Virtual--WORKSHOP: Introduction to Ignatian Spirituality
Virtual Non-Silent Workshop for Women and Men

Fr. Kevin Leidich, S.J. and Fr. Chi Ngo, S.J.
Based upon the religious experience of St. Ignatius Loyola, the spiritual heritage of St. Ignatius fosters an immediate sensitivity to the individual encounters of God’s care and communication in one’s life. Consequently, this sensitivity affects one’s prayer, decision-making, self-knowledge, and worldview. This workshop will explore some key characteristics of Ignatian spirituality and the foundational worldview of Ignatius to one’s daily life. Topics include Ignatian prayer, the Examen, and “Ignatian indifference.”

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Fr. Kevin Leidich, S.J.
A native of San Francisco, Kevin was ordained in 1982, after earning an MDiv at Weston Jesuit School of Theology and an MRE at Catholic University. An experienced director of eight-day retreats, he also participated on the direction team of five 36-day retreat programs at Los Altos during the 1990’s. While teaching high school theology has been his principal ministry over the past years in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Sacramento, he has also regularly conducted programs for adults on The Spiritual Exercises at both Loyola High in Los Angeles and Jesuit High in Sacramento. Kevin also worked for ten years as co-director of the California Province two-summer tertianship program for Jesuit priests and brothers who are preparing to pronounce final vows.


Fr. Chi Ngo, S.J.
Fr. Chi Ngo SJ is an experienced spiritual director in the Spiritual Exercises. After completing his studies at the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley, he went on for further training at The Guelph Centre of Spirituality in Ontario, Canada. After his ordination in 2000, he was missioned to the Loyola Institute of Spirituality in Orange CA, where he engaged in various spiritual ministries and founded a thriving 3-year Ignatian spiritual formation program, training others in the Spiritual Exercises. He has given numerous retreats and Ignatian spirituality workshops, and has trained others in spiritual direction over the past 15 years, with a specialty in Ignatian discernment. He recently served as the Formation Director for the California Province during the past six years before coming to the Jesuit Retreat Center of Los Altos.