MARYLAND PROVINCE • USA NORTHEAST PROVINCE SUMMER 2020 JESUITS of the East Coast Collaborators in Mission 7 SPECIAL EDITION PULL-OUT SECTION INSIDE! NOR SA TH U E A D S N T A P R D O N V A I L N ABOUT OUR COVER Y C R E A S M Very Rev. Robert Hussey, SJ Very Rev. John Cecero, SJ Fr. Joseph O’Keefe, SJ, 7 Provincial, Maryland Province Provincial, USA Northeast Province (center), new provincial for the USA East Province, converses with Jesuit FROM OUR PROVINCIALS scholastic Joseph Lorenz, SJ, a teacher at Fordham Prep, and Dr. Maura Mast, Dear Friends, “In the dean of Fordham College At the release of our last issue of JESUITS back in January, we could never at Rose Hill. deepest have imagined the current situation that has changed our whole world. Like Editors Michael Gabriele so many, we had such hopeful excitement for 2020, only to see our enthusiasm PJ Williams parts of evaporate so abruptly with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Our schools and universities closed early, our parishes and retreat centers sat idle, and we Contributors ourselves, we mourned the loss of some very close friends and family, including a number Henry Frank of our Jesuits, who succumbed to the coronavirus. It has, no doubt, been a Rev. James F. Keenan, SJ Wendell Laurent encounter daunting year for all of us. As people of faith, however, we remain convinced that the light of Christ Advancement the Lord, James F. Skurka, will continue to shine through the darkness. Although forced to shut down and Provincial Assistant shelter away, our Jesuit schools and apostolates rose up to find creative ways of for Advancement who inspires and Communications, assisting health care workers, serving the poor, offering online Masses, providing Maryland and USA our best spiritual direction and leading virtual retreats. Our Jesuits and lay colleagues Northeast Provinces also moved forward with plans to launch the new USA East Province on July 31. Please address all correspondence You can read about these many happenings, and more, in the coming pages. to JESUITS magazine: service of [email protected] 4 The start of the new province will bring to a close our service as provincials With schools and universities shut of the Maryland and USA Northeast Provinces, respectively—provinces whose Maryland Province Jesuits down, the statue of St. Ignatius others.” 8600 LaSalle Road, Suite 620 Loyola stands alone on the campus rich histories are acknowledged in this issue and presented along with the Towson, MD 21286-2014 of Loyola University Maryland. 443-921-1310 — Fr. Adolfo Nicolás, SJ, 30th superior size and scope of the new province, under the leadership of our successor, Loyola and other Jesuit institutions recently stepped up to help others USA Northeast Province General of the Society of Jesus Fr. Joseph O’Keefe, SJ. It has been an honor and privilege to accompany you— during the pandemic. 39 East 83rd Street Died May 20, 2020, at the age of 84 brother Jesuits, friends, donors, parishioners, alumni, faculty and students. New York, NY 10028-0810 The Jesuits of the East Coast, some 650 of us, will continue to teach, minister, 212-774-5500 collaborate with and serve the People of God, all for His greater glory. A Time of Crisis Calls for the Magis ..................................................4 In a year during which we have given up so much, we remember that JESUITS is published by the Finding God on Zoom ......................................................................8 Maryland and USA Northeast Meet our Jesuits Being Ordained to the Priesthood ........................10 St. Ignatius asked only this—for the love and grace of God, and nothing more. Provinces of the Society of Jesus. We pray for an abundance of that love and grace for each one of you. The opinions expressed are those The Jesuits of the East Coast ~ Together Again............................. 14 of the individual writers, and do not Sincerely in Christ, necessarily constitute the official SPECIAL PULL-OUT SECTION & KEEPSAKE ~The Evolution of Our Province policy of the Society of Jesus. Introducing the Very Rev. Joseph M. O'Keefe, SJ........................... 15 ©2020 All rights reserved. Printed in the USA. American Jesuits in the Philippines................................................. 16 Innovation Works Miracles.............................................................. 20 Very Rev. Robert M. Hussey, SJ Very Rev. John J. Cecero, SJ Printed on recycled paper Advancing Our Mission.................................................................. 24 Provincial, Maryland Province Provincial, USA Northeast Province Features More 1 on the web Look for this symbol to find more information online: MARYLAND: www.mdsj.org | USA NORTHEAST: www.JesuitsEast.org 7 FROM OUR PROVINCES the 2020-2021 academic year. Mr. New Appointments Goso is a member of Nativity Prep's class of 1997 and previously taught at Nativity. Mr. Goso will rejoin the Nativity Prep community from superior of the Jesuit Community Boston College High School, where of Micronesia, where he will work and LEADERSHIP he most recently served as director closely with vice-superiors in Yap of enrollment. The 2020-2021 and Fiji and serve as a delegate in the USA East Province, effective school year will also mark the 30th Chuuk to promote a sense of September 1, 2020. Fr. Benz will anniversary of Nativity Prep. common mission across the succeed Fr. Edward Quinnan, SJ, works. Fr. Quinnan will replace who, after a brief sabbatical, will Fr. Thomas Benz, SJ, who will Fr. Angelo (AJ) Rizzo, SJ, has assume a new position of service assume the position of provincial been named the next president of in the new province. Fr. Benz has assistant for Pastoral and Inter- Scranton Prep, effective July 2021. served as superior of the Jesuit national Ministries on September Fr. Rizzo was ordained in 2017 1, 2020. Community of Micronesia since and currently serves Regis High September 1, 2014. During that School in New York as director Earlier this year, Fr. Joseph M. time he helped foster communi- of Mission and Identity. As a O’Keefe, SJ, stepped down as cation among the members of a scholastic, he taught English, superior of the Spellman Hall widely dispersed community, as theology and Latin at Scranton Susan Baber has been named the Fr. Daniel Corrou, SJ, has been Jesuit Community in the Bronx well as oversaw and supported Prep and is an alumnus of the news associate provincial assistant for appointed the new regional to prepare for his new role as their pastoral and educational University of Scranton. He has secondary education for the USA director of the Jesuit Refugee provincial of the USA East ministries. Fr. Brendan Lally, SJ, has been also served on the boards at sev- East Province. A graduate of the Service (JRS) in the Middle Province. Fr. Christopher M. named the USA East Province’s eral Jesuit high schools across the College of the Holy Cross, Susan East and North Africa region Cullen, SJ, has been serving as delegate for senior Jesuits, effective country, including Fairfield Prep. most recently worked as the direc- by Superior General Fr. Arturo January 1, 2021. Fr. Lally is currently acting superior of the community tor of campus ministry and the Sosa, SJ. Fr. Corrou will assume superior of the Jesuit Community director of adult formation for the this role on July 1, 2020. JRS is at Saint Joseph’s University. In this Loyola School in New York City, an international nongovernmen- new role, he will hear the account where she also taught theology tal organization with a mission of conscience and be responsible and was the department chair. to accompany, serve, and advo- for the cura personalis of senior Susan will assume this new role cate for the rights of refugees Jesuits in the province’s health care in August 2020. Her predecessor, and forcibly displaced people communities. Fr. Myles Sheehan, SJ, Maura Toomb Estevez, will teach in several regions, including the who is currently in this role, will theology at Regis High School in Middle East and North Africa. New York City this fall. continue to serve in this capacity Christian J. Cashman has been through December. named the next president of Fairfield College Preparatory until a permanent superior could Earlier this year, Fr. Samuel School, effective July 1, 2020. be named. Fr. Thomas J. Regan, SJ, J. Sawyer, SJ, was named the Previously a teacher in the who is currently serving as dean superior of the America House theology department at the high of the Graduate School and of the Jesuit Community in New York school, Cashman is returning College of Arts and Sciences at City. Fr. Sawyer is an executive after a three-year stint as the Loyola University Chicago and editor at America Media and president and head of school at previously served as a provincial has served as a house consultor Northwest Catholic, where he of the New England Province, will at America House since 2016. not only acted as the Catholic assume the role of superior of Fr. Sawyer replaced Fr. Philip spiritual leader and chief devel- Spellman Hall on July 31, 2020. Judge, SJ, who, after a sabbatical, Fr. Thomas Benz, SJ, has been opment officer of the school, Nativity Preparatory School in will serve as president of named the assistant to the but also oversaw all professional Boston has announced that Father General Arturo Sosa has McQuaid High School in provincial for Pastoral and staff, budgetary processes, Gadisa Goso has been named approved the appointment of Rochester, New York. International Ministries for official communications and the next principal, effective for Fr. Edward Quinnan, SJ, as 2 gift-giving. 3 A TIME OF CRISIS Calls for the Magis By Mike Gabriele Those steeped in the Jesuit mantra of a “faith that does Many self-sufficient people abruptly found themselves justice” know what “magis” means.