2020 Program Summary

Booking Retreats & Events

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The following is a summary of the retreats and events already planned for 2020. For further details contact secretary@campion.asn.au or call 9854 8110.

The Full Spiritual Exercises

33-Day Full Spiritual Exercises – Monday 22 June to Monday 26 July OR Monday 5 October to Monday 9 November 2020 – at Sevenhill Centre of Ignatian Spirituality, Sevenhill South Australia

The Full Spiritual Exercises can be made over 33-days as an individually-directed live-in retreat. In an atmosphere of prayerful silence and surrender, one is drawn into a deeper relationship with God through daily prayer, reflection, liturgy and spiritual direction. For a confidential application form or more information, please contact Sevenhill Centre of Ignatian Spirituality for an Application Form on (08) 8843 5935 or email SevenhillJesuits@tpg.com.au

Silent Retreats

To deepen your relationship with God, we offer you silence, a peaceful ambience, a spiritual director and ample time for prayer and reflection. There is no input or group work, just silence and Spiritual Direction for you to hear God’s word.

6-Day Silent Directed Retreat – from Friday 17 January, 5:30pm to Friday 24 January, 9am

3 to 8-Day Silent Directed Retreat – between Sunday 22 March, 5:30pm & Thursday 31 March, 9am – You have the option of doing from three to eight days silent retreat. Active at 5:30pm Sunday 22 March and depart after breakfast the morning after your last retreat day. To download a copy of the flyer, click here.

3-Day Silent Directed Retreat – Holy Week – from Sunday 5 April, 5:30pm to Thursday 9 April, 9am

To download a copy of the flyer, click here

Pilgrimage

Footsteps of Ignatius – led by Michael Ryan SJ & Colleen Leonard SGS

Monday 28 September 2020 to Wednesday 14 October 2020

Join Jesuit Fr Michael Ryan and Good Samaritan Sr Colleen Leonard on a Pilgrimage through Paris, Loyola, Montserrat, Barcelona, Venice, Verona, Padua, Assisi and Rome, following the footsteps of Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus in 1534.

Highlights include: a picturesque train trip across France, exploring Ignatius’ home town of Loyola, Santa Maria de Montserrat Abbey, a spiritual retreat in Manressa, Church of Gesu & Ignatius’ rooms, Vatican City (The Scavi & Papal Audience) and guided city tours.

To download the itinerary, click here and the flyer, click here.

For more information, or to reserve your place, go to myselah.com.au/ignatius2020, or contact the team at Selah on 1300 230 271 or contact Colleen Leonard at cleonard@goodsams.org.au.

Australian Ignatian Trail, Kapunda to Sevenhill, South Australia – 4 day Walking Retreat – Guided by the ‘Being with God in Nature’ Ministry Team.

Tuesday 5 May to Monday 11 May

In May 2020, a small group of pilgrims will walk part of the route in South Australia taken by the first Jesuits who arrived in Australia in 1848. This section of The Australian Ignatian Trail will begin at Kapunda. From there, the route proceeds along quiet country roads, the Rattler Trail and the Riesling Trail finishing at Sevenhill where the Jesuits established the first vineyard of Clare Valley in 1851. Four consecutive days of walking covers 76km.

This camino experience provides an opportunity to step aside from everyday life, spend reflective time walking, experience nature day after day and have time in silence and gentle conversation, listening to God’s presence in Nature.

The group will be supported by two experienced leaders.

A reasonable degree of fitness is essential with average daily distances between 15km and 24km.

To download a copy of the flyer, click here.

Cost: $1,395

Australian Ignatian Trail, South Australia – 7-day Walking Retreat – Guided by the ‘Being with God in Nature’ Ministry Team

Sunday 23 August to Tuesday 1 September

The Trail brings a focus on the history of the first Jesuits in Australia at Sevenhill and compliments the Mary Mackillop-Woods Way (Portland to Penola) and other Australian pilgrimages/caminos. The trail starts in Gawler with overnight accommodation in motels and caravan parks – stopping in Lyndoch, Tanunda, Kaunda, Tarlee, Riverton, Auburn and ending in Sevenhill. The route includes sections of the Heysen, Jack Bobridge, Rattler and Reisling trails that link the Barossa and Clare valleys.

The group will be supported by two experienced leaders.

A reasonable degree of fitness is essential with daily distances between 15km and 32km.

To download a copy of the flyer, click here.

