Silent Retreat for Men, including Knights of Columbus
As winter draws to a close, we prepare our hearts for
Easter. We will enter prayerfully into the gospels and will
share in the Sacraments of the Eucharist and Reconciliation,
keeping in mind all who need healing.
Fr. Thomas C. Weston, S.J., has been involved in 12-Step Programs since 1976. A former Director of the Jesuit Volunteers Corps and a teacher at Loyola High School in Los Angeles, he has degrees and experience in counseling, education and theology. He counsels, conducts workshops and seminars, and preaches retreats internationally and often. He lives and gardens in Oakland, California.
Assisting
Fr. Emmanuel Foro, S.J., is a priest from the West Africa Province of the Jesuits. Emmanuel Foro is studying for a doctorate at the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley. He has interest in human growth in the God-give freedom to love and to serve with delight. St. Ignatius Loyola and Fr. Bernard Lonergan,
S.J., have made a significant mark on Fr. Foro’s biblical culture
and his approach to Church tradition. He has an experience of campus
ministry in Yaoundé/Cameroon and Parish ministry.
Sr. Patricia Galli, R.S.M., has Masters degrees in Counseling and Organizational
Development and in Theological Studies. She has been a spiritual director
for 20 years and a supervisor of spiritual directors. As her parish's
Director of Faith Formation she directs a 30-week program of the Spiritual
Exercises at Most Holy Trinity Parish in East San José. For the past
13 years she has been a retreat director of JRC's 36-Day program.
Fr. Ken Hezel, S.J. was born in Buffalo, NY, in the mid 1930’s and graduated from Canisius High School. He has been a Jesuit since 1953.
He studied at Fordham University, New York; Loyola University, Chicago; Woodstock School of Theology in Maryland; and Catholic University, where he was involved in marriage tribunal work. Fr. Ken has earned the following degrees: STL; Masters in Religious Education; Masters in Teaching.
His ministry from 1960 to the present has been as a missionary in the region of Micronesia, Western Pacific. Fr. Ken has served as Trainer of Lay Ministers, as Hospital Chaplain and as a Campus Minister.
Fr. Ken worked in administration as Jesuit Regional Superior and as President/Principal of Xavier High School, Chuuk. He has served as an Archdiocesan Consultor and as a member of the presbyteral council in Agana, Guam.
Fr. Ken's experience has focused on Diocesan clergy, religious sisters, and men and women lay leaders in Guam/Micronesia. He has occasionally directed retreats for Religious Sisters.
Fr. Ken has wide experience of the Asia/Pacific area and has enjoyed travel for meetings to most countries of East Asia and Pacific. He is interested in the relationship between science/evolution and faith, and he enjoys golf. During the Fall, Fr. Ken was on sabbatical at Boston College.
Bro. Thomas Koller, S.J. first came to The Jesuit Retreat Center over
40 years ago while discerning his own vocation to religious
life; so he comes full circle with this present asignment.
Most recently Brother was stationed for 12 years at St. Ignatius
College Prep in San Francisco, working in school administration,
and moderating some student activities. Earlier he was assigned
as part of the staff of Father General in Rome, where he assisted
Father General at the American Assistancy desk. He also spent
many years as manager at the now closed Novitiate Winery in
Los Gatos where, for almost a century, the California Jesuits
produced sacramental and commercial wines as a means of support
for the young Jesuits in formation for California Province.
Mr. Edwin Waite, in 2006, engaged in the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius in preparation for his retirement after 25 years in labor relations and human resource management at San Francisco State University. Edwin holds a BS in Business Administration/Human Resource Management and a certificate in Spiritual Direction, Mercy Center; studied at the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley; and is currently training in the Pierre Favre Program at JRC, Los Altos.
A life-long Episcopalian, Edwin finds a strong bond with Ignatian spirituality in that, through prayer and out of gratitude for the love we experience in our relationship with Jesus, we are drawn to a life of service and become a people of hope.
