Joan M. McCarthy, CSJ, Co-Director

Joan M. McCarthy, CSJ has been ministering in spirituality programs since 1973. The current Program Director at St. Joseph Retreat Center, Sister Joan was one of the first directors at the Retreat Center when the Sisters of St. Joseph of Boston opened it to the public in 1974. In the intervening years, Sister Joan ministered full-time at Gonzaga Retreat House in East Gloucester for approximately seven years; at an ecumenical, residential treatment center in Canada for two years; on the Congregation Formation Team for four years; and in Congregational Leadership for six years. Over the years Sister Joan has led hundreds of four-day to 30-day retreats at numerous retreat centers in the United States and in Wales, Ireland, England, and Canada. During the past five years Sister Joan has co-directed an eight-month weekly Spiritual Direction Internship Program, and a two-year monthly multi-cultural training program in New York. Sister Joan has Masters degrees in Biology and Pastoral Counseling, as well as certificates from full-time programs at the Institute of Religious Formation, St. Louis, Missouri, and the Center for Religious Development, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Eileen A. Moran, Co-Director

Eileen A. Moran, Co-Director Eileen Moran received her Master of Arts degree in Pastoral Ministry with a concentration in Spirituality from Boston College in 2006. Shortly thereafter, she accepted the part-time position of Retreat Coordinator at St. Joseph Retreat Center, adding it to another part-time ministry as Spiritual Care Coordinator with Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program. It is a gift to have the opportunity now to serve full-time as Co-Director of the Retreat Center. An even greater gift is the presence in her life of her children, Michael and Katie Fortunato. Having facilitated retreat experiences in parishes, at Eastern Point Retreat House in Gloucester, MA and with the Chicago-based Ignatian Spirituality Project, Eileen is passionate about providing time and space for the spirituality of the feminine, the marginalized, mothering, fabric arts, meditation and healing touch to be shared.

Sister Joan Duffy,CSJ, Assistant Program Coordinator

After completing a twelve year term as a member of the leadership team of the Sisters of St. Joseph, Sister Joan Duffy, CSJ has been involved in a variety of Retreat Programs over the last two years. Sister Joan is an experienced group facilitator and consultant focusing on discernment of heart as a way of being attentive to God's presence in our life as each
day unfolds.

As a facilitator of mornings and evenings of prayers, offered at the Retreat Center as well as the Motherhouse of the Sisters of St. Joseph, Sister Joan companions others as they search for a contemplative way of living deepening their relationship with a loving Creator.

This year, Sister Joan completed a Spiritual Direction Internship Program and will continue to companion others through the ministry of spiritual direction and as a facilitator of Directed and Guided Retreats.

Jean Martin, Secretary

We also welcome and rely on the assistance of experienced adjunct retreat directors.

Michele Audet, LICSW

Michele Audet, LICSW is a social worker and life coach. She has over 20 years of experience working with adults in various health care settings. She has helped many people through life crises and with balancing work/family life and examining options to create a healthy and meaningful future. Michele is a graduate of Boston University School of Social Work. She is a SoulCollage® Facilitator, trained by Seena Frost, author and creator of the SoulCollage® transformative process. She has integrated her studies and interests in holistic health and spirituality into her professional work. Michele has a passion for travel and culture, and practices Qigong and yoga.

Nan Bouché

Nan Bouché is a wife and mother of four young adult children. She holds a Master's degree in Theology with a concentration in Pastoral Care and Counseling from Boston College. As a certified chaplain with the National Association of Catholic Chaplains, Nan has many years of experience in ministry both in parish and hospital settings. Nan is a trained spiritual director who currently freelances in the area of spiritual direction as well as in funeral and bereavement ministry.

Patricia Boyle

Patricia Boyle, CSJ currently serves as Pastoral Associate at St. Ann Parish in Quincy, MA. She is involved in the spiritual formation of liturgical ministers, programs for elderly outreach and adult faith formation. Sister Pat has previously worked in education, vocation ministry and retreat and renewal work in the Archdiocese of Boston.

