With God in Camden Continued Part I: Bishop Walsh

<p>In October of 2024, early on in the development of ourpodcast, we were fortunate to interview Jesuit Father Michael Desjardins, SJ abouthis memories of a fellow Jesuit, Polish-American Father Walter Ciszek. Ciszek’s life story of arrest, torture, and imprisonment for some 30 years in the SovietUnion as told in his two books: <em>With God in Russia</em> published in 1964 and<em>He Leadeth Me</em> published in 1973 have become spiritual classics givingwords of strength in adversity to generations since. Shortly after his death in1984 His cause for sainthood was inaugurated. His cause and story was also why ayear later in October of 2025 we created a four-part workshop entitled: “WithGod in Camden” focused on “He Leadeth Me” with four guest presenters who hadtheir lives touched directly or indirectly by Father Ciszek. Such was thesuccess and spiritual graces gathered from this program that we thought we hadbeen able to contribute to the reputation for sanctity of his cause. Recently, his cause for canonization was ended by the Vatican, but the impact of Ciszek&#39;s story and legacy continues. For thisour final month of Season Two of our podcast, we decided to release these fourpresentations over the next four weeks to close our season. Each episode willdrop on every Monday of this month Our first guest of “With God in Camden” wasthe Most Reverand Jeffery J. Walsh, Bishop of the Diocese of Gaylord, Michigan.His encounter with Ciszek is one that is similar to so many lives that hisstory has touched.</p><p>Music courtesy of freesounds.org and classicals.de</p><p>ChopinPieces Courtesy of classicals.de</p><p><br>Chopin- Grande Valse Brillante; Recorded,produced, and released to the public by: The Musopen Kickstarter Project - SetChopin Free <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/Musopen/set-chopin-free">https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/Musopen/set-chopin-free</a></p><p> </p><p>Freesounds.org:</p><p>Hopeful Cinematic Emotional Orchestra Background Musicby EvanBoyerman -- https://freesound.org/s/753968/ -- License: Attribution 4.0</p><p>Emotional Guitar by Migfus20 --https://freesound.org/s/559845/ -- License: Attribution 4.0</p><p></p>