Loyola House continues its long tradition of offering opportunities to deepen your relationship with the Trinity – on-line during this time of pandemic. Same quality presentations; same opportunities for silence and meditation; but right in your own home. Friday evening to Sunday noon—This virtual guided retreat will provide you with prayerful input inspired by Louis Savary’s The New Spiritual Exercises, In the Spirit of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, recast in light of what we now know of evolution, our universe,…

Facilitated by Bernie Carroll, SJ & André Auger Sunday evening to Friday noon— This virtual guided retreat will provide you with prayerful input on the implications of the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius “transposed” in the spirit of Teilhard de Chardin. It will also include the considerable biblical scholarship of the past hundred  years to help us recast some of the key theological dimensions of the Exercises. We will explore Teilhard’s understanding / experience of the Cosmic Christ, an evolutionary step…

How does Jesus’ last week speak to your life today? …and to our contemporary world? Walk with Jesus along his journey to the cross and his rising from death, and allow Christ to join his journey to yours. Daily inputs for reflection and prayer will be provided in this virtual retreat to break open the scriptures and traditions around Jesus’ last week, so to help you experience its relevance to you today. A spiritual director will meet with you each…

Virtual presentations for the Easter Triduum will present new opportunities for engaging the Holy Week rituals. Holy Week has its origin in the dramatic liturgies of the ancient Jerusalem Church: procession with palms; washing of feet; the passion narratives; veneration of the cross; the Easter Vigil with its focus on light in darkness, and rebirth through the water of baptism. Every year we join ancient and modern wisdom to bring these rituals to life. Last year, with churches suddenly closed…

Praying the good, the bad and the ugly Facilitated by Greg Kennedy, SJ  & Matthew Hendzel, SJ There’s something liberating in letting God have it, all of it, whatever you are currently suffering or celebrating. The Hebrew psalms are a kind of license to free speech that holds no authentic emotion back. Their frankness, force and forthrightness display a deep trust in God’s abiding friendship and power. They show that the best prayer need not be neat and pretty, but…

While the pandemic renders it impossible to come to Loyola House for your retreat, we will bring the directed retreat to you! Just as in any silent retreat, Loyola House spiritual directors will provide daily spiritual direction that will occur via Zoom (or telephone). There will be no talks/input sessions for the retreat; and sadly, we cannot offer daily mass. As ever, your director will listen to you and the Holy Spirit in order to help guide you in your prayer.…

A Weekend with a Childhood Friend Facilitated by Greg Kennedy, SJ And when you finally find consolation (consolation is always to be found), you’ll be happy to have known me.  You’ll always be my friend.  (Antoine Saint-Exupery) Sometimes it’s helpful to stop and assess just how much you’ve grown up, that is, to measure how far you’ve moved away from the enchanted world of the child.  Do the night stars astound you, or fill you with an ambition to possess, or…