THE FIRST SPIRITUAL EXERCISES: INNER PEACE IN DIVINE LOVE
(Open to Principals and Deputies)
Mode: 3 days over three weeks
(attendance at all 3 days is required)
Dates: Monday 22, Monday 29 May & Monday 5 June 2017
Non residential retreats will cost $300 (ex GST) per participant.
Refunds for cancelled bookings will only be accepted if cancellation occurs at least 4 weeks prior to the retreat.
Retreat Leader: Julie Tranfa, Loyola Centre of Ignatian Spirituality
Venue: The Monastery, Glen Osmond
The First Spiritual Exercises as originally conceived by St Ignatius Loyola and adapted by Fr Michael Hansen SJ consist of four retreats. Each retreat includes guided prayer exercises, individual reflection and spiritual conversation. ‘Inner Peace in Divine Love’ is one of the four retreats.
For Ignatius Loyola, God is a helping God, who seeks us out in friendship. Thus anyone who receives his spiritual exercises is always supported and accompanied.
The FSE offers life through something strangely ordinary – listening and conversation. In sacred listening we hold the other with reverence and humility. In spiritual conversation, with the focus on the Spirit at work in the exercises, we give and receive life. A single story from another can change us for life. Such stories reach deep and catch us up, to transform and nourish. And our life stories carry life for others. The FSE is full of deep stories, five or six every exercise – our stories, the story of the universe, of people in great need, of intimacy with Jesus.
In the intervening days you are invited to continue to pray the retreat. After the final retreat day you are encouraged to consider one-to-one spiritual direction conversations to help you explore your experience of God more fully.
What is spiritual direction?
Spiritual direction in the Ignatian tradition assists people in understanding their deepest desires. Often the deepest desire of our hearts cannot be expressed in words. It may, however, find eloquent expression in what we choose to do and in how we spend our energy.
Where I am now, is where God is waiting for me.
