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Christ is Risen!
We at the Jesuit Retreat Center of Los Altos wish you a very blessed Easter season. We have lost a humble and prophetic servant in Pope...

Jesuit Retreat Center
Apr 251 min read
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El Retiro Relaunches Volunteer Program - Integrating Our Faith and Joyful Service
Things have rebounded and have started to flourish here at El Retiro- almost a full recovery from the disruption caused by the pandemic....

Jesuit Retreat Center
Apr 163 min read
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Centennial Spring is in the air
After a hundred years, The Jesuit Retreat Center of Los Altos is celebrating the first Mass, the first retreat and, for the first time, a...

Jesuit Retreat Center
Feb 142 min read
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Advance from the holidays with a retreat
The warmth and joy of the Christmas season continues throughout all of 2025 with a retreat. After taking down the Christmas tree and all...

Jesuit Retreat Center
Dec 314 min read
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Luke Retreat
“…so that you may realize the certainty of the teachings you have received.” (Lk 1.4) This verse from the opening paragraph of Luke’s...

Jesuit Retreat Center
Dec 11, 20241 min read
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With Grateful Hearts
Today is #GivingTuesday and no doubt your inbox is filled with requests from many nonprofit groups, all doing important work. You should...

Jesuit Retreat Center
Dec 3, 20241 min read
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Forgiving and the Kingdom of God
Forgiving can be hard. Our Christian faith tells us it is important to forgive. But when we have suffered harm, our feelings of anger and...

Jesuit Retreat Center
Nov 22, 20244 min read
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Take a free trip with The Jesuit Retreat Center
I love stories about time travel and reading all the scientific reasons why it can or cannot happen. Most physicists agree that time...

Jesuit Retreat Center
Aug 14, 20242 min read
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Retreat Center Reflection
I drive six miles south into Los Altos from Palo Alto, past the Shoup Park entrance to the Redwood Grove, seeking the landmark for my...

Jesuit Retreat Center
Jul 31, 20243 min read
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Community Day at the Jesuit Retreat Center
The rain on Saturday could not keep the visitors --- or the smiles--- away on Community Day. Guests from the San Francisco Bay came to...

Jesuit Retreat Center
Apr 17, 20242 min read
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Explore the Hidden Jewel of the Peninsula
In the early 1920s, the Jesuits of Northern California, with the enthusiastic support of San Francisco Archbishop Edward Hanna, sought to...

Jesuit Retreat Center
Jan 31, 20242 min read
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Be celebrated at the El Retiro Annual Mass and Champagne Brunch
For the second year, a group of very special friends will gather to celebrate and be celebrated. The El Retiro Society Annual Mass and...

Jesuit Retreat Center
Jan 17, 20242 min read
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Reflections on the Nativity Scene
Last weekend I attended the Christmas Oasis virtual retreat with Fr. Auther. At the retreat poems are presented to us and we spend some...
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Jan 3, 20241 min read
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Christmas is here, bringing good cheer
Guests carried lit candles into Rossi Chapel on December 6 as they prepared themselves for the voices and dancing of Lessons & Carols,...

Jesuit Retreat Center
Dec 14, 20231 min read
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Almost to the finish line
Thank you for getting us to our #GivingTuesday finish line. With your help we are almost at our $25,000 goal and gifts to support our...

Jesuit Retreat Center
Nov 30, 20231 min read
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Help someone on the way back
So, you’re on your way back from addiction. It doesn’t matter what kind: alcohol, drugs or even to another person. What you need in your...

Jesuit Retreat Center
Nov 17, 20231 min read
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Join us for Retreat Center Fall and Holiday Activities
The cool mornings and nights with warm days is a reminder that Autumn has arrived. There are many other reminders. Once of which is that...
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Oct 5, 20231 min read
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2021 Annual Report
As COVD vaccinations gave the promise of the return to normalcy in 2021, The Jesuit Retreat Center of Los Altos was still in lockdown but...
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Sep 27, 20231 min read
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A hundred years ago…. A hundred years to go
Our wonderful board member Jim Whitehead suggested “A hundred years ago… A hundred years to go” as the theme for the Centennial...
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Aug 18, 20232 min read
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An Astronomical Evening with Br. Guy is beginning to fill
A phone call this morning reminded me that we are less than a month away from our Astronomical Evening with Br. Guy Consolmagno S.J. on...
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Aug 10, 20233 min read
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