Congratulations to newly baptized David Zellweger! Fr John was grateful to celebrate the baptism for Eric and Kelly.
The Confirmation students at St Anthony of Padua in the Woodlands, TX encountered the Lord in profound ways this weekend. Fr Paul and Br Thomas were grateful to return to their home parish where they each experienced conversions on their own confirmation retreat years ago.
Photos by Eric Dao
Yesterday at Mullen High School, Br Nathanael led music for the all school Mass for the first time. Bishop Rodriguez celebrated a Mass for Human Dignity before the anniversary of Roe vs Wade and three of the students received the Rite of Anointing as part of their initiation journey into the Catholic Church.
Photos courtesy of Mullen.
Br. Levi Mary and Br. Simon led a 3 day Ignatian silent retreat for St. John Paul the Great high school students over the three day weekend. The students saw and heard Jesus in their meditations and experienced God’s love in profound ways.
Fr. John and Br. Nathanael led a retreat on the Holy Spirit for San Diego State University for their college leaders. God moved powerfully in signs and wonders!
We spent 108 hours giving spiritual direction during the SEEK Conferences this year! Here's a photo by FOCUS capturing Fr. Paul praying with a college student in Denver.
This week Br Thomas has been directing the Spiritual Exercises for LifeTeen Missionaries along with Amy, Eric, Sr Eliana, and Sr June Benedicta. Please pray for all the missionaries and directors as they conclude their retreat on Saturday.

Fr. John Ignatius teaches that despite various creation myths the God who has revealed himself in Scripture is a Who and not simply a “what”. God’s first action toward us as living beings is to bless us.
On one of the last days of our Christmas Octave days together, we had a lot of fun shooting shotguns at clays with our Bennett neighbors, the Cichos family. Thank you Cichos'!
Thank you, Fr Stash, for past spiritual direction and recent parish accommodations during SEEK Columbus for all three of our Ohio State Servants of Christ Jesus.
We are excited to be at all 3 SEEKs this year! We invite any men at SEEK who would like spiritual direction to sign up on our website.
Here are some highlights from the first half of our Christmas octave: gifts together, game nights, and afternoon walks in Bennett.
We are grateful to have celebrated Christmas Eve Mass at St John Vianney Seminary this year. May God continue to bless your Octave of Christmas.

Today Br Peter introduces our new video and podcast series on the Bible, “Verbum Dei.” Each week we will release a new episode teaching the truths revealed in God’s word beginning with Genesis 1.
The link to the full video is in our bio.
You can also find the podcast version on our website and Spotify now (Apple Podcasts coming soon).