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Rev. James Creighton, SJ
I knew very early in my life that I would never be able to accomplish all the things that Fr. Lord did. He would speak sometimes at a moment's notice on many different subjects and be descriptive, informative, humorous, and spiritual all at once. When I wasn't on duty as a worker for the SSCA, I would follow him around from seminar to seminar. He would speak without notes, as far as I could tell, hour-long talks with Q & A sessions following all day long. He was amazing. He loved music and was a wonderful composer. He loved drama and was a great director. --And as a young man I marveled at his talent, but I knew that I did not have that amazing talent. What could he give me? Well, "talent" wasn't his message; being a Jesuit was! He went to those sessions because he was called there. He wanted to go where he was called. He could tell that he was called because he strongly sensed that what he was doing and how he was present with others was revealing Christ in some way. He talked openly about himself and Christ. He said that life has pain and suffering, but it really helps to be a companion with Jesus. He died that way with the pain and suffering of cancer. But he would say that he was called to have cancer. Fr.
Jim Creighton at dinner with six students in a Clinical Pastoral
It was great to meet and work with Fr. Lord. And better yet, it is great to be a Jesuit.
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was a high-class opportunity for me, as a sophomore at St. Ignatius
College Prep, back in the 1940s, to work in the summertime for the
Summer School of Catholic Action (SSCA) at the Morrison Hotel in
Chicago. To be on the staff meant to work for a very famous Jesuit:
Fr. Daniel A. Lord, S.J. Fr. Lord was a Jesuit priest, a writer,
a speaker, and a friend of youth--and I was one of those youths.