Green Drinks - Friday 24 February - 5.30 - 7pm. Dr Charles Rue SSC - Food Quality & Food Security
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Cosmology - Wednesdays 7, 14, 21, 28 March 7.30 - 9pm. Sr Patricia Powell rsm
Everyone has a cosmology. This course is an introduction to the new cosmology based on contemporary science. It explores how an operative cosmology has the power to influence our experience, our understanding and our response to reality.
Dare to Dream - Sat & Sun 17-18 March 2012 - Maree Haggerty
Using the principles of Projective Dream Work, this two-day workshop will offer ways to unwrap dreams, ways to ‘crack the code’, so that participants can see with greater clarity the way their life is and why it might be so.
Praying with Scripture - Friday 23 March
Retreats in 2012
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AUTUMN RETREATS
29 April – 4 May 2012: Six Day Retreat with Input & Reflection
“The Universe – Revelation of God?” Director: Mary Dennett rsm
For some people the new Universe Story raises questions about God. For people of faith the Universe reveals God as Trinity ‐ as Incarnate. This retreat provides the opportunity to reflect on God revealing Godself through the Universe.
25 – 27 May 2012: Weekend Retreat
“Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream” Director: Margie Abbott rsm
Awakening the Dreamer offers a bold vision for an environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling, and socially just human presence on Earth. Margie will explore the current state of our planet from the perspective of our interconnectedness with all things and connect with a powerful global movement to reclaim our future. This powerful multi‐media exhibit has been shifting lives worldwide.
WINTER RETREAT
3 – 8 August 2012: Six Day Directed Retreat. Limit 6 persons
“Journey of the Universe – Journey of the Self” Director: Valda Dickinson rsm
It has been said that the “world view” we hold influences the way we see things and the way we live.
Simultaneously it influences the way we image and relate to the Divine.
This retreat will be an opportunity to ponder how the patterns and rhythms of nature revealed in “The New Universe Story” reflect your own life journey, and how this is challenging or disturbing your faith journey and that of the communities to which you belong. There will time for silence, prayer, spiritual reading and accompaniment.
SPRING RETREAT
9 – 14 November 2012: Directed Retreat: Limit 6 persons
“Aging – It is all a Question of Story” (Thomas Berry) Director: Valda Dickinson rsm
It has taken billions of years of evolution to get the world where it is today.
The maturing of spirit, insight, community and compassion has involved numerous stories of trials and errors, challenges and relationships, joys and sorrows, births and deaths, chaos and creativity.
This retreat is an opportunity to remember, harvest and celebrate the wisdom gleaned from your evolving story. It is also a time to ponder what is setting and what is rising for you today.
There will time for silence, prayer, spiritual reading and accompaniment.
INDIVIDUAL DIRECTED RETREATS
Six Day & Eight Day Individual Directed Retreats & Full Ignatian Spiritual Exercises
(30 day retreat) available throughout the year by arrangement
Contact: Ann‐Maree O’Beirne rsm
Phone: 02 6331 9571 or 0407 329 902