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The Art of Friendship and Cultivating Depth of Life

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About Faber Institute

The Faber Institute is committed to the “awakening” of souls in an age when the existence of the soul and its particular capacities and formidable powers is being overlooked.

We do this by putting people in touch with the sources of depth and vision within themselves.

We do this by introducing them to and then teaching them how to read the profound texts, and how to meet the profound people, of our articulate human past.

Within the Judeo-Christian tradition in particular, the texts we mean are the holy Scriptures and our particular care to learn how to know Jesus Christ, but we also mean theologians and philosophers and mystics, and the saints and poets and painters and writers.

We do this through the central habits of the Institute: spiritual direction, spiritual conversation (in person but also through written letters), through the demanding intellectual formation of The Night School and The Faber Sessions, and through Retreats (half-day or full-day or multiple days).

We do this through the Director’s extensive research in the texts of the Great Tradition, sharing the fruits of his research in the monthly publication of the Letters to Peregrinus; in classes taught; in talks given; in books written; and in retreats built and directed.

We do this by an unceasing habit of going out to seek friendship, and to establish them artfully, with people religious or non-religious or formerly religious, with people of all ages, with people from all Christian denominations, and with people of different cultures.

We do all of this within the horizon of the “one, holy, catholic, and apostolic” Church (what has been called “mere Christianity”), and for the sake of God’s deepest hopes for the common good of all.

The Faber Institute, founded in Portland, OR on 1 October 2014, is about awakening people as God does it, showing them how to intensify and to sustain inner alertness (the virtues) and training their capacities to recognize and to serve the highest good of persons who find and develop their lives within the natural world (creation) and the human world (society and culture).

We train them to become quicker to recognize and to distinguish (discernment) the false modes of being a person, persuading them to choose, and to trust, the long-tested and true paths to becoming fully alive, so that they joyfully accept their responsibilities for the common good of all – becoming “God-like” after the pattern of Jesus Christ.

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Staff and Board of Directors

Saint Peter Faber, S.J.

Saint Peter Faber, S.J.

Patron Saint and Sponsor

Rick Ganz

Rick Ganz

Founder/Director

Mary Edmonds

Mary Edmonds

Administration/Development

Tara Ludwig

Tara Ludwig

Spiritual Direction

Richard Hook

Richard Hook

Chairman of the Board

Dan Mallea

Dan Mallea

Treasurer of the Board

Pat Golding

Pat Golding

Secretary of the Board

Lynn Andrews

Lynn Andrews

Board Member

Shannon Mayer, Ph.D.

Shannon Mayer, Ph.D.

Board Member

Jimmy Hulett

Jimmy Hulett

Board Member

Tom Doyle

Tom Doyle

Board Member

Dr. Bruce Bolton

Dr. Bruce Bolton

Former Board Member

Pietro R. Ferrari

Pietro R. Ferrari

Former Board Member

Fr. Craig Boly, SJ, PH.D.

Fr. Craig Boly, SJ, PH.D.

Former Board Member

Janeen S. McAninch

Janeen S. McAninch

Former Board Member

Greg Specht

Greg Specht

Former Board Member

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