Rosemary Brennan, CSJ

Rosemary Brennan, CSJ, a Sister of St. Joseph of Boston is a seasoned spiritual director and retreat presenter. She was part-time faculty at Boston College's Institute of Religious Education and Pastoral Ministry and continues to teach in their Post Masters Certificate in Spirituality. Presently she is a member of the Leadership Team for her Community.

Brendan Buckley, OFM Cap

Brendan has been a member of the Capuchin Franciscans since 1971. He is a graduate of St. Anselm College in Manchester, NH and completed his studies for priesthood at Maryknoll School of Theology in Osning, NY. During theology studies he journeyed to Central America where he learned Spanish. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1981. His ministry has been mostly w/ Puerto Rican and Dominican people in New York City. He also worked as a campus minister and was director of the Spanish Catholic Center in Washington, DC, a multi-service center run by the Archdiocese of Washington. Currently he is a parochial vicar at St. Mary of the Annunciation Parish in Cambridge, MA and guardian of St. Benedict the Moor Friary in Roxbury, a house of studies for friars completing their degree programs for priesthood and other ministries. In May of 2006 he received a certificate in Spiritual Direction from the Spiritual Direction Internship Program.

Maureen Casey, SND

Maureen Casey, SND has been involved in spiritual direction and retreat ministry for over 25 years. She was a member of the retreat team at St. Stephen priory for 17 years. She is currently an associate staff member of Miramar Retreat Center in Duxbury MA. and is co-directing an eight month weekly Spiritual Direction Internship Program in Brighton, MA.

Judy Chaloux

Judith currently works for hospice in the Metrowest area in the role of bereavement field coordinator facilitating support groups, as well as providing Services of Remembrance in many area nursing home facilitilies and community educational presentations on grief, loss, and compassion fatigue for caregivers. She has worked as Director of Religious Education in churches in Wayland and Dorchester. Judith is a graduate of the Spiritual Direction internship program andhas provided At-Home Retreats in parishes, as well as providing one on one and groupspiritual direction. She is a wife and the mother of two young adults.

Betsy Conway, CSJ

Betsy Conway, CSJ, MSW - In her work with the formerly homeless who are living with HIV/AIDS, addiction, and/or mental illness, Betsy has seen the healing power of love and community and believes we are called to give and receive it. Trained in social work and immersed in the spirituality of the Sisters of St. Joseph, Betsy likes to explore with others the dance of mystery and grace in our relationship with God.

Patricia Cushing, CSJ

Patricia Cushing, CSJ has over 35 years of experience in the fields of Liturgy, Prayer and Spirituality. She has worked on the diocesan, parish and ecumenical levels. She has ministered in Kansas, Missouri, Connecticut, and Massachusetts. She has given workshops, days of prayer and led retreats on Liturgical Spirituality and Prayer in other parts of the US and in Europe. Most recently she is involved in Spirituality and Healing as a massage therapist and Reiki Master and as a Spiritual Director. She also presents courses in "Spirituality in the Marketplace" to businesses in the greater Kansas City area and works with the dying at the Kansas City Hospice House.

Patricia holds Advanced degrees in Music, from Boston University, Systematic Theology/Liturgy from the Weston Jesuit school of Theology, Boston University and St. Paul School of Theology in Kansas City, Missouri. She also is a Certified Spiritual Director, a nationally certified licensed Massage Therapist, Reiki Master Teacher and Reconnection Practitioner.

Anne D'Arcy, CSJ.

Anne D'Arcy is a Sister of St. Joseph and a native of Brighton, Massachusetts. She is Associate Director of the Office of Worship and Spiritual Life (formerly the Office of Spiritual Development) for the Archdiocese of Boston. For many years she has visited parishes throughout the Archdiocese leading programs of spiritual renewal. She has preached at retreats and Days of Prayer for various groups, and has served as Spiritual Director as well as leading people in sharing faith and prayer. Sister Anne has a Masters degree in Christian Spirituality from Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska.

