Current Ministries

Tree of Life Workshop

These workshops are for both English and Spanish speakers. They focus on life transitions by understanding, sharing and memorializing your unique personal life stories, through a small group encounter with the Christian Paschal mystery of life, death, and resurrection. If you are interested in any of them, please contact me directly: jerome@barriers2bridges.org


This is a foundational vocation discernment workshop that helps us discover more who we truly are and what we are called to do, from the root of our being. It focuses practically on ministry and/or career discernment, but the experience enters into all of life.

In the beginning creation story of Adam and Eve, the Hebrew people are invited to remember the story of origin that recalls who God made them to truly be, as well as their human weakness that can separate them from following through on this authenticity. The mystery of Christ brings us back into the original garden and gives us access to the Tree of Life. The expression of this mystery in this workshop - through basic applied principles of discernment from the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola - allows us to remember our own personal True You stories that make up the core of our own tree of life, as well as those life stories that show us how the protective bark of that tree breaks down.

If you are looking for something to give you a new step in clarity, freedom, energy, and peace - to help you remember again who you really are - this workshop could be for you.


Re-Birth from Life Transitions Workshop

These workshops are for both English and Spanish speakers. They focus on life transitions by understanding, sharing and memorializing your unique personal life stories, through a small group encounter with the Christian Paschal mystery of life, death, and resurrection. If you are interested in any of them, please contact me directly: jerome@barriers2bridges.org


Are you experiencing confusion or anxiousness because of a present or past life transition experience? The scripture is full of “40” stories: stories about rebirth. Encountering these stories together with our own can help you get back in touch with your personal journey and see a way ahead with hope.


Taller Mi Pascua de Inmigración

These workshops are for both English and Spanish speakers. They focus on life transitions by understanding, sharing and memorializing your unique personal life stories, through a small group encounter with the Christian Paschal mystery of life, death, and resurrection. If you are interested in any of them, please contact me directly: jerome@barriers2bridges.org


This is a foundational workshop retreat for immigrants (now for Spanish-speakers), in which each person has the space to remember, unpack, tell, and honor their story of migration, following the testimony by the People of God of their leaving Egypt and crossing the Red Sea to begin a new stage of life with God. If you know any Spanish-speaking immigrants who you think might be interested, please feel free to send them the information flyer at the More Information button below.

Video Series: A Spirituality of Equality

These video series are for your prayer and social life, and go further and deeper than the reflections of ALM. You may find them uplifting if you’re wondering how to pray and understand the Scriptures to find something life-changing in them; and if you’re wondering about how to sort through what is often a confusing social landscape.


In June 2020, during the pandemic quarantine in Chontal, I began to make a video series on location called A Spirituality of Equality. It’s in English, with plans for Spanish subtitles. In part a response to the racial situation that came to a head in the US during the pandemic, and also a long-overdue beginning of gathering social reflections that I’ve had over the years that form some of the basic human dimensions of my spirituality - and a spirituality of being brothers and sisters in God’s family, through the redemptive person of Jesus Christ. This videos series is addressed primarily to people of any or no faith tradition in the US, but also includes references for Christian meditation and reflection.

Video Series: Food in the Desert

These video series are for your prayer and social life, and go further and deeper than the reflections of ALM. You may find them uplifting if you’re wondering how to pray and understand the Scriptures to find something life-changing in them; and if you’re wondering about how to sort through what is often a confusing social landscape.


In Lent of 2019, I began to share a workshop in Chontal called Food in the Desert, in which participants can learn how to find spiritual food in the Gospels for their life. The lock down due to the coronavirus pandemic stopped the workshop on the day it started! But while in lock down, I continued to create videos that I’ve posted online - on both Spanish and English - that cover the method and then a series of examples for finding food in the Gospels.

Spiritual Reflections

Website/Blog

On the Barriers to Bridges homepage, you can find the latest spiritual reflections that I post to ALM (A Living Monstrance). These reflections come from my spirituality and lifestyle as the source of Barriers to Bridges, and are guideposts along the journey.

Books

I’ve also collected the reflections into a series of books, each one containing 150 reflections, in sequential order. The latest book is up to the year 2017, and others are planned for publication to bring more current.

You can order any of the books by going here to Lulu.