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), and the Associate Director of Diaconate Formation in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.

 

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 was also a member of the editorial board for the revision of the New Testament of the New American Bible (now renamed the Catholic America Bible), and is an active member of the Catholic Biblical Association of America

As an adjunct professor of theology at Chaminade University in Hawaii, he regularly teaches biblical courses for the Diaconate Formation program of the Diocese of Honolulu. He also teaches in the "Catholic Bible Institute" of several dioceses in California and Arizona, 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 has produced seven audio-CD programs with "Now You Know Media" (now renamed "Learn25"), and maintains his own large internationally acclaimed website of “Catholic Resources” (https://catholic-resources.org).

Email: fjust2000@yahoo.com