‘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 >
Season of mists and joyful expectation. Fr. Brendan Nolan is a priest of the Diocese of Ferns, Parish Priest of Blackwater, Co. Wexford and former Director of Pilgrimage at Our Ladies Island. 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 >
Grieving the Old and Welcoming the New Jessie Rogers will explore scriptural wisdom for spirituality in times of change. Dr Jessie Rogers lectures in Sacred Scripture and is Dean of Theology at St Patrick’s Pontifical University, Maynooth. Read More >
DIRECTORS: Sr. Margaret McDermott MA Fully Booked Fr. Mike Serrage MSC Fully Booked Martin Doyle Fully Booked Sr. Helen Maher SSJG Fully Booked Sr. Sheila Crowley SSJG Fully Booked Read More >
He Said to the wind and the waves, “Quiet, Be Still”. (Mark 4;39) Quieten the mind, calm the fears, and create an inner sanctuary of stillness, through meditation, scriptural reflection, prayer, input etc. Martina Lehane Sheehan is an accredited Psychotherapist, Spiritual Director, and Author. She was until 2019 Director of Retreats and Programmes in Ennismore Retreat Centre, Cork, and is regularly invited to facilitate retreats and workshops both nationally and internationally. Martina is the author of four bestselling books. Together with her husband, Patrick, she has also created two CDs, ‘Soul Space; Meditations and Lyrics for stillness’ and ‘Beyond Mindfulness: Guided Meditations and … Read More >
“Put off your old self … to be made new in the attitude of your minds” (Ephesians. 4:22) The Lord is offering us the possibility of being transformed; but we have to be willing to put off our old self. On this Scripture-based retreat let’s hear the transforming Word of God as if for the first time. 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 >