink. TRACEY PRIMROSE Perhaps it is because of my upcoming 30th that I have been thinking a great deal about Director of Communications my own vocation and about how each of us is called by Christ. We all have a vocation, mine just happens to be to religious life. KIMBERLY RANDLES I was recently Senior Philanthropy Officer privileged to make BARBARA GUNNING a retreat in the Senior Philanthropy Officer Holy Land with my fellow provincials FRANCINE BROWN from the U.S. Philanthropy Officer and Canada. Our group, led by FR. SAMUEL BELLINO, SJ retreat director, Legacy Planning Fr. Brendan Lally, SJ, spent nearly a FR. JOHN MOSSI, SJ Jesuits West Provincial Fr. Scott Santarosa, SJ, (center) with fellow week in the area Benefactor Relations provincials at the Church of St. Joseph in Nazareth surrounding the Sea of Galilee, the place where Jesus multiplied loaves, walked across the water and conducted much of Office of Advancement his public ministry. It was very moving to be in this holy place. P.O. Box 68 Los Gatos, CA 95031-0068 Fr. Lally set the stage for the retreat, saying, “Jesus is still calling you.” And that was www.jesuitswest.org on my mind one hot afternoon when the group had free time and I revisited a site we had seen together the day before. I climbed the mountain where Jesus delivered the Beatitudes, sat in the shade, took in the majestic view and thought about the call of Christ. STAY CONNECTED I thought about Jesus perhaps sitting in this same spot contemplating his future. I wondered about my own life and how it will unfold. If Christ is still calling me, as facebook.com/jesuitswest Fr. Lally reminds us, what am I being called to do? Or, am I tempted to think that twitter.com/jesuitswest he called me once and for all, and that I dropped my nets, gave up everything, and followed him, never needing to hear his voice again? The truth is, I think each of us picks up our former nets and tries to go back to our old ways. Yet Jesus doesn’t give up. He is still trying to help us get to our truest self. He is still calling us closer to Him. QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS It is a reminder that our work is never really done, which is good news for us Jesuits Contact: since, as you can see from the Jubilarians, we just keep going and going. TRACEY PRIMROSE [email protected] Thank you for your support of Jesuits West. You help us hear Jesus’ persistent call. And follow. Daily. Gratefully yours, Scott Santarosa, SJ Provincial 2 JESUITS WEST CELEBRATES JUBILARIANS By Becky Sindelar This years’ Jesuits West Jubilarians have His advice to others: “Make the most of Levertov: “Every day, every day I hear served in numerous ministries over many each day and anything can happen.” enough to fill a year of nights with decades of their lives in the Society of wondering.” Jesus — and many are still active in “I think you take it day by day and be ministry today. Read on to meet some of as optimistic as you can in challenging As a Jesuit, he says he never knows what these Jesuits who inspire us with their times,” he says. “We are to be the voice “mind-blowing moments” await him. dedication to serve the people of God. of Easter people in a Good Friday world “Every day I meet all kinds of different and I think that’s the challenge. And it’s people, including Jesuits.” It is sometimes certainly a Good Friday world.” said that a Jesuit His advice to younger Jesuits: Learn, never retires, and Fr. Cobb also expressed his gratitude for listen and always realize it’s only part of there is no better the Society. “There are few organizations the whole. “Pray for your brothers and example of this that give you these kinds of experiences, yourself, that the passion and wisdom of than Fr. Richard opportunities and joy.” God will prevail and will lead you.” Cobb, SJ, 87, who is celebrating And, remember it’s not all serious: “Meet 70 years in the Fr. Gary Smith, SJ, some good people and learn to laugh,” Society and does who’s celebrating he says. Ignatian formation for new faculty and 60 years in the staff members at Bellarmine College Society, is also still “I’m grateful to be a Jesuit and for all the Preparatory in San Jose, California. He in active ministry, brothers who’ve helped me and taught also gives 19th Annotation retreats and working on the me. I’ve had some wonderful Jesuits in helps in the school tutoring center. streets of Portland, my life.” Oregon, with the “By doing three different things, they homeless, addicted never know where I’m at,” he jokes.
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