Maria DiChiappari

Maria DiChiappari is the Director of the Boston College Neighborhood Center in Brighton, Massachusetts. She holds two Master's degrees, in higher education and pastoral ministry. She is passionate about accompanying women on their spiritual journeys, and about social justice and fair trade. She also enjoys travel, and has had the privilege of traveling to developing nations such as Belize and Nicaragua. Maria has completed the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius and has spoken at several retreats on a living spirituality in a busy world. Maria is co-creator with Eileen Fortunato of Sophia's Circle, a women's spirituality group which meets monthly at St. Joseph Retreat Center.

Joanne Driscoll, CSJA 

Joanne received her Masters in Pastoral Ministry with a concentration in spirituality from Boston College in 1993.  She has been an associate of the Sisters of St. Joseph for over 20 years. Joanne is schooled in the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius with particular interest in the movements of grace as we come to understand our stories through easter eyes.  Joanne works full-time building the matrix of treatment for people suffering from addiction.  Joanne is the mother of 4 adult children who are the delight of her life."

George L. Drury, SJ

After graduating from Boston College High School in 1939, George L. Drury entered the Society of Jesus and was ordained in 1952. For ten years he taught biology at Boston College before being appointed Vice-President for Student Affairs in 1964. From 1969 to 1973 he studied for his STD degree at St. Paul's University in Ottawa, Canada, and upon receiving his degree accepted a teaching position at Pope John XXIII Seminary. In 1975 he was appointed Superior at Campion Residence and Renewal Center in Weston, Massachusetts, and became a licensed nursing home administrator. For 14 years he has been actively involved in spiritual direction at Jesuit retreat houses in Gloucester, Massachusetts, and Weston, Massachusetts, and in Nairobi, Kenya. Since 1994 he has taught Ignatian Spirituality at Weston Jesuit School of Theology in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Nancy Fitzpatrick-Gallagher, MA

Nancy is a Grief and Loss Counselor and Spiritual Companion with a Masters in Pastoral Ministry from Boston College. She spent many years working as a guidance counselor at the elementary school level. More recently her areas of focus have been on Hospice Chaplaincy, Counseling, and Spiritual Companioning. Nancy believes that a holistic approach, including an awareness of the language of the body, helps to facilitate healing after loss.

Carol Fitzsimmons, CSJ

Carol Fitzsimmons, CSJ has 30 years of experience as a Spiritual Director and Retreat Director. She has a Masters degree in Counseling, a Certificate of Study from the Jesuit School of Theology, Berkeley, California, and a Certificate in Spiritual Direction from the Center for Religious Development, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Following 10 years as Team member and teacher in the Sabbatical Program at St. Stephen Priory and Spiritual Life Center, Sister Carol most recently served as Co-Director of St. Joseph Retreat Center, Cohasset, Massachusetts.

Ann Fowler

Ann Fowler describes herself as a Catholic laywoman striving to be faithful to her baptismal call. She is a wife, mother and surrogate grandmother. Her experience includes clinical social work, adult education advising and administration, and pastoral ministry. Ann is a trained spiritual director and a retreat/workshop facilitator. She volunteers as an interfaith hospital chaplain and coordinates the bereavement ministry in her parish. She most enjoys her ministry with those who feel alienated from the Church and/or God, the bereaved, and those living with serious illness. Knitting is her hobby and a prayer form.

Mary Gallagher

Mary currently serves as Pastoral Associate for Outreach at St Agatha Parish in Milton following her work as Pastoral Associate in Middleboro, where she coordinated parish needs for the RCIA process, Liturgy planning and training of ministers, and Adult Faith Formation.

