My time away from Halifax (mid June to mid July) was rmost restful and productive. I gave a retreat in French to a group of my Jesuit colleagues from the French Canada province. This was a new venture for me, because I gave the whole retreat extemporaneously from notes rather than read texts. Felt affirmed by the results. I feel more confident as a bilingual person. The theme of the retreat was the humanness of Christ, a rich theme that I will develop in a series of evenings in the early spring. Then I visited family (Montreal, Quebec City, Chicoutimi, Edmundston), spend some time with the Trappists in Rogersville to renew myself, and finally came back to Halifax.
Programming for the 2009-2010 season was completed before my departure, as evidenced by this web-site and the brochure which has been printed and will begin to be circulated very soon. (If you want one, send us an e-mail with your name and address at registrar@jesuitspirit.ca).
The challenge now is marketing and development. We have a wonderful facility on Brunswick St., and we need to use it more effectively. The issue for us will be how many people come to our programmes and find new life and new insights in them. One of the main ways for us to become known more widely is the Magis award, which was announced last year, and will be given for the first time on November 14. Keep posted. You will soon know who the recipient is, and I am sure that many of you know him. One hint: Pope Benedict XVI has declared this year to be the year of the priest, and our recipient will help us highlight some of the wonderful things we have grown to expect from our priests.
So poised and ready to go, but not before we have the sense that enough people are back from their time away and are ready to concentrate on the year ahead and what they might do. We invite them to include the Jesuit Centre of Spirituality in their plans.
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