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Who We Are
The Center for Ignatian Spirituality 
Leavey Center, Suite I
1 LMU Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90045-2659
Our location: MAPS
310 258 8695
310 338 7881 (fax)
Email: ignacio@lmu.edu
 Father Randy Roche, Director of the Center for Ignatian Spirituality, has an M.A. in Theology from Santa Clara University, and an M.S. in Counseling from San Diego State. He has served as LMU Director of Campus Ministry, Rector of the Jesuit Community at Jesuit High School in Sacramento, Director of Studies and Spiritual Director at the Jesuit Novitiate, and as Pastor, Superior, and Director of Diocesan Campus Ministry at the Newman Center in Honolulu.
Throughout his years of ministry, he has continuously deepened his own experience of the Ignatian Spiritual Exercises, while also acting as a guide in the Exercises for lay people and religious. Not surprisingly, his specialty is Ignatian spirituality as a tool for discernment in decision-making.
(rroche@lmu.edu, 258-8695)
Sr. Frances Gussenhoven, Assistant Director of the Center for Ignatian Spirituality, has a Ph.D. from Stanford University and is an LMU Professor Emerita of English. Her academic activities have taken her to London and Pa ris, and to Bonn, Brussels, and Dublin; she has served as a grant panelist for the National Endowment for the Humanities; and has lectured in Calcutta and throughout India as a Fulbright professor.
Her concern for the poor and marginalized has led her to serve the jobless at the Chrysalis Center in downtown Los Angeles, to work in a soup kitchen under the auspices of Columbia University, and to volunteer at The Passage, a center for the homeless in London. Her formation as a Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary owes much to Ignatian spirituality through conferences, renewal programs, and especially, annual retreats based on the Spiritual Exercises. (fgussenh@lmu.edu, 338-3019)
Bishop Gordon Bennett, SJ, is the Peter Faber, SJ Peter Faber SJ Fellow in Pastoral Theology and Ignatian Spirituality.
Bishop Bennett assists with mission and identity initiatives and contributes to the work of Campus Ministry and the Center for Ignatian Spirituality, where he is a member of the advisory board and a guide for faculty and staff who make the Ignatian Spiritual Exercises.
At the time of his ordination to the episcopacy by the late Pope John Paul II, Bishop Bennett was serving as President of Loyola High School. Prior to that he served as a teacher and administrator in secondary schools. He also served the California Province of the Society of Jesus as Director of Novices. One of the few African-American bishops of the United States, Bishop Bennett has served as Auxiliary to the Archbishop of Baltimore and later as Diocesan Bishop of Mandeville, Jamaica.
Bishop Bennett brings to us wide experience in race relations, education, church leadership, Ignatian spirituality and spiritual direction.
 Father Herb Ryan, SJ, who holds a doctorate in Theology from Rome’s Gregorian University, was appointed by the Pope and the Archbishop of Canterbury to the Anglican Roman Catholic International Commission whose ecumenical breakthroughs won The International Christian Unity Award. For his work in furthering official Anglican Roman Catholic dialog he was awarded the Papal Medal of Merit and The Medal of the Cross of Saint Augustine. He has published in many scholarly journals, is the author or editor of six books, and is currently working on his latest book, The Graces of Aging.
Father Ryan has taught for more than thirty years at Loyola Marymount University, and has been honored with the Burns Award for Distinguished Teaching. He is now Professor Emeritus of Theological Studies.
An experienced director of The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius, Father Ryan also conducts an email interchange for LMU faculty and staff called “Ask Father Herbie,” providing answers to theological or religious questions.
hryan@lmu.edu 338-2853
Updated: 9/11/08
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