I only found out that I graduated from high school after I'd been in the Army for three months. So all this was rather curious, and if it had been known at that time of my interest in the Society, I think they would have dropped me right there! You know, people are always saying that this person or that person was reason for a vocation. But in my case, there wasn't anyone. Mine was the Blessed Mother.

Nobody wanted to even mention the name of the Cayman Islands off Jamaica. As St.Paul once said about sin, "Let sin not be mentioned among you." Well, that was the was the way with the Cayman Islands: Don't even mention the name. If you did, then it might be taken as a show of interest and you'd be sent there. As several people said to me, "Close it! Close it!" But I didn't go anywhere to close it down. I went there to see if I could save it and improve it. The advice I was getting didn't come from my superiors but from fellow Jesuits who didn't want to get stuck there. And all the time I was there I could not get a substitute to replace me any time I went away on a vacation or anywhere else, for that matter. Nobody wanted to touch it. But the people were why I went there.

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