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THE
PEOPLE OF MANRESA
Associates,
Support Staff, Board
Jesuit
Community
 Fr.
Walt Farrell, SJ, is a
native of Cleveland, who entered the Jesuits
in 1934. He did his graduate studies in psychology and philosophy
at Loyola, Chicago and the Gregorian University in Rome. He
has taught philosophy and theology at University of Detroit
Mercy and the Chicago Province Major Seminary, was Provincial
Superior of the Detroit Province, National Assistant for Jesuit
Formation, a Founder of the Romero Center for Spirituality
and Justice, and Consultant to the Detroit Provincial in the
areas of Ignatian Values in Ministry. Walt joined our staff
after completing his service as Treasurer of the Detroit Province.
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 Fr.
Leo Cachat, SJ, was assigned to the Jesuit Province
of Patna, India and began teaching in Nepal in 1961. He was
ordained in 1966 and became principal of a K-12 school in
Katmandu. He later studied with Fr. Anthony de Mello, SJ,
and Bede Griffiths, OSB. In 1978 he founded Godavari Ashram
(Center for Spiritual Development), and directed retreats
there and elsewhere in Southeast Asia. In 1985 he set up a
Jesuit formation house in Nepal and later became the regional
superior. After several years in Myanmar, he returned to the
USA and established the office of chaplain to the faculty
and staff at University of Detroit High School. He has been
at Manresa since 2007. E-mail |
 Fr.
Henry Chamberlain, SJ, comes to us from years of
spiritual direction at the Jesuit Spiritual Center at Milford.
He has a double assignment: to work with us on our normal
spiritual and retreat work, and also, using Manresa as a
base, to act an an internal reviewer of the finances in
all the houses of the Chicago-Detroit Province. He is especially
qualified for the later since for many years he reviewed
the finances for the entire Society of Jesus, at least the
books that were kept in English or French, a task that kept
him traveling around the world. E-mail |
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 Fr.
Peter Fennessy, SJ, comes from Boston, and is now
a member of the Chicago-Detroit Jesuit Province. After missionary
work in Jamaica, theological studies at Oxford University,
and 26 years at John Carroll University in Cleveland as
campus minister, vice president, and rector of the Jesuit
community, he served for six years as superior of the Jesuits
here at Manresa. He gives individually directed and preached
retreats at Manresa and elsewhere, is Coordinator of Individually
Directed Retreats, and among other duties manages our website
and our book store. Since studying Theology and Art
and Buddhist Aesthetics during a 2000-2001 sabbatical
at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California,
he has used the fine arts to illustrate his preached retreats.
In coordination with the Detroit Institute of Art's upcoming
exhibition, Rembrandt
and the Face of Jesus, Fr. Fennessy
will offer illustrated retreats on the same theme. E-mail
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 Fr.
Rey Garcia, SJ, originally from the Philippines, a
one-time member of the New Orleans Jesuit Province, and a
world traveler, joins the Manresa staff from the northern
climes of Mackinaw Island. Fr. Rey is here after many years
as a pastor of the island's parish and gladly lends a hand
when he can in the weekend retreats. Be sure to give Fr. Rey
a hearty welcome when you see him. E-mail |
 Fr.
Gregory Hyde, SJ, Director
of Manresa Jesuit Retreat House, a
native of Detroit, entered the Society of Jesus in 1990.
He has degrees in German, Communications and Theology from
Wayne State, Indiana University Bloomington, Michigan State
Lansing, and Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley, California.
Between 1975 and 1994 he taught extensively in Taiwan, Beijing,
Malaysia and Nepal. He had been doing Retreat and Pastoral
Ministry in Detroit from 2003 and worked with us at Manresa
from the summer of 2004 to the beginning of 2005. Since
then he has worked at our retreat house in Hong Kong. After
finishing a three year commitment there, he became available
to be elected by our Board in June 2008 as Director of Manresa
Jesuit Retreat House. E-mail |
Br. Michael O'Grady, SJ, The vision
of former Fr. General Pedro Arrupe, SJ, and the words of the
32nd General Congregation caught the attention of Br. Michael
O'Grady, SJ and attracted him to the Jesuit Volunteer Corps
as a 31-year-old, after years of work as a businessman. He
spent a year working as a community organizer in Des Moines,
IA, and in that time decided to enter the Jesuits in 1995.
After theology studies in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Mike was
minister of the Jesuit community in Cincinnati, and ran a
community outreach program at St. Xavier there, was assistant
director of Saints Peter and Paul warming center in Detroit,
and now helps out on retreats at Manresa. Mike is an expert
landscape and gardener as well and puts in many hours beautifying
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 Fr.
Bernard Owens, SJ, was ordained in 1972, earned his
doctorate in Christian Spirituality at the Graduate Theological
Union in Berkeley, CA in 1983, taught at the University
of Detroit Mercy from 1981 to 1994. Coming to Manresa in
1994, he has been Director of the two-year Internship
in Ignatian Spirituality, has led an annual seminar
in Christian Spiritual Classics, and guided retreatants
through the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola. E-mail
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