Non-silent Retreat on the Arts for Men & Women
We will walk the pilgrimage of Creation, considering the
relationship between order and chaos, the manifestation
of the sacred in the ordinary, and the unfolding presence
of God in moments of Beauty and Truth.
Fr. Thomas Lucas S.J., is professor of art and architecture at the University of San Francisco, and an internationally recognized liturgical artist and designer. His works include the restoration of the rooms of St. Ignatius in Rome, the Chapel at the Jesuit School of Theology, Berkeley, and the Guadalupe and St. Ignatius Chapels at St. Ignatius Church, San Francisco. He is presently serving as design consultant and coordinator for the renovation of St. Ignatius Cathedral, Shanghai. Fr. Lucas holds a Ph.D. in Theology and the Arts from G.T.U. in Berkeley, and has written and lectured widely on the interface between faith and art.
Ms. Christine Rodgers, Christine Rodgers is an actor and poet living in San Francisco. Her poetry has appeared in the National Catholic Reporter, Radical Grace, and America Magazine and on a variety of websites including The Witness, Poets Against the War and Grace Cathedral. In 2000 she appeared as a panelist in The Forum at Grace Cathedral entitled The Creative Spirit in Poetry — with Francisco X. Alarcon, Judy Grahn and Dean Alan Jones. Her poems have also been used in a number of retreat centers, and some are still floating around Africa. She published her first collection of poems, Into the Great Green Heart of God in 2005.
Assisting
Fr. Joseph Fice, S.J., spent 25 years as a religious educator in Jesuit high schools in California and Arizona. He taught at Jesuit High School in Sacramento, Loyola High School in Los Angeles, and Brophy Preparatory School in Phoenix. His academic interests evolved from mathematics to a deep interest in scripture and ethics. After earning a B.S. in Mathematics from Loyola University of Los Angeles, he received an M.A. in Philosophy from Gonzaga University and an S.T.M. in Theology from the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley. A lecturer in Philosophy at Loyola University of Los Angeles from 1967 to 1969, his subsequent high school teaching focused on Scripture and Catholic Christianity.
Fr. Gerald F. Hudson, S.J. was, for many years, a mathematics teacher (at
Loyola High School, Loyola Marymount University, and St. Ignatius College
Preparatory). He has served several times as a director in the JRC 36-day
program. He joined the staff of the JRC in August of 2006 and has been
involved in retreats and spiritual direction.
Fr. Peter Togni, S.J., born in King City, CA, and raised on a dairy farm in Greenfield, graduated from Yale before entering the California Province of the Jesuits in 1975. He has taught in the theology department at USF and served there as an Associate Dean for students' issues. A volunteer at San Quentin for six years, Fr. Peter helped to set up and coordinate for the prisoners the offerings of the School of Pastoral Leadership for the Archdiocese of San Francisco, also teaching in that program.
Fr. Peter has a deep devotion to the working of the Holy Spirit and wrote his dissertation on a novitiate in the early Society of Jesus.
