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MarylandJesuits

  1. RIP, Fr. John Guidera, SJ. Baltimore native devoted his life to people of India. Obit: mdsj.org twitter.com/MarylandJesuit…
  2. Fr. Shay Auerbach's ministry to Mixteco community in Richmond connects people with Church, home. Article:jesuit.org/blog/index.php… #Jesuit
  3. RIP Fr. Vincent O'Brien, SJ-Jesuit for 69 years, he taught at Loyola-Blakefield, Gonzaga HS, then counseled many. Obit: mdsj.org/news.html
  4. Fr. Rick Ryscavage, SJ, talks about implications of shrinking number of girl children in India. We should all care. youtube.com/watch?v=v25Wlu…
  5. "Slowly, carefully, I made the sign of the cross over the land I was leaving...." Fr. Walter #Ciszek was once again free. #Jesuit
  6. Excerpts come from #Jesuit Fr. Walter Ciszek's "With God in Russia" ignatius.com/Products/WGR-E… #Ciszek
  7. Your missionary work here in Norilsk is not needed, the agent said. You have 10 days to leave Norilsk & never think of coming back. #Ciszek
  8. I felt that at last, in God's own good Providence, I was beginning to live my dream of serving his flock in Russia. --Walter #Ciszek SJ
  9. (Easter) services ended at 3 a.m. but at 9 the next morning I was still distributing Communion to a constant stream of people #Ciszek
  10. The Easter Mass is a joyous one to begin with, but the enthusiasm of the people that night I shall never forget. #Ciszek #Jesuit
  11. TheKGB had me on the carpet..."We're not going to warn you anymore but you keep it up& we'll take whatever measures we feel we must" #Ciszek
  12. After a while, I became so busy I had to rotate the places for Sunday Mass...I knew the KGB was watching me but I didn't care. #Ciszek
  13. As a Komsomol she didn't want to be caught talking to a priest about religion. She came back and asked "When can I be baptized?" #Ciszek
  14. Registration open for "Finding God in Unsettled Times, a conference on Ignatian Spirituality"-- jesuit-collaborative.org/Finding-God-In… twitter.com/MarylandJesuit…
  15. "I want you," she said, "to sing a [Requiem] for my husband...." Then Tashya asked me to baptize her little boy, too. #Ciszek #Jesuit
  16. Extraordinary life of Fr. Walter #Ciszek—Jesuit, Soviet prisoner, priest behind the Iron Curtain—studied for sainthood—jesuit.org/blog/index.php…
  17. I had to live where I was told, in this case Norilsk; if I wanted to move to another city, I could do it only with permission. #Ciszek
  18. About the 1st week of April [1955] I was called to the camp office and told I'd be liberated in 10 days. #Ciszek #Jesuit