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WHO WAS the most important person in your religious formation?

Fr. David Donovan, SJ, the assistant novice director during our novitiate training. He was also my first spiritual director and the person who taught me how to pray.

Fr. Donovan taught me Ignatian contemplation – the spiritual exercises that Jesuits practice in which you imagine yourself in a particular scene from the Bible. David also taught me about reviewing the day to see where God is in my life, and he taught me the most important thing about the spiritual life, which is that God desires to have a relationship with you.

What led you to the Jesuits?

I believe it was Providence.

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I had been working in corporate America for six years, feeling very unhappy. One day I stumbled upon the writings of Thomas Merton, the American Trappist monk, and by a peculiar set of circumstances I asked my local parish priest about becoming a priest.

He suggested, in addition to looking at the local diocesan seminary, that I a