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THE
PEOPLE OF MANRESA
Associates,
Support Staff, Board
Jesuit
Staff
 Fr.
Walt Farrell, SJ, Director of Manresa
Jesuit Retreat House, is a Cleveland native, 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. E-mail |
 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 (Burma), he returned to the USA and
establish the office of chaplain to the faculty and staff
at University of Detroit High School. E-mail |
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 Fr.
Peter Fennessy, SJ, comes from Boston, but is now
a member of the Jesuits' Detroit 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 is now superior of the Jesuits here at Manresa.
Among other responsibilities he is Coordinator of Directed
Retreats. E-mail
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 Fr.
Gregory Hyde, SJ, 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 has become available and was elected by our Board in
June 2008 as Director of Manresa Jesuit Retreat House. E-mail |
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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 Co-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 Loyola. E-mail
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