in the tiny remote village of Alakanuk, Alaska in July of 2018 (we sent in hundreds of photos, and this is the one my province magazine printed)
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at Shinjuku Gyo-en (新宿御苑) National Garden in Tokyo (東京) in June of 2015
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at the Champ de Mars in front of the Eiffel Tower in May of 2015
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having mostly completed the steep hike to Wat Phra That Doi Suthep (วัดพระธาตุดอยสุเทพ) with just the 300 stairs to go in Chiang Mai (เชียงใหม่) in June of 2025
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in front of Keating Hall and Edwards Parade at Fordham University in September of 2019
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enjoying the snow with some of my Jesuit Refugee Service colleagues at the Roman ruins of Qalaat Faqra (قلعة فقرا) in Kfardebian (كفر دبيان) in February of 2022
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being ordained to the priesthood by Bishop Rey Bersabal at St. Ignatius Loyola Parish in Sacramento, California in June of 2026
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along with my Jesuit housemates, at Jounieh (جونيه‎) in Lebanon (لبنان) in December of 2020
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at the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa in August of 2019
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outside of Ciszek Hall in the Bronx, shortly after I moved in there in August of 2017
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being ordained to the diaconate by Bishop Honesto Flores Ongtioco at the Church of the Gesù on the campus of Ateneo de Manila in October of 2024
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at the Roman Colosseum in May of 2015
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evoking a video game title screen while looking at Angkor Wat (អង្គរវត្ត) outside Siem Reap (សៀមរាប), Cambodia (ព្រះរាជាណាចក្រកម្ពុជា)
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carrying a baby alpaca, as one does, at the Awana Kancha farm outside of Cusco, Peru in January of 2009
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shortly after taking my First Vows at the Chapel of the Sacred Heart at Loyola Marymount University in August of 2017
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upset at the drained fountains on the grounds of the Château de Versailles in May of 2015
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on the grounds of Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna in May of 2015
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at the Venice Beach Recreation Center on what appears to have been a chilly day in February of 2009
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with my vow classmates in the remote village of Newtok, Alaska in June of 2018
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on the tundra of the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta in Bethel, Alaska in August of 2017
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in the Harpa Concert Hall in Reykjavík in May of 2015
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at the Erbil Citadel (قەڵای ھەولێر) in Iraqi Kurdistan (باشووری کوردستان) in June of 2021
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at Osaka Castle (大阪城), frustrated at taking a selfie with an iPad after my phone died in June of 2015
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very sweaty, waiting to ride the Star Ferry (天星小輪) across Victoria Harbour in Hong Kong in June of 2018
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from the POV of my Jesuit brother as I introduce him to the wonderful delicacy of knafeh in Jerusalem in July of 2022
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at LAX returning from my cirumnavigation trip in June of 2015
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still in character as head of security, after playing through the second game of The Monitor Celestra in Gothenburg, Sweden in March of 2013
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at the Jesuit Novitiate of the Three Companions in Culver City, arriving back after my pilgrimage from New York in May of 2016
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at Piazza San Pietro in Vatican City in May of 2015
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inspecting the reproduction of a 13th-century treadmill at the experimental archaeology site of Guédelon, where they are building a whole friggin’ castle outside of Auxerre, France in August of 2025
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getting the drop on a First Order Stormtrooper at Disneyland in December of 2015
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having just finished reading Brunelleschi’s Dome at the Piazzale Michelangelo overlooking Florence in May of 2015
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at the labyrinth of the Franciscan Serra Retreat in Malibu in January of 2016
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enjoying villa weekend with some of my Jesuit housemates outside of Harrison, Maine in November of 2023
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at the Benedictine Abbey of Santa Maria de Montserrat in Catalonia in May of 2015
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at Fushimi Inari-taisha (伏見稲荷大社) in Kyoto (京都) in June of 2015
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at Shibuya Crossing (渋谷交差点) in Tokyo (東京) in June of 2015
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in front of Hallgrímskirkja in Reykjavík in May of 2015
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at LAX before departing for my cirumnavigation trip in May of 2015
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exploring the canyon leading up to the Treasury in Petra, Jordan in July of 2021
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inside the Hagia Sophia in İstanbul in June of 2015
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inside Collins Hall at Fordham University, where I spent far too much time between August 2017 and May 2020
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as part of the subset of the development team for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim collecting the Game of the Year award at the GD Choice Awards at the Moscone Center in San Francisico in March of 2012
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standing on the Ponte di Rialto overlooking the Grand Canal in Venice in May of 2015
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on the shore of the Sea of Galilee, the traditional site of the epilogue to John’s Gospel (💞) in July of 2022
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at the Place Bellecour in Lyon in May of 2015
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accompanying my first Boston College Kairos retreat at the Connors Center in Dover, Massachusetts in December of 2022
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in the Arashiyama Bamboo Forest (嵐山 竹林) on the outskirts of Kyoto (京都) in June of 2015
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at the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore (il Duomo), doing my best to resist the urge to parkour up the side Ezio-style, in May of 2015
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at Kiyomizu-dera (清水寺) in Kyoto (京都) in June of 2015
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being way too excited to be outside Elizabeth Warren’s office in the Hart Senate Office Building in November 2018
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drinking a margarita with a mustache on it in August of 2012
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outside the Hagia Sophia in İstanbul in June of 2015
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with a Jesuit Refugee Service home visits team in the Mayfair suburb of Johannesburg in June of 2019
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at the Rabban Hormizd Monastery (دير الربان هرمزد), looking out at Alqosh (القش) and the Nineveh Plain (سهل نينوى) in Iraqi Kurdistan (باشووری کوردستان) in October of 2021
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exploring the grounds of Wat Pha Lat (วัดผาลาด) in Chiang Mai, Thailand in May of 2025
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exploring the outer limits of “Zoom Chic” in April of 2020
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at the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem in July of 2022
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inside my room at Ciszek Hall in the Bronx, November of 2017
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outside the Domkirche St. Stephan in Vienna in May of 2015
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