Director of Religious Education
212-627-2100 ext.207
lmdiaz@sfxavier.org
Luz Marina Díaz was born in Caracas, Venezuela. She spent much of her early life working as a system analyst as well as dancing, choreographing, and teaching in two major modern dance companies in Venezuela. In 1994, she came to New York and discovered her vocation as a religious educator, spiritual director, and liturgical dancer.
She has 19 years of dedicated service in Catechetical Leadership and has been Director of the Religious Education Program at Xavier since August 2007. She also serves as a member of the Liturgical Ministers Committee, ISEL (Ignatian Spirituality in Everyday Life) team, the Interfaith Committee, and of the Xavier liturgical dancers. Luz is certified in Level I and Level II of Catechist Formation and the Basic Training of Coordinators by the Archdiocese of New York and is also certified as a Spiritual Director of The Exercises of St. Ignatius Loyola by Fairfield University. She holds a degree in Computer Science from Universidad Central de Venezuela, a Master of Arts degree in Religious Education (M.A.) from Fordham University, and a Doctorate in Religious Education from Fordham University (Ph.D.). She is a member of The Honor Society Phi Kappa Phi by-election of the chapter at Fordham University. She is Director of the Spiritual Direction Practicum at the Graduate School of Religion and Religious Education at Fordham University.
Publications:
Díaz, Luz Marina. “Spiritual Conversation as Religiously Educative.” Religious Education, 2016, 1-18. doi:10.1080/00344087.2015.1113039.
Diaz, Luz Marina. “Spiritual Conversation as the Practice of Revelation.” The Way 55, no. 2 (April 2016): 43-54.
Diaz, Luz Marina B., Ph.D. “Our Responsibilities to a Child Beyond Baptism.” The Universe (2017): 4. Universe Media Group Limited, Feb.-Mar. 2017. Web. <http://bit.ly/2lAPbnx>.
Díaz, Luz Marina. “Who Was the Venezuelan ‘doctor of the Poor’ Pope Francis Just Beatified?” America Magazine. May 07, 2021. https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2021/05/07/doctor-jose-gregorio-hernandez-venezuela-miracles-covid-19-beatification-240616.
