Retreats and Sabbaticals

A Ministry of the Sisters of St. Joseph

 

Application forms, contact numbers and details of all programmes offered by the Ministries of the Sisters of St. Joseph can be found in these brochures:
2010 Brochure

Please Note:

The cost of private retreats, catered or self-catered, is available on request.

 

Retreats held at St. Joseph's
Baulkham Hills

2010:

You are Invited to Enjoy a Reflective Cuppa with Blessed Mary MacKillop
July 11th - 18th
Directors: Sue and Leo Kane

This guided retreat aims to help participants explore quietly and reflectively what Mary has to say to us in our lives each day. She will both affirm and challenge us. With her encouragement we can learn: To grow into the people God calls us to be, to delight in the Loving Presence of a God who cannot stop loving us, to live the words of St Irenaeus: “The glory of God is me fully alive.”

 

'I Have Heard the Cry of My People': Searching for Compassion and Justice in the 21st Century
July 11th - 18th
Director: Jan Barnett rsj

Participants in this retreat will be invited to explore questions around justice spirituality and attentiveness to the cry of God’s people in a runaway world. How are we to live the paradox of a poor and powerless God in our lives today?.

 

Journey To Hope
October 10th - 17th
Director: Colleen O'Sullivan rsj

Grief and sorrow are a significant part of the human experience. In this guided retreat we walk with Christ who is present to our grief and who leads us forward through hope to joy.

 

Behold, I make things new. Rev 21:5
October 10th - 17th
Directors: Josephine Mitchell rsj; Susan Connolly rsj

A six-day guided retreat which invites participants into awareness of right relationships. It provides an opportunity to reflect on current issues in the light of Scripture and life experience, and to contemplate the mystery of resurrection, transformation and hopes.

 

2011:

Cross Cultural Summer School
January 7th - 28th
Director: Annie Bond rsj

This Summer School has been developed as a collaborative venture of the Sisters of St. Joseph and the St. Columban's Mission Society. It is suited to those who are called to live and minister in an unfamiliar cultural setting, and to those who continue to live in their familiar culture, while ministering across cultures.

A brochure and booking form will be available closer to the event.

 

 

Sabbaticals held at St. Joseph's
Baulkham Hills

2010:

New Voices Sabbatical
October 24th - December 5th
Director: Annie Bond rsj

A six week Sabbatical program for religious and lay people.
A retreat, open to all, is included in the sabbatical (November 21st - 28th).

For further details regarding the 2010 New Voices Sabbatical please view our brochure.
To apply please download the New Voices Application Form.