Mary also serves as Spiritual Director for individuals throughout the archdiocese and assists the Chrism Office on the South Shore in areas of spiritual direction. Through these aspects of her life and especially in her roles as wife and mother of four children, Mary continues to be grateful for the presence and activity of God in her life.

Carmela Garofalo, RSM

Carmela Garofalo, RSM is a firm believer in the holistic model of spirituality and health. She holds a BA in Education and an MA in Counseling from St. Joseph College in West Hartford, Connecticut; an MA in Spanish from Central Connecticut State University, and has completed numerous graduate courses as well as workshops and programs in the fields of spirituality, human development, and holistic medicine.

A practitioner of the Rosen Method of Bodywork and Movement, she is certified by the Rosen Institute of Berkeley, California, and Rosen Center East. She is a member of the Connecticut Holistic Health Association, Retreats International and Spiritual Directors International, and the Association for Jungian Psychology. She has over 20 years of experience as a program presenter, retreat facilitator, and spiritual director

Bob Gilroy, SJ

Bob Gilroy, S.J. is a Jesuit priest, spiritual director and artist based at Eastern Point Retreat House in Gloucester, Massachusetts. He has ministered to various populations including the homeless, hospital patients, children with physical and emotional challenges, people with addictions, and Native Americans in South Dakota. His training as a spiritual director was completed at Eastern Point, the Sioux Spiritual Center in South Dakota, and the Jesuit Retreat House in Guelph, Ontario. Along with his supervised experience, Bob received an M.Div. from Weston Jesuit School of Theology and an M.A. in Expressive Therapy from Lesley University.Website: www.prayerwindows.com

Kathleen Hagerty, CSJ

Kathleen Hagerty, CSJ is a Sister of St. Joseph of Boston. She is currently Novice Director for the Sisters of St. Joseph and part-time chaplain at the Metro Boston Mental Health Center at the Lindermann Mental Health Center in Boston. Sister Kathleen holds an M.A. in Religious Education and a Masters in Christian Spirituality from Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska. She is also a NACC Certified Chaplain. She is a certified Mid-Life Consultant with Mid-Life Directions, an international group which conducts Mid Life/Long Life Directions workshops throughout the United States and abroad. In addition to her current ministries, Sister Kathleen especially enjoys giving Spiritual Direction and Mid-Life Directions workshops.

Catherine Hannigan, PBVM

Catherine M. Hannigan, PBVM is a 1987 graduate of the Center for Religious Development (CRD) and past major superior of the Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. She has served as Director of Continuing Education at Weston Jesuit School of Theology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and has been involved in the ministry of spiritual direction and retreats for many years. She joined the staff of CRD in 1997.

Loretto Hegarty

Loretto Hegarty, CSJ has responded to the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph's call to share her gifts in the ministries of education and psychotherapy. At retreats at the St. Joseph Retreat Center, Sister Loretto has explored aspects of attentiveness to creation and to dreams as ways into prayer. In her presentations, Sister Loretto focuses on seeing ourselves as living, in and through God's love, as one sacred community - one species among others. This view of our human identity is nourished in prayer and in life through contemplative awareness.

Barbara Heyde

Barbara Heyde is a wife and the mother of three adult children. She has a B.S. degree in Elementary Education. Barbara has facilitated programs with Eileen Fortunato at the parish level and at St. Joseph Retreat Center in Cohasset, Massachusetts. Her passions include gardening and scripture study.

James Keegan, SJ

James Keegan, S.J. is a Jesuit priest of the New England Province. A graduate of the Center for Religious Development in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Jim was the first graduate to work full-time on its staff, from 1985 to 1989. As a team member and director of Campion Renewal Center in Weston, Massachusetts, in the early 1980s he founded and ran the Light program to train lay people in spiritual direction. From 1990 to 2001 he served at the Archdiocesan Office of Ministry and Spirituality in Louisville, Kentucky. In 2002 he returned to New England as director of Eastern Point Retreat House in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Jim has been a member of the Coordinating Council of Spiritual Directors International and was part of the editorial board that founded the journal Presence. He currently lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he has his own practice in spiritual direction.