Cost: $1,690

Other Retreats & Events

Alone and on Foot? Are you Looking for Inner Peace in Friendship with Jesus? – A First Spiritual Exercises Retreat over 5 evenings – led by Margaret Claver FCJ & Annmaree Sutton

Thursday evenings 2, 16, 23, & 30 April & 14 May – 7pm to 8:30pm

Learn different ways of praying with weekly guidance using a First Spiritual Exercises retreat of St Ignatius. You can pray this in your own time at home with guidance provided on the Thursday evenings.This retreat brings our desires to light and into the presence of a personal God.

To download a copy of the flyer, click here.

Hidden Treasure – Themed 8-Day Residential Retreat – led by Liza Stewart (to be confirmed)

Wednesday 22 April 5:30pm to Thursday 1 May 9:30am

Self-awareness is a key component of Ignatian spirituality. Unlocking the wisdom of the inner world is a wonderfully rich and exciting, though at times challenging,experience. Awareness of our inner response patterns makes change possible and at the same time opens the way for developing a deeper and more authentic relationship with God. This retreat is a process of intense immersion into an experimental exploration that focuses on unwrapping the deepest and most revealing of allquestions, “Who actually am I?”

Tropical Wilderness Retreat – Far North Queensland – a 6-day Walking Retreat based in Cairns – led by Peter Saunders & Helen Lucas

Monday 13 July to Monday 20 July

This immersion retreat in an invitation to experience the spiritual depth of God’s Creation as it unfolds in the beauty of Nature in Far North Queensland.

To download a copy of the flyer, click here.

Cost $2,190 – includes accommodation, all meals, guided trips to key places in Far North Queensland, entry to Tjapakui Cultural Centre, Mossman Gorge, trip to Fitzroy Island.

A Broken Church for a Broken World Retreat – led by Terry Fanning & Jacinta bright

Saturday 25 July, 9:30am to 4pm

In a time when many church people feel bewilderment, shame, anger and despair; as our longing for a Christ centred church feels more urgent and palpable than ever, what are we to become?

This day of reflection invites us to consider our vulnerability as gift, painful as that might be, so that the Spirit might transform us, at this time, to be a church of integrity; a church for the margins; the broken body of Christ for, in and with a broken world.

Care for Our Common Home – Clean Up Day – Yarra Bend Park – with Helen Lucas

Sunday 30 August- 9am to 12pm

Earth “cries out to us because of the harm we have inflicted on her by our irresponsible use and abuse of the goods with which God has endowed her. We have come to see ourselves as her lords and masters, entitled to plunder her at will.” Pope Francis, Laudato Si (2015)

Pope Francis invites us into an ecological conversion whereby our hearts encounter that deep connection with the Presence that is God in Nature.

This day at the beginning of the Season of Creation offers “individual believers and communities a fitting opportunity to reaffirm their personal vocation to be stewards of creation”. Pope Francis

Participants are invited to spend a morning helping to clean up rubbish in the Yarra Bend Park around the Yarra River. Please wear some old clothes, bring some gloves and bring a bottle of water.

Walking with Inigo: The Ignatian Camino – led by Josep Lluis Iriberri SJ

Dates for 2020:

16 April to 2 May

23 September to 22 October

For bookings or more information, please email Josep Lluis Iriberri SJ at : oficina.central@caminoignaciano.org

Laudato Si – On Care for Our Common Home – Four-week Reflective Seminar with Dr Peter Saunders

Wednesday 2, 9, 16 & 23 September, 7pm to 8:30pm (venue TBC)

“The entire material universe speaks of God’s love and boundless affection for us. Soil, water, mountains: everything is, as it were, a caress of God”. Pope Francis – Laudato Si.

Pope Francis has established the Season of Creation from 1 September to 4 October. It is a month whereby we are invited to reconsider our relationship with God’s Creation in particular with Earth. In these four sessions we look at Pope Francis’ encyclical – Laudato Si: On Care for Our Common Home. Through this encyclical Pope Francis invites us into an ecological conversion of our heart that inspires us to live differently with Earth and all of Creation.

This small group seminar will prayerfully reflect on Pope Francis’ encyclical on the environment – Laudato Si – and how it can apply to our lives and parishes.

Cost $40 (including Care for Our Common Home workbook).

Aboriginal Wilderness Retreat – Lake Mungo – led by Vicki Clark, Peter Saunders & Helen Lucas

Sunday 6 September to Saturday 12 September – details to be determined

Kathleen Duffy SSJ

Saturday 17 October – details to the determined.

