50 Years A Jesuit 2014

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Maryland, New England and New York Provinces of the Society of Jesus

2014 jesuit jubilarians The Maryland, New England and New York Provinces of the Society of Jesus KENNETH J. BOLLER JOSEPH F. BURKE

From my jubilarian’s perch, I regard the greatest grace of my Jesuit vocation as St. Ignatius’s Spiritual Exercises with all their deliberations, dynamics and dialectics, including my assimilation of them amidst many edifying Jesuits who gave them, elucidated them, embodied them.

— Father Francis P. Gillespie, SJ

DARRELL J. BURNS RALPH CILIA BRIAN E. DALEY JAMES M. DESJARDINS JAMES L. DUGAN THOMAS H. FEELY BENJAMIN FIORE FRANCIS P. GILLESPIE DAVID HOLLENBACH DENNIS M. LEDER J. ALLAN LOFTUS DENNIS E. MCNALLY EDWARD T. O’DONNELL MICHAEL PROTERRA NICHOLAS S. RASHFORD BRENDAN T. SCOTT JAMES M. SHEA JOHN J. SHEA JOHN P. SPENCER JAMES J. SPILLANE RICHARD J. ZANONI

50 years a jesuit celebration 2014 Friday, June 13, 2014 ❈ Fordham University Church

4:30 p.m.

Concelebrated Mass of Thanksgiving ❈ McGinley Center at Fordham University

5:30 p.m.

Reception

6:30 p.m.

Dinner ❈ master of ceremonies

Rev. Thomas R. Slon, SJ presentation of jubilarian gifts

Very Rev. David S. Ciancimino, SJ Very Rev. James M. Shea, SJ Very Rev. Myles N. Sheehan, SJ

The meaning of finding God in all things exploded for me in the extraordinary people with whom I lived and worked in the Society — men of immeasurable talent and humble genius, and of extraordinary generosity.

— Father John P. Spencer, SJ

2014 jesuit jubilarians

Gratitude FATHER KENNETH J. BOLLER, SJ, is president of St. Peter’s Preparatory School in Jersey City, New Jersey, and also serves as a province consultor. (New York Province) August 14, 1964 ORDINATION: June 14, 1975 FINAL VOWS: March 25, 1983

FATHER JOSEPH F. BURKE, SJ, is professor of counseling and a psychotherapist at Canisius College in Buffalo, New York. He is also co-director of spiritual formation at Christ the King Seminary in the Buffalo Diocese. (New York Province)

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he greatest grace of my Jesuit vocation has been the gift of the many people who have entered my life and become part of it. It started with my novitiate classmates, an eclectic crew, and continued with the students and colleagues I have worked for and with over the years. They have taught me so much and brought me into some of their most important moments including weddings, baptisms and funerals. Each one has enriched me. My students taught me how to teach. My colleagues shared their passion for working with youth. Trustees taught me to be generous with my time and parishioners kept me honest in preaching the gospel.

Spiritual directees have taught me fidelity to God’s call and journey. Many have enriched me with the gift of friendship over the years.

When I was eighteen, I thought I would become a Jesuit priest and work in high schools and give a lot to others. Instead, I have received more than I could ever give. I am very grateful.

July 30, 1964 ORDINATION: June 10, 1978 FINAL VOWS: December 3, 1986 ENTRANCE:

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r. Joseph Burke, SJ, one of the many Jesuits from Jersey City, graduated from St. Peter’s Preparatory School in 1964 and joined the Society of Jesus in the same year. Following three years of philosophy at Loyola Seminary in Shrub Oak, New York, he studied English literature at Fordham University which prepared him to teach English at Canisius High School as a regent from 1971 to 1973. He went to the Jesuit School of Theology in Chicago and received a Master of Divinity in 1979. He began a career in counseling, chaplaincy and pastoral work in several institutions including Xavier and Regis High Schools and St. Aloysius Parish in New York. In 1997, having obtained his Ph.D. in counseling psychology from Fordham, he was assigned to Canisius College in Buffalo. In addition to teaching in the department of counseling and human services, he now serves as co-director of the Department of Spiritual Formation at Christ the King Seminary in East Aurora.

Blessed BROTHER DARRELL J. BURNS, SJ, is program coordinator for mission and identity at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio. (Maryland Province)

BROTHER RALPH CILIA, SJ, is assistant to the pastor at St. Anthony’s Parish in Oceanside, New York. (New York Province)

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February 1, 1964 FINAL VOWS: May 13, 1978

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s I reflect on the past fifty years, my first response is one of deep gratitude. I am richly blessed and grateful for my family who has always been a source of love and support. I am also filled with gratitude for the wide variety of people who have walked with me — some briefly, others for longer periods of time, and those who continue to share the journey.

