He Leadeth Me

202 pages

English language

Published Aug. 11, 1973 by Ignatius Press.

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978-0-89870-546-1
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Captured by a Russian army during World War II and convicted of being a "Vatican spy," Jesuit Father Walter J. Ciszek spent 23 agonizing years in Soviet prisons and the labor camps of Siberia. Only through an utter reliance on God's will did he manage to endure the extreme hardship. He tells of the courage he found in prayer--a courage that eased the loneliness, the pain, the frustration, 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. Ciszek learns to accept the inhuman work in the infamous Siberian salt mines as a labor pleasing to God. And through that experice, he was able to turn the adverse forces of circumstance into a source of positive value and a means of drawing closer to the …

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Straight forward faith and witness to Providence

How could anyone survive 5 years in solitary confinement in a Soviet prison and 15 years of hard labor in Siberia? One day at a time working out his salvation in fear and trembling.

How can I do God’s will? Why does God let bad things happen to good people? The people who complain about the war on Christmas or removal of faith from the public square, what does that say about their own faith? This book answers these questions.

Subjects

  • Ciszek, Walter J., 1904-
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Russian.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American.