Non-silent Retreat for Young Adults
Mrs. Nancy McGaraghan and Fr. Tom Carroll, S.J., join a
team of young adults to accompany you in conversation,
reflection and prayer. We will look to the Gospel's invitation
to sane, healthy, and holy living in challenging times.
Fr. Tom Carroll, S.J., a San Francisco native, has served as Executive Director of El Retiro San Iņigo, the Jesuit Retreat Center of Los Altos, since 2005. Long on the faculty of Loyola High School of Los Angeles, where he developed a vital choral music tradition, Fr. Tom also ministered for five years as Director of the Jesuit Urban Center and Church of the Immaculate Conception in Boston. Fr. Tom enjoys playing the organ, especially for singing congregations.
Mrs. 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.
Assisting
Mr. Mike Karns
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.
