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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...

Our wonderful board member Jim Whitehead suggested “A hundred years ago… A hundred years to go” as the theme for the Centennial...

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...

A few good volunteers. Well, probably more than a few. Although we are in the throes of summer, planning is underway for the Centennial...

Try using these words in a sentence: Astronomy, Vatican, Techies. The answer is - we are kicking off the retreat season at the Jesuit...

More than contributors, the gathering of over 90 supporters for the May 24th Donor Appreciation Mass and Barbeque, was a community who...

Have you ever prayed to Jesus for something for so long, so fervently, so repeatedly that you wonder if this effort is falling on deaf...

I think I began attending the lawyers silent retreats when I was 28 years old (a few years before I became an attorney). I have had many...

Br. Guy J. Consolmagno, S.J. will be speaking on September 6, 2023, as part of the Annual Jesuit Retreat Center Speaker Series. Br. Guy...

I can remember this event like it was yesterday. Forty years ago, when I was about 26, I was frustrated with sin in my life. So, I...

As we began Holy Week and prepare to witness once again the three days that are the foundation of our faith, I think about one particular...

Volunteers are needed to help accomplish the Jesuit Retreat Center mission. The mission states that “The Jesuit Retreat Center of Los...

Spending Palm Sunday weekend in silence is a wonderful way to begin Holy Week, the last seven days of Lent. The Palm Sunday Retreat is a...

Recently I was talking with some friends in a spirituality group and we started discussing what grace is. I define it as a gift freely...

Dear God, Upon awakening your beauty cross my eyes I imagine you as very wise I am no longer a child My vision of you was kind of wild,...

Ignatius Loyola reluctantly dictated his spiritual Autobiography during the last couple years of his life. His intention was not to leave...

In 2015, Pope Francis pleaded with the world to listen to the earth crying out " because of the harm we have inflicted on her by our...

I find myself back here at El Retiro, my own personal happiest place on earth, lucky enough to be on a retreat sponsored by my employer....

Poetry, like music to my ears. Metaphor and simile galore. Faith explained in a layman’s terms, words rhyming with the right timing. Like...