Retreat Director
Ms. Nancy McGaraghan
"Today’s busy lifestyles pull us in many directions. There is little time to reflect on who we are, what really matters and on the purpose of our lives. A retreat is a time to step out of our daily routines. It is a time to listen with our hearts. Through prayer and reflection we experience God’s gentleness at the center of who we are and find that our lives are transformed when they flow from this."
Ms. Nancy McGaraghan,
Retreat Director
Nancy McGaraghan began her professional life with a career in public accounting. Years later, she returned to school to earn a Master's Degree from the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley. She has taught Spirituality, often through dream work and the Enneagram, at a residential recovery program for women. She has planned and directed retreats in her parish and with outside groups. She is currently working in hospital ministry. Nancy is a Lector and Eucharistic Minister at St. Thomas Aquinas Parish in Palo Alto. She first came to the Jesuit Retreat Center to continue her study of Ignatian spirituality in the Pierre Favre Program and was fortunate to take a year out from that program to make her own retreat at the Center, the 19th Annotation of the Ignatian Exercises. Nancy is married and derives her greatest pleasure from her husband and family of four grown sons and their spouses and six grandchildren.
Retreat Ms. McGaraghan will be assisting with this season:
