Hundreds gathered at the Avila Retreat Centre in Dublin to celebrate the centenary of the canonisation of St Thérèse of Lisieux, also known as the Little Flower. The event began with Mass at 12 pm and continued longer than expected due to the ongoing stream of people attending the exhibition...
If you do sign up for one of my classes and wish to do this, please email me well before the class date so that we can prepare you for getting the most out of the retreat. Resources for viewing Iconographic Imagery Kolomenskaya Versta is a site selling Icon books and materials. It ...
His most important fresco is the “Mass of Bolsena”, which represents how a priest, who did not believe in transubstantiation, was converted when the Blood ran from the Host after the Consecration.“The Retreat of Attila” represents Leo I (beside whom stand the Apostles Peter and Paul), ...
Here there is more than the desire to return to the inorganic or merge in the tranquility of the immobile. There is also the—much stronger—desire to create concentrated centers of energy and consciousness, which are moving toward the Mover, which *know* there is a Master with a master pl...
Christianity in Arabia had three main centers in the northwest, northeast, and southwest of the peninsula. The first embraces the Kingdom of Ghassan (under Roman rule), the second that of Hira (under Persian power), and the third the kingdoms of Himyar, Yemen, and Najran (under Abyssinian ...
on this issue, so I’m forwarding this post to him. During that Calveras retreat, de Mello had a very powerful mystical experience which gave him profound insight into the spirituality of St. Ignatius. After that, de Mello himself was much sought after for his skill as a retreat master....
It was not you who chose me, but I who chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit that will remain, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name he may give you. This I command you: love one another.” Thursday of the Fifth Week of Easter ...
American flight into the Baroque, the Renaissance, and the Medieval Era is perhaps a surrender. It is positively a retreat, a renewed monastic movement, to escape from suffering. Some are attracted to its light play, which is beneficial, but for many others, it is bloodless and without flesh...
The campaign was not a successful one for the Russians, but their retreat under Suvaroff through the Alps, where they were shut in by the French armies (1799), has remained famous. Paul I was assassinated by a palace conspiracy on the night of 23—March 24, 1801, and Alexander I (...