ABSTRACT
One would suppose Jesus would talk about how his entire life had been one of total clarity of purpose. But Father Thomas M. Gannon’s message that magical Sunday was a message both more truly modern and more ancient. The beautiful church of the Lady of Mount Carmel on West Belmont Avenue was filled to overflowing, for this was the twenty-fifth anniversary of the ordination of Jesuit Father Gannon. As Father Gannon put it that special Sunday, “When God called, he told his only enough for him to say yes.” The rest was even more mystery. Perhaps not strangely at all, then, Father Gannon had a tremendous sense of peace about him, a noticeable serenity, that special day of his twenty-fifth anniversary. He felt, he said, what perhaps all of us yearn for in the middle of our lives: “a confirmation.” And it is indeed a process of becoming—ceaseless, endless becoming.”
