Topic: Eucharistic Amazement
Anthony Lilles, S.T.D. is the dean of students at St. Patrick’s Seminary in Menlo Park, Ca. He has served the Church and assisted in the formation of clergy since 1994, including in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles as Academic Dean of St. John’s, associate professor of theology and Academic Advisor of Juan Diego House. He holds a BA in theology from the Franciscan University of Steubenville with both the ecclesiastical licentiate and doctorate in spiritual theology from the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas in Rome (the Angelicum). He was a founding faculty member of Saint John Vianney Seminary in Denver, Colorado, where he also served as academic dean, department chair, director of liturgy and coordinator of spiritual formation for the permanent deacon program. He is married with young adult children and is the author of Hidden Mountain Secret Garden, Omaha: Discerning Hearts (2012) and co-author with Dan Burke 30 Days with Teresa of Avila, Steubenville, OH: Emmaus Road (2015). He is a co-founder of Avila Institute and he blogs at www.beginningtopray.com and www.rcspirtualdirection.com.