A Renewed Spirit Provincial V. Rev. Myles N. Sheehan, SJ Dear friends, Peace of Christ! Province Consultors Rev. John J. Higgins, SJ As I reflect on the letters that Fr. Tom Regan, SJ, wrote in past issues Rev. Paul D. Holland, SJ of JESUITS Magazine, I am grateful for all he accomplished during Rev. Joseph M. O’Keefe, SJ his six years as Provincial of the New England Province. We are Rev. William E. Stempsey, SJ blessed with a wonderfully talented, dedicated staff at the provincial Associate Consultants offices, and committed, enthusiastic Jesuits and lay collaborators in Rev. Robert J. Daly, SJ our apostolic works and ministries. The following pages highlight our Rev. William R. Campbell, SJ work in formation, education and Ignatian spirituality. Provincial Assistants I am excited to return to New England — my home province where I entered Rev. John J. Higgins, SJ the and where I grew up and was educated. During my first day as Socius/Executive Assistant Provincial, I presided at liturgy at the Chapel of the Holy Spirit at Campion Center, during which Fr. George Williams, SJ, professed his final vows, and where I was ordained Rev. John T. Butler, SJ . You will read about the restoration of the Chapel on pages 10 and 11. Director of Vocations As I travel around the province, visiting our Jesuit communities and apostolic works Rev. Robert J. Daly, SJ and meeting with many of you, our companions on mission, I see God’s blessings on Assistant for Higher Education our work in New England. We are truly responding to the call of Christ by serving the Church and you, the . One of the directives of the Society of Jesus is saving Rev. Richard A. Deshaies, SJ Assistant for Formation souls. We strive to help people find the meaning of their lives in the story of Jesus. New England Jesuits are missioned here in New England, across the United States and Margaret T. Florentine internationally. On pages 14 and 15, you can read about the gratitude our alumni/ae of Assistant for Secondary Education Baghdad College and Al Hikma University have for their Jesuit education and their hope and courage going forward. Rev. Michael D. Linden, SJ Assistant for International, And of course, we cannot do what we do without your friendship, prayers and support. Pastoral and Social Ministries At our 10th annual Jesuit GALA we will honor Ann Marie and Dick Connolly with the Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam award. Our GALA chairs, Mary and John Power, along with Catherine R. Morency, RN Regan and her team in the advancement office, are hard at work to make this Province Health Care Coordinator event the wonderful signature event it is. I encourage you to learn more about the work of Jesuits in New England, become Alice Poltorick informed about our events and programs and learn about ways to support the ministries Director of Communications of the province by visiting our award-winning website, www.sjnen.org.

Grace Cotter Regan Executive Director of In gratitude, Advancement

Sr. Clare Walsh, MHSH Assistant for New England Ignatian Spirituality in The Jesuit Very Reverend Myles N. Sheehan, SJ Collaborative Provincial, New England Province of Jesuits

Rev. Dennis J. Yesalonia, SJ Treasurer

ADVANCEMENT COMMITTEE John F. Power Mary Coffey Moran AUDIT COMMITTEE Elizabeth Bourque Deborah P. Reed William Supple Michael J. Lochhead Patricia A. Casey John J. Shaughnessy, Jr. John H. McCarthy Ann Marie Connolly William J. Teuber, Jr. INVESTMENT COMMITTEE Rev. Richard A. McGowan, SJ Jack M. Connors, Jr. Philip M. Byrne John J. Griffin, Jr., Esq. FINANCE COMMITTEE Richard F. Connolly INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Francis C. Mahoney Francis B. Campanella William R. Durgin COMMITTEE John J. Mahoney, Jr. Joseph P. Fallon Paul F. Healey Mary Corcoran John A. McNeice, Jr. Michael J. Lochhead Peter C. McKenzie Ellen Keohane Joseph E. O’Leary, Esq. Judith A. Malone, Esq. Robert J. Morrissey Robert J. Ostiguy Catherine L. O’Neil John H. McCarthy Sean P. O’Neil 10

Fe a t u r e s Fall 2009 • Vol. 5, Issue 2

Pu b l i s h e r V. Rev. Myles N. Sheehan, SJ 7 12 Ex e c u t i v e Ed i t o r Alice Poltorick

As s o c i at e Ed i t o r s Rev. Charles B. Connolly, SJ Rev. Richard H. Roos, SJ

Ex e c u t i v e Di r e c t o r o f Ad v a n c e m e n t Grace Cotter Regan

Contributing Wr i t e r s /Ed i t o r s Rev. Charles B. Connolly, SJ Rev. Lawrence E. Corcoran, SJ Suzanne Heffernan Alice Poltorick Grace Cotter Regan

La y o u t /De s i g n 1 Pat Mullaly, Circle Graphics

Contributing Ph o t o g r ap h y Reflections from a Jesuit in Formation...... 7 Rev. Richard A. Deshaies, SJ Justin Knight Rev. Michael D. Linden, SJ Restoring the Chapel of the Holy Spirit ...... 10 Alice Poltorick Rev. Richard H. Roos, SJ Rev. Ronald E. Wozniak, SJ Annual Jesuit GALA...... 12 Hope, Courage & Friendship at Baghdad Reunion...... 14 A Jesuit Bridge-builder in Rome ...... 16 A Conversation with Fr. Jim Malley, SJ...... 24

Co v e r : The artist at work in 16 restoring the gold trim around the symbol of the Holy Spirit during the restoration of the Chapel of the Holy Spirit at Campion Center. Read Fr. Wozniak’s story on pages 10–11.

JESUITS is published twice per year by the New England Province and is available online: www.sjnen.org. in every issue Please address all correspondence to: Alice Poltorick Provincial Letter . . Inside Front Cover New England Province of Jesuits, P.O. Box 9199, Province News...... 2 Watertown, MA 02471-9199 Phone: 617-607-2895 Advancement...... 20 Email: [email protected] In Memoriam ...... 26 © 2009, New England Province of Jesuits. All rights reserved. Words to Live By. . Inside Back Cover Printed in USA.

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New Assignments Keepers of the Fire Fr. Joseph M. O’Keefe, SJ, dean and by Fr. William Campbell, SJ professor of education in the Lynch School of Education at Boston College, Aproximately two dozen Jesuits with connections to the has been named a province consultor for New England Province were among the nearly 200 Jesuits the New England Province. from all across the United States who gathered at Santa Clara University in June for four days of prayer, reflection, sharing and planning. Fr. William R. The conference, entitled “Keepers of the Fire,” invited Campbell, SJ, together for the first time the so-called middle generation president of Cheverus High School, has of Jesuit priests and brothers to consider their corporate been named a province consultant for the and individual apostolic desires in light of the challenges New England Province. 2 and invitations of the recent General Congregation 35, demographic realities, current commitments and future plans for province realignments. Present at this unique Fr. Ronald J. Amiot, SJ, has been gathering of Jesuits were nine of the ten provincials then in appointed provincial assistant for health office and Jesuit Conference President Fr. Thomas Smolich, care planning for the Maryland Province SJ, who delivered a keynote address the first night of the of Jesuits. Fr. Amiot was director of gathering. Campion Health Center in Weston, Mass., One day was set aside for participants to share their from 1996–2005. vocation stories with one another, honoring the grace of God’s presence in their lives. A second day asked the participants to gather according to future province boundaries and to reflect upon the realities and the Praying for Peace in Amman frontiers of the current province cultures that will soon be realigned. During the final morning of the conference, several of the Provincials formed a panel and shared with all of the participants what they had heard during the days of the gathering. “I came away from the conference extremely consoled,” Fr. Campbell said of his experience. “The liturgies were prayerful, the homilies were thoughtful, the sharing was genuine, the planning was realistic, the laughter was hearty…and the weather was beautiful!”

