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  • What I Offer
  • Events
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      • A Retreat in Daily Life, April-May 2023
      • Embodied Listening, September 2023
    • Recurring Events >
      • Christian Meditation, Daily Monday - Friday
    • Past Events >
      • Embodied Listening Retreat, October 2022
      • ANSD Quiet Day, May 2022
      • A Retreat in Daily Life, May-June 2022
      • Wisdom of the Body Retreat, September 2021
      • Quiet Afternoon of Prayer, August 2021
      • Lenten Quiet Afternoon, March 2021
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Integrity for Living
The Transformation Journey

A Retreat in Daily Life
​Saturday 29 April - Saturday 27 May 2023

General information

  • Identify and trust your own experiences of God
  • Integrate spirituality into your daily life
  • Discern and make difficult choices
  • Share your hopes, struggles and losses
  • Develop a sensitivity for justice and concern for the poor

The retreat in daily life through reflection, group work, one-to-one spiritual direction, journalling, prayer and meditation offers people the opportunity over a number of weeks to begin to play/pray with these. 

We have an ecumenical team of qualified, experienced Spiritual Directors/Companions to accompany us.

Details

What does it involve?
  • Optional Sunday afternoon gatherings for reflection, prayer, meditation, and listening.
  • Retreatants meet with a spiritual companion for a half to one hour about four times during the retreat.
  • During the week, retreatants are expected to continue their normal daily activities, keeping the time as free as possible from unnecessary distractions, to listen, to notice, to reflect and to pray.

Why?
The retreat in daily life allows busy people the opportunity to focus on God in the middle of the everyday, and the challenge to integrate prayer, faith and work.

Those who have participated in these retreats in the past were all busy people: professionals, students, grandparents, people involved in voluntary work and several mothers of young children. The ages of participants ranged from early twenties to mid eighties, all genders.

For many it was impossible to retreat away, so this provided a unique opportunity for them to ‘get in touch with their life force and still live’, as one participant put it.

When?
  • Five weeks, Sunday 30th April to Sunday 28th June, 3:30–5:00pm.
  • About four to five meetings with a spiritual director/companion are arranged at mutually convenient times.

Cost?
Full cost $200 payable by 21 April
Pay: Benedictus Contemplative Church
BSB 633 000; Account No. 153841135
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Scholarships available. Please don’t let money concerns stop you from being part of this experience.

For more information, contact Susanna Pain by phone or by email.

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Susanna Pain | Philosophy
My aim is to enable the transformation of individuals and communities in good times and in bad, through change and transition; to create space where people can rest and feel safe with challenges and successes.
I invite inclusiveness, grace, beauty and fun, as well as silence. I shape ritual and space that speaks to hearts and minds.
All my midwifery is undergirded by prayer.
A Retreat in Daily Life, April-May 2023
Embodied Listening, September 2023
Christian Meditation, Monday to Friday