Father Beyzym once admitted to the Prioress of Lobzow Karmel that he felt the call for the priesthood from his early age. He said that it was difficult and strange for him to live in the world and that he dreamed about the soutane. The secular outfit discouraged him and he did not like wearing […]
FATHER JAN BEYZYM THE FAITHFUL SON OF ST IGNATIUS LOYOLA
Just after his arrival in Madagascar Father Beyzym wrote to Father Apoloniusz Kraupa, the later missionary in Northern Rhodesia:”We need to be good friars here, as we are left on our own”. For Father Beyzym to be a good friar was to be a good Jesuit, a faithful son of St Ignatius Loyola. Let us […]
“WHY DO YOU HURRY?”
Why do you hurry Father Beyzym To the hostile and far away land Why do you guide your steps of a pilgrim, Where need and leprosy are hand in hand? Refrain: I hurry to save my brothers in Christ, Unblessed and miserable outcasts. I go to save my brothers in Christ, Lepers, desolate hearts! Why […]
THE PRAYER FOR THE CANONIZATION
Father of mercy and God of all comfort! Through the agency of Your Servant Jan Beyzym You bestowed mercy and consolation On the most miserable of the miserable, On the forlorn and outcast, On the separated off the human society With the wall of fear and scorn. By Your mercy in him And his intercession […]
THE LETTERS OF FATHER BEYZYM. A fragment of the third letter.
Antananarivo. February, 1899. … Some time ago I talked with Father Superior about my asylum and explained that it could not continue that way any more, as it was no good at all (I moved to the asylum in the middle of February 1899 and celebrated the first Holy Mass on the Candlemas Day). The […]