Fr. Frank Kaminski, SJ

Fr. Frank Kaminski is a Jesuit priest and a member of the retreat staff at the St. Raphael Center in Haverford, PA. There he works jointly with other staff members offering Individually directed retreats, formation programs and spiritual direction in the Ignatian Tradition. Fr. Kaminski’s began to develop his interest in Ignatian spirituality during his years in Chile, where he worked for more than 10 years with the Christian Life Community (a world-wide community of lay men and women who follow the Ignatian path in their daily lives). Back in the United States, he joined the Jesuit Urban Service Team forming an Ignatian community of faith in the predominantly Latino neighborhoods of North Camden, N.J. Beginning in 2000, he was missioned to Loyola on the Potomac Retreat House in Faulkner, Md., where he offered spiritual direction and directed numerous retreats for 15 years. At the beginning of 2016 he assumed a position in the Office of Ignatian Spirituality for the Maryland and Northeast Provinces of the Society of Jesus where he briefly served as the Director of Hispanic Ministry. In January of 2017 he was asked to join the retreat staff at the Jesuit Center where he worked until its closing in August, 2021. He was then asked to continue Ignatian ministry in the Philadelphia area, collaborating with the Handmaids of the Sacred Hearts and the Jesuits at St. Joseph’s University.