I’m grateful for my brother Jesuits with whom I have lived, prayed, studied and worked. I’m grateful for the ways they have challenged me — more by their actions than with their words. In my reminiscence they form a rich tapestry composed of a wide variety of colors and diverse textures, woven together by a common vision and a shared spirituality.

I’m grateful in knowing that when I am alone, I’m not lonely, especially during those dark and difficult moments, because I do not walk alone; I am a part of something bigger than myself. In this I find both comfort and gratitude.

I am also grateful for the variety of roles, activities and events that are part of my journey — from directing theatrical productions to directing retreats — as teacher, administrator, chaplain — as a mentor, a friend, and most of all, as a brother. All of these have been opportunities for me to participate in the ongoing creative action of God. For that I respond in deep gratitude.

As I look forward, I welcome the gifts of people and events that are yet to be revealed. “For all that has been, Thanks! For all that is to come, Yes!”

June 15, 1964 FINAL VOWS: April 18, 1982 entered the Jesuit novitiate at St. Andrew-onHudson at the beginning of 1964 as a brother postulant. In June of the same year, I started as a novice brother. After I pronounced first vows I lingered at St. Andrews for three more years until its closing.

Since then, I have been working as a staff maintenance person in different places, including the Jesuit Retreat House in Morristown, New Jersey; St. Peter’s Preparatory School in Jersey City and now at St. Anthony’s Parish in Oceanside, New York, serving the Jesuit community. For me this has been a growing spiritual experience. Thanks be to God.

FATHER BRIAN E. DALEY, SJ, holds the Huisking Chair of Theology at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, and serves as regional vocation promoter. (New York Province)

FATHER JAMES M. DESJARDINS, SJ, is socius to the regional superior in Novosibirsk, Russia, and retreat and spiritual director in the inter-diocesan pre-seminary program. (Maryland Province)

September 7, 1964 ORDINATION: July 25, 1970 FINAL VOWS: April 22, 1983

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r. Brian Daley, SJ, entered the Society of Jesus in 1964 after attending St. Peter’s Preparatory School in Jersey City and then Fordham University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar and received a Master of Arts at the University of Oxford. He taught at Fordham for a year prior to studying theology at Sankt Georgen, the Jesuit theologate in Frankfurt, Germany. He studied patristics as research assistant to Fr. Aloys Grillmeier (later Cardinal Grillmeier) and then moved back to Oxford and received his Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1979. He taught historical theology at Weston Jesuit School of Theology in Cambridge for 14 years.

In 1996, he moved west to the University of Notre Dame where he now holds the Huisking Chair of Theology. In addition to many writings as an historian of patristic theology, he served as president of the North American Patristic Society and now serves as executive secretary of the Catholic-Orthodox Consultation for North America.

Most recently Brian was one of the two winners of the 2012 Ratzinger Prize, considered the Nobel Prize of theology.

August 14, 1964 ORDINATION: June 4, 1977 FINAL VOWS: February 18, 1984

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wo of the greatest graces of my Jesuit vocation were during regency in Chile. I went through culture shock. I knew such things happen, but it was not going to happen to me. Language and the absence of friends and family are only a part of it. You are a fish in a foreign ocean. Multitudes of unnoticed details, for example, where the light switches are, wear you down and can lead to a type of depression. During my yearly Spiritual Exercises, in the middle of the second and last year of regency, the Lord spoke to me loud and clear. I felt deeply that not only had He called me to work side by side with Him, but also that He had sent me. These are two very important graces for a Jesuit.

That interior experience, together with the support of a new community, changed my perception. Before that, I wanted to scuttle my regency and return to the U.S. ahead of schedule. I not only finished up as planned, but after ordination, I returned for another happy fourteen years.

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U Urbane JAMES L. DUGAN, SJ, is associate campus minister and adjunct professor in philosophy at Canisius College in Buffalo, New York.

