The First Spiritual Exercises:  Inner Peace in Divine Love

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-on-one spiritual direction conversations to help you explore your experience of God more fully.

Open to Principals and Deputies

Mode:  3 days over three weeks

(attendance at all 3 days is required)
  
  Cost $300 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.

For Further information about school leaders' retreats, and/or to discuss other possible retreat options, please contact:
Kerrie Romeo, Executive Administrator, Leadership Development
Kerrie.romeo@cesa.catholic.edu.au
Phone:  8301 6650