Letters An Evening Prayer for Peace in the Middle East, featuring acclaimed Lebanese singer Joumana Modour, To the Jesuits. I was touched by the article in your spring was held on Saturday, October 17, 2009, at the Melkite magazine entitled, “Ignatius Behind Bars.” This kind of Church in Amman, Jordan. Raed Awwad, director of program does seem a natural for prisons. I think Fr. George the Jesuit Center and Maroun Nejim, director of JRS is giving prisoners hope and a means to lift their vision of in Amman, coordinated the event with the help of the their lives. It is so true that most people who go to prison Church communities in Jordan. Over 1,200 are poor — impoverished from childhood. Fr. George is people from Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Palestine and addressing that poverty of spirit. Blessings and prayers to attended. Pictured above are Fr. Alfred Hicks, SJ, him and all involved in that program. I hope that more and Joumana Modour, Raed Awwad and Fr. Clarence more of the prisoners ask to join the group. Burby, SJ. Sincerely, Corinne Falope New Media Campion Jesuit Calendar The American version of Sacrifice Unveiled: The True Meaning of Christian Sacrifice, the new book by Fr. Robert Daly, SJ, provincial assistant for higher education for the New England Province and professor emeritus at Boston College, is now available from Continuum Publishing.

HarperOne of San Francisco has 3 published a revised and updated edition of The Practice of Spiritual Direction, by Fr. William Barry, SJ, and Fr. William Connolly, SJ. Besides ordering directly from your bookstore, you can also purchase the Fr. Bob Lindsay, SJ, has created a beautiful 2010 calendar book online at Amazon or Barnes & featuring his artwork with Scripture quotations. Noble. Fr. Lindsay dedicated his project to the Tuesday morning art classes held at Campion Center. Calendars are $15 each (which includes shipping). To order, please contact Nicole Divine Worship and Human Healing, Breslin, administrator, at [email protected] Liturgical Theology at the Margins of Life and Death, by Fr. Bruce T. Morrill, SJ, is now available from Liturgical Press.

A Prayer for Vocations Father, in the name of Jesus, through the power of your Spirit, A new video compiled by Fr. James inspire men and women Carr, SJ, provides viewers a look at to labor for your Kingdom. “The Other Book of God” at Eastern Point Retreat House. Set to the We especially ask you song, You Will Know, by Fr. Robert through the intercession VerEecke, SJ, and Paul Melley, the of Mary, our Mother, video is posted on the Jesuits of New St. Ignatius, and all the , England channel on YouTube. to help the Society of Jesus continue its service of your church. -Hearts on Fire, Praying with Jesuits

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Welcome Our New Novices

The New England Province welcomes five men into the New England Province. Letroy Monroe entered the Jesuit Centre in Kingston, Jamaica, on August 14. James Ferus, Andrew Otto and Marco Rodriguez entered the St. Andrew House Novitiate in Syracuse, New York, on Saturday, August 22 and Stev Metika entered the novitiate in Cairo, Egypt, on October 5.

Letroy Monroe was born in Kingston, Brazil, the U.K. and Bermuda, as well as a train trip from Jamaica, on September 12, 1989, Boston to San Diego. His (Brent Otto) is also in the the son of Merna Layne and Elvis New England Province of the Society of Jesus. 4 Monroe. He has one older brother, Bruce. He attended Calabar High Marco Rodriguez is from Cambridge, School, and continued his studies at Mass. Marco, 46, has a BA in Spanish Portmore Community College, where from Texas Tech University in 1985 he obtained an associate degree in and later studied plant biology at the business. He has been very active in his University of Massachusetts, Amherst. church, and very involved in youth programs in the wider A brother candidate in the Society, Archdiocese of Kingston. He enjoys music and singing. he has worked as an academic and immigration advisor to international James Ferus is from New Bedford, students in the U.S. at Berklee College Mass. James, 23, earned an AB in of Music. His volunteer experiences include the Peace government from Harvard College. Corps in Jamaica for two years after college, tutoring A volunteer with the Jesuit Volunteer at Boston Partners in Education and more recently as Corps in 2008 and 2009, he worked a pastoral care volunteer at Spaulding Rehabilitation with youth assisting in job training Hospital in Boston. He enjoys cooking, gardening, small through a corporate work-study repair projects and natural science. program in Harlem at Cristo Rey High School. In Portland, Oregon, he Stev Metika is from Amman, Jordan. managed an evening hospitality center for the homeless Stev, 28, will enter the novitiate in called Operation Nightwatch Portland. His interests Cairo, Egypt, in October. He has include music (violin and viola), mathematics, sociology, attended Al Mustansiryh University religion, baking, chess and recreational sports. in Baghdad. His volunteer experiences include three years with the Focolare Andrew Otto is from Framingham, Movement, an organization that Mass. Andy, 24, holds a BA in provides clothing for needy Iraqi communication with a minor in and Jordanian families as well as psychology from Curry College. His a coexistence program for Christians and Muslims in work experience has been with Disney Amman, which offers food and clothing. He has worked World in Florida, CBS-TV (WBZ in full time since 2003 at the Zumont Industrial Company, Boston) and most recently in client and his father’s Baghdad restaurant; later worked as a management (concierge) at Circles. He graphic designer for a private design studio and the Jesuit has volunteered, taking pledges for PBS Center. Stev is currently the administrator of finance and Television and Radio, in various homeless ministries in the logistics, and the coordinator of family visits at the JRS in Boston area, and as a Eucharistic minister and lector at St. Amman. His other interests include reading, swimming Ignatius Church in Chestnut Hill. Andy’s interests include and woodworking. travel, writing and blogging. He has been to Jamaica, Jesuit Novices Profess First Vows

ive Jesuits from the Maryland, FNew England and New York Provinces professed First Vows on Saturday, August 15, 2009, at Holy Cross Church, Dewitt, New York. Jesuits profess perpetual vows of poverty, chastity and obedience to the greater glory of God.

John Peck, 28, from the Maryland 5 Province, was born and raised in New Kensington, Penn. He earned a BA in philosophy from the Pontifical College Josephinum in Columbus, Ohio and a Baccalaureate in Sacred Theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. A modern languages enthusiast, John speaks German, Italian and French. John spent his long experiment teaching L-r: John Peck, SJ, A.J. Rizzo, SJ, Travis Stoops, SJ, Henry Shea, SJ and Dan Corrou, SJ. at Gonzaga College High School in Washington, DC. After vows, he BA in philosophy from Duquesne After vows, he will begin First Studies will begin First Studies at Fordham University in 2006, and co-founded in the fall at Fordham University. University. Duquesne’s chapter of Phi Sigma Tau, the international philosophy honors Daniel Corrou, 37, from the New Angelo Joseph Rizzo, 28, from the society. During his long experiment, England Province, grew up in Saratoga Maryland Province, grew up in Travis worked with the Jesuit Refugee Springs, New York. He has a BA Philadelphia, Penn. He holds a BS Service in Washington, DC, Nogales, in religious studies from LeMoyne in biology from the University of AZ and Nogales, Mexico. After vows, College in Syracuse and a master of Scranton and an MA in pastoral Travis will begin First Studies at St. theological studies from Harvard counseling from Loyola College Louis University. Divinity School. Dan entered the New in Baltimore. Before entering the England Province of Jesuits in August novitiate, he worked as the director of Henry Shea, 24, from the Maryland 2007. to entering the novitiate, Christian service at Loyola Blakefield Province, was born and raised near he worked for Fidelity Investments and and, prior to that, the assistant Minneapolis, Minn. He is a 2007 was a volunteer with Jesuit Volunteers director of Ignatian service at St. graduate of Georgetown University International (JVI) in Micronesia. He Joseph’s Prep, Philadelphia. During with a BA in government. He has also later became associate director of JVI. his long experiment, A.J. worked studied at the Universidad Alberto Dan taught at Cheverus High School in campus ministry at Georgetown Hurtado in Santiago, Chile and taught in Portland, Maine, during his long University. He will begin First Studies English as a volunteer in Panama. experiment. He is in First Studies at in the fall at Fordham University. In the summer of 2006, he worked Heythrop College in London. at the Philanthropy Roundtable in Travis Stoops, 26, from the Washington, DC. Henry spent his Maryland Province, originally hails long experiment teaching at Scranton from Venetia, PA. He received a Preparatory School in Scranton, Penn. Formation

Jesuit Priests Profess Final Vows

Fr. Bruce T. Morrill, SJ, pronounced final vows in the Society of Jesus on Saturday, April 25, 2009 at St. Ignatius Church, Chestnut Hill, Mass.

