He Leadeth Me - Fr. Walter Ciszek, SJ

By Fr. Walter Ciszek

He Leadeth Me is the deeply moving personal story of Fr. Walter Ciszek'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," Fr. Ciszek spent 23 years in Soviet prisons and Siberian labor camps. 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.