Update 31 March 2010: please see the feedback from the week of accompanied prayer.

The Jesuit Community
The Parish Ignatian Group
invite you to explore
the world and spirituality
of Saint Ignatius of Loyola
and to participate in a
Week of Accompanied Prayer
In Lent

The Jesuit Community
The Parish Ignatian Group
invite you to explore
the world and spirituality
of Saint Ignatius of Loyola
and to participate in a
Week of Accompanied Prayer
In Lent

For seven days you are invited to embark upon a Retreat in Daily Life:

wherever you are in your spiritual life, whether you pray regularly or not; starting from where you are now, it is an opportunity to explore your relationship with God. You will have the help, encouragement and support of an experienced director and companion in prayer

Such a DAILY LIFE RETREAT is in the spiritual tradition of St. Ignatius Loyola, who wrote his own experience of discovering ‘God in all things’ in his work ‘The Spiritual Exercises’.

It involves...
Setting aside half an hour a day to pray

Meeting your Prayer Companion if possible each day for five days to share your experiences; what is helpful, what things are hard, what might bring you close to God. You will typically spend up to half an hour a day with your Companion, and all that is shared is confidential. You can meet in the morning, afternoon or evening.

Attending the Opening session on Sunday 21 March at 3 p.m. in Upper Parish Hall to meet the other participants and Prayer Companions and attending the Closing session on Saturday 27 March at 8 p.m.

During that week Father Hugh Duffy SJ will talk on Christ in our daily lives and Ignatian ways of praying and living at the 10 am Mass each morning and on Monday, Wednesday Thursday and Friday evenings at 8 pm in the Parish Halls.

Each morning and evening there will be Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament
from 10.30 – 12 noon and from 5 p.m. – 6.30 p.m.

All are welcome to participate in this week as much as you can or wish. Some will be able to make the retreat in daily life and attend the evening sessions. Some may choose simply to pray and meet with the Prayer Companion each day. Others may wish to attend the talks and pray privately without meeting a Prayer Companion. Some may simply wish to take advantage of prolonged periods of prayer before the Lord in the Blessed Sacrament. Whatever you choose, you are very welcome.

Those who wish to meet with a Prayer Companion each day and make the retreat in daily life are invited to either print off the attached Application form (click here) for the Week of Accompanied Prayer and return it asap or apply On-line (click here). The closing date for applications is Monday 15 March.

Father McMillan would urge as many parishioners as possible to join in this week of Parish Prayer.