Dean Brackley SJ, who volunteered in 1989 to replace the murdered Jesuits at El Salvador's Central American University, d. of cancer on 10/16/2011. Among other things he greeted countless U.S. college students on immersion trips--thus encouraging a culture of solidarity.
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As he told them: "Have the courage to lose control...to feel useless...to listen...to receive. Have the courage to let your heart be broken...to feel...to fall in love. Have the courage to get ruined for life. Have the courage to make a friend."
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My favorite book to assign is Dean Brackley's _Call to Discernment in Troubled Times_. So much wisdom & so sorely needed today. He really models for us what a "spirituality of solidarity" looks like. His emphasis on "downward mobility" calls to all of us.
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He was so generous with his time when I appeared in his office at the UCA in 2001. I'm very grateful.
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The memory of Fr. Brackley's voice should reach young seminarians today, many of whom sadly fall into an overly clericalism track. Priests like this Jesuit knew how critical being human is, to truly identify will all fellow brother and sister pilgrims in faith. He is missed.
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Thank you . Dean was irrepressible, quickly fell in love with Salvadorans, and they with him. I loved talking to him at the UCA. And he left resources that meant educations for wonderful people who never would have had them otherwise. QEPD
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