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St Joseph’s Centre for Reflective Living
Baulkham Hil ls
St Joseph’s Spirituality and Education Centre
Kincumber South
Mary MacKillop PlaceNorth Sydney
The Vale LodgePerthvil le
St Joseph’s House of Spirituality
Batehaven
St Joseph’s CentreLargs Bay
Emmanuel Centre Launceston
St Joseph’s Will iamstown
Mary MacKillop HerItage Centre
East Melbourne
Living ContemplativelyRetreats, Sabbaticals and Programs
and other opportunities for nourishing the spiritual
2016
Sisters of St Joseph Retreat Centres, Australia
WorldHeartbeat Listening of theto the
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2016Information about the Centres, costs and registration can be found on pages 13-15.
Sisters of St Joseph Retreat Centres
This course is suited to those called to either live and minister in unfamiliar cultural settings or cross culturally in familiar settings. The course addresses global issues, contemporary mission theology and personal consequences of living cross culturally.
Annie Bond rsj and Brian Vale ssc
The Lectio Divina prayer experience is offered weekly on Wednesdays, from 11 am to 12 noon, beginning on 10 February and concluding on 21 December.
Commencing on Palm Sunday evening this retreat offers three days of theological reflection on the significance of Holy Week and concluding with three days of silence, occasional communal prayer and participation in the Mysteries of the Sacred Triduum.
Virginia Bourke rsj
This sabbatical is suited to those have recently retired from full time active ministry or intend retiring from such in the near future. This is an opportunity to consider Mission in a new stage of life.
Nancy Schreck osf and a team of local presenters.
22 January - 2 FebruaryBaulkham Hills
Commencing10 FebruaryMary MacKillop Place
20 - 27 MarchMary MacKillop Place
20 March - 27 AprilBaulkham Hills
Cross Cultural Summer School
Lectio Divina
Holy Week
Retirement for Mission
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This retreat focuses on the disciples who often struggled torecognise the risen Jesus, and enables retreatants to refocus on the One always present and always drawing ever closer.
Carmel Drew rsj
This directed retreat time offers an opportunity for days of silence, evening prayer and daily individual spiritual direction.
Kathryn Cuthbertson, Lynette Young rsj, Jennifer Scally rsj.
A retreat in the Easter season.This retreat, grounded in the Easter readings, will be a time for eyes to be opened as retreatants accompany Jesus along the way and recognise the presence of God’s reign in their lives.
Steve Sinn sj
In this second series of Saturday mornings at Mary MacKillop Place, competent presenters open up the lives and thought of four notable 20th Century people who personify the gospel as a rich and faith-filled mandate relevant to contemporary society. 10 am -12 noon.
10 - 17 AprilBatehaven
10 - 17 AprilLaunceston
17 - 24 AprilPerthville
Commencing 16 AprilMary MacKillop Place
Meeting the Stranger
Directed Retreat
‘He is not here, He is risen’
Muffins, Mystics, Monks and More Series 2
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This retreat is a process of music and imagery opening to mystery. Deep listening, expression through journaling, colour and poetry, group sharing and optional personal accompaniment will be components of the retreat.
Mary Baker rsj, Kateri Duke rsj
This retreat is open to all forms of Christian meditation with a focus on Centering Prayer. The retreat will be a silent one with the opportunity for personal direction. Experience the wine of Eternal Joy.
Tom Gleeson, a priest of the Archdiocese of Adelaide.
This retreat draws on the wisdom of Teilhard de Chardin, Ilia Delio and Beatrice Bruteau in envisaging the radiant presence of Christ-Omega in creation. The retreat will enhance the awakening of Christ consciousness.
Kerrie Hide, most recently a long serving member of the Douglas Park retreat team.
This retreat is an invitation to rest and be attentive to the Presence of God in one’s life. Retreatants will have access to spiritual accompaniment and Eucharist each day.
Pat Corbett cssr
Yvonne Harte rsj and Therese Quinn rsj
17 - 24 AprilLargs Bay
1 - 8 MayLargs Bay
2 - 9 MayKincumber
2 - 9 MayKincumber
23 - 30 AprilWilliamstown
Being Present to Mystery
Come Home to the Heart of Life
Embracing Love’s Radiance
Directed Retreat
Directed Retreat
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Jesus’ way is a path that leads us to freedom - a radical freedom which gifts us with the privilege of participating in God’s work of art creatively and together. In this retreat inspirational works of contemporary artists invite retreatants to embrace that way today.
Therese Quinn rsj, Jill Dance rsj
This weekend retreat invites retreatants to ponder these words of Julian of Norwich by reflecting with some of the women of the scriptures.