Fr. Thomas Regan, SJ, then Provincal of the New England Province, presided, and Fr. Ronald Mercier, SJ, and Fr. Morrill were principal concelebrants. Fr. Morrill is an associate professor in the theology department and 6 graduate program director at Boston College.

Fr. Morrill’s new book, Divine Worship and Human Healing, Liturgical Theology at the Margins of Life and Death, is featured on page three of this issue.

Fr. Bruce Morrill, SJ, is acknowledged by his brother Jesuits after pronouncing final vows.

On July 31, 2009, the Feast of St. Ignatius, Fr. George T. Williams, SJ, pronounced final vows at the Chapel of the Holy Spirit at Campion Center in Weston, Mass.

Fr. Myles Sheehan, SJ, Provincial of the New England Province, presided. Fr. Thomas Regan, SJ, outgoing Provincial, Fr. Paul Holland, SJ, rector of the Campion Jesuit Community, and Fr. Richard Deshaies, SJ, provincial assistant for formation, concelebrated the liturgy. Fr. Williams is a prison chaplain at MCI-Concord, Mass., and was featured in the spring issue of this magazine. Fr. Myles Sheehan, SJ, with Fr. George Williams, SJ, in the rotunda at Campion. St. Ignatius is in the background.

Fr. Andrew J. Garavel, SJ, professed his final vows on October 23, at the Jesuit Community Chapel at Santa Clara, California. Fr. Myles Sheehan, SJ, New England Provincial, received the vows. Fr. Garavel is a professor of English at Santa Clara University.

Fr. Andrew Garavel, SJ, speaks to the community gathered for his final vow ceremony. Diaconate Ordination

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Fr Herbert Keller, SJ, Fr. Terrence Devino, SJ, and Fr. Bernard McIlhenny, SJ

New England Jesuit, Fr. Terrence P. Devino, SJ, pronounced final vows on September 21, the Feast of Mr. George Collins, SJ, and his mother in front of St. Ignatius Church in San Francisco. St. Matthew at the University of Scranton, Penn. Fr. Herbert Keller, SJ, acting rector, received the vows. Fr. Devino is the vice president for University ministries Mr. George E. Collins, SJ, was one of 12 Jesuits who was at the University of Scranton. ordained deacon on October 24 at St. Ignatius Church in San Francisco, California. The Most Reverend John Cummins, DD, Bishop Emeritus of Oakland, presided at the Liturgy. Mr. Collins is a third-year theologian studying at the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley, California and will be ordained a priest in June, 2010.

Take, Lord, and receive all my liberty, my memory, my understanding and my entire will, all I have and call my own.

You have given all to me. To you, Lord, I return it. Fr. Myles Sheehan, SJ, receives the vows of Fr. James Martin, SJ. Everything is yours; do with it what you will. Fr. James J. Martin, SJ, professed his final vows on Give me only your love and your grace, November 1, the Feast of All Saints, at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola, New York. Fr. Myles Sheehan, SJ, That is enough for me. Provincial of the New England Province, received the vows. Fr. Martin is a writer and the culture editor of ~ St. Ignatius Loyola America magazine. Formation

Ordination 2009

n June 13, His Eminence Seán Cardinal O’Malley, OO.F.M.Cap., of Boston, presided at the ordination to the priesthood of Thomas J. Kenny, SJ. Family and friends attended the ordination liturgy at the Church of St. Ignatius of Loyola in Chestnut Hill, Mass., and celebrated at a luncheon reception held at Boston 8 College. During his Jesuit formation, Fr. Kenny ministered to (among others) orphans in Brazil and victims of traumatic violence at Cook County Hospital in Chicago, where he also earned an MA in health care ethics at Loyola University. He completed a master’s in theology in June and is pursuing further studies in ethics at the Boston College School of Theology and Ministry, where he is active in campus ministry.

“Loving God, he is to give his life in your service and for the of your people as he strives to grow in likeness of Christ and honor you by his courageous witness of faith and love.” ~ from the Preface to the Eucharistic Prayer in the Rite of Ordination My Pilgrimage at Campion by Mr. Keith Maczkiewicz, nSJ

or six weeks last February and March I Fwas missioned to the province health care facility—Campion Center in Weston—for my pilgrimage experiment. As a novice, I will have five principal trials: the Long Retreat, pilgrimage, a hospital experiment, performing low and 9 humble works, and a Long Experiment. My pilgrimage was designed as a journey to broaden my experiences of Jesuit life and of apostolic work. After a few weeks of asking about the experiences of At Campion, I learned much about the history of Shadowbrook (the province novitiate until the late 1960s) the New England Province! and of life as a philosopher or theologian, I asked one of my Jesuit brothers about his experience of prayer, “When As an intern in the chaplaincy department, I visited did you learn to pray, Father?” At 92 years, this beautiful with the men and listened to their great personal stories. priest with his piercing blue eyes looked back at me and I heard stories of Baghdad College from Fr. Joe Fennell, said simply, “I’m still learning!” Here was truly a lifelong SJ, and Bro. Italo Parnoff, SJ; of life in Kingston, Jamaica, learner! from Frs. Don Larkin, SJ, and Dudley Adams, SJ, and, As I continue my journey in this Jesuit life, I hope to be much closer to home, tales of Fairfield, Holy Cross and like men I encountered at Campion Center—faith-filled, BC from various men who had served with distinction. trusting, spiritual—and yet still men of this world. Loved Almost universally these men spoke of some difficulty they sinners, all. had faced, personally or professionally, and how they had persevered by relying on the relationship they formed with Keith Maczkiewicz, nSJ, is a second-year Jesus in the Spiritual Exercises. As a first-year novice fresh novice at the tri-province novitiate in from my own experience of the Exercises, I took great Syracuse, NY. comfort in this.

St. Edmund Campion, SJ (1540–1581)

Edmund Campion was born in 1540 in to it. In London, he wrote a description of his new mission London. He attended St. John’s College, in which he explained that his work was religious, not Oxford, and in 1571, he left England to political; it became known as Campion’s Brag. Widely attend the English College in Belgium. distributed, it encouraged Catholics to remain loyal to their Campion finished his degree in 1573. He faith. It led to Campion’s martyrdom on December 1, 1581, was accepted into the Society of Jesus and at age 41. Campion was beatified by Leo XIII in 1886 was assigned to the Austrian province. and was canonized in 1970 by Pope Paul VI. When the General in Rome opened a mission in England, Fr. Campion was one of the first to be assigned i For more about Jesuit saints, visit www.sjweb.info ▼ 10

Photos: Fr. Richard Roos, SJ Over 300 friends and family members from near and far into the Society of Jesus or ordination to priesthood. honoring Jesuitscelebrating those Jubilees of entrance Fr. Charles Allen, SJ, preached the homily. the preached SJ, Allen, Fr. Charles O SJ F. Fr. Bresnahan, SJ, James D. Fr. Ibach, SJ, William Ryan, J. Fr. SJ, Patrick Sheehan, Fr. N. Myles Provincial SJ, O’Brien, C. Fr. SJ, Gerard Drury, SJ, Fr. L. d’Anjou, Fr. R. George SJ, Fr. John W. John l-r: Keegan, Standing, SJ. Paquet, A. Fr. SJ, Joseph Allen, H. Fr. SJ, Casey, Charles H. Fr. SJ, Joseph Begley, Fr. J. SJ, John Fr.Mandile, J. SJ, John Walsh, Fr. J. SJ, Grenier, John Fr. L. SJ, Louis Raftery, J. Fr. SJ, William T. Fr. Bennett, SJ, Joseph Hanrahan, Fr.J. SJ, Edward Fr. F. John l-r: Devane, Seated, Jubilee 2009 Celebration Province held its annual Mass and Reception and Mass heldProvince annual its n Sunday, September 13, 2009, the New England Jesuit Fathers Louis Grenier and Tony and Paquet. Grenier Louis Fathers Jesuit God earlier in the year. the in earlier God service to the Church. Three of the 47 had gone home to for the occasion, representing 1,160 years of combined Twenty of this year’s Jubilarians were able to be present attended event the held at School. Boston High College Jesuit Fathers John Devane and George Drury. George and Devane John Fathers Jesuit Education