(New York Province)

FATHER THOMAS H. FEELY, SJ, is associate pastor at St. Ignatius Loyola Parish in New York, New York. (New York Province) July 30, 1964 ORDINATION: June 14, 1975 FINAL VOWS: August 15, 1980 ENTRANCE:

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he greatest grace of my Jesuit vocation is the community of the Society of Jesus, which is expressed historically and internationally in many extraordinary ways (Compañía de Jesús, Compagnie de Jésus, Compagnia di Gesù, Gesellschaft Jesu, Towarzystwo Jezusowe, 耶穌會, 예수, Societas Iesu). It is here that as Jesuits we are privileged to encounter Jesus Christ, our Blessed Mother and our myriad brother saints, deceased and living, who continually illuminate and accompany us on our journey to God. Sharing God’s word and Eucharist in fraternal community through the Spiritual Exercises, apostolates and ministry enlightens, strengthens and edifies our lives as members of the human race and the Church. It is here that I continue to learn to see God in all things and be a man for others through spiritual development and engagement, ad maiorem Dei gloriam, with others who seek to grow in faith, hope and love, the very foundations of our lives as God’s people, and disciples of Christ.

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ertianship in Mexico began with meetings designed to help the Jesuits in our cohort get to know each other.

We shared our biographies with the group in three sessions: childhood to entrance, entrance to theology, and theology to the then present. The tertian instructor asked us not to make comments on each other’s presentations, and promised that he would refrain from comments as well.

I don’t remember exactly what I said in the second session.

Whatever it was, it was so downbeat that the tertian instructor broke his own rule and asked, “Why did you stay?” Without a second thought, I answered, “It was Jesus Christ.” I think my response surprised the tertian instructor. I know it surprised me. At the time, I had no idea where my answer came from or why it came so immediately. Reflecting on that answer became central to my tertianship experience, and reflecting on that answer has remained central to my Jesuit life ever since.

O Opportunities FATHER BENJAMIN FIORE, SJ, is pastor of St. Michael’s Parish in Buffalo, New York.

(New York Province) September 7, 1964 ORDINATION: July 14, 1974 FINAL VOWS: April 22, 1983 ENTRANCE:

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n all the places I have lived as a Jesuit, whether in formation or in ministry, I have found colleagues, Jesuit and lay, who have been sources of energy and support in my years of service, of insight and challenge in my spiritual life, and of enjoyment and peace in my day-to-day life.

FATHER FRANCIS P. GILLESPIE, SJ, is pastor of St. Christopher Church in Claxton, Georgia, and its missions of Holy Cross in Pembroke and Our Lady of Guadalupe in Sandhill. (Maryland Province) September 7, 1964 ORDINATION: June 3, 1972 FINAL VOWS: September 8, 1981 ENTRANCE:

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rom my jubilarian’s perch, I regard the greatest grace of my Jesuit vocation as St. Ignatius’s Spiritual Exercises with all their deliberations, dynamics and dialectics, including my assimilation of them amidst many edifying Jesuits who gave them, elucidated them, embodied them. These Exercises have expedited my engagement of the gospels, facilitated my encounter with Jesus Christ and fostered my serving His Church including encouragement of concordance with its shepherds. They helped to decipher my call under the standard of the Victorious Christ into the Society; taught me to pray effectively (id quod volo) and affectively (the triple colloquy); guided me to see my authentic identity as bonded to Jesus; introduced me to the magis and pursuit of insigniis AMDG. They’ve provided me a First Principle and Foundation along with its coadjutors tantum quantum and indifference; equipped me with discernment dynamics to navigate both the halcyon times and turbulent episodes in the Church and the Society (offering me the three humilities as shock absorbers for the latter). Their deliberations on sin and forgiveness have been liberating; on companioning the cross carrying Jesus, fulfilling; on contemplatively finding the Triune God in the quotidian, gratifying. The Spiritual Exercises: vade mecum, perennial inspiration, basis for my jubilation.

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Justice FATHER DAVID HOLLENBACH, SJ, is professor of theology as well as university chair and director of the Center for Human Rights and International Justice at Boston College. He is currently on sabbatical at Georgetown University.

(Maryland Province) September 7, 1964 June 5, 1971 FINAL VOWS: February 2, 1978 ENTRANCE:

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y experience of how Christ calls us to work together in the Church to advance the hope, dignity and common good of all people has been the central grace of my Jesuit life. It has been the inspiration over the years of all of my teaching and writing in the field of social ethics. It led to three really formative aspects of my work as a Jesuit: writing a book on the Church’s engagement in the struggle for human rights; close work with the U.S. Catholic bishops in the mid-1980s on their pastoral letter Economic Justice for All and my becoming involved in the work of the Society of Jesus in Africa through my periodic teaching at our Jesuit theologate, Hekima College in Nairobi, Kenya. This grace has been both a real challenge and a source of joy.

