Jazmin Jimenez (she/her) is the Director of Liturgy & Worship at American Martyrs Catholic Community in Manhattan Beach, CA. Before transitioning to parish work, she taught theology and worked in campus ministry at Verbum Dei Jesuit High School and Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy for a combined 13 years.
Jazmin is a proud product of Catholic education having studied at schools sponsored by the Maryknoll Missionaries, Augustinians, Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose and the Jesuits. She completed her Theological Studies at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. She is actively involved in Discerning Deacons, The Association of Catholic Student Councils (TACSC), and the South Bay Catholic-Jewish Women’s Dialogue. Jazmin is deeply committed to doing the work to bring about a more listening, more synodal, more inclusive Church.
She resides in El Segundo, CA with her husband, Mike, and their two sons.
On this feast of the Immaculate Conception, let us remind ourselves that authentic discernment requires freedom and space. Let us ponder how we can imitate the freedom with which Mary discerned a big question.VIEW