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Renewal and personal growth: Three stories from Manresa Jesuit Spiritual Renewal Centre

Fannie Dionne, Canadian Jesuits Magazine 2020 No. 1 Issue As we have recently highlighted, this year, the Manresa Jesuit Spiritual Renewal Centre in Ontario is celebrating its 70th anniversary. How relevant can a retreat centre be in 2019? “Manresa is an oasis of peace where you can leave your daily drama behind for a while,” […]

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What Prayer Is

Thomas H. Green, S.J. For the past several years, I have been a spiritual director in a major seminary. The spiritual director’s job is a unique one for which there seems to be no real training except experience. He is a curious mix: an alter ego, or other self, sharing with young people what is

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Manresa Celebrates Its 70th anniversary by Looking into the Future

Jesuits of Canada News This year, the Manresa Spiritual Center is celebrating its 70th anniversary. Many things have changed since the first laymen retreats in Toronto in 1925 and the foundation of Manresa in 1949, including the addition of retreats for women and for members of Alcoholics Anonymous. So what is happening today? Fr. Henk van Meijel,

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A Method of Contemplation

from The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius Loyola Edited by Martin Royackers, S.J. Contemplation means different things in different schools of spirituality. For St. Ignatius, it meant becoming personally present through the imagination to an event in the life of Christ. The goal of this type of prayer is to come to know Christ intimately

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Walking With Youth: 50 Young Professionals Complete Retreat in Pickering

Jesuits of Canada News  June 13, 2019 Last May 31 to June 2, 50 young professionals took part in an Ignatian retreat at the Manresa Jesuit Spiritual Renewal Centre. These young people, between the ages of 19 and 39, came from all walks of life: airline pilots, lawyers, accountants, physiotherapists, business people, students. The purpose

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Caring for those who cared: A portrait of the René Goupil Jesuit community in Pickering

Jesuits of Canada News    April 11, 2019 I have just completed my annual visit to our Jesuit community in Pickering. My last activity was to participate in the Wake service of our most recently deceased companion, Frank Micallef, a member of the René Goupil (infirmary) community, one of three résidences on the 20 acre property

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Silence

GOSPEL (Matthew 14:22-33) Immediately after feeding the crowd with the five loaves and two fish, Jesus made the disciples get into the boat and go on ahead to the other side, while he dismissed the crowds. And after he had dismissed the crowds, he went up the mountain by himself to pray. When evening came,

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