MEN/WOMEN IGNATIAN RETREAT: This retreat is an invitation to an expanding understanding of faith and deepening inclusive love. It focuses prayerfully on an integration of the cosmic vision of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, SJ, with traditional Ignatian Spirituality. The connections made transform the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius into a fresh, lively and evolutionary encounter with God calling us into a new day.

St. Ignatius of Loyola conceived his exercises within a 16th-century, static framework of creation, Teilhard re-envisioned and practiced them faithfully with a vision for a universe, and humanity within it, moving ever toward deeper relationship with God, self and the other. The synthesis calls to belonging, community, expansive love, service and ultimate fulfillment in Christ. 

Key themes of the retreat include widening the Ignatian sense of God in all things and of “the more”, ways in which the ordinary moments of your personal life and daily commitments are seen as essential contributions to the “Dream of God”, and a transition from fear to the reception of Divine Love.

Facilitated by: Sr. Mary Rowell, csj