Fr. Felix Just, S.J.

Fr. Felix Just, SJ, is a member of the "Jesuits West USA Province" of the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits). He is the founder and director of "Living Word Catholic Biblical Ministries," based in Los Angeles, CA.

Felix was born in Berlin, Germany, and raised in Tucson, Arizona. He entered the Jesuit Novitiate in 1980 and was ordained a priest in 1991. After receiving his Ph.D. in New Testament Studies from Yale University, he taught theology and biblical studies at Loyola Marymount University (Los Angeles), the University of San Francisco, and Santa Clara University. He then served ten years as Director of Biblical Ministries and as Executive Director of the Loyola Institute for Spirituality (LIS) in Orange, CA, and as Dean of the Lay Ecclesial Ministry and Deacon Formation programs of the Diocese of Las Vegas.

He regularly teaches courses for the "Ecclesia" program of Mount Saint Mary's University (Los Angeles), and the "Catholic Bible Institute" of several dioceses in California and Arizona. He gives many public lectures on a wide variety of biblical and liturgical topics, and often leads biblically-based days of prayer, parish missions, weekend or week-long retreats, and biblically-focused pilgrimages. He is a member of the editorial board for the revision of the New Testament of the New American Bible, and an active member of the Catholic Biblical Association of America. He has produced seven audio-CD programs with "Now You Know Media" (now renamed "Learn25"), and also maintains his own large internationally recognized website of “Catholic Resources” (https://catholic-resources.org).

Email: fjust2000@yahoo.com