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2010 Retreat Calendar The following retreats
have been confirmed. Please note that this page is continually updated and
amended. Copies of the Retreat Brochure, including amendments and additions
can be requested from the office. LENT 2010 The
Lenten Retreat Programme is now available to download. Click HERE for
full details.
Days of Reflection ·
13th February ·
13th March To view the poster containing full information
and timetable for the day, click HERE. Ashes to Alleluia 5th
– 7th March 2010 Monica and Hilary will provide through
scripture story- telling and imagery, music, ritual, and sacred clowning, a
reflective space to ponder the Paschal Mystery in our own lives as we prepare to
celebrate Easter. Monica Brown, from Sydney Australia, is
director of Emmaus Productions and is an internationally acclaimed Christian
composer and workshop facilitator who visits the UK frequently, as well as
Ireland, Canada and the US, working in the areas of spirituality, liturgy and
religious education and the integration of the arts. She has been awarded a
Masters Honours Degree in Education from the Australian Catholic University,
having completed her thesis on spiritual development and the integration of
creative process. Her music for
children, youth and adults is widely used in communities, schools, parishes
and retreat centres, and is touching the hearts of many throughout the world. Hilary Musgrave, from Tramore, County Waterford in Ireland, is a
former teacher, Principal and Religious Education Advisor in the Dublin
Diocese. She received her Master’s Degree in Pastoral Ministry and
Spirituality from Boston
College, and works extensively in the area of Creative Spirituality
through sacred clowning, storytelling
and facilitation, throughout Ireland, as well as the UK, Canada, the USA,
Australia and New Zealand. Hilary was
the subject of the highly acclaimed Would You Believe RTE TV Program, ‘A Clown’s Story’. Her
recent book “Listen Here God” has touched and warmed the hearts of many. Lenten Weekend Retreat 26th –
28th March 2010 Holy Week Triduum: Three days before the Three Days 28th March – 1st April 2010 The three days before the Triduum will be
a spiritual pilgrimage to Jerusalem.
Some of the key sights were pivotal to the last week of the life of
Jesus as he journeyed to Jerusalem for his last Passover week on earth. As we visit and pray at these sights we’re
going to reflect in our hearts on why certain places were integral to the
Passion Narrative of St. Mark. Retreatants,
as followers of Jesus will be invited to reflect on and celebrate what Jesus
was passionate about in the final days of his earthly life and how the fire
in him can ignite new desires in us for being passionate about Jesus. Father Paul Mast is a priest of the
Diocese of Wilmington, Delaware in the U.S.
Ordained in 1972 he has a doctorate in spirituality from the Mundelein
Seminary in Chicago and a certificate in spiritual direction from Neumann
University in Aston, PA. He has been
in retreat ministry for fifteen years traveling abroad and locally in the
Diocese of Shrewsbury. His first book,
Litanies & Legacies- Mystics & Mysteries was released in
November 2009. Copies will be
available during his retreats. He is a
trained lyric tenor, an avid cyclist and a fan of Jane Austen. EASTER 2010 Easter Week Triduum: ‘Tomb, Room & Road’ – The Three
Resurrection Appearances Fr Paul Mast – from the Diocese of Wilmington, Delaware, USA 5th – 9th April 2010 The Easter community, renewed with the
newly baptized, continues to revel in joy and delight. Following the intensity of the
purifications of Lent the fifty days of Easter invites both new and old
members to savor the graces of ongoing renewal in the light of Easter
joy. It is a time for contemplating
new relationships with the neophytes by holding them up as symbolic of all
Christian self-examination. It is a
time to ponder the journey of Emmaus and delight in finding the risen Christ
in new rooms in our hearts. It is a
time to rest from being in the desert for forty days. Retreatants will be invited to discover an
excitement about the presence of the risen Christ within as the fire that
will fuel their journey to a new Pentecost. Father Paul Mast is a priest of the
Diocese of Wilmington, Delaware in the U.S.
Ordained in 1972 he has a doctorate in spirituality from the Mundelein
Seminary in Chicago and a certificate in spiritual direction from Neumann
University in Aston, PA. He has been
in retreat ministry for fifteen years traveling abroad and locally in the
Diocese of Shrewsbury. His first book,
Litanies & Legacies- Mystics & Mysteries was released in
November 2009. Copies will be
available during his retreats. He is a
trained lyric tenor, an avid cyclist and a fan of Jane Austen. Resurrection Narratives 23-25th April 2010 SMG Individually Guided Retreat 17th – 24th May 2010 If God is For Us: Contemplating Paul and his writings 6th
– 13th June 2010 Given the
influence of St. Paul in the life and teaching of the Church and especially in
the spread of the Church’s mission to the ends of the world, this retreat
seeks to introduce the retreatant to the person, vocation and mission of this
great apostle and to see him as someone completely overtaken by God’s love. Fr. Derek Laverty is a religious priest belonging
to the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary. He is a well-known Retreat Director who has
been full time involved in leading days, weekends and 6-8 day preached and
directed retreats in England, Ireland and Scotland with religious and lay
alike. He also has experience of parish ministry and working in the third world (Mozambique, Africa). Preached Retreat 4th – 11th July Looking again at Jesus & Discipleship 12th – 19th July 2010 Who teaches us
about Jesus? We look at the people the
Gospels put before us as teachers of Jesus – some of them strange characters
indeed. We reflect on discipleship, the different stories of call and
attraction, and how all this is tested when hardship comes in the time of
passion. We reflect on the mission of
Jesus, his pastoral strategy, and how he differs from his own contemporaries.
What can we learn from all this as a way of being church today? Denis McBride is
a Redemptorist priest from Scotland.
