Sometimes our hearts desire more than a job.

Br. John Fava, S.J. As a police chaplain, I offer spiritual and personal guidance to police officers and their families. I do the invocation and benediction at graduations; promotion and awards ceremonies; memorial services; and other police functions. I teach a "Spanish for Police Officers" class at the Police Academy. Since I am also a permanent deacon, I do weddings, baptisms, and funerals for police families.

My primary apostolate is that of being the Operations Manager at White House Retreat, the Jesuit retreat house in St. Louis, Missouri. I supervise the maintenance and kitchen staffs, and I do the check-in when people arrive to make a retreat. I also keep the books for the Jesuit community at White House.

Br Joe Frias, S.J. is a first year M-Div student at the School of Theology and Ministry in Brighton, MA. He is a member of the California Province, a native from San Francisco, CA and entered the Society of Jesus in 2002. He taught the Old and New Testament and directed the Christian service program at Verbum Dei High School in Watts, CA.

In his spare time he enjoys going on walks in nature and cooking. He is interested in hospital and prison chaplaincy in the future. 

Brother Jim Boynton, S.J. was raised in St. Ignace, Michigan. He entered the Jesuits in 1987, and took final vows in 2003. As a Jesuit, Jim has taught high school in India, Nepal, Cleveland, and Detroit and has served as the vocation director for the Detroit Province. Jim has organized and led numerous medical mission trips to Guatemala and Honduras and traveled with groups of Jesuit novices to Peru for their introduction to the culture and immersion in the language. From 1996-2008, Jim coordinated a program providing English-as-a-second-language classes, medical and legal assistance, and social opportunities to summer migrant workers from Mexico, the Philippines and Jamaica on Mackinac Island, Michigan. In November 2009 Jim was assigned to education work in Haiti. After the devastating earthquake of January 2010 Jim worked with Team Rubicon, a medical relief organization made up of former military medical personnel, many of whom had Jesuit connections. Jim’s current assignment is at the University of Detroit Jesuit High School, where he teaches in the History Department.

Br. Jonathan Stott SJ is in the middle of his Jesuit formation. A physicist before he entered the Society of Jesus, he is currently working as a brother-regent at the Vatican Observatory in Tucson, AZ studying stellar variability.

He will begin his theology studies this coming fall.