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Dear Friends,

Last October, Jesuits from around the world participated in the election of a new Superior General, Fr. Arturo Sosa, SJ. A month later, we laid to rest a former Superior General, Fr. Peter-Hans Kolvenbach, SJ. Saying farewell to a beloved Father General, just weeks after welcoming a new one, was a poignant reminder that the is entering a new chapter—holding ever true to the Ignatian way of discernment and social justice. While our mission to serve the marginalized, to educate students in the Jesuit tradition, and to proclaim the Gospel through Ignatian Spirituality remains steadfast, the challenges we are called to meet are both changing and growing. “We hear Christ Whether tirelessly working to meet the increasing humanitarian and educational needs of refugees, committing more of our resources to help inner-city families, or summon us anew ministering to the poor and imprisoned, Jesuits have never shied away from bringing to a ministry of the light of Christ into some rather dark places. In fact, not long after the Society was founded nearly 500 years ago, Jesuits were missioned to places others dared not tread— justice and peace, areas of hopelessness, spiritual solitude and oppression. This issue of JESUITS offers a small glimpse into some of the ways that, today, the Jesuits and lay colleagues of the serving the poor Maryland and USA Northeast Provinces work to make life brighter for those who find themselves lost, forgotten, or in need of a comforting hand when few are reaching out and the excluded for them. One of the most famous quotes attributed to St. is, “Go forth and and helping set the world on fire.” So much of our world remains dark and in need of light. We pray that you had a blessed Easter, and that the infinite love of our risen Jesus will move your build peace.” heart to share the light of Christ with others.

—Decrees of 36 Sincerely in Christ,

Very Rev. Robert M. Hussey, SJ Very Rev. John J. Cecero, SJ Provincial, Maryland Province Provincial, USA Northeast Province ABOUT OUR COVER Zach Presutti, SJ, is a Jesuit scholastic in formation who heads the THRIVE for Life program, ministering to incarcerated and formerly incarcerated men and women, and their family members.

Editors Benigno Michael Gabriele

Contributors Rev. James Keenan, SJ Wendell Laurent Sherri Weil 18 Advancement Directors In Martin Scorsese’s “Silence,” Sherri Weil (Maryland Province) Andrew Garfield plays a Jesuit Naylor (USA Northeast Province) traveling through 17th century . Please address all correspondence to JESUITS magazine: [email protected] Maryland Province Jesuits 8600 LaSalle Road, Suite 620 Towson, MD 21286-2014 443-921-1310 USA Northeast Province 39 East 83rd Street New York, NY 10028-0810 Spring Features... 212-774-5500

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1 In the News news FROM OUR PROVINCES New Appointments and Leadership...

in June 2017. He has served Old St. Joseph’s Church in for the last eight years as pro- Philadelphia, effective June vincial assistant for vocation 2017. Fr. Modrys currently ministry for the Maryland serves as assistant pastor of and USA Northeast Provinces. St. Clare’s Parish in Staten Prior to that, he was a campus Island. Prior to that, he was minister at Loyola University treasurer of the New York Maryland. Province and pastor of St. Ignatius Loyola Church in Lewis was named New York City. the next principal of Loyola School in New York City. Fr. Philip Florio, SJ, has been Lewis, a native of Australia, Patrick T. Maloney, has named provincial assistant has served as director of been named president of for vocation ministry for the Nativity School of Worcester, Maryland and USA Northeast effective immediately. Mr. Provinces, effective June 15, Maloney first came to Nativity 2017. Father Florio has served Worcester in 2012 as director the past two years as pastor of advancement. He was and superior at Old St. Joseph’s promoted to vice president Church in Philadelphia. Prior of advancement in 2015 and to that, he served as the director served in that role until he was of campus ministry at Ford- named interim president in ham University. Fr. Florio is 2016. He is a lifelong resi- St. Joseph’s Prep has announced eager to work with the many dent of Worcester and gradu- that John Petruzzelli will be men who are discerning a senior campus for Xavier ated from the College of the the high school’s new princi- vocation to the Society of Jesus. College in Melbourne since Holy Cross in 2002. His late pal, effective July 1, 2017. Mr. 2015. From 2010 to 2015, uncle, Fr. Robert E. Maloney, Petruzzelli was most recently he was deputy principal of St. SJ, was a member of the New principal of Bethlehem Cath- Ignatius College in Sydney. England Province. olic High School but is no Mr. Lewis holds a B.A. and stranger to St. Joe’s Prep. He B.S. from the Australian has served in the past as dean National University, a grad- of students and as director of uate diploma in education the Ignatian Service Program. from the University of Can- He holds an M.Ed. from berra and a Master of Arts Wilmington University and in applied developmental a B.A. in History from and educational psychology Joseph’s University. from Boston College. Fr. Charles Frederico, SJ, will Fr. Joseph Sands, SJ, was begin his new role as director appointed director of novices of mission at St. Joseph’s Prep for the Maryland and USA Fr. Walter Modrys, SJ, has Northeast Provinces. Fr. 2 been appointed pastor at Sands will also serve as the

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amid many questions the Jesuits faced both within and outside the Church. In 1995, he he 1995, In Church. the outside and within both faced Jesuits the questions many amid

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Near East, covering Lebanon, Syria and Egypt. Upon his election as Superior General, General, Superior as election his Upon Egypt. and Syria Lebanon, covering East, Near

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On November 26, 2016, just a month after the Society of Jesus elected Fr. Arturo Sosa, Sosa, Arturo Fr. elected Jesus of Society the after month a just 2016, 26, November On

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REMEMBERING

Arturo

In our Fall/Winter issue of JESUITS magazine, we covered the election of the new Superior General for the Society of Jesus—Fr. Arturo Sosa, SJ—elected at the 36th General Congrega- tion in Rome. We provided his background and listed his accomplishments. But what about the Jesuit delegates who elected Fr. Sosa? Were there other attributes they perceived in this Venezuelan priest who most recently oversaw the international Jesuit houses in Rome? Br. Guy Consolmagno, SJ, a Maryland Province Jesuit, GC36 delegate, and the director of the Vatican Observatory, lives in one of the houses Fr. Sosa cared for. Here is his reflection.

