Surrender

SURRENDER - JESUIT PRIEST/SOVIET PRISONER

SURRENDER is the true story of the vocation of an American Jesuit priest, accused by
the Soviet era K.G.B. of being a Vatican spy, who survived fifteen years of hard labor in Siberian prison camps. Father Walter Ciszek not only survived but learned to surrender to Gods Providence.

SURRENDER is a narrative digest based entirely on Father Ciszeks two books: With God in Russia, (1964), published one year after his release from Russia, and his second book, He Leadeth Me, (1973), published nine years later. SURRENDER interweaves these two books and telescopes the most dramatic events of Father Ciszeks vocation and steadfast fidelity to that calling through the crucible of unjust imprisonment following the end of World War II.

Hopefully, through the relative brevity of SURRENDER, the major chords of Father Ciszeks heroic embrace of Gods Providence in the most extreme conditions will resonate. The reason why Father Ciszeks cause for Canonization, the process of declaration of Sainthood in the Roman Catholic Church, is currently proceeding should be abundantly evident.

SURRENDER describes not the triumph of human will-power but the freedom of total dependence on God. The paradox of power to love is only born in the powerlessness of surrender of self-will to Gods Providence.