Faculty of 1970. Campion College Celebrates 11 50th Anniversary by Ashley Gambrill Rousseau

anuary 5, 2010, will mark the 50th anniversary of the Jesuit high school, Campion College, in JKingston, Jamaica, and the school has much to celebrate indeed. Campion has made tremendous strides from its early beginnings as a private preparatory school in 1943 and its launch as a boys’ high school with only 105 students some 17 years later, to its current standing as the premier high school in the island with some 1,400 students. Some of the highlights in the history of the school are: The Society of Jesus was instrumental in the the transition from a private school to a grant-aided, establishment of Campion College, and Jesuits have served coeducational public school in 1976; the school being as valuable members of staff over the years, ensuring that named the top high school in the country based on its both academic standards were met and a strong sense of the examination results over several years; and its graduates faith was imparted. Currently, teacher Fr. Joseph MacWade, receiving numerous national and international awards SJ, and Chairman of the School Board, Fr. Peter McIsaac, and scholarships to tertiary institutions, including 12 SJ, continue this tradition of service and sacrifice to the prestigious Rhodes Scholarships. school alongside Catholic Principal Mrs. Grace Baston and her able team of teachers and administrators. In celebration of this important milestone, Campion College will be hosting a Solemn Eucharistic Celebration on January 9, 2010, and will be launching its Vision 2020 Campaign to build a much-needed modern library media centre at the school.

Ashley Gambrill Rousseau is the director, Office of Development & Alumni Affairs, at Campion College. For more information, visit www.campioncollege.com Photo:Gannie Jacqueline

Campion Hall, the original school building, was recently restored and now houses a chapel and the guidance department. Restoring the Chapel of the Holy Spirit

by Fr. Ronald E. Wozniak, SJ

n the fall of 1968, I came to Campion Center — then known as Weston College — Ifor philosophy studies following my novitiate at Colombiere Center in Michigan. I remember thinking how tired the chapel of the Holy Spirit appeared. It was not a place where I felt drawn for prayer and it didn’t seem a very fitting place to be the Lord’s house.

Shortly before I returned to assume the job grounds, why not in the main chapel as well. as minister at Campion Center in 1998, the The cost to redo the chapel in its entirety was then rector, Fr. Ron Amiot, SJ, had made some a staggering, amazing amount. The company improvements — the stained glass windows were that drew up a proposal had small sections of the repaired and releaded, the candleholders and stone wall of the main altar and of the arch of altar crucifixes in the main chapel were replated the sanctuary repainted along with two squares and seat cushions had been installed on the pews. filled with acoustical tile repainted with gold- Still, when I entered the main chapel I found colored trim to demonstrate the restoration. I myself thinking that this sacred space where so spoke with the new rector, Fr. Paul Holland, SJ, many men worshipped God, received orders and and the Provincial, Fr. Thomas Regan, SJ, about ordination and indeed their final commendation the project and received support for the idea, but to the Lord at their funeral liturgy needed some I was aware that the money needed just wasn’t care. I wanted to do something about refinishing available for a project of this magnitude. the water-stained wooden Stations of the Cross, Over time, I broke the project up into smaller, getting more light into the sanctuary and more manageable parts. With money available finding a solution for the pews, which bled old lemon oil from our operating budget and using our maintenance and oak stain onto the shirt of anyone who dared to lean staff, as available, we were able to make some of the back against them on a hot, humid day. As minister, I was needed improvements. The tabernacle door was sent out making changes throughout the house and around the to be resilvered. The Stations of the Cross were removed and cleaned, restained and polyurethaned and Bob Fay, The housekeeping our carpenter, with the help of Bill Hay, Adam Negron staff, especially Victor and Willie James, refinished the doors. All the lights Lugo, the sacristan, throughout the body of the chapel were replaced and new, and the maintenance high-powered lights were added over the main altar area. crew worked together Our in-house master electrician, Jim Mueller, rewired to get the chapel them. The maintenance department also refinished the ready for our Easter pews — a big, time- 2009 service. The consuming job. Doing community and so much of the work visitors expressed in-house saved a lot of their delight with the money. outcome. 13 Over the years this More work remains project has slowly to be done — gold evolved, we have had the paint applied to the support of the sacristan rest of the many every step of the way. He squares of the ceiling, has cheerfully assisted plaster repair and when needed and has Willie James surveying the sanding job he‘s touch-up painting good-naturedly taken the doing on the floor of the second-floor balcony. where water seepage He also did the repainting of the walls and trim. The worker used gold-colored paint to dirt and dust in stride has caused damage do the trim on the acoustic squares and and helped in the final and washing of the rectangles surrounding the sanctuary. cleanup. sooty walls — but we’re happy with all that has been A lot of credit accomplished over the past 12 or 13 years. We owe thanks deservedly belongs to our Director of Environmental to the many who have worked to achieve this goal and Services, Gorden Simmons, who is creative, insightful whose support sustained us with their kind words, prayers and knowledgeable. He gets things done without drawing and financial resources. We are all pleased with our efforts attention to himself, but his handiwork is evident in hands- to make this prayer space a brighter, more liturgically on ways and through directing his staff. magnificent setting for our religious community’s prayerful Finally, the Provincial, who was supportive all along, worship of the Lord. told me we could do the sanctuary area as I had asked. It took over a year to assemble the companies that would do Fr. Ronald E. Wozniak, SJ, is the the work. Scaffolding was set up and soon the masonry minister, Campion Jesuit Community. He cleaning staff worked hard, even using toothbrushes in is also a talented photographer who has small spaces to remove all the dirt and built-up soot. As the taken a chronological history of the chapel cleaners finished, the artists came in, often preferring to renovations. Fr. Wozniak says, “We’re work late into the evening. They first repaired many cracks also thankful to the BC community, in the ceiling around the angels, then tackled the water- through the minister, Fr. Michael Ford, damaged plaster on the left side of the ceiling. They then SJ, for the replating of the sanctuary lamp cleaned the painted areas and the images of the angels, and a set of vestments.” touching them up as needed. The gold band surrounding the image of the Holy Spirit If you are interested in contributing to the renovations of was repainted. In the process, workers discovered that the this holy place, please contact Grace Cotter Regan, executive original flame-like extensions dipping between the angels director of advancement, at [email protected] or call had been painted out. They restored these extensions and 617-607-2891. repainted the gold squares of the arch. The beauty is that the restoration blended into the original work so well that it doesn’t look new as much as clean and fresh. Annual Jesuit GALA We are reminded of what is important

uring what would later be considered award honors those who selflessly give of Dthe height of the 2009 economic themselves For the Greater Glory of God. meltdown in financial circles, nearly 750 Fr. Regan related, “in keeping with the people gathered at the Boston Copley tenets of St. Ignatius and his followers, our Marriott Hotel to celebrate the annual Jesuits and dedicated lay colleagues will go Jesuit GALA on March 19. The event on to educate and toil in the field of social highlights the importance of Jesuits, their justice to the best of our abilities. We will works and of giving to others. Outgoing continue to honor humble people like Joe Provincial, Fr. Thomas J. Regan, SJ, and Rose Corcoran who exemplify our presented the Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam values and ideals and invite others into Award to Joe and Rose Corcoran. The these efforts.” 1

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1. Joe and Rose Corcoran, 2009 AMDG honorees 2. Fr. Bob Daly, SJ, and Linda Hensel 3. Jack Joyce and Fr. George Drury, SJ 4. Inga Schugman and Margarete McNeice 5. Monica and Scott St. Louis and Susan Lysaght 6. John and Mary Power 7. Fr. Jim Lafontaine, SJ, and Fr. Jack Butler, SJ 8. Fr. Bill McInnes, SJ, Tom Martin and Britney Martin

