Episode 170: Fr. Bernie Tickerhoof

Fr. Bernie Tickerhoof is a friar of the Sacred Heart Province of the Third Order Regular of St. Francis. As a member of Franciscan Pathways, the community’s retreat ministry, Fr. Bernie offers retreats and spiritual programs in pastoral centers, parishes, and religious congregations. He has developed a variety of programs on holistic spirituality, faith and biblical conversion, and community development.

          Fr. Bernie was ordained in 1978. He has traveled widely throughout the country in a ministry of preaching, spiritual conferences, and retreats. He has ministered extensively in Franciscan Spirituality, working through the Franciscan Federation of the U.S. and as a spiritual assistant for the Secular Franciscan Order at the local, provincial, and regional levels. He has also served his community for many years as a formator, in both initial and ongoing formation.

          Fr. Bernie maintains an active ministry in the spiritual direction of a number of individuals, lay, religious, and clerical.  Other interests include storytelling, social justice, ecumenism and inter-faith, holistic spirituality, and ecological concerns.  He is the author of several books and articles on various aspects of the spiritual life. His most recent book, The One Body of Christ in a Quantum Age, published in 2024, explores the relationship between spirituality and contemporary science.