Rev. Cameron Faller was born and raised in Novato, CA and attended Marin Catholic High School in Kentfield. After his first year studying engineering at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo, his life took a dramatic turn during a pilgrimage to Lourdes, France. There he began to have a deep conviction that God was calling him to the priesthood and not too long after his return he began his seminary formation. He was ordained to the Priesthood for the Archdiocese of San Francisco on June 6, 2015. For the first four years of his priesthood, he was the associate pastor of Church of the Epiphany in San Francisco. Currently, he serves as vocation director of San Francisco and chaplain of Archbishop Riordan High School. 

Fr. Cameron has 9 total spiritual direction slots and you can sign up for direction here:

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Fr. Tim Lyons was born August 23, 1977, and grew up the youngest of five children in Portland, Maine. He was taught in Catholic grade schools and high school, and attended Franciscan University of Steubenville for a year before deciding to volunteer as a missionary. He entered the seminary in 1997. His training for the priesthood lasted thirteen years, studying in Connecticut, New York, Rome, and on periods of internship in San Jose and Sacramento. He was ordained on December 24, 2010, and since has served as chaplain of Canyon Heights Academy, as director of Our Lady of Santa Clara Retreat Center. He has a M.A. in Educational Leadership from the University of Notre Dame. On November 1, 2019, Bishop Oscar Cantú has appointed Fr. Tim Lyons to be parochial vicar of St. Maria Goretti Parish in San Jose.

Fr. Tim has 6 total spiritual direction slots and you can sign up for direction here:

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Friar Israel spent his early years growing up in beautiful San Francisco and the Central Valley of California. He entered the Franciscan Friars Conventual after graduating from high school through their ministry in Reno. He is currently studying theology in San Antonio in preparation for becoming a deacon. Friar Israel hopes to continue to higher philosophical studies and to teach as a friar and priest. He has a great love for learning languages, history, the arts and literature - with five languages known and growing, countless museums being visited and with a constant churn of books being read! He also has a great interest in the Sacred Liturgy, most especially the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite, as well as the Slavic Tradition of the Byzantine Liturgy.

Friar Israel has 8 total spiritual direction slots and you can sign up for direction here:
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Fr. Peter Zhai serves as the Director of Chinese Ministry for the Archdiocese of San Francisco and as local superior of Northern District of the Western Province in the U.S. of the Society of the Divine Word (the SVDs). Born into a traditional Catholic family in China, he joined the SVDs in 1994. After completion of his novitiate in China, he was sent to Divine Word College in Iowa, where he received a BA degree in philosophy in 2001. He completed his Master of Divinity at Catholic Theological Union and was ordained to the priesthood in 2006. He then served as associate pastor at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church in Los Angeles for five years. In 2011, he moved to the Archdiocese of San Francisco, where he served as parochial vicar at Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Redwood City before becoming Director of Chinese Ministry. Father Peter is well known by the Chinese faithful in the Bay Area and throughout California. His numerous articles on Christian spirituality have been published in Chinese periodicals and magazines in the U.S. He is frequently invited to give talks and retreats at conferences and parishes events. 

Fr. Zhai has 4 total spiritual direction slots and you can sign up for direction here. 

Please sign up for Fr. Zhai if you prefer to speak in Mandarin/Cantonese. 

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Sister Jeanette Kong is a missionary sister with the Verbum Dei Missionary Fraternity (VDMF). She is a M.Div. graduate from the Jesuit School of Theology at Santa Clara University, and also holds a M.A. in Guidance and Counseling from Loyola Marymount University. Sr. Jeanette has more than ten years of experience in pastoral ministry in the areas of campus ministry, retreat work, spiritual accompaniment and other faith formation activities to adults, young adults and youth. Originally from Singapore, she has lived in the United States over 10 years and currently lives with her local community in Long Beach, CA.

Sister Jeanette has 11 total spiritual direction slots and you can sign up for direction here.

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NOTE: Sister Jeanette is also open to spiritual direction by appointment. Please feel free to reach out to her and schedule a time outside of camp too — she is a fellow camper too can be reached on Slack.

I was born in Torrance, California in 1988 and when I was 4 years old I moved to Aliso Viejo (Orange County). My mom, born in Vietnam, was a “cradle Catholic,” who fell away before returning to the Faith later on and raising my brother and I as Catholics. I became Catholic at the age of 9 and continually attended Faith Formation and the Vietnamese Eucharistic Youth Group at St. Nicholas in Laguna Woods.

I went through a very turbulent last couple years in high school with many struggles in my family and social life. With this, I got caught up with the wrong crowd doing things I shouldn’t have been doing and found myself lost and confused. It was after my first year of college when I met some very good friends who put me on the straight and narrow; I decided to turn my life around with the hopes of following my Dad’s footsteps of being a family man and having a career in computers. I began majoring in Computer Engineering and even had a girlfriend at the time.

In my second year of college, I had, totally by “accident,” attended a Vocations Retreat, where a priest shared his vocations story that deeply moved me. After much discernment, a few months later I had a beautiful, supernatural/mystical experience with the Eucharist in which Jesus invited me to, “Come after me, and I will make you a fisher of men;” it deeply moved me to discern a call to the priesthood. 

In August 2009, I entered seminary for the Diocese of Orange. On June 11th, 2016, I was ordained to the priesthood by Bishop Kevin Vann at St. Columban’s Catholic Church in Garden Grove. I served at Our Lady Queen of Angels in Newport Beach as a Parochial for 3 years and currently serving as the Director of Vocations for the Diocese of Orange. Please pray for me and I will pray for you! AMDG.