8 10th Anniversary Jesuit GALA Thursday, April 15, 2010 Boston Marriott Copley Place “…We have some opportunities to chart a great future and 15 priorities as we move forward,” relates Fr. Myles Sheehan, SJ, Provincial, pictured here with Ann Marie and Dick Connolly, 2010 AMDG award honorees. Please join the New England The Jesuit GALA makes possible Province and GALA chairs Mary and John Power the apostolic work in which along with all of the former Jesuits and lay colleagues: GALA co-chairs as we honor Dick and Ann Marie Connolly • Serve in parishes, prisons, Nativity schools, high schools, colleges and universities with the Province • Offer retreats and spiritual guidance to people of all ages Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam and financial means, including those who are homeless Award. • Minister as chaplains in hospitals, nursing homes, refugee camps and the armed services Past co-chairs • Care for our elderly and sick Jesuits Valerie and Brian Leary • Assist in formation of Jesuits Mary and Frank Mahoney Nancy and Craig Gibson For information on sponsorship opportunities and tickets, please contact Grace Cotter Regan, executive director of advancement at Ann Marie and Dick Connolly 617-607-2891, [email protected]; Suzanne Heffernan, associate Ann Marie and Bill Teuber director of advancement at 617-607-2892, [email protected]; or Fr. Charles Connolly, SJ, associate director of advancement at Mary Margaret and John Griffin 617-607-2897, [email protected] Nancy and Jack Joyce Rose and John Mahoney Barbara and Jack Shaughnessy Cathy and Sean O’Neil International

Fr. Denis Como, SJ, with Bishop Bawai Soro and Fr. Clarence Burby, SJ

Wathiq Hindo, Waiel Hindo, Fr. Regan, Grace Regan 16 1 Hope, Courage & Friendship Alumni/ae gather for the 16th Reunion of Baghdad College and Al Hikma University

At the 16th Reunion of Baghdad College and Al Hikma University on July 16–19, 2009, in Detroit, Michigan, alumni/ae remembered stories, sang songs, danced and expressed their gratitude to the Jesuit Fathers who had educated them — for some over 50 years ago. Alumni/ae, families and friends numbering over 400 joined Jesuits, many of whom served in Iraq, to share news, renew friendships and offer support and care to one another.

“The Jesuit fathers were like midwives to us. They took gratitude were renewed among the alumni/ae and the Jesuits. us in as children, educated us and gave us back as the On Saturday morning and afternoon attendees had intelligentsia of Iraqi society. In the last election for prime an extended “business meeting” that reconfirmed the minister, many of the candidates were students of the overwhelming desire by almost all present to continue the Jesuits,” said one attendee. Reunions as they have been having them. Jesuits founded Baghdad College in 1932 as a preparatory Basil Bakal made a compelling presentation about the high school and opened Al Hikma University in 1956 as Adopt a Refugee Family Program. Basil is passionate about a university with programs in engineering, business and the need to help others. “It is never about us or the small liberal arts. Over 140 Jesuits from the New England Province contribution that each one of us makes,” he says, “but it is administered the two schools for 37 years until their about giving back and sharing the Lord’s blessing and love.” explusion in 1968 and 1969. The Saturday Reunion Mass was celebrated by Bishop Sahd Jaz, a 1990 graduate, mentioned that even though Bawai Soro, of the Chaldean , San Diego, Jesuits are no longer teaching at Baghdad College, their with Deacon Thamer Abouna, from Santa Barbara Church influence is still present in the many materials the Jesuits in Las Vegas. They were assisted by Fr. Denis Como, SJ, developed that remain in the curriculum. returning from Iraq, and Fr. Clarence Burby, SJ, currently 2 Attendees began arriving on Thursday. On Friday, Mass serving in Jordan. was celebrated and the evening brought a welcome reception At the Saturday banquet, the Pylon Band of Toronto and dinner, where the strong bonds of friendship and provided both Middle East and Western entertainment. Pylon had also performed at the 2004 reunion held in Our Jesuits still hope for a return to Iraq, and Boston. several of the men of New England have been able Fr. Thomas Regan, SJ, then Provincial, and Fr. Michael to work and visit. Fr. Como has just concluded Linden, SJ, provincial assistant for international, social an assignment with the Chaldean Seminary at and pastoral ministries, celebrated the closing liturgy, and Erbil. Fr. Hicks and Fr. Linden visit to keep our offered a heartfelt thank you to the attendees with a special relationships active and to monitor the progress acknowledgment to Ramzi Hermiz and his family for their of our court proceedings. Fr. Bonian was able to tireless efforts in making the 2009 reunion such a success. undertake several pieces of work. As the nation de-militarizes and life becomes more normal, we Jesuits hope to be part of the normal reality of Iraq also. We have no crystal ball, to be sure, but we all know that the Jesuits love the Church and will want to make a distinctive contribution to Iraqi society and culture. Our friends in Iraq, especially Wathiq Hindo, deeply inspire us Jesuits in the effort to return, and I hope you all can be in 17 solidarity with them on our behalf. ~ Excerpted from Fr. Regan’s Letter to the Alumni/ae

Ramzi Hermiz introduces Dr. Edmond Nouri, the eldest alumni in attendance, who was celebrating his 50th class reunion.

Pictured above are: Jesuit Fathers John Donohue, Charlie Dunn, Al Hicks along with Michael Linden.

Many alumni/ae brought their families. Will Battah, grandson of Emmanuel Battah (’48), was one of the youngest attendees. 7 International

A Jesuit Bridge-builder in Rome

18 by William Bole

Fr. Robert F. Taft, SJ

Fr. Robert F. Taft, SJ, lowered himself carefully into a chair in the greeting room at St. Mary’s Hall, the Jesuit residence of Boston College, and rested his metal cane nearby. Recent back surgery had slowed his stride, but not the discourse that flowed from this outspoken and internationally renowned Jesuit scholar. On a visit to the United States this past summer, the “These people had been kicked around in the Catholic priest, who has been assigned to Rome for 45 years, spoke Church, much like Indians on a reservation in the United of the less-traveled road he has taken as a servant of the States,” he recalls. universal Church. It’s a journey that started officially in There is, to be sure, a tangled history behind that 1963, when, as a Jesuit, he chose to be ordained in the sentiment, involving Church relations with not just Byzantine-Slavonic (Russian) rite. Since then, the Rhode Eastern-rite Catholics, but with Orthodox churches Island native has crossed ecclesiastical cultures as few have, separated from Rome. Fr. Taft does not hesitate to insert helping to reverse centuries-old suspicions between Eastern his religious order into that dolorous past. “A major work and Western Christianity. of the Jesuits today should be repairing that harm” caused “I have always worked to be a bridge-builder, to reach out by centuries of misunderstanding between Eastern and to other apostolic traditions, in order to heal the rifts,” says Western churches, he says. Fr. Taft, a liturgist who taught at the Pontifical Oriental Institute for 37 years until 2007. For nearly that long, he has Making Strides served as a consultor of the Vatican Congregation for the That is what the New England Province has been doing Oriental Churches, while penning 28 books and over 800 for decades, by assigning Fr. Taft to the ecclesiastical published articles and reviews. border region between East and West. There, the Jesuit He was born in Providence in 1932, a distant relation of has used his gifts of scholarship (and remarkable facility both President William Howard Taft and Senator Robert with foreign tongues) to unearth ancient commonalities A. Taft. As a young man, Fr. Taft began defending society’s between these traditions. underdogs, so much that his father liked to call him the One of his signal contributions to ecumenical healing radical “fellow-traveler.” came when the considered whether to recognize After entering the New England Province in 1949, Fr. the validity of the Eucharist as celebrated in the Assyrian Taft noticed that among the underdogs in the Catholic fold Church of the East. This is the ancient apostolic Church were the Eastern-rite churches in communion with Rome. of Mesopotamia, today with in many countries He has healed divisions the way a scholar should... with painstaking scholarship.

