Fr. Andrew Carl Wisdom is the Province’s Vicar for Mission Advancement and Director of the Society for Vocational Support, which raises funds for the recruitment and formation of Dominican vocations. Besides his development ministry, Fr. Wisdom conducts parish retreats and Days of Reflection around the country.He is the author of Tuning In To God’s Call and Make of Your Life a Gift: Letters of Gratitude. He currently lives at St. Dominic Priory in Denver, Colorado.
Between 1642 and 1649, eight Jesuit missionaries were tortured and killed in what is now Canada and upstate New York. They had come to bring the faith to the indigenous peoples and to help end the warring between the tribes.
Remembering a day we are still trying to process: the lives lost, the heroes who ran toward danger rather than away from it, and the quiet truth that heroic decisions in the big moments are built by preparation in the small moments.
The spiritual life is a journey from the "believing" that gets us through the door, to the "knowing" that comes from a life of shared love and communion.