FATHER DENNIS M. LEDER, SJ, is the director of the Central American Institute of Spirituality in Guatemala City, Guatemala, and also serves as a retreat minister. (New York Province) July 30, 1964 ORDINATION: June 12, 1976 FINAL VOWS: July 31, 1983 ENTRANCE:

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rt and service are two forces in my life. They constitute the prime elements that find expression for me in the Society of Jesus. In fact, the Jesuits have been the catalyst for both forces. As a novice I was assured that being an artist was consistent with a Jesuit vocation. While history could substantiate the claim, it took some years to do so in a personal manner, and not without the limitations of time, unhelpful stereotypes, and the mutual indifference between art and religion. Nevertheless, the process has been a convincing one: Art-making is an unhindered frontier for the experience of God. Being an artist as a Jesuit has helped me to live on the edges of things and to trust and learn from personal experience. Being a Jesuit as an artist has added a social commitment and has been the catalyst for a graced time with refugees and a life in Central America.

I have been blessed with companions whose wisdom has taught me what Ignatius meant by friends in the Lord. There is more of me in Ignatian spirituality than I would have ever imagined. That, I would say, is both the grace and the confirmation of my vocation.

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Vivid FATHER J. ALLAN LOFTUS, SJ, is parochial vicar of St. Ignatius Church in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, and a psychologist in private practice.

(Maryland Province)

FATHER DENNIS E. MCNALLY, SJ, is professor and department chair of fine arts at St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

(New York Province)

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September 7, 1964 ORDINATION: December 21, 1974 FINAL VOWS: October 3, 1987

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chose the word vivid to express what my life as a Jesuit has meant. It is partially descriptive and partially a prayer. I chose it in memory of a 96-year-old parishioner who had one of the most intense, bright, animated and vivid personalities I have ever met. And her favorite word for life was vivid. I am still trying to live up to her example. Some Monday mornings the church prays Psalm 90: Make us know the shortness of our life that we may gain wisdom of heart. A more contemporary prayer comes from the remarkable poet, Mary Oliver. I have been risky in my endeavors, I have been steadfast in my loves; Oh Lord, consider these when you judge me. It has been an extremely vivid and blessed life.

Deo Gratias!

July 30, 1964 ORDINATION: June 8, 1974 FINAL VOWS: December 3, 1994 r. Dennis McNally, SJ, entered the Society of Jesus after graduating from Regis High School in New York and completing two years of college at Fordham University. Before his regency at St. Peter’s Preparatory School in Jersey City, he studied art education at New York University and received his master’s degree in that field in 1971. He studied theology at Weston Jesuit School of Theology in Cambridge and following ordination in 1974, served as a pastoral minister in Tucson, Arizona, for a year. Then in 1975, he began his long commitment to St. Joseph’s University as a professor of fine arts and co-director of the university gallery. He interrupted his teaching from 1978-80 while he studied fine arts at New York University and received his Ph.D. in 1980. To view many of his artistic creations and writings — including what he calls Sacred Rejects, one can visit his website: www.mcnallyscorpus.com/writings/.

Educator FATHER EDWARD T. O’DONNELL, SJ, is parochial vicar at Old St. Joseph’s Church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Maryland Province)

FATHER MICHAEL PROTERRA, SJ, is parochial vicar at St. Raphael the Archangel Church in Raleigh, North Carolina. (Maryland Province)

July 30, 1964 ORDINATION: June 1, 1974 FINAL VOWS: November 5, 1977

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r. Edward O’Donnell, SJ, a native of Philadelphia, entered the Society of Jesus at the Novitiate of St. Isaac Jogues in Wernersville in 1964 upon graduation from St. Joseph’s Preparatory School. He received his bachelor’s degree from Loyola Seminary in Shrub Oak, New York, in 1969, a Master of Divinity degree from Regis College in Toronto in 1974, and in 1978, a Licentiate of Theology. Fr. O’Donnell served as a teacher at St. Joseph’s Prep and then professor of theology at St. Joseph’s University. At St. Isaac Jogues he assisted the novice director and taught theology.

For nearly twenty years Fr. O’Donnell continued to teach theology at the University of Scranton and then Xavier University in Cincinnati. Beginning in 2002, Fr. O’Donnell served for three years as associate pastor at St. Ignatius Church in Baltimore.

Following a sabbatical year at John Carroll University, he served as parochial vicar at St. Theresa of the Infant Jesus Church in Runnemede, New Jersey, for five years and in 2010, began as parochial vicar at Old St. Joseph’s Church in Philadelphia, where he currently ministers.