including the United States (and formally united with colleagues so as to remember them in his prayers at the neither Orthodoxy nor Catholicism). The Assyrian Prothesis [part of Eastern liturgy] on these dates — all this Church’s Eucharistic prayer “of Addai and Mari” does not surprised me not a little,” she writes in an unpublished include the exact words of Jesus, “This is my body. . . This book of personal remembrances collected on the occasion is my blood,” in direct discourse, the saying of which had of an award given to Fr. Taft this past June by the long been considered, in the West, a sacramental necessity. University of Notre Dame Center for Liturgy. That made it problematic, as far as Rome’s recognition Fr. Taft says his Italian doctor told him “Your spinal went. column is like the Leaning Tower of Pisa.” So he is As an advisor to the Holy See, Fr. Taft argued that while planning to return to New England as soon as he gets his the prayer does not use those words literally, said as if by affairs in Rome wrapped up. Still, he plans to continue 19 Jesus, “It contains them virtually, in explicit references to lecturing, if not traveling much. And he’ll continue — in . . . the body and blood and sacrifice of Christ” and other the words of the Notre Dame citation — to help overcome Eucharistic essentials, he later wrote in America. “divisions between Eastern and Western Christianity The Vatican agreed. Its October 2001 decree on the issue the way a scholar should: by deliberate, painstaking made it possible for Catholics and Assyrians to receive scholarship.” communion in each other’s churches when they are without a priest of their own church. In the years since the fall of communism in Eastern Europe, Fr. Taft has been able to thicken his ties to the East. The priest has traveled to the far corners of Eastern Christianity, helping, for instance, to resuscitate a Ukrainian Catholic theological academy after the Soviet demise. He took on that particular mission in 1995, and was instrumental in the Vatican’s decision to elevate the academy into The Ukrainian Catholic University, in 2002.

Praise from the East He has received, among many special honors, three pectoral crosses, including one bestowed upon him by the View of St. Peter’s Basilica from the roof of the Jesuit General Curia. Ukrainian Orthodox Church in the United States in the name of the Ecumenical of Constantinople. n important part of the universal mission Recognized for his solidarity with persecuted Catholics Aentrusted to the whole Society is carried out under Soviet rule, Fr. Taft was also ordained into the by the Roman Houses immediately dependent on honorary Dignity of Mitred Archimandrite, in 1998, by the Father General: The Curia of the Society, those of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church. So he now carries the Interprovincial Roman Houses, and those individually title, “Rt. Rev. Archimandrite Robert F. Taft, SJ.” assigned to a delegate by Father General. The total Sr. Vassa Larin, a Russian Orthodox who did her number of Jesuits in the Roman Houses in 2009 is doctoral work with Fr. Taft in Rome, points out that while 441, (four cardinals, one archbishop, 360 priests, his reputation as a scholar preceded him, his devotional life 51 scholastics, and 25 brothers). Of the 441, 126 are was a surprise to her. students. “To find that this renowned scholar wakes up at a quarter to five to celebrate the Divine Liturgy every day; Source: The Society in Numbers. Documentation N. 89, that he never leaves his room without his chotki [prayer April 2009, published by the General Curia of the Society rope similar to a rosary] in his pocket; that he keeps an of Jesus. exact record of the birth- and death-dates of friends and Ignatian Spirituality

Province Office Welcomes Sisters Kay and Ellen

ister of the Presentation of the Blessed SMary, Kay Hannigan, and Sister of Notre Dame, Ellen Keane moved into the offices at 85 School Street this fall, bringing with them warmth, spirituality and joy. The sisters moved 20 from the Cambridge office of Center for Religious Development (CRD) which came to a close in May 2009. Sisters Kay and Ellen continue to offer spiritual direction, training and a practicum for those giving spiritual direction as part of The Jesuit Collaborative’s New England outreach.

Virve Tynnemark (2007 graduate of CRD) and Valfrid Botnen (2001 graduate of Sr. Kay Hannigan reflects on the history of CRD. CRD), from the Norwegian Association of Clergy and the School of Theology The New England Province established the Center for in Oslo, returned this fall for two weeks to share their experiences and increase Religious Development 38 years ago. Its basic aim was their learnings about training spiritual directors in Norway. (L-r) Sr. Ellen Keane, to assist people who wanted to let God develop a unique Virve Tynnemark, Valfrid Botnen and Sr. Kay Hannigan. relationship with them and thought they would benefit In the fall of 1998, the Center for Religious Development from talking about it. In 1972, a nine-month associate and Weston Jesuit School of Theology began a new venture, program began. Its purpose was to help participants an MA degree in spiritual direction. This continued with become more capable spiritual directors. The program the Boston College School of Theology and Ministry included the actual practice of spiritual direction, (BCSTM) during this past year. This two-year program supervision of this learning experience, and theological, included a year of academics taken at BCSTM and a year psychological and historical reflection on the experience of practicum taken at CRD in the associate program. In of spiritual direction. Spiritual direction is the assistance the fall of 1999, the center began a beginner’s practicum by one person to another, which enables that person to in the ministry of spiritual direction in collaboration with pay attention to God’s communication to him or her, to Weston Jesuit School of Theology. This now continues respond to God, to grow in intimacy with God and to live with BCSTM and is open to all students in the Boston out the consequences of the relationship. As Fr. Bill Barry, Theological Institute. SJ, one of CRD’s founding directors says, “We help people The heart and soul of both programs has been found talk about their experience of God.” in the supervision component. Both individual and Since 1972, 265 men and women from five different group supervision have been a fruitful source of learning continents have graduated from the center and spread the and assistance to both new and experienced directors. ministry of spiritual direction and supervision to many Graduates of both programs continue to return to the parts of the world. center each month for group supervision. This ongoing supervision assists all in the awareness of the many ways You continue to send forth your Spirit, God acts in the lives of all of us. In recent years, over 50 people came weekly seeking and the earth, though not without spiritual direction. We have deep gratitude and turmoil, is renewed. ~Psalm 104 appreciation for the New England Province of the Society of Jesus whose vision and prayerful discernment made the CRD possible. And we pray that God will continue The Jesuit Connection begins its fourth full year this fall to bless the work of The Jesuit Collaborative as it serves with great energy and momentum. The Jesuit Connection the Church by providing for the spiritual development is a group of young adults who have either graduated from and care of persons, forming leaders and nurturing a Jesuit institutions or have had other experiences with Jesuit faith that does justice. teachings and values. The group offers spiritual, service and social events that link to Jesuit values. At every event, there Sr. Kay Hannigan, PBVM, is a 1987 graduate of CRD and are new faces in the crowd and new members are always past major superior of the Sisters of the Presentation of the welcome. Blessed Virgin Mary. She has been involved in the ministry 21 of spiritual direction and retreats for many years. SAVE THESE DATES:

Jesuit Connection Fundraiser Saturday, January 23, 2010 James R. Conroy, SJ, Tennis and Racket Club, 939 Boylston St., Boston Calling All Hockey Fans! Connection Gathering appointed Executive Director BC vs. UNH Hockey Game Saturday, March 6, 2010, 7:00 pm of The Jesuit Collaborative Pre game gathering; Conte Forum for game

Fr. James R. Conroy, SJ, Pizza and a Pint and Ignatian Conversations became the new executive Thursdays, 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm i director of The Jesuit Loyola House, 300 Newbury St., Boston ▼ Collaborative on August 1, February 4, 2010 2009. Fr. Conroy succeeded March 4, 2010 Fr. Ron Mercier, SJ, who May 6, 2010 led The Jesuit Collaborative during its first three years. Jesuit Connection Service Day at Nativity Schools Fr. Conroy is a native of Choose to provide some needed service at either Pittsburgh and a member The Nativity Preparatory School in Boston of the Maryland Province or Nativity School of Worcester of the Society of Jesus. He has extensive experience Sunday, March 28, 2010 directing the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius and witnessing their transformative impact. “The Exercises Jesuit Connection Retreat Weekend allow a person to recognize that very deep experience April, 2010 they have with God and know that it is authentic. Then comes the confidence and freedom to speak and act out of that truth,” says Fr. Conroy. “The Jesuit Collaborative mission is to support and promote this gift of Ignatius For more information please visit: and to grow the impact of the Exercises throughout the i

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An Invitation to Advance

22 the Mission of the Jesuits

rovince Advancement is a form of ministry; for us it is an invitation to become involved with Pthe vision and apostolic works of the Jesuits and the New England Province. In his book The Spirituality of Fundraising, theologian Henri Nouwen described advancement work or fundraising as “proclaiming what we believe in such a way that we offer other people an opportunity to participate with us in our vision and mission.”

