Emerging Spirituality in a Chaotic World
12 October @ 6:30 pm
An online lecture with Sr Kathleen Duffy, SSJ, PhD
The universe we live in is dynamic, creative, and beautiful. Steeping ourselves in its dynamism, sensing its evolutionary direction, and sinking into its beauty, we come to know a divine immanent presence alive and active in the universe as well as a divine transcendent presence drawing us ever into the future.
During this lecture, we will consider what the universe reveals about our creator God and how we can become continually more conscious of our part in its ongoing evolution.
Presented by Kathleen Duffy, PhD Physics, Sister of St Joseph and expert on Teilhard. Kathleen has written extensively on his scientific insights in the light of faith.
TUESDAY 12 OCTOBER 2021, 6.30PM Australian Eastern Daylight Time
Free to participate.
Registration essential. Click here to register Register by Fri 8 Oct.
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3-8 Day Individually Guided Retreats at home 2021
OCTOBER 2021 Monday 11th – 18th
NOVEMBER 2021 Monday 22nd – 29th
Is God inviting you to ‘Come away and rest a while’?
These ‘at home’ retreats offer you spacious time to pray and reflect on your life and to ponder with God on what is slowly emerging. Your spiritual director, whom you will see on-line daily, will provide you with prayer material.
Our offerings are below, but we are not restricted by the dates, so if the suggested dates don’t suit, just let us know what you would like and one of our directors will be able to accompany you.
Skype, Zoom, FaceTime or telephone, whatever works best for you.
Bookings can be made by calling 1300 392 636
or email info@jisa.org.au
The Full Spiritual Exercises in Daily Life over 30+ weeks
Not all of us are able to set aside time to go away for 33 consecutive days to make the Enclosed Silent Retreat.
For those people who are focused on prayer and who desire to deepen their relationship with God, one way of making the Exercises is through the 19th Annotation, also known as The Retreat in Daily Life.
One of the advantages of the Retreat in Daily Life is that the person is able to live and work in their own environment and yet still pray and make the Retreat over a period of approximately 30+ weeks.
What’s involved:
- A commitment to a daily prayer time approximately 1 hour per day
- The Daily Awareness Examen, which is prayed at the conclusion of each day.
- Meet once per week with a Spiritual Director who acts as a guide along the way.
One of the blessings of this Retreat is that all of our daily life can be integrated into our prayer and the Spiritual Exercise of that particular day, also that this Retreat does not conclude on a particular day, but lives on in us as we continue to reflect, discern and grow through our individual experience of God in our day to day activities.
Those who have made Retreat in Daily Life found that they have a continued desire for prayer. Their discernment and thought patterns have greater clarity, their prayer life has deepened, and they have a better understanding of their own self and their journey with God. Moreover, they are clearer about their personal vocation and how God desires to utilize them as a collaborator in building the Kingdom.
Enquiries can be made by calling 1300 392 636
or email info@jisa.org.au
Individual Silent Directed Ignatian Retreats at Peter Canisius House Pymble Sydney
4 days (5 nights) or 6 days (7 nights) or 8 days (9 nights)
We warmly welcome all who seek a time of reflection, rest, spiritual conversation, contemplation and prayer, and in particular those seeking a deeper friendship with Jesus and a personal inner spiritual journey for engagement in the world.
Retreats include private accommodation, all meals, daily spiritual accompaniment and prayer material at our Pymble retreat centre
Peter Canisius House is located on 5 acres of beautiful gardens and bushland in Pymble on Sydney’s North Shore.
4, 6 or 8 day retreats starting: Friday 14th January, 2022
4 and 6 day retreats starting: Friday 27th May, 2022
4, 6 or 8 day retreats starting: Friday 26th August, 2022
4 and 6 day retreats starting: Friday 29th October, 2022
Retreats commence at 3.30pm and conclude after breakfast on final day.
4 days / 5 nights: $700
6 days / 7 nights: $945
8 days / 9 nights: $1215
For bookings and enquiries, contact 1300 EXAMEN (1300-392-636) or info@jisa.org.au
Please be aware of your state COVID Border Restrictions
Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius of Loyola at Sevenhill Retreat Centre South Australia 2022
30 days Silent Retreat
June and October 2022 – at Sevenhill Retreat Centre, 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 Jesuit and Ignatian Spirituality Australia for an Application Form on 1300 392 636 or email info@jisa.org.au
Australian Ignatian Trail 2022
Dates to be announced soon
A pilgrimage along The Australian Ignatian Trail in the footsteps of the first Jesuits in Australia.
7-day walking pilgrimage (9 nights) Barossa and Clare Valley South Australia
As a small group of pilgrims, you will walk part of the route in South Australia taken by the first Jesuits who arrived in 1848. The Trail brings a focus to the history of the first Jesuits in Australia at Sevenhill where the Jesuits established the first vineyard of the Clare Valley in 1851. It complements the Mary Mackillop-Woods Way (Portland Victoria to Penola SA) and other Australian pilgrimages/caminos.
This trail starts in Gawler with overnight accommodation in motels and caravan parks – stopping in Lyndoch, Tanunda, Kapunda, Tarlee, Riverton, Auburn and ending in Sevenhill. The route includes sections of the Heysen, Barossa Trail (formerly Jack Bobridge), Rattler and Riesling trails that link the Barossa and Clare Valleys.
This camino experience provides an opportunity to encounter Ignatian Spiritualty, discerning and listening to God’s presence in Nature. Step aside from everyday life, walk, reflect, experience nature day after day, time in silence, conversation and listening to God’s presence.
Seven consecutive days of walking covering 136km. A good degree of fitness is essential with average daily distances between 13km and 22km.
The group will be supported by two experienced leaders from JISA’s Being with God in Nature ministry: Ignatian Spiritual Director Geraldine Naismith and Jesuit priest Iain Radvan SJ.
Australian Ignatian Trail 2022 (short pilgrimage)
Dates to be announced soon
Pilgrimage along The Australian Ignatian Trail in the footsteps of the first Jesuits in Australia.
4-day walking pilgrimage (6 nights) Clare Valley South Australia
With a small group of pilgrims, you will walk part of the route in South Australia taken by the first Jesuits who arrived 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.
This camino experience provides an opportunity to encounter Ignatian Spiritualty, discerning and listening to God’s presence in Nature. Step aside from everyday life, walk, reflect, experience nature day after day, time in silence, conversation and listening to God’s presence.
Four consecutive days of walking covers 76km. A moderate level of walking fitness and overall good health is essential with daily distances between 15km and 22km.
The group will be supported by two experienced leaders from JISA’s Being with God in Nature ministry: Jan FitzPatrick and Michael Bertie.