4 Arturo at the Round Table By Br. Guy Consolmagno, SJ

The international Jesuit houses— say that all the international houses including places in Rome like the provide great opportunities to test Gregorian University or the Vatican one’s abilities to listen and act. The Observatory, as well as sites in Jeru- differences in “languages” can lead to salem and elsewhere—draw on the great misunderstandings even when whole Society. At the Vatican Obser- everyone is speaking the same tongue! vatory, for example, the dozen Jesuits But I have seen how Fr. Sosa has nav- in our community come from four igated these sometimes-treacherous continents, representing eight differ- waters with great success and worked ent Jesuit provinces. Among us, a to achieve the common good. dozen languages can be spoken. For One of the themes that I heard at that reason, our care does not fall the General Congregations was that under any particular provincial but when looking for a Father General, directly under Father General. In one might search for a mystic; or a practice, of course, Father General visionary; or a king. There are times appoints a “delegate” to watch over us. when you want someone to envision For the past two years, that Father new directions, or someone who will Delegate was Fr. Arturo Sosa. And so lead us closer to our religious roots. I’ve gotten to know Fr. Sosa as closely But at GC36, the running joke went as a typical Jesuit might know his that we really only needed to issue provincial. Closer, in fact … he’s the one document, one that said merely, Br. Guy Consolmagno, SJ one who nominated me to be the “Please implement all the previous director of the Observatory, and after documents!” At this moment, we my appointment he taught me how know we need someone who can to function not only in the Jesuit curia guide us to the places where we but also in the Vatican. know we need to be. More Some of the qualities that make him What sort of “king” will Fr. Sosa be? on the web outstanding are his wide experience in One of his first actions was, literally, In addition to electing Fr. Arturo so many different parts of the Society. to install a round table in his office at Sosa, SJ, as the new Superior He has worked with the poor; he has the Curia. Around that table he has General of the Society of Jesus, worked at universities. He understands already gathered a number of differ- several decrees were written and all of our different kinds of works; he ent groups within the Society. For approved at GC36 to help guide understands all of our different social instance, the six brothers elected to the the Society in its mission to serve settings and the different assumptions General Congregation (I was one) had where the needs are greatest. To that each of us makes about what we an hour with him sitting around that view some of these decrees, visit expect in our Jesuit lives and work. table, talking frankly among ourselves More importantly, he knows how (and him) about our hopes and needs. www.MDSJ.org/gc36decrees. to listen. A round table. Not a bad idea for a Without being more specific, let’s just “king” named Arturo!

5 A rrupe College: The NEW FACE of Jesuit Higher Ed

Jesuit Father Stephen Katsouros, dean and executive director of Arrupe College, with a student on his first day of class. 6 All photos courtesy of Arrupe College of Loyola University Chicago. rrupe College: The NEW FACE of Jesuit Higher Ed

The world’s first Jesuit community college is in its second year.

By Ann Christenson

No one was more excited to receive and executive director. an acceptance letter to Arrupe College Fr. Garanzini designed Arrupe in Chicago than the mother of Jontae as part of a long-range plan to offer Thomas. affordable education to students with “She called me and said I should limited financial means, with the receive the notification today,” Jontae university absorbing the costs. He ran recalled. When the envelope arrived, the proposal past administrators of he called his mother back to share the various Chicago high schools, where good news. “She screamed for joy,” “it was met with great excitement,” he said. said Fr. Katsouros. “I just like that school,” Jontae’s Students would attend classes 40 mother told him. Jontae understood weeks out of the year, three to four why: Classes are small, and the teachers days per week, and each class would be know their students by name. They eight weeks in duration, followed by a also serve as student advisers and two-week break. The ongoing nature “would always have their door open of classes without an extended sum- to us,” Jontae says. Most attractive mer break would help keep students of all was the opportunity to earn an engaged. Class sizes would be small, associate degree without incurring with fewer than 30 students, to elimi- financial debt. nate disconnect between the students Arrupe College is a junior college and faculty. that’s an extension of Loyola University The goal is for students to graduate Chicago and was created expressly to with little or no debt. They could live address the lack of accessible higher at home, commute to school and be education for low-income families. encouraged to work part-time jobs to Arrupe’s founder, Jesuit Father offset tuition costs and personal ex- Michael Garanzini, former president penses. Students are required to apply and current chancellor of Loyola for federal student aid and are expected Chicago, hatched the idea as a timely, to receive other aid and grants, which necessary way to improve the college’s brings the per-year tuition cost down graduation rates of students from to approximately $2,000 per year. challenged economic backgrounds. Integral to the creation of Arrupe was Father Stephen Katsouros, SJ, a USA an available building, Maguire Hall, Northeast Province Jesuit, and former at Loyola’s downtown campus. president of Loyola School in New The interest in Arrupe College was York City, serves as the college’s dean immediate and strong, according to Fr.

7 ARRUPE COLLEGE: THE NEW FACE OF JESUIT HIGHER ED

Katsouros. The school’s first-year class worker, two associate deans and a maneuver through the hurdles of had 159 students, and 131 returned for career coordinator. financial aid, the summer program their second year of college this past Recognizing that many Arrupe includes a two-day retreat where fall, along with a new incoming fresh- students face more roadblocks to students participate in team-building man class of 187 students. success in terms of their personal activities that enable them to start Bringing faculty on board was not a lives, this education model is tasked building friendships with each other. burden either, thanks to the model’s with addressing the whole person. The credits earned in Arrupe’s two- focus on teaching and advising. Each The fledgling school’s commitment year program award students with an faculty member serves as an adviser to evolving methods of cultivating a associate degree in arts and human- to 20 students and sets aside at least climate of success is critical. Yolanda ities, business, or social and behavioral 10 hours a week for office hours. “All Golden, Arrupe’s associate dean of sciences. Those credits are transferable [faculty] are really turned on by this student success, oversees the college’s to more than 100 four-year Illinois program,” Fr. Katsouros says. career counseling strategy, keeping universities. “I think it’s going to be students academically and socially on a game-changer in higher ed,” says Offering a Path to Success course. This formally began in July Fr. Katsouros. The other key component was 2015, the month before Arrupe class- This is an edited version of an article that addressing the question: How can es were in session, with a three-week appeared in the February 2016 issue of we help these students flourish? The Summer Enrichment Program, which U.S. Catholic. All photos courtesy of Arrupe College of Loyola University answer was to build a strong support is mandatory for all students. Chicago. Copyright 2016 Claretian network of professionals—six full-time Besides a time to register for classes, Publications. Reprinted by permission faculty, as well as a licensed social meet the faculty and learn how to from the March 2017 issue of U.S. Catholic magazine, www.uscatholic.org.