Fr. Brandon Dang has 4 total spiritual direction slots and you can sign up for direction here:
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Sister Jacinta became a Sister of the Daughters of Carmel religious order in 2001. She received a Master's degree in Spirituality at the Pontifical Urbaniana University, Rome after studying between 2004 - 2008. Following this, she began missionary work in the San Francisco archdiocese, and she has been in the USA and Canada since 2009. Sister Jacinta is well-known for her infectious joy for Jesus Christ!

Sister Jacinta has 6 total spiritual direction slots and you can sign up for direction here:
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Sister Salverina became a sister of the Daughters of Carmel religious order in 2001. She then received her Diploma in Theology and Spirituality, and her Master's degree in Christian Anthropology respectively at the Pontifical Theological Faculty and Pontifical Institute of Spirituality Teresianum, Rome between 2005 - 2009. Following this, she began missionary work in the San Francisco Archdiocese, though she has been in the USA and Canada since 2010. Sister Salverina is eager to be of help in any way to all campers and is joyful at this opportunity to get to know you all!

Sister Salverina has 6 total spiritual direction slots and you can sign up for direction here:
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Sister Aurelia became a sister of the Daughters of Carmel religious Order in 2003. She received a Diploma in Spirituality at the Institute Pontifical of Spirituality Teresianum, Rome in 2008 - 2009, followed by a Bachelor in Science of Education, specifically in the pedagogy of formation of vocation, at the Salesian Pontifical University, Rome 2010 - 2012. Following this, she began missionary work in the San Francisco Archdiocese, and has been in the USA since 2017. Sister Aurelia is eager and happy to be able to spiritually direct the campers of CACCLC!

Sister Aurelia has 6 total spiritual direction slots and you can sign up for direction here:
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Fr. Michael Hurley is from the San Francisco Bay Area. He graduated from Thomas Aquinas College in 1999, and joined the Western Dominican Province shortly thereafter. He then studied at the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology, earned a master’s degree in both philosophy and theology. Since his ordination in 2007 he has served various parishes in the Bay Area before becoming the pastor of St. Dominic’s Church in 2013. Fr Michael Hurley also baptized our CACCLC Overall, Lily Sin! 

Fr. Michael Hurley has 2 total spiritual direction slots and you can sign up for direction here:
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Br. Andrew Thomas Kang, O.P. is a Student Brother of the Western Dominican Province and a former camper at CACCLC! After discerning a vocation to the priesthood and religious life, he entered the Order of Preachers (the Dominicans) in 2016 after graduating from UCSD with a degree in Computer Science and working as a web developer in San Francisco for two years. He has a love for music (e.g., liturgical chant and polyphony, praise and worship, weird hipster Christian music), classic spiritual writings, the theology of St. Thomas Aquinas, and the U.S. version of the Office.

Br. Andrew Kang has 8 total spiritual direction slots and you can sign up for direction here:

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Fr. Mathias Wambua is currently a priest at Star of the Sea Catholic Church in San Francisco, but is originally from Kenya where he was born and raised by a deeply loving and holy family. From an early age, through altar serving, Fr. Mathias found his vocation to the priesthood and followed God’s will. He originally met Fr. Joseph Illo in Kenya while Fr. Illo was visiting the Missionaries of Charity, and this became a friendship that brought Fr. Mathias to San Francisco to study at USF, where he graduated with a Masters in Communications recently. Fr. Mathias is overjoyed to be the Chaplain to Star of the Sea’s Young Adult Group, where he is close to some of CACCLC’s ExCo members (including the Camp lead, Lily Sin!) and is thankful for the opportunity to accompany campers in their spiritual walk. He is looking forward to talking with you!

Fr. Mathias Wambua has 4 total spiritual direction slots and you can sign up for direction here:

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Fr. Andrew, a member of the Society of Jesus, the Jesuits, has been helping to lead weekend retreats and provides spiritual direction in daily life at the Jesuit retreat center, El Retiro, in Santa Clara County. He also guides individuals in the Jesuit Spiritual Exercises throughout the year and in our 30-day retreat in the summer. Previously, he taught religious studies and psychology at St. Ignatius College Prep. He received his training in spiritual direction from Loyola University Chicago. Prior to joining the Jesuits, he worked as an elementary school teacher, and is trained to be a registered nurse and a school psychologist.

Fr. Andrew Rodriguez has 8 total spiritual direction slots and you can sign up for direction here:

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A native of San Francisco, Kevin was ordained in 1982, after earning an MDiv at Weston Jesuit School of Theology and an MRE at Catholic University. An experienced director of eight-day retreats, he also participated on the direction team of five 36-day retreat programs at Los Altos during the 1990’s. While teaching high school theology has been his principal ministry over the past years in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Sacramento, he has also regularly conducted programs for adults on The Spiritual Exercises at both Loyola High in Los Angeles and Jesuit High in Sacramento. Kevin also worked for ten years as co-director of the California Province two-summer tertianship program for Jesuit priests and brothers who are preparing to pronounce final vows.

Fr. Kevin Leidich has 10 total spiritual direction slots and you can sign up for direction here:

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Fr. Paul Mariani, SJ is a Jesuit priest and a professor of History at Santa Clara University. He researches and writes on the Catholic Church in China and he is also a chaplain for the rugby and basketball teams. He also occasionally celebrates Mass at the San Jose Chinese Catholic Mission, where many CACCLC members attend.

Fr. Paul Mariani has 4 total spiritual direction slots and you can sign up for direction here:

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