After 21 years of directing courses at Hawkstone Hall, the
international centre for spiritual renewal in England, Denis has now been
appointed as Director of Redemptorist Publications in UK. His speciality is in communicating the
beauty and depth of the Gospels, which he has done in Europe, Asia, the
Arabian Peninsula, North America, Africa, Australia and New Zealand. Well
known as a lecturer and a writer – he has published 13 books – his enthusiasm
for his subject is catching. Educated
in Scotland, England, France, and the United States, he did his post-graduate
studies at Union Theological Seminary, New York, under the great biblical
scholar, Raymond Brown. He loves
travelling to different cultures and places, to learn more about the variety
of ways Christ is celebrated around the world. For God’s Sake Relax! 9th
– 14th August 2010 Tumble Trust
retreats take their inspiration from cherished Christian contemplative
traditions. They are also fun. The emphasis is on community and shared
journey. Tumble’s teaching centres on stillness and silence, relaxation and
receptivity, meditation and prayer, breathing and posture, movement and
self-awareness, play and action. Tumble workshops, in a friendly group
setting, are experiential and therapeutic and aim to provide an antidote to
stress and over-tension. David Mahon is
the founder of Tumble Trust Relaxation Retreats (1987). He trained under the
Dominicans, Fr Cnnrad Peplar, Prior, and Ursula Fleming at Spode Retreat
Centre, Staffordshire. David Mahon is a trained counsellor, accredited by
t6he United Kingdom Council of Psychotherapists. He currently works at St
Joseph’s Family Centre in his hometown of Warrington, Cheshire. He is a former
editor of the weekly Catholic Pictorial newspaper and author of Enneagram
book ‘Full Face to God’. ** NEW ADDITION TO THE
CALENDAR ** 22nd
– 29th August 2010 Setting
aside issues of obligation and looking to Jesus as he chooses to show himself
to us in the Gospels and other scriptures. We will contemplate the qualities
that Jesus shows in his life amongst us. How do these qualities affect/effect
us and our response? What is it in us here which under the spirit’s guidance
drives our response? How are we drawn to respond? What is it which provides
the rock on which our response is based? These are the questions on which
suggestions for our prayer will be based. We will also look at some of the
rich symbolic images of the Old Testament. Colm
Lavelle, SJ is an artist, poet and retreat giver, who has given a variety of
retreats over the last twenty years. These were principally directed or
preached retreats but also included regular outdoor retreats and some
creative retreats. At the moment he is chiefly involved in preaching
retreats. He has been spending most of the winter months living as a hermit
in North-west Ireland. For the brighter part of the year he gives retreats and does some parish work in Germany. ** AMENDMENT ** Recovering
the God within 29th
August – 5th September 2010 This
retreat is not available for 2010. We hope that Father Nick will be able to
join us in 2011. More information to follow. Following in the footsteps of Jesus the Redeemer 12th – 19th September 2010 The retreat
will follow Jesus mission and journey to the Cross by reflection and prayer
around key scripture texts from the Gospels. The emphasis will be on the
meaning of these texts for daily Christian life and discipleship. Ciarán
O’Callaghan is a Redemptorist priest working in Ireland. He studied at the
Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome and completed his doctorate at Trinity
College, Dublin. For over 18 years he has lectured on the Bible in Ireland,
the UK, Brazil and South Africa. He is now a member of the leadership team of
the Redemptorists and has primary responsibility for the proclamation of the
Word by Redemptorists in Ireland. He works fulltime now as an itinerant
preacher. ‘Jesus in the Midst’ in the documents of Vatican II 1st – 8th October 2010 In the talks,
we will seek to better understand how the fathers of the Council see the
Church as the Pilgrim People of God, the Body of Christ and the Temple of the
Holy Spirit, with a special reference to the Church as the community of
Jesus’ disciples who gather in His name. Above all else, we will seek to
generate the presence of Jesus in our midst, through prayer, worship and
being for each other in love. Tom Surlis is a priest of the Diocese of Achonry
in the west of Ireland. Fr Tom is completing his doctrinal studies in
Ecclesiology in the Gregorian University, Rome. His area of special interest
is the significance of Matthew 18: 20 (“Where two or three are gathered in my
name, there I am in the midst of them”) for the Church on the threshold of
the third millennium.
Preached Retreat 8th – 10th October 2010 The Heart Has its Reasons 11th
– 18th October 2010 On our way to
the fullness of life, I believe God offers to us gifts of the heart to
lighten our steps. If we accept the gifts – such as a faithful and courageous
heart, a thoughtful heart, a reflective prayerful heart, a forgiving heart, a
good-humoured heart – and if we allow them to grow within us, they will enable us
to renew young and cheerful of heart. Bishop John
Crowley was ordained in 1965 for the Archdiocese of Westminster. After two
curacies and a stint in the Catholic Missionary Society he was secretary to
Cathedral House for six years before being appointed auxiliary bishop to
Central London for another six years. In 1992 he was appointed bishop of the
Diocese of Middlesbrough and remained until 2007 when he stood down for
health reasons. Since then, Bishop Crowley has resided at the parish of Our
Lady of Lourdes, Wanstead. He conducts retreats for clergy, religious and lay
groups. Weekend Retreat 22nd – 24th October 2010 ADVENT 2010
Advent Triduum Led by Sisters of the Poor Servants of the Mother of God Christmas at Kairos A New Year At Kairos 31st December – 3rd January 2011 For further information, or to be send a brochure, Tel: +44 (0)20 8788 4188 Email: deputydir.kairos@psmgs.org The
Kairos Centre
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