Arrupe College Professor B. Minerva Ahumada works with students in her Philosophy and Persons class. God, Too, Has A Hand in the Soil

Anyone who has ever eaten a fresh engages and delights in a world full By Fr. Michael Woods, SJ vegetable from a garden he or she of beauty, goodness, and justice. At cultivated knows the difference in the same time, it demands that one taste. Fresh produce that one harvests “get dirty,” laboring in places and in TRANSFORMING and eats right away is still living, the circumstances that are ugly, sad, evil, nutrients still coursing through its and unjust, that challenge people’s AN ABANDONED, cells. There is, as well, the immense hope and joy. satisfaction of knowing that you labored At the core of this spirituality is DEGRADED PIECE creatively with God’s abundant earth to Jesus who steps into the beauty and OF LAND INTO A bring forth this simple healthy goodness. brokenness of the world. He gets his Gardens, by nature, make us generous. hands in dirt and spit and makes it FARM GROWING Eden, a word which means “delight,” something sacramental and healing was inhabited by Adam (soil) and Eve (Jn. 9). He restores broken people to DELICIOUS, (life). In the beginning, God gets dirty, wholeness, community, and God. Jesus and, with a hand in the soil, gives us wraps his hands around bread—fruit HEALTHY FOOD. the breath of life. God is intensely of the earth, work of human hands— involved in the world. Life with and in and blesses it, making ordinary food God commences with our inseparable something more that also restores GROW bond to the earth. How could it be people to wholeness, community, and otherwise? If one eats, one must also God. Ignatian spirituality delights in “tend and till” soil, gratefully receiving the good and does not shy away from OHIO back the life it yields. getting dirty. One dwells and labors Ignatian spirituality could be likened with God in this beautiful and frag- to that garden. It is a spirituality that mented world, reconciling people and VALLEY 9 GROWING OHIO VALLEY

creation to God. Ignatian spirituality is and region. At GOV, I am one of the farm eminently incarnational and sacramental, hands, tending and tilling the gardens. and thus redemptive. I absolutely love this aspect of my work, My work at Wheeling Jesuit University being outside and working hard, close to (WJU) enables me to engage this beautiful, God’s beautiful creation, cultivating good, broken world in many ways. I say, half healthy vegetables, ultimately destined for jokingly, that I have my dream : “I keep a those who hunger—not only for food, but hand in the classroom (teaching theology) also for health and community, wholeness. and a hand in the soil (farming), I try to This makes me rejoice. One of the great keep us from trashing the planet (sustain- joys is being at our Mobile Farmer’s Market, ability programs), and I remain close to a converted food truck, seeing the life and God’s poor.” For me, this combination of excitement on academic, pastoral, and social justice work people’s faces at the abundance of God’s Father Mike Woods, SJ gives concrete expression to what Pope good earth, while knowing that we worked Francis calls integral ecology and fulfills hard to bring that all to market. While GOV the Jesuit call to reconcile creation and is neither religious nor Christian in its people with God. vision, I am convinced that it is a work of In places where there My central passion, however, relates to the Kingdom of God. food justice. For the last year, I’ve worked One of the four East Wheeling lots were just a few inches with Grow Ohio Valley (GOV), a local reclaimed by GOV, and on which we now of topsoil, one now non-profit founded by Danny Swan, a grow food, was once an entire city block WJU alum and recent recipient of the with a thriving ethnic community. People finds this rich, black, Moira Erin O’Donnell Emerging Leaders lived, worked, played, fought, and rejoiced for Justice award. The program reclaims there for over 150 years! In the early 1970s, nutrient-dense soil, abandoned city lots, grows good, healthy eminent domain was invoked—the people more than a foot deep food, and seeks to make that food accessi- relocated, their homes demolished—and a ble to all, especially those in the struggling highway overpass was built. The abandoned in some beds. Ohio Valley, part of the depressed Rust Belt. lot became overrun with weeds and trash. Our work is focused in East Wheeling, It played host to all sorts of drug activity, but it is a place indicative of other urban prostitution, and the homeless. areas, a food-insecure neighborhood About six years ago, Danny asked the

High-tunnel greenhouses, built on the former Lincoln Homes site, protect crops from cold 10 weather and extend the growing season. city if he could use it to put in a few gardens. These women not only learn before they depart, and thanks to West raised bed gardens. It is located on to prepare good, healthy meals—coun- Virginia University Extension, the dish 18th Street, and so it was affectionately tering the culture of the convenience they will prepare at home can be tasted called “Farm 18.” Here you have this store diet that contributes to many there. It is delicious, healthy food, abandoned parcel of land with very of their health woes—but also enjoy grown on an abandoned, degraded little soil depth, let alone good soil, a sense of community, which is felt parcel of land, destined for the bellies degraded in all sorts of ways. We still among all involved. Many of these of the poor, who experience a sense of pull lots of rocks and debris, left over women have suffered mightily, and so, belonging, care, and community. This from the demolition of homes, out of to see them rejoice, feel encouraged is true health. the soil. You have a poor community, and empowered, brings them, and us, I have used the word “health” several also degraded in too many ways. a deep gladness. Food has the capacity times. The Latin word for health is You should see Farm 18 now! It is to do this, does it not? salus, which is where we get the word a veritable urban Eden. For six years, On Thursdays last year, our Mobile salvation. This word is all encompass- GOV has been rebuilding the soil through the constant task of adding organic matter, such as compost, leaves, wood chips, and chicken manure (on site). “O God, how I thank Thee for this chicken manure!” In places where there were just a few inches of topsoil, one now finds this rich, black, nutrient dense soil, more than a foot deep in some beds. Billions of microorganisms live in this soil—they too are our farm hands! What was a rather haphazard use of the irregularly shaped lot, on a slope, is now a maximized growing space of over 8,000 square feet of in- tensely cultivated beds. At the height of the growing season, this garden is lush and abundant. And it is shared! The creation that groaned here (Rom. 8:22) has experienced redemption, Grow Ohio Valley’s Farm 18 sits under a highway overpass, awaiting the first plantings of spring. restoring health to land and people. In addition to getting this food Market traveled to Health Right in ing, implying wholeness and healing. to market, GOV has several other South Wheeling, a medical clinic In my view, this makes the work programs. For eight weeks last fall, serving low-income persons. Thanks of Farm 18 a salvific one, in which on Wednesday evenings at Northern to a grant procured by Dr. Sue Greco creation and people are redeemed Community College, about ten single through a program called “Farmacy,” and brought to a fuller life. mothers gathered for “Dinner in a some thirty households receive $25 per If this is not a Kingdom work, SNAP.” SNAP stands for Supplemental week to spend at our market. When nothing is. Come and see for yourself Nutritional Assistance Program and the patron-eaters arrive, they report to and, with God, get your hands in the is a crucial federal program that helps the “doctor” who greets them, chats soil. Our salvation depends on it. low-income persons purchase food. a bit, and then promptly writes them Father Mike Woods, SJ, serves as Chef-instructor Gene Evans leads a “prescription,” which is a recipe sustainability program coordinator the group, teaching them to prepare for healthy eating. They then go to for the Appalachian Institute. He is simple, healthy crock-pot dishes—cut our Mobile Market truck to purchase also a part-time faculty member at Wheeling Jesuit University, teaching it up and throw it in the pot! Many of some of the necessary vegetables and religious studies, philosophy and the vegetables come from our GOV other ingredients to take home. But sustainability. 11 12 The pioneer fifth grade students at St. Ignatius Loyola Academy in Baltimore. Putting Fifth First Two Jesuit Middle Schools Add Fifth Grade for Greater Impact