Drawn to Follow the Road of Fire: Teilhard and Struggle – Don Bosco Retreat Centre, Lysterfield – led by Kathleen Duffy SSJ

Sunday 18 October from 5:30pm to Friday 23 October

Sr Kathleen will lead a retreat on Drawn to Follow the Road of Fire: Teilhard and Struggle. Kathleen, a Professor of Physics, is one of the leading experts on Teilhard de Chardin. She is the editor of Teilhard Studies for the American Teilhard Association. Kathleen has published two significant books on Teilhard – Teilhard’s Mysticism: Seeing the Inner Face of Evolution (2014) and Teilhard’s Struggle: Embracing the Work of Evolution (2019). To download a copy of the flyer click here.

Weekend Retreats

Ignatian Women……then until now – led by Marg Claver FCJ & Rachel McLoughlin IBVM

Friday 13 March, 7pm – Sunday 15 March, 3pm

A weekend silent retreat, with optional spiritual direction, reflecting on the feminine face of Ignatian Spirituality over 500 years. There will be some sessions of input for reflection on women over these centuries, some single, some married, some rich some poor.Do you know any of these women? Can they teach us something for our times?

Stillness Weekend – Exploring our Spiritual Connections with the Ocean – Santa Casa Queenscliff – led by Peter Saunders

Friday 20 March, 6pm – Sunday 22 March, 2pm

This weekend will offer a time of rest and quiet in Nature. The retreatant is invited to listen to how God speaks to their heart through Nature. During the weekend, retreatants will have the opportunity to relax and contemplate the beauty of Nature and God’s presence in the Ocean calling them to new life. Cost $320, Bookings through Santa Casa either (03) 5258 2661 or santacasa@ismapng.org.au.

To download a copy of the flyer click here.

Through the Cracks the Light Gets In – led by Annmarie Sutton (to be confirmed)

Friday 17 April, 7pm – Sunday 19 April, 3pm

While society tells us that cracks are a sign of weakness and imperfection, our faith story actually tells us something quite different. Come along and make some space to look at the cracks in your own life, ponder them and the possibility of God’s healing and transforming presence in the midst of our humanity.

Shaped by our experience at Corpus Christi Community, Greenvale, this is a silent themed retreat with space for quite reflection and prayer.

To download a copy of the flyer, click here.

Seeking the Spiritual in the Cosmic Sanctuary: Earth – St Paul’s Missionary College, Wantirna – with Norman Habel

Friday 1 May to Sunday 3 May

In this reflective weekend retreat, Norm will explore our deep spiritual relationship with Earth. The retreat is based on reflections found in Norm’s book: On Being and Earth Being: Exploring the Spiritual in a Cosmic Sanctuary Called Planet Earth.

Norman Habel is a Professorial Fellow at Flinders University, South Australia. He is a biblical scholar who has specialised in the Book of Job, ecology and the Bible, and Wisdom Literature. His initiatives include The Earth Bible Series, The Earth Bible Commentary, The Season of Creation. His recent works include: Discerning Wisdom in God’s Creation and The Earth Care Charter.

To download a copy of the flyer for this walk, click here.

Cost: Live-In $360 (single with ensuite) $310.00 (shared) Live-Out $240.00

Images of God – led by members of the Campion Retreat Team

Friday 5 June to Sunday 7 June

Hildegard of Bingen and Teilhard de Chardin – Exploring the Mystical Experience of God in Creation – St Paul’s Missionary College, Wantirna – led by Colleen Leonard SGS and Peter Saunders

Friday 26 June – Sunday 28 June

This reflective weekend retreat is an opportunity to explore the mysticism of Hildegard of Bingen and Teilhard de Chardin. Both of them experienced that deep encounter with the Presence that is God in all Creation.

To download a copy of the flyer for this walk, click here.

Cost: $360 (single room with ensuite) $310 (shared room) $240 (live-out)

Prayer Days – Walking with God in Nature

Gippsland – Leongatha to Koonwarra – Saturday 14 March

To download a copy of the flyer for this walk, click here.

Sherbrooke Forest – Saturday 4 April

To download a copy of the flyer for this walk, click here.

Yarra Bend Park – Saturday 8 August

Ferny Creek – Saturday 19 September

Cape Woolamai / Phillip Island – Saturday 3 October

To download a copy of the flyer for this walk, click here.

Daylesford – Saturday 21 November