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I like to use it because it remains one that is very dear to me and illustrative of what I want to say about spirituality.  \nThe year after I was provincial of the Detroit Province-1989-1990-I worked as a consultant to the Jesuit provinces of East Asia. One of their major apostolic works was the Jesuit Refugee Service and especially that organization's role in caring for a high concentration of Cambodian refugees at the Thai/Cambodian border. In 1989-1990 there were about 200,000 Cambodian refugees, though the official records listed about 120,000 Cambodians. Remember that many refugees entered the camp at night, unknown to the Thai authorities. Those refugees who were already in the camp married and had children. All these factors probably swelled the official numbers.  \nAs you may remember, Cambodia had been overrun by the Khmer Rouge, Cambodian Communists. A major part of their program was to take anyone who was educated or anyone who had some professional status-a doctor, engineer, dentist, teacher--and put them on farms all throughout the countryside, separating them from their families. Therelocation was to level off any opposition and also to create an agrarian society--people that basically identified themselves as peasants and not as professionals. So professionals were looked upon with great suspicion. As a result, most of the people in the camp were people who were doctors, teachers, dentists, and so on. Remember, to get into the camp also meant that you had to travel through mine fields. You had to carry your kids on your shoulders. You had to risk all kinds of things. So the people who finally made it to the camp, knew how to lie, knew how to steal, and knew how to kill. That's why they made it. So you're not talking about a group of saints. You're talking about a group of very highly educated people who had lost everything and had fought hard to come to some kind of security in Thailand at this base we called Site II.  \nOnce they got to Site II, they were segregated from every other people. They simply became a group totally of refugees under the protection of the United Nations and whatever the Thai government would allow the United Nations to do. There were many non-government organizations; one of which was the Jesuit Refugee Service. The JRS ran schools, dispensaries, training centers, psychological centers and so on for the people. In a sense, these Cambodians were imprisoned. While these Cambodian refugees were well taken care of, they had no hope. They had no passport to get out of there. So whenever you met one of them they were always asking you, \"Do you have rich friends? Can you get me to Australia, to New Zealand, to the U. K. , to Germany, to Canada, and (especially) to the United States?\" As a consequence, everyone in the  \ncamp was kind of on \"the make,\" looking for a way to get some money and to get some help.  \nI was only at Site II for six weeks as part of the JRS team to help the people in the Jesuit Refugee Service review their program, to see whether they were going to stay there, or to relocate in another place. We were going through a kind of discernment process. We had about 30 Jesuit Service workers from all over the World. Most of them were young women and men, very talented and dedicated but not particularly religious as a group. Given that type of background, I would work in the camp every day but Tuesday. Tuesday I would stay home and I would see people if they would like to see me for spiritual direction or any kind of advice. That Tuesday work got to be a more and more important part of my presence. But during the week, when I worked at the camp between 9:00 and 5:00, what I primarily did was teach English and give a couple talks in some areas about management and thi","cbCaifl3Wy6HZKa8","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaifl3Wy6HZKa8","pdf",42340,"English","# Ignatian Spirituality - What Are We Talking about and Why?\n## Refugee story and context\n## Life in Site II and unmet hope\n## Spiritual direction and discernment\n## A Cambodian man’s request and the lesson","[{\"question\":\"What event motivates Howard Gray SJ’s reflection on spirituality?\",\"answer\":\"Gray recounts his time in Thailand working with Jesuit efforts to support Cambodian refugees at the border during 1989–1990.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the talk describe life and emotion inside the refugee camp (Site II)?\",\"answer\":\"The camp life is marked by segregation under UN protection, limited freedom and documentation, and persistent requests for escape routes and assistance, creating a sense of imprisonment and diminished hope.\"},{\"question\":\"What is the central spiritual message drawn from the young Cambodian man?\",\"answer\":\"He asks Gray to meet his family and emphasizes teaching his children not to hate, because hatred would allow the enemy to win their souls.\"}]","Ignatian Spirituality: What are We Talking about and Why? | PDF",1790653026,23]