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Sadhana                           Tues 21 Feb  -   28 Feb.
                                                     Facilitators: Michael Hansen, SJ, Ruth Morgan, Des Purcell, SJ.

                      This 6-day silent retreat is based on the late Anthony de Mello's book " Sadhana ".
                        " Sadhana " means " experience "  and is an ideal word to describe Ignatian spirituality
                         and the Spiritual Exercises where reflection on everyday life experience leads to prayer,
                        freedom, discernment, choices, growth and a fuller life.
 

Easter Mysteries                Mon 10 April  -  Sat 15 Apr
                                                       Facilitator:  Des Purcell, SJ

                       Easter Mysteries is named after the book of the same name written by Beatrice Bruteau.
                        This is an opportunity to participate prayerfully in the Holy Week journey to Easter.   Live-in
                        or attend from 9.30am to 3.30pm each day, Monday to Friday inclusive.   The Easter Vigil
                        Ceremonies will be celebrated  at 8pm on Saturday, 15 April.

Praying the Mass                 Sun 24 Apr  -  Frid 28 Apr
                                                        Facilitator:  Des Purcell, SJ

                       Vatican II invites us to experience the various `real presences' and relationships of Jesus
                        with us during the Mass.   This is an opportunity to understand the Mass through understanding
                        its symbolism  -  an attempt to enter into the mystery.

Thecla -  Women's Retreat   Mon 8 May  -  Frid 12 May
                                                     Mon 23 Oct  -  Frid 27 Oct
                                                          Facilitators:  Bernardette Miles, Ruth Morgan, Joan Jennings

                          Thecla's story from the Acts of Paul in the New Testament Apocrypha is part of a Pauline
                            tradition that provided apostolic blessing for women's leadership roles in the church.   Known
                            as "Equal to the Apostles", Thecla's tradition, which included care of orphans and assisting the poor,
                            is continued by Greek Orthodox nuns at the monostery of St Thecla.   Participants will consider Thecla's
                            story and their own call to live more freely and purposefully.   The Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius
                            will provide a framework for the retreat.   It will include input, prayer, sharing and the possibility of
                            spiritual direction.
 
 

Born in Grace                           Sat 17 Feb  -  Sun Feb 
                                                        Mon 5 June  -  Fri 9 June
                                                           Facilitator:  Des Purcell, SJ

                           Grace is God's life in us.   God is not outside us, giving grace now and then, but lives in us,
                            empowering but not forcing us to love as God loves.   In the light of our experience and of
                            the Bible, we may define grace as the en-nobling and enabling love of God, raising us from
                            nothingness to the level of God's daughters and sons, empowering us to love as God does.
                            We do not get graces, but we are grace;  we are graced through and through.
 

Praying through our Life Traps     Tues 8 Aug  -  Tues 15 Aug    2006
                                                             Facilitator:  Ruth Morgan,  Des Purcell, SJ

                              Do you feel repeatedly trapped in patterns of thinking and behaviour that are not life-giving?
                                This 6-day retreat is based on the book "Praying Through Our Life Traps" by the North American
                                Jesuit, Fr John Cecero.   "Life Traps"  are ways of thinking and feeling caused by childhood
                                experiences that prevent us from living life to the full, as God desires we do.   Because of the
                                sensitive nature of the issues that people face in their lives, a pre-retreat telephone conversation
                                with one of the facilitators will be required.
 
 
 
 

Creation as the Revelation of God  [Ecology Retreat]    Mon 25 Sep  -  Mon 2 Oct
                                                                Facilitator:  Sr Nola Morrissy, RSM

                           This retreat offers a reflective, prayerful introduction to a new Genesis story for all humankind.
                            The Creation story has been told in many ways by the people of the Earth from earliest times,
                            but we can no longer deal with the human story separate to the Earth story or the Universe story.
                            Today we are aware of the complexities and fragility of Earth in a far more radical way than ever
                            before.   A silent, prayerful experience.
 
 

To book,  please contact The Director.