(Leaving after breakfast on Easter Sunday.) Fr. Frank Downes is a Dominican friar who is trained in both the Dominican and Ignatian traditions. For many years he has and continues to minister in spiritual direction and retreats. He spent some years as a hospital and palliative care chaplain. Presently he is a confessor at Our Lady’s Shrine, Knock. Read More >
An introduction to Christian Meditation Fr. Kieran O’Mahony OSA is an Augustinian friar and biblical scholar. He is coordinator of biblical studies with the Dublin Archdiocese and is well-known for his very popular Weekly Notes – an email resource for each week’s readings throughout the year. He is a member of the Orlagh in the City community. Read More >
Allowing ourselves to be led by the Spirit – “When the Spirit of truth comes, s/he will guide you into all the truth” (John 16:13) Our retreat will bring together praying the Word of God (Lectio Divina), Christian meditation, the Eucharist and plenty of personal time. The biblical inspiration will all come from the Gospel of John, which has an exceptionally rich teaching on the Holy Spirit, the Advocate. Fr. Kieran O’Mahony OSA is an Augustinian friar and biblical scholar. He is coordinator of biblical studies with the Dublin Archdiocese and is well-known for his very popular Weekly Notes – an email … Read More >
Turas an Chroí – Journey of the Heart In the early Christian church, the well was seen as a place of healing. Held deep within the earth, a journey to the well nurtured and refreshed the pilgrim who drank of its healing waters. Through this journey of the heart we open to the well within. The call to remember with this ancient civilization is to retrieve that which we have lost and longed for in these current times. Deirdre is renown for her work and and is gifted in providing an opportunity to creatively reflect on the personal and collective journey. … Read More >
Praying – “It doesn’t have to be the blue iris, it could be weeds in a vacant lot, or a few small stones; just pay attention, then patch a few words together and don’t try to make them elaborate, this isn’t a contest but the doorway into thanks, and a silence in which another voice may speak.” Mary Oliver During this retreat we will explore how silence, music, poetry and scripture offer a deep listening and creative response to prayer. Our time together brings hope and direction in our pilgrim path of companionship and presence with God. Deirdre Ni Chinneide, trained … Read More >
‘I offer you my prayer, watching and waiting’ (Psalm 5) This Retreat is about “taking the opportunity to create a prayerful space in my life in an advent spirit of watching and waiting.” Fr David Larkin is a priest of St Patrick’s Missionary Society and has been involved in parish, formation and retreat and spiritual direction ministries in Zambia, Kenya, England and Ireland. He is currently living in Dublin. Read More >
The Prayer of Presence A practical weekend of Christian Meditation Kieran J. O’Mahony OSA is an Augustinian friar and biblical scholar. He worked for twenty-two years in the Milltown Institute of Theology and Philosophy and for nine years a co-ordinator of biblical studies for the archdiocese of Dublin. He maintains a website: www.tarsus.ie, offering commentaries on the current liturgical readings and much else besides. Kieran has just completed the final book in a nine-volume series entitled Hearers of the Word (Messenger Publications). The purpose of the series is to make current biblical scholarship available in an accessible and prayerful way to the … Read More >
The Triduum of the Risen Christ invites us to contemplate the profound meaning of this sacred event and its transforming power in our lives. (Leaving after breakfast on Easter Sunday.) Fr. Joe McGee is the Provincial leader of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart in Ireland. Fr Joe also worked as Provincial Leader of the Irish Province from 2011 to 2017. Fr. Joe has spent many years in retreat ministry. Read More >
Turas an Chroí – Journey of the Heart In the early Christian church, the well was seen as a place of healing. Held deep within the earth, a journey to the well nurtured and refreshed the pilgrim who drank of its healing waters. Through this journey of the heart we open to the well within. The call to remember with this ancient civilization is to retrieve that which we have lost and longed for in these current times. Deirdre is renown for her work and and is gifted in providing an opportunity to creatively reflect on the personal and collective journey. … Read More >
“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son” (John 3.16) Sometimes we forget that we are loved by God. During this retreat we will try to grasp the implications of God giving his one and only Son for the life of the world, our world. Fr. Gerard McCarthy is a member of the Divine Word Missionaries. Since his return from Africa he has been actively involved in the Biblical Apostolate, giving retreats and parish biblical courses. Read More >