HE LEADETH ME

Walter J. Ciszek, S.J. with Daniel L. Flaherty, S.J.

ISBN 10: 0898705460 / ISBN 13: 9780898705461

Published by Ignatius Press, San Francisco, 1995

About this Item

202p. A softcover ex-library book in original binding. Label on spine; edges and corners worn and hinges creased. Label and former owner name on endpapers; stamp on title page. Otherwise, very good condition with text clean and binding tight. Memoirs of Ci8szek, an American priest held in Soviet prison camps for many years.

Seller Inventory # 211734

Bibliographic Details

• Title: HE LEADETH ME
• Publisher: Ignatius Press, San Francisco
• Publication Date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0898705460
• ISBN 13: 9780898705461
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Fair
• Seller catalogs:
  • Catholic Biography

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Synopsis

He Leadeth Me is the deeply moving personal story of one man's spiritual odyssey and the unflagging faith which enabled him to survive the horrendous ordeal that wrenched his body and spirit to near collapse. Captured by the Russian army during World War II and convicted of being a Vatican spy, American Jesuit Father Walter J. Ciszek spent some 23 agonizing years in Soviet prisons and the labor camps of Siberia. He here recalls how it was only through an utter reliance on God's will that he managed to endure. He tells of the courage he found in prayer-a courage that eased the loneliness, the pain, the frustrations, the anguish, the fears, the despair. For, as Ciszek relates, the solace of spiritual contemplation gave him an inner serenity upon which he was able to draw amidst the arrogance of evil that surrounded him. Learning to accept even the inhuman work of toiling in the infamous Siberian salt mines as a labor pleasing to God, he was able to turn adverse forces into a source of positive value and a means of drawing closer to the compassionate and never-forsaking Divine Spirit. He Leadeth Me is a book to inspire all Christians to greater faith and trust in God-even in their darkest hour.

About the Author

WALTER J. CISZEK, S.J. (1904-1984), was a Polish-American Jesuit priest known for his missionary work in the Soviet Union during and after World War II. He was eventually arrested by the Soviets as a spy and spent fifteen years in the Gulag. He was released and returned to the United States in 1963, after which he wrote two books, including the memoir With God in Russia, and served as a spiritual director. Since 1990, Ciszek has been under investigation by the Roman Catholic Church for anonization. His current title is Servant of God.