“I was excited!” The transition from a public city By Mike Gabriele This simple but enthusiastic elementary school to a private Jesuit response came from Eric Harris, a middle school, especially for students student in the pioneer fifth grade at from lower-income families, can St. Ignatius Loyola Academy in Balti- be quite daunting, if not downright more, when asked how he felt about demanding. Academically, new sixth leaving his old school to come to the graders entering St. Ignatius Loyola Academy. Eric made a substantial leap Academy were often one to two years to a new school—a completely new behind where they should have been environment that has become, in so to adequately begin preparing for many ways, home. This excitement, high school admission. And beyond this impartiality with which Eric scholastic aptitude, many incoming approached leaving his normal routine to sixth graders find acclimating into the accept the unfamiliar, is not uncommon Academy’s environment more difficult in his other classmates who make up the than they might have a year earlier. Academy’s very first fifth-grade class. “You’d be surprised the difference a

13 Eric Harris (left) and Sawyer Hartlove were both excited to be in the very first fifth-grade class at St. Ignatius Loyola Academy.

year makes,” said John Ciccone, pres- Prep in New York City is a co-ed Jesuit ident of St. Ignatius Loyola Academy. middle school. When it first opened “Fifth graders are still young children. in 2003, BJP included a fifth grade, They’re more inquisitive, more open to but due to financial difficulties faced different environments and new expe- by the Nativity Schools of New York in riences.” The Academy moved from its 2013, they reluctantly chose to become original location at St. Ignatius Church strictly sixth through eighth in order in Baltimore to a bigger building south to remain open. In the fall of this year, of the Inner Harbor in 2013 with the however, Brooklyn Jesuit Prep will specific hopes and plans of adding add back their fifth-grade curriculum. a fifth grade to the curriculum. That “Not having our fifth grade took a hope became a reality last fall. “We year off our ability to reach these kids have 15 students in our inaugural and work with them,” said Patricia fifth-grade class,” said Ciccone. “Next Gauvey, president at Brooklyn Jesuit year we plan to double that. We had Prep. “Seventh-grade report cards 55 families hoping to fill these first 15 are so very important for high school desks, so the need is obviously there.” admissions; we need that extra year John Ciccone, president of St. Ignatius Loyola Academy. While St. Ignatius Loyola Academy to better prepare our students.” BJP is a school for boys, Brooklyn Jesuit also sees the same transition issues 14 Students at Brooklyn Jesuit Prep are eager to welcome fifth graders to the school this fall.

between fifth and sixth grade that St. can interact with upper classmates,” Ignatius Loyola Academy experiences. added Ciccone. “This is one reason “Fifth graders are generally more we launched our fifth grade with only “Fifth graders are malleable than sixth graders,” Gauvey 15 students. We want to evolve and said. “They adapt better to the high adjust as we go before growing to full generally more expectations we set. New sixth graders capacity.” malleable than often see themselves already as cliques A seventh-grade student at Brooklyn rather than as a unified class.” Jesuit Prep understands the important sixth graders. Both Brooklyn Jesuit Prep and St. role of older classmates. “I know that Ignatius Loyola Academy utilize their next year we will need to step up even They adapt older students to help welcome and more as leaders because we will have better to the acclimate incoming fifth graders to more students to set an example for,” the new environment. “Our summer said the student. high expectations camp will mix the fifth graders with As for the new fifth graders already other students, who will continue to enrolled at St. Ignatius Loyola Academy, we set.” meet with them once a week through- the experience has been an exciting — Patricia Gauvey, president, BJP out the year,” explained Gauvey. challenge. “We work much harder “We have advisory periods instead here, and the teachers don’t treat us of homerooms so that our fifth graders like kids,” said Eric Harris. “I like that.” 15 Carrying the Light in

By Mike Gabriele

Jesuits have always heeded the call to explore the frontiers of mission and ministry—to go where the needs are greatest. Along their journey of discernment, scholastics in formation willfully escape their comfort zones, traveling to the edges of the globe and to the margins of society.

16 For nearly 500 years, Jesuits have the Jamshedpur Province, Fr. ful experience,” said Fr. Lacey. “The served in countries all over the world, Sequeira, SJ, wrote a letter to the kids hooked up with a Project in Carrying the Light in working for social justice and bringing Maryland Province, thanking God Patna, gaining a first-hand look at the the hope of Christ to those who strug- for its contributions over the last six needs of those in extreme poverty. gle for peace, dignity and comfort— decades and expressing a continued We visited our sister parish in Rerua, things so many of us take for granted. blessing at having three of our pio- St. , and the Loyola In 1947, the Maryland Province neering Jesuits still with them. Sadly, School that serves the local tribal chil- Jesuits embarked on a new call to we have since lost both Fr. Kenna and dren.” Fr. Lacey set time aside each Jamshedpur, India, establishing a Fr. Dincher, but their legacies live on night for reflection with his group, mission dedicated to helping those in through the many good works in and allowing them to share their experi- need, especially the indigenous, tribal around Jamshedpur that provide care ences, feelings and reactions. “You people. They started schools, cared for and education to those in need. really can’t leave this place without the sick, ministered the Gospel and, Fr. Joseph Lacey, SJ, pastor of St. being changed.” most importantly, recruited other Jesuits Church in This is precisely why many Mary- from all over the world to come join Woodstock, Md., spent 22 years in land Province Jesuits chose to spend them. What started as a small mission Jamshedpur, eight of those years much, if not all, of their lives serving of Jesuit priests from the Maryland helping people afflicted with leprosy. in India. And although only one Province, is today a thriving province Still capable of speaking Hindi, Fr. remains, our Jesuits in formation are of its own with more than 200 Jesuits. Lacey took a group of teenage parish- seeking new missions of their own— Last year, three pioneer Jesuits from ioners on a pilgrimage to Jamshedpur shining their light of faith through the Maryland Province remained in during Christmas break. They even justice—following ’ call India—Fr. Carl Dincher, SJ; Fr. Rich- got to spend New Year’s Eve with for those in consecrated life to “fly ard Kenna, SJ; and Fr. Ed McGrath, Fr. Ed McGrath, our last remaining the nest and go to the frontiers of SJ—each having served more than 50 Maryland Jesuit in India, who turned the world.” years. The newly appointed socius of 94 several days later. “What a wonder-

Fr. Joe Lacey, SJ, gathers with his high school and college pilgrims at the Loyola School in Jamshedpur.