Carmel Drew rsj
This retreat provides an opportunity to take time to allow reflection on the wonderland that is the natural landscape and allow it to speak to our heart and spirit. Lynette Young rsj and Jennifer Scally rsj
8 - 14 MayWilliamstown
27 - 29 MayBatehaven
5 - 12 JuneLaunceston
Jesus Today
The Ground of Compassion is Love
Landscapes of the Heart
In this second series of Saturday mornings at Mary MacKillop Place, competent presenters open up the lives and thought of four notable 20th Century people who personify the gospel as a rich and faith-filled mandate relevant to contemporary society. 10 am -12 noon.
21 MayMary MacKillop Place
Muffins, Mystics, Monks and More Series 2
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This weekend offers a contemplative environment and experience of different prayer practices.
This retreat enables retreatants as present day disciples to respond to Jesus’ question, by reflecting on his teachings, the miracles he did, and his journey to the Cross, as presented in Mark’s gospel.
Michael Hickey cp
Exploration of how we might journey through this gifted time.
David King cp
The retreat offers a time to walk with some of the women of the scriptures as they encountered God/Jesus and to experience the God waiting to be gracious to each retreatant.
Carmel Drew rsj
This retreat offers an opportunity for those wishing to make an 8 day retreat – either with daily spiritual direction or as one’s own retreat.
Mary Baker rsj, John Hay
10 - 12 JuneMary MacKillop Place
26 June - 3 JulyPerthville
3 - 10 JulyBatehaven
4 - 13 JulyKincumber
6 - 13 JulyKincumber
Contemplative Prayer
‘But you,’ Jesus asked his disciples, ‘who do you say I am?‘ - Mk 8:29a
Prayer and the Year of Mercy: ‘How do we live prayerfully and mercifully?’
The Lord is waiting to be gracious to you
Directed Retreat
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With ‘elected silence’ as the framework, this retreat offers an invitation to prayer based on Biblical Hymns and Canticles.
Bernard McGrath osb
This retreat explores the movement of centering in the “still point” at the heart’s centre, drawing on the wisdom of Julian of Norwich, Clare of Assisi, Thomas Merton, Bede Griffiths, Ilia Delio and Beatrice Bruteau.
Kerrie Hide, most recently a long serving member of the Douglas Park retreat team.
This program is designed for priests and women and men religious who come to Australia for ministry. Topics include an introduction to Australia – the land, its peoples and the Church; Right relationships – women and the Australian Church, integrity in ministry and child protection; and psychological aspects of entering a different culture.
Coordinators: Annie Bond rsj, Brian Vale rsj
10 - 17 JulyBaulkham Hills
10 - 17 JulyBaulkham Hills
10 - 20 JulyBaulkham Hills
‘... be the music I long to hear ….Gerard Manly Hopkins
Centering in Love
Acculturation Winter Program
This Retreats offers opportunities for days of silence, evening liturgy and daily spiritual direction.
Yvonne Harte rsj and Moya Unthank rsj
15 - 21 AugustEast Melbourne
Directed Retreat
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This retreat invites retreatants prayerfully to slow down, gaze deeply and listen, and, through photography and the arts, to receive the beauty of creation as gift – and discover God in the ‘ordinary’ of life. Retreatants are asked to bring a digital camera, iPhone/Tablet or iPhone, but are not required to have any particular skills.
Val DeBrenni, Covenant Josephite, and Mary Ryan rsj
21 - 28 AugustLargs Bay
Contemplation & Photography, Art and Poetry
A directed retreat time offers an opportunity for days of silence, evening prayer and daily individual spiritual direction.
Kathryn Cuthbertson, Lynette Young rsj, Jennifer Scally rsj
This weekend retreat centres on prayer as the heart’s response to God present in the ‘ordinary of life’.
Carmel Drew rsj
4 - 11 SeptemberLaunceston
9 - 11 SeptemberBatehaven
Directed Retreat
Glimpsing the Beauty of God
In this second series of Saturday mornings at Mary MacKillop Place, competent presenters open up the lives and thought of four notable 20th Century people who personify the gospel as a rich and faith-filled mandate relevant to contemporary society. 10 am -12 noon.
17 SeptemberMary MacKillop Place
Muffins, Mystics, Monks and More Series 2
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This retreat offers a new way to explore the joy of the Gospel of John through the wide variety of images which appeal to the senses - water jars, wells, mountains and harvest, perfume of pure nard, the call of our name, the taste of good wine.
