Love Letter to My Deceased Parents
Dear Mom and Dad, Hi! Oh my gosh…I am so glad to be writing to you! I miss you! Gosh, how I miss you - each and every day. Just today,...
BLOGS
Dyane Hendricks
- Sep 7
- 2 min
Things are heating up for volunteers
As all of California endures a heat warning this week and waits for the thermometer to produce a reasonable reading, keep in mind summer...
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Fr. John Auther, SJ
- Aug 31
- 1 min
Go Virtual!
I had retreatants on the same retreat in Peru, Ecuador and the Philippines. One 19th Annotation retreatant is a missionary in Honduras. ...
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JRC Retreatant
- Aug 24
- 4 min
Why Silence?
I am actually writing this piece from El Retiro, where I am here on what has come to be my annual 8 day Silent Retreat. Many of you...
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JRC Retreatant
- Aug 17
- 4 min
Seeking to be Alone to Find God in All Things + Scarce Silence in The City
Alone is necessary and good, difficult to come by and easy to forget the need for. I have come to appreciate the need for being alone,...
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Mary McCarty
- Aug 10
- 2 min
Finding God in Ordinary Time, Daily Meditations by Christine Marie Eberle
After the great feasts following Lent—Easter, Ascension, Pentecost, Corpus Christi, ,-- and before the anticipation of Advent, we find...
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JRC Retreatant
- Aug 3
- 2 min
Top Ten Reasons to Go to The Jesuit Retreat Center of Los Altos
Some of the top talk show hosts use their late-night programs as a medium to give their opinions about a topic. Now it is my turn. I...
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Mary McCarty
- Jul 27
- 2 min
A Medal for the Nun on the Bus
Simone Campbell, S.S.S., was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom this month, so I thought it was appropriate to feature her and her...
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Fr. John Auther, SJ
- Jul 20
- 1 min
Conversion Requires Cooperation
Devastating realities force changes. But for changes to become conversions, we have to listen to God. A shattered life is just a...
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Jesuit Retreat Center
- Jul 13
- 3 min
Ramblings of a former Pollyanna
Before we lost our Kai in December of 2010, I was truly a Pollyanna thinker. I believed all of the cliches about "whatever happens,...
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JRC Retreatant
- Jul 6
- 3 min
Freedom
We just finished celebrating July 4th, the day in the U.S. when we observe our independence from then King George and Great Britain...
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Fr. Kevin Leidich, SJ
- Jun 29
- 3 min
Consolation and Devotion
St. Ignatius Loyola’s use of the terms “consolation” and devotion” in describing our spiritual experience The term ‘consolation’...
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Mary McCarty
- Jun 22
- 2 min
Prayer for Oceans
And God said, “Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the vault of the sky.” So God created...
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Dyane Hendricks
- Jun 15
- 1 min
Remarkable People
Everyone involved with the Jesuit Retreat Center of Los Altos believes that retreats change lives is what happens here. There are many...
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JRC Retreatant
- Jun 8
- 2 min
Strength
I recently was having a spiritual focused conversation with someone who asked me where I got my strength from? I had been reflecting to...
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Jesuit Retreat Center
- Jun 2
- 1 min
Born Sleeping on May 14
The doctors scratched their heads. This was improbable. Week after week the lovely young woman and her devoted husband arrived at the...
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Fr. John Auther, SJ
- May 25
- 2 min
The Pandemic Opened New Possibilities
As with many organizations, the pandemic forced the Jesuit Retreat Center of Los Altos to change how we served God. I would like to...
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Jesuit Retreat Center
- May 18
- 2 min
A shoe, a cat and opportunities galore
Angela Zavala, our top flight Retreat Manager, came into my office the other day and asked if I was aware that I was missing a shoe. I...
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JRC Retreatant
- May 11
- 3 min
Oceans run deep in the Los Altos Mountains.
I arrived at the retreat full of anxiety. Not knowing what to expect from this Sacred Sorrows Retreat. I had not heard of, nor attended a...
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JRC Retreatant
- May 4
- 3 min
Ask and You Shall Receive
I wanted to write today about one of the simple yet powerful lessons that Jesus taught us. In the Gospel of Matthew (Chapter 7:7 - 8), in...
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