Patricia Keefe

Since 1976 Pat has been engaged in spiritual companioning through retreat and direction ministry, full time since 1995. She has ministered as well in the fields of education, campus ministry, religious life formation, and Congregational leadership.

Spiritual companioning deepens joy and wonder as we listen more deeply and awaken to the Holy One within our own hearts and discern our response to the Holy within each Word of creation in the communion of life.

John F. Kerr, CFX

John F. Kerr, CFX was a high school teacher and principal for 21 years at Cardinal Hayes High School in The Bronx, New York, and at Xavier High School in Middletown, Connecticut. He served for 12 years in leadership in his congregation, during which he resided at the Xavieran Brothers Generalate in Rome, Italy, and London, England. He has a Masters degree in Theology from the University of Notre Dame, and an MTS from the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley, California. From 1992 through 2004 he was a staff member at St. Stephen Priory Spiritual Life Center in Dover, Massachusetts, where he was a retreat director, theology teacher and spiritual director. A native of Boston, Massachusetts, Brother John currently leads retreats, works in adult education, offers spiritual direction, and is involved with prison ministry.

Jane Korins

Jane Korins is a wife and mother of two daughters, and the proud grandparent of four grandchildren. She holds a Master of Theological Studies degree from Harvard Divinity School, and is a board certified chaplain through the National Association of Catholic Chaplains. Jane is currently the Director of Pastoral Care Services at North Shore Medical Center in Massachusetts, a position she has held for twelve years. She has facilitated retreats, and is a professional public speaker throughout the community. Jane is also a trained spiritual director.

Judith LoGerfo

Judith LoGerfo has served as a Lay Ecclesial Minister for over 20 years in parish, campus and hospital settings in the Archdiocese of Boston. She received her Masters Degree in Educational and Pastoral Ministry from Emmanuel College, a Master of Theological Studies from the Weston Jesuit School of Theology and is a board certified Chaplain ( National Association of Catholic Chaplains). In 2004 Judy completed her internship in the Spiritual Direction Initiative.Currently she focuses on Spiritual Direction, Adult Faith Formation and Retreat Ministry with a particular interest in Ignatian Spirituality. Judy and her husband are parents of four adult sons and are active members of their parish, St. Paul in Harvard Square, Cambridge.

Dorothea Masuret, CSJ

Dorothea Masuret, CSJ, presently serves as the Director of the Office of Lay Ecclesial Ministries in the Archdiocese of Boston. She received a Master's Degree in Pastoral Ministry from Boston College's Institute of Religious Education and Pastoral Ministry Program with a concentration in spirituality. Dorothea delights in being with people in their quest for God and who are open to God's revelations in their daily lives.

Cindy McCormack

Cindy McCormack is a wife, mother and, finally, a grandmother. An RN with experience in obstetrics and hospice nursing, she has been involved extensively in both adult and youth ministries on parish and diocesan levels. Now an active retiree, interested in the contemplative way of serving God's people, Cindy offers her time as an interfaith hospital chaplain and mentor for women in transition from prison. She delights in spending time with labyrinths, compassionate knitting and her three toddling granddaughters.

Rev. Aedan McKeon, OP

Aedan is a Dominican Priest of the Order of Preachers and a member of the Dominican Preachers of Ossining, NY. Aedan has extensive experience in facilitating retreats of hope to parishes and at retreat centers around the country. He is also a gifted and experienced Spiritual Director.