17 Liam Neeson in Martin Scorsese’s film, “Silence.” Neeson is the father of Daniel Neeson, a 2015 graduate SILENCE: of Fordham Prep. The True Story of the Jesuits in Japan

Thirty years after Robert brutal nature of this chapter of Jesuit By Doris Yu history. Once welcome in Japan, mis- De Niro and Jeremy Irons sionaries were officially expelled from portrayed Jesuits in the the country by the 1620s. A number of priests, however, went underground to Academy Award-winning minister to the Christian community. movie “The Mission,” the Among them was Fr. Cristóvão Ferreira, Society of Jesus figures the Portuguese provincial superior of the Jesuit mission. prominently in a new film “Ferreira’s story is one of the most that opened in theaters dramatic stories of Christianity and missionary history of all time,” says Fr. this past December. M. Antoni J. Ucerler, SJ, a professor at the University of San Francisco and an Decades in the making, Martin expert in Japanese Christian history. “He Scorsese’s “Silence” tells the story was the great missionary, the superior of Portuguese Jesuit in of all Jesuit missionaries, and the first 17th century Japan. Although the film to renounce his faith under torture.” is based on a fictional novel by the Fr. Ucerler has a unique vantage point Japanese author Shusaku Endo, many on “Silence.” His spiritual adviser for of the events and people depicted in many years was Jesuit Father William “Silence” are real. Johnston, who translated Endo’s book 18 The film does not sugarcoat the from Japanese into English. Fr. Johnston, an Irish Jesuit working carved out of stone or wooden blocks, or orator was rewarded with 300 pieces in Japan, was a close friend of Endo’s painted. The surviving fumie that exist of silver. and “was with Endo on his deathbed,” today are smoothed and worn down by These were the hostile and terrifying Fr. Ucerler says. “‘Silence’ asks some the trampling of thousands of feet. circumstances in which the narrative of the most difficult questions about The shogunate devised more and of “Silence” is set. The novel opens human life and death and faith. What more painful ways of killing the Chris- with the historically accurate disappear- does it mean to be loyal? What does tians, including slow-burning at the ance of Ferreira, who had arrived in it mean to have a belief? What does stake and “the pit,” a torture method Japan in 1609. Following Ferreira’s it mean to live and die for that belief? featured in Endo’s novel. Victims were torture and apostasy, two delegations And what happens when you don’t bound and hung upside down in a of Jesuits were sent to Japan to allow always succeed? Did Jesus succeed by deep hole, with their heads stuck in themselves to be arrested and to find dying on the cross? That’s the mystery excrement. A small cut was made near Ferreira, who had become an inquisi- that Endo was trying to understand.” the temple or forehead so blood could tor, interrogating Christians and The Jesuits were responsible for drip out, instead of pooling in the head urging them to apostatize—even planting the seeds of Christianity in and making the person unconscious writing an anti-Christian treatise. Japan, through the missionary efforts too quickly. This way, the torture was The delegations were to be executed of St. Francis Xavier, SJ, one of the prolonged and it could take days before as to atone for Ferreira’s apos- founding members of the Society of the victim died. The captors would end tasy. Instead, most of these Jesuits, Jesus. Xavier and the Jesuits landed the torture if the victims signaled that with some notable exceptions, aposta- there in 1549, establishing several they apostatized, or renounced their tized themselves, broken by the same Jesuit communities. A steady stream faith, by raising one arm, which was left torture. There are stories that Ferreira of Jesuits, mainly Portuguese, contin- unbound. But the shogunate soon felt took his apostasy back at the end of his ued to arrive in the country through that persecuting the converts was not life and died a , but no evidence the 1570s. enough. exists to confirm or deny his true fate. This was the golden age of the Jesuits’ “Endo is considered the Graham evangelization in Japan. According to Greene of Japan,” says Fr. Ucerler, Fr. Ucerler, an estimated 300,000 to referencing another important Catholic 500,000 Japanese were baptized as author. “He liked to scrutinize morally Christians. difficult issues. In the book, these two “Perhaps a certain number of these Jesuits are going to redeem Ferreira The True Story of the Jesuits in Japan Christians were not really believers. and are going to be glorious martyrs, Some did abandon the faith when but events unfold differently.” commanded to do so, but many others Scorsese’s work examines God’s held fast to their faith,” he explains. mercy. His passion project finally a “That is comprehensible, because reality, the filmmaker recently screened those were the days when, just as in “Silence” at the Vatican for 300 Jesuits Europe, if your feudal lord told you to and met Pope Francis, who once do something, you did it.” Martin Scorsese directing Andrew Garfield in “Silence.” dreamed of becoming a missionary The mission, which included a Jesuit in Japan himself. college, several schools and a novitiate, “They realized that the Christians Father James Martin, SJ, editor-at- grew until the martyrdom of St. Paul were emboldened by this example of large of the Jesuit magazine America, Miki, SJ, and his companions in 1597 people dying for their faith,” says Fr. served as a spiritual adviser to the cast. —the 26 —by the Ucerler. “They decided they must find “‘Silence’ is like living inside a prayer,” feudal lord . In a better strategy. ‘What would really Fr. Martin says. “I hope every Catholic 1600, the shogun (military dictator) break the Christian community?’ they sees this film.” Tokugawa Ieyasu unified Japan; but, thought. ‘Well, if we could get not only In the present day, surrounded by beginning in 1614, he ordered all the Christians but also the Jesuits to an abundance of religiously fueled missionaries out of the country, issuing renounce their own faith, then that persecution, violence and conflict a decree forbidding the practice of would really demoralize the Christians.’ worldwide, this film may be our best Christianity. That became their approach. I call it attempt at understanding what is all Suspected Christians were required diabolical.” too often the only response: silence. to step on likenesses of the For the first 20 years, the Jesuits Source: Jesuit Conference Mary or Christ, called fumie, to prove survived in hiding, but were ultimately To view Fr. James Martin, SJ’s interview they were not believers. Those who ferreted out. Finding a Christian priest More with director Martin Scorsese, visit resisted were tortured or executed. yielded a bounty of 500 pieces of silver. on the web www.JesuitsEast.org/silence. Many fumie were made of copper, Finding a Christian brother or lay collab- 19 Finding LIGHT in Dark Places

By Mike Benigno

Zach Presutti, SJ, founder and executive director of THRIVE for Life.

