Retreat – Deirdre Ni Chinneide Copy Copy

Retreat – Deirdre Ni Chinneide Copy Copy

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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 >

Retreat – Deirdre Ni Chinneide

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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 >

Retreat – Deirdre Ni Chinneide

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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 >

Retreat – Fr. Tom McGuinness SJ & Sr. Magdalene Lawler SND

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Gospel Women, Gospel Men: Reflections in Painting and Song.   Fr. Tom McGuinness has been a Jesuit since 1965 and has spent most of his ministry engaged with directing the Spiritual Exercises. From 2008-14 he was director of the Ignatian Spirituality Centre in Glasgow. He joined the Retreat Team in Manresa in 2015. He has written and recorded a number of reflection songs as one way of exploring the spirituality of St Ignatius. Sr. Magdalen Lawler is a Sister of Notre Dame, living in London, she is a theologian and art historian. Sr. Magdalen trained at St Beuno’s in 1980 and since then she … Read More >