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September 2020
U-Pick Apple Picking in Community Orchard
Ignatius Farm is opening up the Community Orchard for u-pick apples. The dates are as follows: For Ignatius Farm CSA & Community Gardeners Fri. September 18 – 3:30-6pm Tues. September 22 – 3;30-7pm Public Picking Sat. September 26 – 10am-2pm Fri. October 2 – 3:30-6pm Bring your own bags or picking containers. Cost is on a pay-what-you-can basis. Recommended amount is $10 per person per 2L basket. Be generous so that this orchard can be available to the community! Cash/cheque payments…
October 2020
VIRTUAL – Ignatian Spirituality Retreat
A Practical Introduction (formerly the Disposition Days Retreat) This retreat is a good opportunity for a beginner or an experienced director to gain a heightened awareness of the fundamentals of an Ignatian Retreat or to prepare for Annotation 19 (the Spiritual Exercises in daily life). This year it is being offered online. In this 5-day thematic retreat you will learn the fundamentals of Ignatian praying. It includes instructional talks, prayer and thematic talks on God’s presence in both our world and our…
Find out more »VIRTUAL – Finding God in All Things Weekend Retreat
A Retreat on Praying through Photography Facilitated by Matthew Hendzel, SJ With the help of modern technology, everyone has become a photographer these days…but can we allow these new-found talents to become an act of prayer? Often when we step outside, we choose to see the things we think are important, and will sometimes take a picture of it as a reminder; but other times, certain things choose us. Whether it’s a peculiar cloud in the sky, an animal that…
Find out more »VIRTUAL – 6-Day Directed Retreat
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.…
Find out more »VIRTUAL – The Psalms Weekend Retreat
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…
Find out more »November 2020
VIRTUAL – 8-Day Directed Retreat
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.…
Find out more »CANCELLED – A Taste of Diversity
This event has been CANCELLED due to COVID-19. Loyola House presents “The Taste of Diversity” – featuring three dinners from around the world. Dates include: November 18 We’ll post the themes shortly. Mass will be at 5pm and dinner at 6pm. Tickets are $60 ea dinner. Space is limited, so order your tickets soon! Call 519 824 1250 ext 241 or email officecoordinator@ignatiusguelph.ca.
VIRTUAL – Advent Weekend Retreat
The ache of waiting hopefully Over the course of 2020, we have become well practised in waiting. While the world has kept its head down and face covered, digging in to outlast the pandemic, movements for greater social justice have lost patience and risen up to struggle for change. At one and the same time, we have waited too long for equality and real quality of life and not yet long enough for certainty and security. The waiting of Advent…
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