The Jesuit Retreat Center of Los Altos

Jesuit Retreat Center Advisory Board

In November 2008, a new Jesuit Retreat Center Advisory Board had its initial meeting. The eighteen members, women and men rooted in the Ignatian spiritual tradition and in the life of the Retreat Center, bring to the service of the JRC wide professional experience. The Board will assist Fr. Tom Carroll with the development of the Retreat Center and its ministry.

The Advisory Board resumes an early Retreat Center tradition. The founding of El Retiro in 1925 was inspired by the Laymen’s Retreat League then active in the Bay Area. Having the League’s encouragement and support, the Jesuits made their commitment to the ministry of the Spiritual Exercises here. The League Board played an integral role in the Retreat Center through the first decades of its history.

Over recent decades, the retreat and training offerings of the JRC have become more varied and our constituency more diverse. Given the new opportunities at this point, Fr. Carroll and Fr. John McGarry, S.J., Provincial, want to engage again the collaboration of an Advisory Board. The wisdom of our friends on the Board will expand our vision and creativity as we plan toward the future of the JRC.

We are grateful to these women and men of the Retreat Center family for their generous willingness to serve on the Advisory Board.

Current Advisory Board Members