Fr. Kevin Joyce was born and raised in Alameda, California in a strong Catholic family. He graduated from St. Joseph’s College Seminary in Los Altos with a B.A. in Psychology in 1971. During college he spent his junior year at the University of the Americas in Mexico City in order to gain fluency in Spanish.
Fr. Kevin left the seminary for five years during which time he studied eastern spiritual traditions and meditation, and then pursued a career in music at San Jose State University. He rediscovered his priestly vocation while on a long retreat in Switzerland and returned to St. Patrick’s Seminary, Menlo Park in 1977. He was ordained a priest in 1980 and has exercised his priestly ministry at St. Catherine’s Parish in Morgan Hill, St. Joseph’s College Seminary, and as pastor of St. Maria Goretti Parish in San José where he served until 2004.
In 1991 Fr. Kevin received a Ph.D. in Spirituality from the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., where his special interests were the East-West interreligious dialogue and the great Christian spiritual masters. From 2004 to 2009 he served as Director of SpiritSite, the Catholic Spirituality Center of the Diocese of San Jose.
