Tremendous stuff, as usual, compressed into a small kaleidoscope....many thanks!
I was first a student, then an acquaintance-friend, of Don Gelipi when I was in the GTU, Jesuit School of Theology, in 1978-79. I couldn't agree more with your fine assessment of his genius, to say nothing of his kindness and mystical bent. I was visiting a Jesuit brother of his at Jesuit Hall in St. Louis, where I reside, the day Don died a floor or two above us. I was at Mass at that moment, with some of his family, praying for his peaceful passing. My Jesuit friend told Don was still writing the evening before he died. A solider of the Lord, in true Jesuit fashion, dying with his boots on. Such a joy for me to read another of his admirers doing him such fined justice in an article of deification. Blessings on your continued contribution to the New Evangelization.
I can not express how consoling your personal sharing, here, was as I first read it. The warm glow remains. The Spirit is moving, all over, all over ... Thanks so much.
I heard from another former student of his, too, in response to this post.
Tremendous stuff, as usual, compressed into a small kaleidoscope....many thanks!
I was first a student, then an acquaintance-friend, of Don Gelipi when I was in the GTU, Jesuit School of Theology, in 1978-79. I couldn't agree more with your fine assessment of his genius, to say nothing of his kindness and mystical bent. I was visiting a Jesuit brother of his at Jesuit Hall in St. Louis, where I reside, the day Don died a floor or two above us. I was at Mass at that moment, with some of his family, praying for his peaceful passing. My Jesuit friend told Don was still writing the evening before he died. A solider of the Lord, in true Jesuit fashion, dying with his boots on. Such a joy for me to read another of his admirers doing him such fined justice in an article of deification. Blessings on your continued contribution to the New Evangelization.
I can not express how consoling your personal sharing, here, was as I first read it. The warm glow remains. The Spirit is moving, all over, all over ... Thanks so much.
I heard from another former student of his, too, in response to this post.