Therese Quinn rsj and Lynette Young rsj
This retreat invites retreatants to walk with modern day prophets, poets and artists like Esther De Waal, Rowan Williams, Pope Francis and Christine Valters Paintner and rediscover the spiritual art of attentiveness in times of transition, change and listening to the call to embrace new horizons.
Yvonne Harte rsj
This retreat is guided by St. Teresa of Avila and St John of the Cross as well as insights from Richard Rohr and other contemporary writers. They inspire us to respond to God’s invitation to deep relationship and so discover our own mystical heart.
Moya Unthank rsj
17 - 23 SeptemberWilliamstown
19 - 25 SeptemberEast Melbourne
30 September - 7 OctoberKincumber
Enjoying our senses from John’s Gospel
Lost in Wonder and Hope for the Future
Finding the Mystic Within
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In this second series of Saturday mornings at Mary MacKillop Place, competent presenters open up the lives and thought of four notable 20th Century people who personify the gospel as a rich and faith-filled mandate relevant to contemporary society. 10 am -12 noon.
15 OctoberMary MacKillop Place
Muffins, Mystics, Monks and More Series 2
This contemplative guided retreat will reflect on the writings of two Mystics, Thomas Merton and the poet Mary Oliver, and nourish an awareness and appreciation of the Sacred within all of life.
Lyndall Brown rsj
A retreat in Ordinary Time. This retreat, grounded in the Scriptures, will be a time to come home to the relationships in our lives, to have our heart opened once again to the One who first loved us and called us to serve.
Steve Sinn sj
16 - 23 OctoberLargs Bay
30 October - 6 NovemberPerthville
Embracing Mystery
‘Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.’ Mt 6:21
“What you seek is seeking you”- RumiThis retreat will be an invitation to recognize anew God totally active and present in each moment of life- alluring into communion. There will be opportunity for stillness and silence, daily contemplative activities, spiritual direction and creative life journaling.
Elaine Smith rsj andValda Dickinson rsj
30 September - 7 OctoberKincumber
Yielding to the Contemplative Within
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This weekend offers a contemplative environment and experience of different prayer practices.
4 - 6 NovemberMary MacKillop Place
Contemplative Prayer
This retreat is an invitation to rest and be attentive to the Presence of God in one’s life. Retreatants will have access to a spiritual companion and guide each day.
Genevieve Ryan rsj andEileen Taylor rsj
This retreat centres on Julian of Norwich’s “Revelations of Divine Love” and Pope Francis’ “Joy of the Gospel”. Though separated by centuries, they both proclaim the same powerful message of the Gospel: a deep understanding of God’s great love for us, and the joy and hope that this brings.
Moya Unthank rsj
With insights from Dom Bruno Barnhart’s The Good Wine - Reading John from the Centre, the retreat will look at another way of living our days on this troubled earth, ‘a way that is as close to us as our breathing, as intimate as our beating heart’. Guided prayer included.
Pat Corbett cssr
6 - 13 November Largs Bay
6 - 13 November Baulkham Hills
6 - 13 November Baulkham Hills
‘A Vacation with God by the Sea’ - Directed Retreat
Julian of Norwich and Pope Francis: Heralds of Hope
The Inner Journey
This weekend retreat focuses on the use of senses to become more aware of God’s loving presence. Hearts open with surprise, gratitude and generosity.Carmel Drew rsj
4 - 6 NovemberBatehaven
Open while Awake!
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This retreat is a journey with the Canticle of Canticles through the poetry of John of the Cross, Teresa of Avila and Alphonsus Liguori. Let us ‘be ready to feed on bread rather than milk. The Song of Songs has bread to give that is splendid and delicious.. Let us bring it forth if you please and break it.’ St Bernard.
Pat Corbett cssr
20 - 27 November Kincumber
The Canticle of Canticles
Mary Baker rsj
See www.marymackillopplace.org.au for details.
20 - 27 NovemberKincumber
AdventMary MacKillop Place
Directed Retreat
Lessons and Carols
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Batehaven on the South Coast of NSW Attention: Retreats
St Joseph’s House of Spirituality and Hospitality12 David Avenue, Batehaven NSW 2536Phone: 02 4472 4021 or 02 4472 7063
The advertised retreats begin with the evening meal on the first date and conclude with breakfast on the last date.
Cost: $550 for 6 day retreats. Non-refundable deposit: $50Cheques payable to Spirituality Ministry
of the Sisters of St Joseph
Retreat Information and Costs
For weekend, 6 or 8 day retreats please send the application form included in this brochure plus deposit to the appropriate Centre or email/phone Centre for an
application form.
For sabbaticals, summer and winter schools please request an application form by emailing