alter’s seven months in Detention Center (MDC), a facility commonly prison began and ended with a prayer. known as the Tombs, which houses some WHe had moved to New York from his 670 male detainees. As opposed to a state home country a year after graduating college or federal prison, almost none of the men and had held a corporate job for 15 years. at the MDC have been sentenced yet for the But by winter several years ago, Walter was crimes they were charged with. Some arrive 35 and had lost his job and even his apart- just days after being arrested, residing in a ment to addiction. Living homeless, on a temporary holding section until posting bail January night, high and with nowhere left or being released. Those who don’t make to go, he wandered into a church. “When bail live with up to 40 other detainees in one A color sketch made by Robert, an you’re in addict mode,” Walter would later of a dozen or so “houses,” two-story units. inmate in the California State Prison, depicts when St. Ignatius was say, “your spiritual life is non-existent.” Most exist in a holding pattern, waiting for incarcerated. Robert’s artwork can Yet he prayed that night, for the first time court dates, dealing with lawyers, working also be seen on p. 22 and p. 24. in so long. Several hours later, he had on their case, struggling through life in jail. handcuffs around his wrists. Though this was his first arrest, a judge Walter was brought to the Manhattan set Walter’s bail astronomically high, citing 20 Walter’s status as a foreign citizen and the would have been found in places like chance he might flee overseas. The amount hospitals, prisons, orphanages, and places Finding was impossible for him to pay. of refuge for vulnerable women. He spent much of the first two weeks As the United States developed, Jesuits in in Dark Places sleeping. When he slowly began to venture the Northeast consoled the sick and dying out of his cell, fear set in. in hospitals and institutions, served the “I’m sure they could tell I was scared to poor living in crowded sections of Boston death, because I was,” Walter said. Others and New York City, and ministered in asylums seemed to know how the system worked, for the chronically sick and mentally ill. but he had no idea. “I’d sit on the staircase Over the years, Jesuits became popularly on my own, and then people would come to known as educators, but providing spiritual talk to me. I think none of them understood and social relief for the needy remains very my accent or believed my story because much at the heart of Ignatian spirituality, everybody lies. Everybody’s innocent in jail. intrinsic, in fact, to the pastoral understand- Everyone.” ing of Jesuits A few detainees began to show Walter the The roots of THRIVE for Life stem back ropes: how the food line worked, who’s in to 2011. As a Jesuit novice, Zach, was sent to charge of what, and which prisoners to avoid. work in a jail. He took phone numbers down After a friend wired him money for phone for people and made phone calls to their “I remember the services and began visiting, he learned how loved ones. “I fell in love with it,” he said. first time I saw to operate in the underground economy, “I found the conversations and encounters trading calls for soup or candy bars. The I was having to be so profound and so deep, him. I said, environment was unstable. The experience so quickly.” of being locked in a cell was painful; there Soon after, the Jesuit provincial asked ‘I’m going to were men so mentally ill that they wasted Zach to get a master’s degree in social be safe now.’ their allotted phone time standing with a work. He managed to do clinical work in a dead receiver, to delay and upset their rivals, prison near St. Louis University, and when I was convinced and, by extension, everyone in line. he returned to the Northeast, his superiors that it did not Walter had grown up Catholic, and three supported his desire to focus on ministering weeks into his stay, he spotted a young man, to the incarcerated. happen by Zach Presutti, SJ, wearing a Roman collar. “I didn’t wake up one day and say it’s a It was the man who ran the Catholic retreat great idea to do criminal justice reform,” coincidence.” Zach Presutti, SJ, founder and executive director of THRIVE for Life. on Friday nights, he learned. And he was a Zach admits. “I was transformed by the Jesuit, which astounded Walter. people that I met—their names, their faces —Walter, a former MDC detainee One of Walter’s family members overseas and their stories. These were relationships had graduated from a Jesuit high school and I was building, and that’s why I felt myself college. His mother was also familiar and coming toward this work, to empower even friendly with Jesuits in their home others to thrive.” town. “I remember the first time I saw him,” Volunteers like Tracey Tynan and Patty Walter said. “I said, ‘I’m going to be safe Hughes, who head the social justice com- now.’ I was convinced that it did not happen mittees at St. Francis Xavier and St. Ignatius by coincidence.” Loyola, Manhattan’s two Jesuit parishes, were eager to become involved. Several months Missioned to the Margins after Pope Francis’ U.S. visit, Tracey still felt It was no coincidence that a Jesuit was inspired by the fact that the pope had made walking the common area at the MDC that deliberate stops to pray with incarcerated day. St. Ignatius himself, founder of the men and women in each major city. Society of Jesus, envisioned a religious order When Tracey and Patty met up with Zach, of men whose cloister was the world. As the he was still in the early stages of envisioning Jesuit historian John O’Malley, SJ, notes, a program that would entail two components: even the earliest members of the Society contemplation and action. The project was 21 still without a name when they joined Zach new volunteers. There are no handcuffs or for the very first Friday night retreat at the shackles, but, in matching uniforms, they MDC, in January 2016. take seats quietly throughout the room. Some steal a few moments alone; others Close Your Eyes read the Bible or get up to greet fellow The sights and sounds of jail are as trau- detainees, handshakes coming in for a matic as one might expect. “It’s an assault short pound. on your senses,” Tracey said, recalling her Even Zach doesn’t fit the expectation first volunteer experience. for a prison chaplain. He’s 33 and grew A loud tone sounds each time the guard up in upstate New York. With a beard and buzzes someone into the drafty White glasses, he looks more like someone you’d Street entryway. Volunteers stuff their see walking the street in Williamsburg, personal items into small lockers and join Brooklyn, instead of rearranging the MDC others—lawyers, visitors and newly released chapel. To detainees, it doesn’t matter that individuals seeking Metrocards—waiting he’s a Jesuit regent in formation, someone for the loud pop of an electronic bolt door, not yet a priest. He’s Brother Zach, or “THRIVE giving them entry into the check-in area. Father Zach, or, as some have called him, They turn over their last remaining pos- “the hipster priest that talks about love all could be the session, their ID, to the guard for a guest the time.” platform that pass and walk through a metal detector. When the room is full, Brother Zach Hands are stamped, several more doors comes to life. helps me are unlocked. An escort brings visitors into “I’m going to ask you to do something I find what’s an elevator and down a small hallway that know you’re not used to doing, especially offers only fleeting glimpses of men in tan here,” he begins. “Close your eyes for a meaningful jail uniforms down other hallways, through moment. Now, imagine you’re on a beach,” reinforced glass windows. he begins. “Your feet are in the sand, and for me.” Then, the experience upturns just about it’s quiet and warm. You feel the sun shin- every expectation. ing on your skin, and it’s just you and the —Walter, a former MDC detainee They are chatty and warm as they bring ocean. You begin to feel the presence of out Bibles and prayer cards, and rearrange God there with you, a comforting presence seating in the chapel, a small cinder block in this beautiful setting.” room with painted murals and bench For several minutes, Zach’s voice lets seating. The volunteers are people like the men transcend cinder block walls, the Sabina, from , who attends St. Ignatius guards in the hallway, and the half dozen or Loyola Parish, John, a lawyer and the more locked doors between them and the director of the Spiritual Exercises program outside. All 20 men sit silently on chairs at St. Francis Xavier Church, and Mary, a packed close to one another. In these Xavier parishioner. moments, crimes don’t matter. Court dates The corrections officers outside of the don’t matter. All eyes are closed, including chapel and the nearby law library strike Zach’s. There’s a palpable peace. you as just people from throughout the Zach slowly guides them back to their boroughs. There isn’t any resentful tone presence in the room. Eyes open, and after toward volunteers coming in to serve the breathing exercises, the Ignatian Examen men whose behavior they oversee. They —a reflection process penned by the stop what they’re doing to meet each founder of the Jesuits nearly 500 years volunteer and shake hands. ago—continues. The detainees arrive. They look you in the The men are asked to review their week, eye, smile and shake hands as they enter. to discover the ways they saw God at work They remember the names of even brand in their life. They’re invited, and are often