September 7, 1964 ORDINATION: July 31, 1971 FINAL VOWS: September 8, 1983

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e human beings are created in the image and likeness of the living God. What abiding fascination there is with God’s plan for all of God’s creation. So, there is great joy and contentment in searching for God. It is a search for community and companionship through a life of prayerful service of the neighbor in the Society of Jesus. Shouldn’t some one of us say something about God, about eternal life, about the majesty of grace in our sanctified life?

This has been the grace of my vocation.

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R Relationships FATHER NICHOLAS S. RASHFORD, SJ, is president emeritus and professor in the Department of Management at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Maryland Province)

FATHER BRENDAN T. SCOTT, SJ, is engaged in pastoral ministry at Murray-Weigel Hall, Bronx, New York. (New York Province) ENTRANCE: August

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he greatest grace of my Jesuit life has been the intensities of the relationships I have experienced, starting with the relationship with God honed over three 30-day retreats. Another is the relationships with my brothers of the Company of Jesus in our work for God serving others. Being a Jesuit has brought greater intensity and meaning to my family relationships. This is also true in relationships formed during teaching and administration.

Friendships developed in sacramental life, baptisms, marriages, reconciliations, deaths and Eucharistic celebrations were also full of depth and dimension. Time and time again people contact us when they remember these encounters years later. It is a real gift to share in God’s graces and in the lives of His people.

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r. Brendan Scott, SJ, became a Jesuit upon graduation from St. Peter’s Preparatory School in Jersey City in 1964. During his regency he taught French at Xavier High School in New York. He studied theology at the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley from 1975 to 1979 and was ordained in 1978. He remained in California, teaching French at the University of Santa Clara for three years. This led to further studies in comparative literature at Princeton University followed by teaching French and comparative literature at the University of St. Louis. In 1994, he returned to New York and taught first at Canisius College and then at St. Peter’s College in Jersey City.

In 2005, Brendan was assigned to Murray-Weigel Hall on the Fordham University campus. As throughout his Jesuit priestly life, he has been involved in counseling, preaching and in assisting nurses and workers with wise advice and improving their English language skills. His homilies to the Jesuit community are always to the point and much appreciated.

Gratitude FATHER JAMES M. SHEA, SJ, has been provincial of the Maryland Province of the Society of Jesus since July 31, 2008. (Maryland Province) ENTRANCE: July

30, 1964 ORDINATION: June 7, 1975 FINAL VOWS: October 13, 1990

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s I look back on fifty years as a Jesuit I have a deep gratitude for God’s faithfulness that I have experienced in so many ways. I am grateful for so many Jesuit companions in the Lord with whom I have journeyed over these years — such good, generous and faith-filled men. I am grateful for the fulfilling work I have been privileged to do and for the many extraordinary people who have been part of my life as my parishioners, patients, students, colleagues. I have been blessed by my tenure as Provincial. The older I become the more grateful I am for the treasure of Ignatian spirituality. I am grateful for the encouragement we are finding these days in our brother Pope Francis. I am grateful that I look to my future in Jesuit life and ministry with hope and enthusiasm.

FATHER JOHN J. SHEA, SJ, is the director of campus ministry and chaplain at Fordham University, Lincoln Center and director for the East Asia Theological Encounter Program for Jesuits Asia/Pacific. (New York Province) ENTRANCE: August

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y vocation has been a series of graces and gifts. The opportunity to serve the Church as a member of the Society of Jesus has enriched my life through my involvement in the challenges and excitement of higher education in the period from Vatican II to the present pontificate of Pope Francis. I was also given the great gift of serving in foreign missions during my five years in Thailand and two years in Japan and continue to assist the Asia/Pacific Conference. The gift of seeing how the church is growing in other parts of the world, despite its diminishments in the west, has given me the great gift of hope as well as the grace and gift of sharing in the enthusiasm and youth of the Church’s growth in Asia. Of course the companionship, patience, encouragement and support of so many brother Jesuits here and around the world who formed me, taught me and worked with me are all blessings and graces.

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Extraordinary FATHER JOHN P. SPENCER, SJ, is associate vice president of mission and ministry and chaplain at Emmanuel College in Boston, Massachusetts.

