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Ignatian Way

The Ignatian exercises are a gift from the founder of the Jesuits, St. Ignatius. He developed them over 500 years ago to guide every person who desires it to a stronger relationship with God in Jesus. The genius of the exercises is that the process encourages each participant to journey to God their own way, in their own time. Each person’s journey is different: You shape and form the process based on where you are in your walk with God, and your level of commitment to the exercises. It is an exciting journey into yourself and your relationship with God. For many the exercises have helped them clarify their understanding of their relationship with God and why God created them and endowed them with unique gifts.

The process is a daily commitment. Every day, you read and pray on scripture, then journal your experience with God during that reflection and prayer. You finish your daily observation with the Examen. This is the most powerful part of the exercises. During a time of the day that you choose, you reflect back on your day and identify where God was present to you and where God may have felt distant. Then you journal your experience.

Journaling is a critical part of the process. It is for you alone. It allows each participant to review their journey to God over time to identify their movement toward God. Journaling can be essays or poetry; in one case one participant used artistic doodles to express their emotional and spiritual journey with God.

Ignatian Journey groups gather once a week. We begin with prayer, followed by a check in. We then discuss, as each person is able, our journey with God during the prior week. This journey is informed by our journaling. It is during this time we share our new insights as well as any struggles we are having while developing our relationship with God. This is a time of loving support from the group as each person learns that, while their struggles are unique, the group can still help us so we can develop a new understanding of God.The struggles are a gift from God because they help each of us identify any barriers that exist between God and ourselves. When you know what is in your way, you can remove that obstacle and go deeper with God.

Every few months a new group begins the approximately 30 week course. Please contact the Rev. Ted Babcock.

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The Rev. Noah H. Evans
Rector and Chaplain to St. Paul's Nursery School
412-531-7153 ext. 11 
The Rev. Laura Di Panfilo
Associate Rector
412-531-7153 ext. 12 
The Rev. Ted Babcock
Honorary Priest Associate

The Rev. Noah H. Evans

Rector and Chaplain to St. Paul's Nursery School
412-531-7153 ext. 11 |

The Reverend Noah H. Evans, our Rector and pastor, has been with St. Paul's since March 2017. Ordained in 2004, previously, Noah served as the Rector of Grace Episcopal Church, Medford, Massachusetts and as the Associate Rector of St. Anne's in the Fields Episcopal Church in Lincoln Massachusetts. Noah was born and raised in Lansing, Michigan. He is a graduate of Washington University in Saint Louis and The General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church. Noah lives in Mt. Lebanon, with his wife, the Reverend Sara Irwin, an Episcopal Priest, who serves as the Pastor of St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church in Carnegie. Their daughter Adah was born in 2009 and their son Isaiah was born in 2007. They have a Golden Retriever (Blue) and two chickens (Noise and Buckbeak). Noah loves cooking, smoking meat, local foods, current events and politics, the intersection of church and society, movies and television and teaching the bible. He was the co-founder of Life Together: the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts Young Adult Internship Program and has served on the boards of a number social-justice non-profits. In 2016, Noah received the first Wallace H. Kountze Community Service Award by the Mystic Valley NAACP for his work on multicultural issues. He is excited about the inter-generational energy at St. Paul's and helping to lead the congregation to more boldly serve the wider community and the world. You can find him on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/nhevans827.

The Rev. Laura Di Panfilo

Associate Rector
412-531-7153 ext. 12 |

Laura started at St. Paul's in July 2019. She grew up in Massachusetts and is a graduate of Emory University where she completed a BA in Women’s Studies and Religious Studies. She earned her Master of Divinity at Princeton Theological Seminary and her Master of Arts in Ministry from General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church in New York City. She was ordained a transitional Deacon in June in New Jersey, and was ordained to the Priesthood at St. Paul’s in December 2019.

Laura worked as a chaplain at a trauma hospital in Trenton, New Jersey prior to her time at St. Paul's. Laura is also a certified Kripalu yoga instructor and has taught classes in both yoga studios and churches. She lives with her husband Luke who is also a priest in the diocese, her pug and infant. At St. Paul's she coordinates Newcommers Ministries and also support the ministry of the Pastoral Care Commission and the Spiritual Growth Commission.

The Rev. Ted Babcock

Honorary Priest Associate
The Rev’d Ted Babcock was ordained deacon in June of 2001 and ordained priest in January 2002 by the Right Rev’d Andrew Smith, Bishop of Connecticut. Ted did his internship while at the General Theological Seminary at St. David's in the South Bronx, NY where he was actively involved in community organizing with the IAF. He served his curacy at Christ Church, Greenwich, CT where he was responsible for pastoral care for over 500 senior citizens.

In September of 2005 he was called to St. Andrew’s Shippensburg, PA as rector. He served there until September 2010 when Bishop Nathan D. Baxter called him to be his Canon to the Ordinary, the Bishop’s Executive Officer. Ted retired at the end of 2013, and was named Canon to the Ordinary, emeritus by Bishop Baxter.

After moving to Pittsburgh, Bishop McConnell invited Ted to become Diocesan Administrator. He served in that capacity for two years while serving as the interim rector St. Stephen’s in McKeesport, and St. Brendan’s in Franklin Park. Ted re-retired December of 2017.

Ted earned his BA with Highest Honors from the University of Michigan 1973, and his MA from the University of Virginia in 1974 in American Southern History (Slavery) where he was a Thomas Jefferson Fellow. In 1982 he earned his MBA from Harvard Business School.


After 26 years in the business world he attended and graduated from The General Theological Seminary in 2001. In 2009 He received his ThD from the Graduate Theological Foundation/Oxford University for his work in liturgy and history. In 2013 he was named an Oxford Foundation Fellow and continued his study of Baptism in the early church (40-200CE) at Oxford University in Oxford, UK.

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