22 eager, to share their stories—about a former case. By the time of Walter’s plea deal, he rival asking to borrow a phone call, or a had been doing the Examen alone each charge being downgraded to a misdemeanor. night in his cell for four months. Then they’re asked to explore their chal- lenges. In hearing their struggles, they let THRIVE for Life those in the room bear witness to their bur- A full year after its start, the prison min- dens and their humanity—waiting six weeks istry program has a name—THRIVE for for a 15-second appearance before a judge, Life—and is housed in an office at Xavier the looming threat of being transferred High School in New York City. Zach and somewhere else like Riker’s Island, the volunteers continue the regularly sched- sorrows that come from a second or third in- uled, weekly retreats for detainees at the carceration after years living on the outside. MDC and have expanded to serve five other The Examen ends with an exploration of jails and prisons throughout New York State what they can do the next day to be more on a steady basis.

generous and loving. After a scripture Oftentimes, there is very little time for THRIVE for Life offers reading and a short reflection, Zach volunteers to speak individually with the the Spiritual Exercises at reminds them that God loves them more prisoners, but the act of remembering the Manhattan Detention Center (MDC) and other than they will ever know. The retreat closes names, stories, struggles has brought New York area jails. with a group prayer, done in a circle meaning to detainees’ lives. “Many times, holding hands. we’re the only people from the outside that All of this in an environment where they will see during their whole time in exploring feelings and expressing joy are jail,” Tracey said. completely foreign—even unwelcomed— It is not uncommon for Zach and several concepts. volunteers to rent a car and book hotel rooms, Walter joined Zach and the volunteers at hosting weekend retreats for inmates at Sing some point in February 2016, about four Sing Correctional Facility, or those impris- weeks into his stay in jail. “With my story oned elsewhere in places like Otisville, N.Y. and the last few years of my life, that first Over the past year, THRIVE has part- message that Zach shared, that you are still nered not only with parishioners and other loved, was something that I forgot,” he said. volunteers, but also with students at New “This was one hour where I forgot where I York’s Regis High School, who have made was. It gave me hope at that time.” several trips to Riker’s Island. He attended Zach’s weekly retreats Aside from the retreats, which fulfill the through the entire progression of his court contemplation portion of THRIVE’s mission,

23 Tracey Tynan, a THRIVE for Life volunteer and head of the social justice committee at St. Francis Xavier Church.

the program has expanded to include life in my life, but I know that I can get there,” skills programs for incarcerated and Walter said. “THRIVE could be the platform “Every human formerly incarcerated individuals. that helps me find what’s meaningful for being is worthy THRIVE also aids family members of me. Right now, it makes sense in my life. those imprisoned. I have a long way to go, but THRIVE of God’s love. Today, Walter lives in New York City. He brought me a sense of higher power, of attends mandatory narcotics counseling community and hope.” All you have to and is still connected with THRIVE. On When Tracey talks about THRIVE, she do is accept.” one afternoon in January, he joined Zach takes on an energetic air. But when pressed for a long subway ride, delivering a cloth- for what deeper meaning she might see in ing donation to a man who had just been her service, she becomes more pensive. —Tracey Tynan released from prison. He recently accepted “Anyone can go astray, even the privi- a scholarship to begin studies at a local leged” she said. “But for someone who’s college and is excited about the prospect had very few chances in life, or whose of beginning a career in graphic design. parents forced them to sell drugs at age With the cooperation of MDC leadership, 10, they simply deserve a shot. THRIVE THRIVE has established a learning and shows detainees that God loves them, and resource center at the detention center. In if you go through the retreats with us, you’ll February, a pile of boxes took up a corner see that there is nothing you can do that of the THRIVE office, filled with books that will make God not love you. Every human had been donated by others. This spring, being is worthy of God’s love. All you have THRIVE will become an independent 501 to do is accept.” (c)(3) organization. For more information on the THRIVE program, “When I see Zach doing something that More visit THRIVE’s website at www.thriveforlife.org has meaning for him, I’ve never had that on the web or email [email protected].

@ThriveforLifeNY 24 The 2017 Jesuit GALA: AMDG HONOREES Recognizing John and Mary Power

GALA John and Mary Power Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam www.JesuitsEast.org/Gala-2017 2017 Celebrating decades of Ignatian connections, John and Mary Power When those gathered at this year’s Jesuit project and is the vice chair of the Lowell continue to inspire and GALA on April 25 leave Boston’s Marriot Plan. Mary graduated from Holy Cross in empower others. Copley Place, they will walk away feeling 1983 and has been a member of several inspired and energized—not only by the community and school boards. Both Mary ••• dozens of Jesuits there, the many volun- and John have served on the Hazelden Betty teers present or the countless friends filling Ford Foundation’s Fellowship reconstruc- 2017 GALA Co-Chairs: the room, but also by this year’s honorees, tion task force and have been loyal friends John and Mary Power. of the Jesuits for many years. Ann Marie and John and Mary have been transformed “The Jesuits have been heroes to us,” Dick Connolly by Ignatian values, and they both have John and Mary said. “They encourage us to deep Jesuit roots, dating back more than dig deeper and they help us to discover our 50 years. In fact, more than 60 of their best selves. In our lives, they’ve truly been a combined family members have graduated constant presence, guiding us, shaping our from Jesuit institutions. spirituality and inspiring us to give back to John, a 1980 graduate of the College of others with the gifts we’ve been given.” More the Holy Cross, has worked in the commer- In recognition of their selfless efforts for on the web cial real estate industry for almost 30 years. the Jesuits and for others, the USA North- For more information and A principal at Farley White Interests, John east Province will honor Mary and John complete event coverage, visit assisted the province with the successful Power with its Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam www.JesuitsEast.org/Gala-2017. Eastern Point Retreat House renovation Award at this year’s GALA. 25 The future home of the Jesuit community chapel within the Jesuit Center.

