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PERSONAL DAYS The Center Staff invites you to come at a time of your choosing for day(s) of silent retreat without a director, offering the opportunity for personal prayer, reflection, rest, spiritual reading and exercise. Dates can be individually negotiated with the Center registrar.
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SILENT GUIDED RETREAT Saint Ignatius Loyola offers solid wisdom for all who desire to be open to Spirit’s creating action through contemporary realities. This silent guided retreat will introduce retreatants to Ignatius and his spirituality and will offer concrete suggestions to aid retreatants in their prayer and discernment.
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TRIDUUM RETREAT Fr. Thomas Scirghi, liturgist and theologian of Fordham University, will lead reflections on the Holy Week liturgies to help retreatants appreciate, assimilate and appropriate the key event and grace of all salvation history, the Paschal Mystery of Jesus’ passion, death and resurrection. By re-enacting this mystery in the liturgies of Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and Saturday’s Easter Vigil, retreatants will attempt to understand more fully the link between worship and belief, according to the ancient saying: lex orandi lex credendi, or “the Church prays as she believes.” Never is this clearer than during the Holy Week liturgies.
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CHRISTIANITY AND THE PRACTICE OF ZEN April 13-15, 2012 Robert Kennedy, S.J. This silent retreat will involve practice in the discipline and philosophy of Zen highlighting its usefulness to one seeking to deepen his/her Christian life. There will be several intense prayer times throughout the weekend. The retreat is geared toward those who already know the basic concept of the practice of Zen. It may be helpful for participants to read Fr. Kennedy’s book entitled “Christianity and Zen” before they arrive.Pleasebring a mat for sitting. (Straight backed chairs will also be available.) Fr. Robert Kennedy, S.J., teaches theology and Japanese at St. Peter’s College, Jersey City, NJ, is a practicing psychotherapist, and the author. He studied Zen in Japan with the Japanese master Yamada Roshi; in 1991, he was made Sensei (teacher) in the White Plum lineage; in 1997, he received Inka, the complete seal of approval and was given the title Roshi or Master. He holds doctorates in theology from the University of Ottawa and from St. Paul in Ottawa, a Masters in Theology from Sophia University in Tokyo, a Doctor of Ministry in Psychology and Clinical Studies from Andover-Newton in Boston.
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A RETREAT FOR PRIESTS AND DEACONS We shall pray and reflect together on some of the fundamental themes of our vocation and ministry as teachers and community builders within the Church, actively preparing ourselves and the world around us for the coming reign of God – a reign of “truth and life, holiness and grace, justice, love and peace.” Supported by private and liturgical prayer, and nurtured in silence and the sacraments, we shall ponder once again on why God has chosen us for this way of life, and how best we can cooperate with God’s plan by becoming fit “instruments” in God’s hand, as was the “Good Shepherd” and that “Priest Forever, “ Jesus Christ. We shall discuss the various implications and responsibilities of our calling, along with its “hundredfold” graces and promises. Yes, and we shall not neglect to address the great contemporary challenges that we face, but not without hope, for we are not alone! Fr. Joe Currie, is presently rector at the Jesuit Center here in Wernersville. He began his final preparation for the priesthood in the Indian Himalayas, just as the second Vatican Council was coming to an end. He spent those four years trying to assimilate the insights of the council Fathers. After ordination and years of pastoral ministry in India, he returned to the Jesuit theologates to set up a Pastoral Education Program for students in both Delhi and Pune, and to implement a Supervised Pastoral Ministry practicum for the newly ordained. Since returning to the U.S. he has headed a retreat facility and campus ministry programs at two Jesuit universities. He is the author of several books, among them, “Shepherds after My Own Heart”: Orientations in Pastoral Education.
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REMEMBER TO LIVE! Awareness and acceptance of second-half of life realities like aging and health challenges can bring a clarity and richness to the limited, precious moments of life, and foster a special care for relationships and priorities. This guided retreat offers a faith-filled way of facing our finitude, of preparing for and integrating loss, whether of things or loved ones, all the while awakening us on a deeper level to the gift of life that is ours to live now. Fr. Thomas Ryan, CSP directs the Paulist North American Office for Ecumenical and Interfaith Relations in Washington, DC. He leads ecumenical retreats throughout the U.S., Canada, and in Europe. Among his 13 books on the spiritual life are Four Steps to Spiritual Freedom; Disciplines for Christian Living; Prayer of Heart and Body; Soul Fire and the DVD Yoga Prayer. For more info: www.tomryancsp.org .
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