Over the past five years, the Province Advancement effort has expanded and our work has become more centered on our donors and companions in mission. What does that mean? The Province seeks to align Province priorities with our companions in mission. Our benefactors support the work of the province through the Annual Giving Program, Major Gifts, the Jesuit GALA, the Mass Card Program and Bequests and Planned Giving opportunities. Each year, the Province must replenish the various arca to support the men and the apostolic work of the Jesuits. Arca is a Latin word which has many meanings, monitor, budget and account for and Please consider helping advance the mainly chest, box or money box. replenish the funds in the various Jesuit mission by making a gift to the Every Jesuit Province adheres to the arcae. New England Province. same standards of accountability set Your support is important and truly by the Jesuit Curia in Rome, and each makes a difference. Simply stated, we For more information visit: Province is responsible to annually could not do what we do without you. i www.sjnen.org/Waystogive ▼ THE NEW ENGLAND PROVINCE OF Annual Fund

Fr. Stephen Bonian, SJ, Amman

Thank you for your goodness to us. 23

Your generous support is a blessing, and we are very grateful!

Will you continue to help the Jesuits: • To care for our elderly and infirm Jesuits at Campion Center? • To prepare our young men for Ordination to the Priesthood? • To support Jesuit missionaries in Amman, Jamaica and throughout the world? • To assist Jesuits in the educational, pastoral and social ministries?

Fr. Thomas Kenny, SJ, Ordination Fr. Simon Smith, SJ, Nativity School Fr. James Walsh, SJ, Campion Center (RIP April, 2009)

To make a gift to the New England Province, please contact Grace Cotter Regan, executive director of advancement at 617-607-2890 or [email protected]. To make a gift online, visit our website at www.sjnen.org Advancement

Generosity of Spirit

elen and Norm Boucher, of Wellesley, stand out as HIgnatian models of faith in action. They met at the College of the Holy Cross and their partnership with the Jesuits was solidified by that experience. Both were imbued with the family values of strong faith, hard work and the importance of giving back. A new opportunity for service presented itself when Helen, new to Tufts Medical Center, met Fr. Jim Shaughnessy, SJ, one of the chaplains at the hospital. In Helen’s view, “Jim is truly loved and admired at Tufts, and 24 I have had the opportunity to work with him . . . on the Ethics Committee and on a new Intern Support Group. In 2006, Jim invited Norm and me to the Jesuit GALA, and Center. Norm and Helen are both Distinguished Members since then we have contributed to the province by inviting of the President’s Council at Holy Cross and active others to share in the GALA as our guests.” members of their community in Wellesley, Norm on Helen, the director of Infectious Diseases Fellowship the Parish Council and Helen as a eucharistic minister. Program and assistant professor of medicine at Tufts Helen has since become a part of our Annual Fund Medical Center, and Norm, the managing director in the Committee and both she and Norm plan to participate on Fixed Income Department of Putnam Investments, are the 2010 GALA Committee. The New England Province committed to sharing their talents. According to Norm, Jesuits are most grateful for the Bouchers’ generosity and “seeds of doing for others were planted by family, nurtured more especially, for their lives of service, which fulfill the by Holy Cross and continue on today. We want to share goal of Jesuit education, preparing “men and women for the importance of helping others through our actions — others.” modeling leadership and service.” Norm, who loves to share his passion for investing, “You have given everything to me. mentors an Investment Club for Holy Cross students. He also serves on the Board of Governors at Tufts Medical To you, O Lord, I return it.”

All Souls Remembrance

ne of the favorite mailings of the Jesuits’ Advancement Office is the annual All Souls ORemembrance sent each October. During November, when the Church remembers in a special way those who have died, we invite our friends to send us the names of their deceased family members and friends, and each day we Jesuits bring them to the Lord in the various house chapels throughout the New England Province. In November 2009 we were delighted to receive over 1,000 responses to the All Souls Remembrance mailing, and many of our friends included gifts, which totaled over $10,000. Thank you very much! Discerning Your Gift of Gratitude

s a friend of the province, you have already helped Aadvance the Jesuit mission. You have supported a distinct way of being and acting in the world, a spirit captured in the Latin, Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam, “For the Greater Glory of God.” Mr. Chris Ryan, SJ, with students at Nativity School of Worcester. Chris will Joining The Arrupe Society is a way of deepening your spend his regency period of formation teaching religion and Spanish. 25 partnership with the Jesuits. It is a way to continue further along the path of becoming “men and women for others,” a deeply spiritual path marked out for centuries by the Society of Jesus. Ways to You will be supporting the New England Jesuits and give their lay collaborators, who are: • educators in middle schools, high schools, colleges, Some of the ways you may consider supporting us universities and seminaries; include: • chaplains in prisons, hospitals, nursing homes, refugee n Bequests/Wills. Donors can honor and thank camps and the military; those Jesuits who have made a difference in their • retreat masters and spiritual directors, helping to lives by remembering the province in their wills. share the blessings of Ignatian spirituality in parishes, n Charitable Gift Annuities. A charitable gift on college campuses and in many other ministerial annuity provides the donor with a dependable settings; income for life, while also earmarking a future gift • mentors of those called to ordained Jesuit ministry for the Jesuits. through years of rigorous training and formation; • caregivers who tend to the needs of elderly and infirm n Insurance. Donors can designate the New England Jesuits. Province as a beneficiary of life insurance policies, IRAs and other assets. n Charitable Remainder Trusts. A trust can be established to ensure the donor’s financial security while providing for the future needs of the province. For more information visit: www.sjnen.org/ i PlannedGiving ▼ Conversations

Grace Regan and Fr. Malley at the 2007 Jesuit Jubilee. Fr. Malley celebrated 50 years in the Society of Jesus.

26 A Conversation with Fr. Jim Malley, SJ

by Grace Cotter Regan

r. Jim Malley, SJ, is an attorney, naval officer, missionary, prison chaplain, administrator, mentor, Fcampus minister, law school chaplain, mystic, counselor, son, brother, uncle and friend. He was happily missioned to Campion Center in 2005; his ministry now is to pray for the Church and the Society.

Fr. Malley greets you at Campion Center with a warm where Fr. Jim served as chaplain to the Boston College Law smile that makes you feel like you are the only person School. Fr. Jim’s first gift of many to me was introducing in the world. He walks with the me to the works of one of his intellectual and spiritual assistance of a walker and your mentors, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, SJ. visit might be delayed because After graduating from Dartmouth College and Harvard of his vertigo, but on a good day, Law School, Fr. Jim became an accomplished attorney. Yet, he will accompany you to Mass he was constantly searching for meaning and one All Saints in the chapel and share in the Day while working in Rockingham County, he saw folks delight of your visit by engaging coming out of church and he thought, “You’re spending in a wonderful conversation. about 40 minutes a week on something you think is the Fr. Malley’s journey to the most important thing in your life. You’d better look into Society was unusual, and he is this.” And so he did and a diocesan priest steered him to quite comfortable with his path the Jesuits a couple of years later. The Jesuits met his needs and choices. I first met Fr. Jim — adventure, intellectual life and service of the poor. Fr. Malley circa 1965, courtesy when he was a member of the Fr. Jim entered the novitiate at age 35; as he says, “Jung said of Alice Howe, curator of collections at the New England Barat House Jesuit community at that at 35, everything comes together.” Province Archives. Boston College’s Newton campus Fr. Jim has worked with law students at both Georgetown We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. ~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, SJ

