http://www.jesuit.org/blog/index.php/2012/03/jesuit-father-walter-ciszek-one-step-closer-to-sainthood/ Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 16 Jan 2013 09:51:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://www.jesuit.org/blog/index.php/2012/03/jesuit-father-walter-ciszek-one-step-closer-to-sainthood/comment-page-1/#comment-13277 Thomas Ankenbrandt, S.J. Fri, 20 Apr 2012 21:36:58 +0000 http://www.jesuit.org/blog/?p=5663#comment-13277 I lived for a while with Fr. Ciszek at the John XXIII Center in the Bronx, NY. He always treated me with great kindness. After a lifetime of incredible suffering and abuse, he lived in the community with quiet prayer, natural kindness and his neverending ongoing vocation to help others is whatever way he could. What a Jesuit! I lived for a while with Fr. Ciszek at the John XXIII Center in the Bronx, NY. He always treated me with great kindness. After a lifetime of incredible suffering and abuse, he lived in the community with quiet prayer, natural kindness and his neverending ongoing vocation to help others is whatever way he could. What a Jesuit!

]]> http://www.jesuit.org/blog/index.php/2012/03/jesuit-father-walter-ciszek-one-step-closer-to-sainthood/comment-page-1/#comment-12873 James H. McCarthy Mon, 02 Apr 2012 19:29:55 +0000 http://www.jesuit.org/blog/?p=5663#comment-12873 Walter was a tough bird. See what he admitted in his book "with God in Russia". But he was always a holy person ,dedicated to God. See what he told in his second book "He Leadeth Me". I was his Jesuit Superior for a while in New York. Commuting between new York and Rome to work on a thesis for the Oriental Institute I left New York with the understanding that Walter would cover on the weekends the Russian chapel of St. Michael's only to learn in Rome that Walter had had a heart attack at a parish on Long Island. James H. McCarthy, olim NEN '51 Walter was a tough bird. See what he admitted in his book “with God in Russia”. But he was always a holy person ,dedicated to God. See what he told in his second book “He Leadeth Me”. I was his Jesuit Superior for a while in New York. Commuting between new York and Rome to work on a thesis for the Oriental Institute I left New York with the understanding that Walter would cover on the weekends the Russian chapel of St. Michael’s only to learn in Rome that Walter had had a heart attack at a parish on Long Island. James H. McCarthy, olim NEN ’51

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