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WILLIAM WIZEMAN, S.J.
June 19, 1964-July 18, 2010
+ Requiescat in pace.
Parochial Vicar,
Corpus Christi Church,
2005-2010
Memorials and obituaries:
Corpus Christi Church bulletin
New York Province of the Society of Jesus
The New York Times, July 21, 2010
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and bibliography. of Fr. Wizeman. by Fr. Wizeman.
• Corpus Christi Church bulletin
:Father William Wizeman SJ, associate pastor of our parish, died Sunday, July 18. We thank God for his ministry among us as we ask God to embrace him with love and give him the peace that he always desired. We also ask God to console his family who have suffered many losses during this past year, and we ask God’s blessings upon ourselves. May our faith in the Resurrection of Jesus Christ guide each of us throughout our lives. May the soul of Fr. Wizeman and the souls of all the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen.
--Corpus Christi Church bulletin, July 25, 2010
So many people participated in the Rites of Christian Burial for Fr. Wizeman, S.J. Thank you to all who helped in preparations, who attended the wake and Mass of Christian Burial, and all who expressed condolences and prayers.
--Corpus Christi Church bulletin, August 1, 2010
Fr. Wizeman's sister Suzanne wrote, “Thank you all for the love and care you showed my brother Bill in these last years and months and weeks. And thank you for the wake and Mass. It was wonderful to meet so many people who'd been influenced and affected by Bill. Thank you for your kind words during the services, in honoring Bill and in your comfort of those left behind. The music was beautiful, the flower arrangement was lovely (the sunflowers and cattails took me back to the fields and pastures of our childhood). The food provided my family by the Hospitality Committee was delicious. Your generosity makes it a little easier to remember God's presence in our lives, even in these difficult times.”
--Corpus Christi Church bulletin, August 8, 2010
From the Pastor's Desk: Last weekend, I had a wedding in Williamstown, Mass. On my way back from the wedding, I visited Auriesville and the Shrine of the North American Martyrs. The Jesuit cemetery is there, and I visited Father William Wizeman's grave on the day of his first anniversary of death. I prayed for all our parishioners there.
--Corpus Christi Church bulletin, July 24, 2011
• New York Province of the Society of Jesus:
Father William L. Wizeman, S.J. died on Sunday, July 18, 2010 at Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY. Father Wizeman was born on June 19, 1964 in Newark, New York, and entered the Society of Jesus at St. Andrew Hall in Syracuse, New York, on August 22, 1987. Father Wizeman was Associate Pastor at Corpus Christi Church in Manhattan since 2005.
• The New York Times, July 21, 2010:
WIZEMAN--William L., S.J., on July 18, 2010. Jesuit writer and pastoral assistant to the community of Corpus Christi Church. Devoted son of Joseph and Nancy Wizeman (both deceased); loving brother of James (also deceased); survived by his sister Suzanne, by his brothers Matthew, Thomas, Timothy and Joseph, by their wives and families and by his Jesuit brothers in the Society of Jesus and many other friends. Reposing Corpus Christi Church Broadway and West 121st Street, New York City on Thursday, July 22, 2-5pm followed by Mass of Christian Burial at 7:15pm in the same church. Interment Our Lady of Martyrs Cemetery, Auriesville, NY.
• Catholic New York, August 26, 2010:
Jesuit Father Wizeman, Served at Corpus Christi
William L Wizeman, S.J., who served as parochial assistant at Corpus Christi parish in Manhattan and previously taught theology and history; died July 18 at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan. He was 46.
He had served at Corpus Christi since 2005. He taught theology at Fordham University, 2002-2004, and theology and history at Loyola School in Manhattan, 1993-1994, where he also directed the service program.
He also taught in Buffalo and served in parishes in England and Nigeria. He was a hospital chaplain and worked with the homeless and mentally disabled.
Born in Newark, N.J. [actually Newark, N.Y.], he entered the Jesuits in Syracuse in 1987 and professed vows in 1989. He studied at Loyola University in Chicago and Weston Jesuit School of Theology in Cambridge, Mass., and was ordained in 1998 at St. Ignatius Loyola Church in Mannhattan. He held a bachelor’s degree from Fordham and a doctorate from Oxford University, both in theology.
He is survived by a sister, Suzanne Schwalb, and four brothers, Matthew, Thomas, Timothy and Joseph.
A Funeral Mass was offered July 22 at Corpus Christi Church. Burial was at the Jesuit Cemetery in Auriesvllle.