Coming up in May in Manresa

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Signs of summer are eagerly sought, if warily welcomed, this year. Some time of retreat offers a chance to step aside from the usual preoccupations and to look again at the everyday. We are glad to notice how often people recognise anew what God is doing in their lives, and hope that some of the offerings of this May might be of help to you.

Go gcoimeádfaí faoi bhrat na Maighdine thú i rith na míosa seo

Piaras

Piaras Jackson SJ, Director

Movies that Matter
Muire na mBard
Oasis Day
Newman Retreat
Spirituality in Poetry and Song
Steps2Serenity
The Call to Reform
Retreat Team Position

This series of talks by Brendan Comerford SJ has treated of calls to reform and spiritual renewal within the Roman Catholic Church itself and also among groups which were considered heretical prior to Martin Luther The talk on Thursday 12 April will look at the life of Teresa of Ávila.

8:00 pm to 9:30 pm
Thursday 10 May 2018

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For a full list of retreats, please see our website or ask us for a brochure

Bunófar an tsraith seo cainteanna ar ábhar an leabhráin Muire na mBard. Léirítear stádas na Maighdeana Muire san fhilíocht chlasaiceach sa leabhrán seo. Pléifear gnéithe éagsúla den gcur chuige sna cainteanna. Beifear ag díriú ar an dtaobh is sothuigthe agus is coitianta den ábhar seo.

This series of talks will address material published in the booklet Muire na mBard. In that book the presentation of the Virgin Mary in classical Irish poetry is examined. Various simple and commonly met with elements of the literary depiction of the Virgin in examples of that poetry will be discussed

7:30 pm go 9:00 pm
Tuesday 1 May 2018
Tuesday 8 May 2018
Tuesday 15 May 2018
Tuesday 22 May 2018

These workshops will involve prayer, silence and sharing. Participants will have opportunities to consider favourite poems and music and to reflect on them prayerfully.

7:30 pm to 9:00 pm
Monday 14 April 2018

The next evening of guided meditation and prayer will be offered from 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm on Wednesday 16 April 2018, presenting its opportunity to people on twelve-step programmes to deepen their awareness of themselves as they seek to improve their conscious contact with God “as they understand him.”

8:00 pm to 9:30 pm
Wednesday 16 May 2018

The Bucket List

US, 2007, 97 mins, Cert 12A)

Billionaire Edward Cole and car mechanic Carter Chambers are complete strangers until fate lands them in the same hospital room. The men find they have two things in common: a need to come to terms with who they are and what they have done with their lives, and a desire to complete a list of things they want to see and do before they die.

Each evening begins at 7:30 pm and involves watching a film and participating in reflective discussion guided by Eileen O’Brien.

7:30 pm to 10:00 pm
Wednesday 9 May 2018

One-day Retreats in May

Oasis Day

Plan now to take some time out in May by booking for the Oasis Day on Saturday 26 May 2018. The day will offer some time of quiet and make space to consider what the year ahead offers. The days begin with registration at 9:30 am and conclude by 6:00 pm. They take place in an atmosphere of quiet where you can decide which of the elements on offer are most helpful to you, choosing from reflections, guided prayer and an opportunity to meet with a spiritual director. Mass is celebrated as part of the day.

9:30 am to 6:00 pm
Saturday 26 May 2018

Newman Retreat

This one-day retreat offers an opportunity to engage prayerfully with John Henry Newman. The motto he chose when named a cardinal in 1879 was "Cor ad cor loquitur." (Heart speaks to heart.) This is a day to allow the heart to rest and to hear, to be encouraged by the wisdom of Newman as we seek God.
The day will consist of talks, time for reflection and the celebration of Mass. The retreat will be directed by Dermot Mansfield SJ, author of Heart Speaks to Heart: The Story of Blessed John Henry Newman (Veritas, 2010).

9:30 am to 6:00 pm
Saturday 19 May 2018

Retreat Team Member Position

As part of our ongoing restructuring and development, we are happy to invite applications for the position of Retreat Team Member to engage in providing spiritual direction, residential and non-residential retreats, courses and events in Manresa.

Our New Earth Awareness

Plan and book now to Join Donal Dorr in seeing how to experience and express faith and commitment in a way that takes account of our new earth awareness. Donal will lead the group through a reflection on how the 'ecological conversion' which Pope Francis has called for, will influence the way in which we express our faith in God, in Jesus, in the Holy Spirit, in the Christian Community, the Human Community, and the Community of the Earth - and how we commit ourselves to live out our ecological conversion.

8:00 pm Thursday 26 July 2018 to 2:00 pm Sunday 29 July 2018

Cancelled due to the weather in March, Our New Earth Awareness: Responding to Pope Francis' call to ecological conversion - has been rescheduled to a summer date.

Book now to avail of this opportunity!

Spiritual Direction Course

Final applications are being accepted (closing on Friday 4 May) for the spiritual directors training programme. The course will begin in September 2018 and run until 2020.

Spiritual Direction Supervision

Any spiritual directors looking for supervision is invited to contact Manresa. Trainees in the supervision programme will welcome people who are willing to be supervised during their training. Please contact us to let us know if you are willing to assist a trainee in the course which will begin in May.

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