(New England Province)

FATHER JAMES J. SPILLANE, SJ, is dean of the faculty of business administration and teacher of tourism management at St. Augustine University of Tanzania in Mwanza, Tanzania. (Indonesia Province)

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hanges were always occurring in my Jesuit life: Shadowbrook as a postulant brother, St. Andrew-on-Hudson as a novice brother, Boston/Weston, 297 Commonwealth and the Seminary Guild/Mission Bureau, 418 Beacon, St. Mary’s in the North End, Cranwell School, Weston in Cambridge, a brief leave of absence and discernment for priesthood, Weston again, Corpus Christi in Auburndale, St. Ignatius Church, Boston University, Indian Township, and many other locations, people and changes. Looking back over the years, I’m continually astounded at how often my plans were disrupted, changed or altered. It took years before the astonishment sharpened into an awareness of God at work in my life. And then God at work in my life became a real theme. The meaning of finding God in all things exploded for me in the extraordinary people with whom I lived and worked in the Society – men of immeasurable talent and humble genius, and of extraordinary generosity. Real grace “that keeps all his goings graces” (Gerard Manley Hopkins, SJ). The dear men of years gone by, those exceptional men who began in the Society and who then followed other paths, those who died all too young, and the community of present day men who have journeyed with me to where I am today. They very simply helped me and allowed me to stand on their shoulders to see the unfolding of God’s plan in my life. For this I am extraordinarily grateful.

August 14, 1964 ORDINATION: May 30, 1976 FINAL VOWS: July 31, 1983

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efore entering the Society of Jesus as an undergraduate math major at Boston College, we lived in an age of great leaders who fought for the independence of their countries, especially Kassem in Iraq, Sukarno in Indonesia and Nyerere in Tanzania. Entering the Jesuits gave me a great opportunity to travel to these three countries and to work in higher education there. It was a grace to make a contribution through education rather than criticize the less than perfect situations in each country. As a result, I have had a truly global experience of different cultures, languages and values in the five Jesuit provinces where I have worked and in the world in general. Working overseas for long periods has enabled me to receive the grace of deep and genuine lifelong friendships. As a university teacher, I have been blessed to see my students develop into mature, responsible adults who are agents of social change in their emerging nations — especially over the span of thirty-three years in Indonesia. Those Jesuits, colleagues and students have become God’s greatest blessing to me because their friendships are a mysterious grace for which I can only be extremely grateful and feel myself as a truly global citizen of the world. Amicizia!

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P Privileged FATHER RICHARD J. ZANONI, SJ, is minister at the Jesuit Novitiate of St. Andrew Hall in Syracuse, New York. (New York Province) August 14, 1964 ORDINATION: June 14, 1975 FINAL VOWS: December 3, 1993 ENTRANCE:

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t. Ignatius and the first Jesuits saw themselves as friends in the Lord, drawn together by the love of God. From my early days in formation, but particularly since regency and priestly ordination, I have come to appreciate ever more deeply the companions of Jesus in my own time — their unflagging dedication, generous hearts, good humor and genuine holiness.

To be welcomed into and prized by this good company is a special sustaining grace for me, a man all too conscious of his own faults and foibles. In the end, a Jesuit vocation is not about an individual’s frail humanity, as real and undeniable as this may be. It is about God’s energizing and effective grace at home in our companions — men devoted and committed to the Lord, to one another and to the mission. One sage Jesuit spoke of us quite honestly and accurately, I think, when he remarked: Taken separately, we are men of little worth, God knows. But the point about us is that we cannot be taken separately; we must be taken together; and, taken together, we may perhaps count for something in God’s plan to save the world.

in memoriam Remembering our Jesuit brothers who entered the Society of Jesus in 1964 MR. RICHARD P. BOYD, NSJ FR. J. DEAN BRACKLEY, SJ FR. GARY J. BRADLEY, SJ FR. NEIL E. CALLAHAN, SJ BR. WILLIAM R. CRONMILLER, SJ FR. JOSEPH A. GARNEAU, SJ FR. RICHARD P. GROGAN, SJ FR. LOUIS A. PADOVANO, SJ FR. THOMAS H. TIGHE, SJ BR. WALTER R. YOUNG, SJ

Taken separately, we are men of little worth, God knows.

But the point about us is that we cannot be taken separately; we must be taken together; and, taken together, we may perhaps count for something in God’s plan to save the world.

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ad maiorem dei gloriam For more information about becoming a Jesuit brother or priest, visit www.Jesuitvocations.org Maryland Province of the Society of Jesus 8600 LaSalle Road, Suite 620 Towson, MD 21286 www.mdsj.org New England Province of the Society of Jesus P.O. Box 9199 Watertown, MA 02471 www.sjnen.org New York Province of the Society of Jesus 39 East 83rd Street New York, NY 10028 www.nysj.org