THE ESUIT CENTER: J Coming to Life

When the Jesuit Center opens later this year, the priests, brothers and scholastics and lay colleagues moving into the new space on Manhattan’s 83rd Street will find a completely renovated living and apostolic space, built to enhance the ways the Jesuits respond to today’s critical needs.

The St. Ignatius Loyola community, The administrative spaces on the located within the Jesuit Center, will first and second floors will feature be a residence that is tailored to suit upgrades that will foster greater modern needs of Jesuit life, yet firmly partnerships among Jesuit ministries rooted in prayer, discernment and throughout the region and enhance community living—cornerstones of collaboration among Jesuits and lay the Society of Jesus. This home for 20 partners. With the creation of the USA priests, brothers and scholastics will East Province in 2020, these offices Top, Fr. Philip Judge, SJ, provincial assistant feature new bedrooms, each with its will eventually house more than 40 for strategic planning, pictured in the Jesuit Center site. Bottom, Fr. John Cecero, SJ, own bathroom, an open layout dining staff members who guide Jesuit provincial of the USA Northeast Province of space and kitchen area, and a beautiful ministries from Maine to Georgia. the Society of Jesus. chapel for Mass and daily prayer. The Jesuit Center Campaign

26 launched last fall, with momentum Mass with Fr. Cecero, SJ, and many of quickly gathering among committee the priests, brothers and scholastics members, staff and generous donors who live there. At the event, commit- who helped this fundraising effort tee members and guests toured the gain an incredible start. residence, which, after consultation Shortly after the start of the New with the Jesuits who live there, was Year, Fr. John J. Cecero, SJ, provin- designed by architectural firm Beyer, cial of the USA Northeast Province, Blinder and Belle. The residence announced that John C. Meditz, reopened in 2014, and the Jesuit campaign co-chair, had pledged a Center has been designed by the For more information on the Jesuit very generous $2.5 million lead gift. same firm. Center, including construction One week later, Mario Gabelli and his “It is incredible to see the way updates, naming and endowment wife, Regina Pitaro, visited The Jesuit this campaign has engaged those in opportunities, and ways to support Center and committed to a $500,000 this room, and so many others we this important project, visit www. gift for The Gabelli Conference Room are reaching out to,” Dan Denihan, JesuitCenterCampaign.org or con- on the center’s first floor. campaign co-chair, said at the January tact Joe Naylor at jnaylor@Jesuits. “Both of these outstanding leader- dinner. “This is a real opportunity to org or Jim Skurka at jskurka@ ship gifts inspire us, will ensure our help enhance the work of the Society Jesuits.org. continued success, and will help us of Jesus and to help the Jesuits, who engage more donors in support of give so much and rarely, if ever, ask this critical work for the province,” for anything in return.” said Fr. James F. Keenan, SJ, campaign Throughout the winter, drywall “This is a real opportunity co-chair. was added to rooms on most floors to help enhance the work of To date, The Jesuit Center Campaign within The Jesuit Center. Plumbing has raised more than $3.5 million in outlets are being installed throughout the Society of Jesus and to cash and pledges. the residential sections, and workers help the Jesuits, who give so In January, members of the Jesuit have finished shaping and drying the much and rarely, if ever, ask Center campaign committee gathered curved ceiling which will adorn the at the Xavier Jesuit Community on community chapel space and sur- for anything in return.” New York’s 16th Street to celebrate rounding rooms. —Dan Denihan, campaign co-chair

Maureen Power (left), wife of committee member Jim Power, joins with Dan Denihan, co-chair (right) at a Mass and dinner held at the Xavier Jesuit Community.

27 Please Join Us! Join us for an Ignatian Journey Tuesday, September 26, 2017 to and QUAKER RIDGE GOLF CLUB Lourdes

Key sites in the lives of Ignatius Loyola and Francis Xavier October 1–11, 2017

Under the Spiritual Direction of Fr. George Witt, SJ.

For more info, visit www. JesuitsEast.org/Spain2017 or contact Mr. Joe Naylor at 212-774-5529 or jnaylor@ Jesuits.org.

THE EIGHTH ANNUAL

Fr. James Keenan, SJ

This year’s Friends of the Jesuits Golf Outing and dinner will recognize Fr. James Keenan, who is celebrating his 80th birthday this year and TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2017 marking 60 years since entering the Society of Jesus! QUAKER RIDGE GOLF CLUB 146 GRIFFEN AVENUE • SCARSDALE, N.Y.

7 To benefit the apostolic works of the Jesuits 7 To support the care of senior and infirm Jesuits

FOR MORE INFORMATION, VISIT WWW.JESUITSEAST.ORG/GOLF2017

For information, contact James Skurka at [email protected] 212-774-5544 or Liz Cunningham at [email protected] 617-607-2893 28 A lifetime of support for our Jesuits in India

By Sherri Weil

This photo of Fr. Carl Dincher, SJ, was taken by Marilyn Maledon, a loyal supporter of the Jamshedpur and Maryland Provinces, when he visited Pittsburgh, Pa., for a fundraiser to help the poor in India.

o the great sorrow of brought the light of Christ to many were in attendance. Many who sup- Tfriends and family, last year, two of the who had lost hope. ported him throughout his life told remaining three Jesuits originally from These Jesuits have been supported stories of his work as an advisor to the Maryland Province were called to by a cadre of loyal donors throughout Saint . Fr. Dincher met eternal life from their adopted country their 50+ years in the “land of the Mother Teresa in 1961, and he was of India. Fr. Carl Dincher, SJ, died on Indies.” As inspiring as these men for impressed by both her compassion Oct. 10th and Fr. Richard Kenna, SJ, others have been, the contributions and wisdom. He is quoted as saying, on Nov. 13th. Fr. Edward McGrath, SJ, from their benefactors are equally so. “For Mother Teresa and myself, we is the last American priest in Jamshed- For years, hundreds of contributions see Jesus in each of our brothers and Fr. James Keenan, SJ pur. He turned 94 in January. have been sent to the Maryland Prov- sisters. There is something tremen- These three Jesuits left their home ince from family members, descen- dously fulfilling being amongst the country decades ago, having to adapt dants, friends, and even friends of poorest of the poor.” to the new languages, climate and friends. The list would fill too many Fortunately, many patrons of the diet of India. Over time, they became pages of this magazine. Province are now supporting the one with the people of India. They At the memorial service for Fr. Jesuits in formation, who, inspired by helped heal their physical and spiritual Dincher, held at his home parish of their forefathers, are serving the poor wounds, educated their children, and St. Boniface Church in Williamsport, domestically and internationally. Pa., hundreds of friends and family

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