Ann McNeil, CSJ

Ann McNeil, CSJ is the founder of Perichoresis Liturgical Dance Ministry that seeks to enhance our prayer life through sacred dance. For thirty years Ann has directed retreats and presented sacred dance opportunities for retreatants in several retreat houses and colleges throughout New England and in Villa Maria, PA. and, for three weeks, in various settings in Lithuania. Presently, her sacred dance ministry extends to male prisoners, to adolescent girls in a DYS facility and to our CSJ Bethany Health Care Center. Ann holds an M. Div. from Weston School of Theology, Cambridge, MA and a D. Min. from Boston University School of Theology, Boston, MA.

Gene Merz, SJ

Eugene F. Merz, S. J., has offered spiritual direction and retreats based on the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius and has given Ignatian Spirituality workshops around the world for laity, priests and religious men and women. His years of ministry within the Society of Jesus, in the diocese of Des Moines, Iowa, and at the Center for Ignatian Spirituality, Marquette University, have focused upon the spiritual renewal that was encouraged by Vatican Council II. Gene holds graduate degrees from St. Louis University. He is the coauthor, with Carol Ann Smith, SHCJ, of the widely acclaimed book Moment by Moment: A Retreat in Everyday Life (2000), which makes the retreat process of the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius available to a wide audience for use in homes, parishes and many other settings. Moment by Moment won First Place for First Time Author in the 2001 Catholic Press Association Awards. He is also the coauthor, with Carol Ann Smith, SHCJ, of Finding God in Each Moment (2006).

Lucien and Bonnie Miller

Bonnie Miller LICSW is a wife of 47 years, a mother of three grown children and a grandmother of six grandchildren. A clinical social worker, she has worked in an agency on aging, community mental health and a community hospital. She is especially interested in the roles of children, parents and elders and the stimulus for growth that each one can bring to the other. 

Lucien Miller, husband, father, and grandfather, is a deacon at the Newman Catholic Center at UMass, retired UMass professor of Comparative Literature and Chinese, and recent graduate of the Spiritual Direction Internship Initiative program in Brighton.

Lucien and Bonnie have traveled extensively in Asia, lived in India and China, and served as volunteers in a Mother Teresa home in India. 

Joan Murray

The Rev. Joan Murray graduated from Episcopal Divinity School in 2000. She was ordained by the United Church of Christ (UCC) for her call to Ecclesia, and she has been with Ecclesia since March 2002. She was the recipient of the 2003 Abernethy Award for her work at Ecclesia. The Abernethy Award is given by Wellesley Congregational Village Church to honor those whose ministries closely follow the model of Jesus' own ministry. Rev. Joan has extensive pastoral care experience in hospitals and churches in Massachusetts, and a committed passion to working with the poor.

Kathryn O'Connell Cleary

Kathryn O'Connell Cleary holds a Master's degree in Pastoral Ministry from Boston College. She worked in parish ministry for 20 years, in the role of Pastoral Associate and Director of Liturgy and Music. From 1992 until 1998, Kathryn was a member of the Retreat Team at St. Stephen Priory. Presently she offers Spiritual Direction as well as Directed and Guided Retreats on a freelance basis. She is a certified Reiki and Energy Healing Practitioner. Kathryn is married, and has recently and joyfully become a grandmother.

Mary O'Rourke, CSJ

Sister Mary O'Rourke, CSJ is an experienced retreat and spiritual director. She has served in full-time ministry in Cohasset and has participated in retreat ministry at other centers. Most recently she served as a pastoral associate. She has organized and directed many programs in adult faith formation and has offered the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius. Previously, she was on the faculty of St. John's Seminary, Boston and the Archdiocesan Office of Religious Education.

Tom Pearson, CFX

Tom Pearson has lived his adult life as a member of a Catholic religious community in the greater Boston area. In recent years he has worked in social services, and presently he works in Boston at a legal information hotline serving those of low income. Yet for more than twenty-five years Tom was active in secondary education, teaching English and religious studies, and coordinating and running student retreat programs, all of which nurtured his double passions of poetry and prayer. His love of poetry was instilled by his eighth-grade English teacher and was fostered by supportive professors throughout his college years. Tom's interest in prayer began at a much earlier age than that.

