A tribute to Fr. Don Driscoll, SJ.

RIP: March 22, 2007

Let us pray in thanksgiving for the life of our brother,

Fr. Donald D. Driscoll, S.J.  Don, 73, passed away unexpectedly last night around midnight of an apparent heart attack.

Fr. Donald David Driscoll was born in Evergreen Park, IL on June 17, 1933.  After attending parochial schools in Chicago, he went to Campion High School in Prairie du Chien, WI.  He entered the novitiate at Florissant, MO on August 8, 1952.  His normal course of studies were in St. Louis, MO and St. Marys, KS.  From 1967 until 1986, he taught theology at Marquette University High School in Milwaukee and served as its rector as well.  In 1987, he began his twenty years of service at Creighton University as a theology teacher as well as chaplain.  DD was probably best known throughout his years in the Society as the man who always found humor in every situation.

Watch a slide show of Don Driscoll's Mass of the Resurrection as Ralph Houlihan, SJ, Don's ordination classmate, gives a homily [18 minutes].

Listen to the wake service as a [22 minute] podcast. Fr. Dick Hauser, SJ, Rector of the Creighton University Jesuits presides, Fr. Tom Shanahan, SJ, gives the Homily. Fr. Roc O'Connor, SJ, on the guitar as Tony Ward, music director of St. Johns College church, sings.

Listen to the sharing by friends of Fr. Don Driscoll, SJ. [40 minutes] Sue and Skip Casper, Dick McCaslin, SJ, Jimmy Pandle, Drs. Grogan.

Simply listen to Ralph Houlihan's homily without viewing the slides [18 minutes].

Or listen to the music, homily, at the Mass of the Resurrection. [1 hour, 23 minutes].

You can download these files and burn them to an Audio CD, listen to them at your leisure. It might be easier to pick them up from my server's weblog page.

You might want to revisit Don's online retreat, and the page Andy Alexander, SJ, created to honor Don.

Here's a PDF or print version of Fr. Houlihan's homily.

Don Doll, SJ
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