Arrive Monday 12th October from 3.00 pm.
Depart Thursday 15th October after breakfast
Cost: tbc
About the retreat
500 years ago St Ignatius of Loyola launched his Jesuits upon the world. They quickly became the “shock troops” of the Catholic Church. Over the next few centuries Jesuits concentrated largely on schools and mission work.
However, after the Second Vatican Council they changed radically, became concerned for social justice, opened out to a larger world and made the Spiritual Exercises, which had been the real dynamic of their life, available to the world, to priests, religious, lay people and non-Catholics.
The Exercises turn out to be wonderful spirituality for those living busy lives in this over busy world. It is a spirituality of the market place, teaching us to hold on to Christ, to God, in the multifarious demands, noises and distractions of our daily lives.
Mirfield has offered Individually Guided Retreats in the Ignatian tradition for the last twenty years. This will be a retreat with addresses based around some of the key points of the Exercises for those who would like to know more about how it works, and what this mysterious Ignatian dynamic is about.
Jesuits are well known for their focus on good discernment of the Will of God in daily life. Here is how they get there.
It will be led by Fr Nicolas Stebbing CR