and Boston College. He loved his work with the law Gratitude is a very important value for Fr. Jim. He is students and faculty and described his ministry as profoundly grateful to his parents, his grandmother and his one of talking with people. He described his experiences siblings for making him an open, spiritual and grounded as profound in that he discovered the gift of listening. human being. He is grateful to the men and women in Law school can be a very lonely place —the competition prison who entrusted him with their stories and shared and pressure on the students to achieve among the best their challenges and desire to know Jesus and the gospel. of the best can bring incredible pressure. He learned the He is grateful to the law students who asked him to listen. importance of just being present. Accompanying folks He is grateful to his many friends who continue to love and 27 through a crisis can be a moment of grace. challenge him to grow. Finally, he is grateful to his brother Fr. Jim also found his work in prison ministry to be Jesuits and the Society for giving him the opportunity to be equally humbling and profound. He says, “Many of the a Jesuit and a follower of Ignatius. Fr. Jim has made himself women have difficult home and domestic lives, but many available to the needs of the Society. His last mission is at also have strong elements of support and love in their Campion Center where he has been happily missioned to families and at home. These elements gave them immense pray for the Church and the Society. When I asked him strength. What oppressed them and what I tried to address how he dedicates himself to that awesome task, Fr. Jim was the fact that the life in a penal institution demeaned chuckled and said, “It’s not as easy as you might think; and devalued them as persons worthy even of respect, let I mean I have a lot to do every day, and seem to have an alone love. They all felt that. My message was that God endless number of things to distract me. Believing in my respected and loved them and they should respect and love own prayer takes an act of faith.” themselves as persons of inner beauty and worth. I tried to Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, SJ, said, “The most satisfying encourage them to ‘hang on’ and believe in themselves as thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one’s God does because God is a good judge of our worth. I’m self to others.” Fr. Jim Malley has done just that and his grateful for my ministry to be part of that support group in faith, humility, wonder and awe of the world and genuine the Lord’s name.” love of others will be his legacy.

Credit: With assistance from the New England Jesuit Oral History Program

i Listen to Fr. Jim Malley, SJ, on the

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Friends in the Lord—On the Web

e are pleased to announce that the New Prayers WEngland Province of Jesuits’ website, Reflect with seasonal prayers and resources for www.sjnen.org, was honored with an Award spirituality STANDARD OF EXCELLENCE of Excellence in the faith-based category by the Web Marketing Association. Entries were In the News judged by independent experts on design, Keep up-to-date with news about the province copy writing, innovation, content, interactivity, navigation and Jesuits throughout the world and use of technology. We hope you will visit, explore and enjoy our online presence. We designed it for you — to stay Events connected with and support the Jesuit mission; provide Click on Upcoming Events to view the province networking, linking, programming and event information; event calendar. 28 and create a source where you can learn more about the Jesuit mission and ministries. We look forward to hearing Also look for Jesuits of New England on Twitter your suggestions. Please contact Alice Poltorick, director of and Facebook! communications, [email protected]

In Gratitude “Love consists in sharing what one has and what one is with those one loves. Love ought to show itself in deeds more than in words.” — Ignatius of Loyola

We give thanks to God for the following Jesuits from the New Fr. Victor F. Leeber, SJ, born February 18, 1922, England Province who have gone home to God in the last eight entered Society July 30, 1940, died on August 14, 2009 months. Each one led a life of selfless service and taught us how to live the words of St. Ignatius, “to give and not count the Bro. William J. Spokesfield, SJ, born January 16, 1916, entered cost.” Society February 2, 1958, died on September 22, 2009 Fr. James P. Walsh, SJ, born September 20, 1931, entered Society Fr. Richard T. Cleary, SJ, born September 24, 1932, entered July 30, 1949, died on April 13, 2009 Society July 30, 1953, died on October 7, 2009

Fr. William J. Kennedy, SJ, born October 15, 1934, entered Fr. W. Laurence O’Neil, SJ, born July 4, 1930, entered Society Society August 14, 1952, died on May 16, 2009 July 30, 1948, died on October 19, 2009

Fr. Edward J. Murawski, SJ, born January 20, 1932, entered Fr. Francis J. O’Neill, SJ, born August 25, 1920, entered Society Society November 12, 1957, died on July 3, 2009 July 30, 1938, died on October 28, 2009

Fr. Joseph B. Pomeroy, SJ, born on April 13, 1929, entered Fr. Thomas P. O’Malley, SJ, born March 1, 1930, entered Society Society August 14, 1948, died on July 16, 2009 September 7, 1952, died on November 4, 2009

In Memoriam Please remember in your prayers these benefactors and special friends of the Society of Jesus who have gone to God.

Sr. Theresa Corcoran, Sister of Charity, died on May 27. She is Mr. John Figge, died on October 9. He is the father of Mary the sister of Joseph E. Corcoran, 2009 Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam (Figge) Power, co-chair of the 2010 Jesuit GALA committee. honoree. Mr. Thomas P. Morrissey, died on October 19. He is the Mr. Joseph Cavanaugh, died on April 26. Joe served the brother of Robert Morrissey, chair of the Province Investment community at BC High for many years and collaborated with Committee. other province houses, particularly Nativity Prep in Boston. words WordsWords to Live to By Live words

The fruits of using the Examen

used to wonder if I would have been one of those about other ways we might operate IVC. In all of this, “helicopter” parents if I had not been introduced to the fruits of the Examen are a keen awareness that God is Ithe Jesuits and Ignatian Spirituality as a student at acting through the capable service of Ignatian Volunteers the College of the Holy Cross. The Examen really became and that IVC will not only survive but also thrive. my lifeline when my children became teenagers. I would No one has flown in, by helicopter or otherwise, to solve hear about some appalling our financial woes, but that part of IVC can sometimes situation and resist the urge take too much of my focus. What God wants of me and to fix it. I had learned to IVC is that we pay faithful attention to situations that arise trust the Spirit through the and that we ask, always, for the Spirit to guide us in our Examen and, now, I had decision-making and planning. I had the same prayer when to trust the Spirit with my I was a new mother, scared out of my wits by my own baby, kids. When I did manage and when I had teenagers who were becoming aware of the to be around for those cruel and glorious world we live in. occasional conversations The practice of the Consciousness Examen truly when things that really demonstrates, time and again, how God acts in my mattered were discussed, everyday life, not to mention the lives of my children, I found that I was able to family, friends, colleagues, the Church and in the Ignatian bring more focus and peace Volunteer Corps. Ignatian Spirituality is a mighty large tool because I had learned to kit to help us discover God and I, for one, am much the trust God in those difficult handier for its presence. circumstances. Now that my children are Suzanne Geaney is the executive director grown and on their own of Ignatian Volunteer Corps, a service career paths, what gives me organization for retired men and the most joy is taking care women age 50 and older. A former Jesuit of the Ignatian Volunteer Volunteer from the late 1970s, Suzanne Corps (IVC). The wild ride worked for the Maryland Province of the of this economy has made Society of Jesus in Social Ministries and fundraising for a nonprofit in Development before coming to IVC in significantly more 2003. For information about IVC, visit challenging; forcing some www.ivc.org difficult decisions and courageous explorations New England Province of Jesuits P.O. Box 9199 | Watertown, MA 02471-9199 Non-Profit Org. US POSTAGE PAID Abington MA Permit No. 6

Province Companion on Mission Name: William Supple, managing director of Robeco Investment Management Alumnus: College of the Holy Cross, ’81 Family: Spouse, Mary Supple, Holy Cross ’82. Children, Ned, Holy Cross ’13, Jack, Madeline, Will Province Connections: Jesuit GALA, Investment Committee, Principle Centered Leadership “For me, it (Principle Centered Leaderships’ First Friday Lenten Conversations) was a unique opportunity. It’s unusual to be able to focus that amount of time on a topic together with Jesuit-educated folks from different areas of the business community. It was a chance to interact with the Jesuit heritage on a deeper and more personal level.”

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