Br. Todd Blackham

Br. Todd Blackham, n/SSJE

Todd Blackham, n/SSJE is a native of Elizabeth, CO. He studied religion at the University of Denver and Harvard Divinity School, before going on to work as a parish priest in the Diocese of Los Angeles. He arrived at SSJE in 2019 and was clothed as a novice in March 2020. He has served the community as Sacristan and as the coordinator of SSJE’s student ministries and monastic residency program. He loves to spend time outside gardening, kayaking, hiking, kite-flying, and feeding the birds. He enjoys praying the Rosary and making prayer beads to sell in the SSJE store. Todd has been on pilgrimage to Jerusalem five different times.

Selection of Br. Todd's teachings from "Brother, Give Us a Word"

Pause

Sometimes we look around and wonder: Is it making any difference? Am I running in place? Are you running with me Jesus? That moment is a chance to pause – it may be more than a pause, a long night, a dark season. Here, Jesus’ words catch up: “Have no fear, what you hear in the…

Obedience

Maintaining a vital tension between humility and hope, powerlessness and belief in something greater, enables transformation to take place. It’s that form of humble, hopeful, persistent obedience that Jesus took when he shared our life, living among us and dying as one of us. Br. Todd Blackham, SSJE Read More and Comment >

Paradox

God, who descends into the chaos, has entrusted himself to us in Jesus in deep humility and vulnerability. This is the paradox of our faith: descending into the chaos, God chooses powerlessness in order that we might receive power. And, empowered by God, we bear the light of life in the darkness. Br. Todd Blackham, SSJE…

A Prayer Renewed

“If your primary experience with this prayer is in corporate worship, perhaps you will find it helpful in these pages to take some time to reconnect with it, line by line, word by word. This Cowley invites us to slow down. As we move through the prayer, we invite you to take in each word and phrase, to lovingly abide with it, and allow it to once more shine light on your path.”