John Phalen, CSC

Father John Phalen was ordained a priest of the Congregation of Holy Cross in 1974. He attended Stonehill College in North Easton, Massachusetts, and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1970; a Master of Theology from the University of Notre Dame in 1973; and pursued additional graduate studies at Fairfield University. Currently Fr. Phalen is President of the Mariological Society of America and a member of the Hispanic Ministry Committee of the Congregation of Holy Cross. He is a Faithful Friar of the Cardinal O’Connell Assembly of the 4th Degree Knights of Columbus and serves as a member of the Province Investment Advisory Committee of the Congregation of Holy Cross. He has preached missions around the world. Father Phalen has served as President of Holy Cross Family Ministries since 1996. While serving the Hispanic community in the South Bend area, Father John founded La Casa de Amistad Youth Center, which has served the needs of the Hispanic population since 1973. Father Phalen has served as Vicar for Spanish-speaking in South Bend, Assistant Novice Director in Waterford, New York, Pastor of Our Lady of Good Counsel parish in Brooklyn, and Associate Director of Vocations. He has been a member of the Board of Trustees of Stonehill College and the Board of Family Rosary, as well as the Provincial Council of his Province. He has served as a leader in various community organizations, such as East Brooklyn Congregations, Central Brooklyn Churches and Brockton Interfaith Community.

Barbara Reney, CSJ

Barbara Reney CSJ is an experienced spiritual director and retreat director. She has spent sixteen years in ministry at St. Joseph's Retreat Center ( 1975-1983 and 1994-2002). During that time she facilitated many retreats and various spiritual programs. Presently, she is teaching Literature and Writing to 7th grade girls at Ursuline Academy, Dedham. She often integrates her love of literature and poetry in her retreats and prayer experiences.

Kathleen Short, CSJ, MA, LADC (Level 1)

Kathleen Short, CSJ is an experienced retreat director and spiritual director. She is also a pastoral counselor, a licensed drug and alcohol counselor, a holistic practitioner, and a nationally certified massage therapist and Reiki master. Sister Kathleen brings a wealth of experience to her programs. She has offered Twelve-Step Spirituality retreats for over 20 years. Sister Kathleen offers massage therapy at St. Joseph Retreat Center in Cohasset, Massachusetts, and in many other settings. She is a member of the Credo Liturgical Dance Company of Boston, Massachusetts.

Bobbie Sullivan

Bobbie Sullivan has been quilting for 30 years. She has won numerous awards for her quilts and has exhibited nationally and internationally. At the present Bobbie lives in Scituate, Massachusetts, she lectures throughout New England, gives classes in her home and is a founding member of a critique group of contemporary quilters called Coastal Quilt Artists. This is the fourth retreat she has helped facilitate at St. Joseph Retreat Center. More information on Bobbie and her work is available on her website, www.bobbiesullivan.com.

Peg Tiberio 

Peg Tiberio is the Director of Trauma Recovery Services at HAWC, a domestic violence agency in Salem, Massachusetts. She is currently collaborating with staff from the North Shore Children's Hospital in its' Parent/Child Trauma Recovery Team, a treatment program for parents and children who have expereinced domestic violence. She is the author of a guided journal, The Book of Self-Acquaintance and lives in Salem. 

Lenny Tighe

Fr. Leonard Tighe is a priest of the Archdiocese of Boston. He has been a parish priest, hospital chaplain and for several years has been actively involved in adult faith formation. Still involved in hospital ministry, he has given many retreats to priests, religious and others in the United States,Canada, and Central America

Dorothy Welch, CSJ

Dorothy Welch, CSJ, MA, M.Div. is an experienced spiritual director, and sees the Directed Retreat as a singular time for movements of grace. Sister Dorothy is grounded in the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius and influenced by the work of Thomas Berry, and the prophetic voices of women and men.