Gerard w hughes sj biography

"We cannot know God in himself. We can only come to know him through our human experience, through creation, through other people."

One evening, when he was about two-and-a-half years of age, and one of his elder sisters had said his night prayers with him and left him to go to sleep, Rev'd Gerry Hughes, SJ remembers sitting up in his bed thinking, and then saying out loud and deliberately, the simple word "God".

He wanted to see what would happen; and he was disappointed when apparently nothing did. But it didn’t stop him from continuing to think and try things out, as he went on seeking how to make contact with his God. In fact, this early instance of exploring one’s experience in order to get a response from God in it became typical of Rev'd Gerard W Hughes, SJ throughout his life, as a schoolteacher at Stonyhurst, a university chaplain at Glasgow, a Jesuit tertian director and giver of directed retreats at St Beuno's, a widely sough