From the Fathers
Check out what Fr. Kevin & Fr. Scott have to say to the Body as we prepare for this year’s retreat…
Consecration and Pentecost
+M 4-22-11 Good Friday Beloved, I pray that as we enter into the heart of this Sacred Triduum, you are swept up into His loving embrace. It is all for Love. “In this is love: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as expiation for our sins” (1 John 4:10). On The Jesus Retreat this year, we all felt the Lord draw us more closely together in the Body. For this reason we have felt it important to do all we can to remain united in love, both in practical and spiritual ways. In order to support this...
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+M “All these devoted themselves with one accord to prayer, together with some women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and his brothers.” —Acts 1:14 February 3, 2011 Beloved, Peace to you all in the Holy Spirit. It has been a few weeks since the end of this year’s Retreat. Over these past few weeks I have spoken with numerous members of The Jesus Retreat family, and there is a growing consensus that something solid and concrete has happened this year. The Lord is forming something in us and through us as a Body. We do not yet know what...
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+M Thursday, 1-13-11 “Praise him, you Israelites, before the Gentiles, for though he has scattered you among them, he has shown you his greatness even there.” —Tobit 13:3–4a Brothers and sisters, “Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ” (Romans 1:7b). As I was praying Morning Prayer on Tuesday, the above passage from Tobit jumped out to me. I felt that in this passage the Lord is giving us his direction in this delicate time after the Retreat. I would like to share some thoughts with you, which I hope...
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