There are a number of workshops, retreats and events for Ignatian Spirituality in Western Australia. We invite you to explore the following events to see if they are of interest to you.
Booking details are listed in the information for each event.
Come and join the Christian Life Community work to clean up Australia
Date and time: Sunday 2nd March 2025 9:30am - 11:00am
Location: 24 GARLAND ST, VICTORIA PARK WA 6100
Landmark: Park along Garland St in Mc Callum Park.
We propose to clean up in three spots. Along the river front, in the Park and on Heirisson Island.
We will meet at 9.30 am along Garland St, Mc Callum Park which is accessed off Canning Hwy, Victoria Park
This retreat offers an opportunity to take some time away from the distractions and busyness of daily life. It will create space for personal spiritual growth, enabling a deepening of your faith/ spiritual journey in an atmosphere of guided silence, respectful sharing and individual reflection. Allowing God (or your own sense of the Divine) to speak to your longings and deepest desires.
Jesuit priest, Fr Ramesh will be offering sessions of contemplative challenge with time for group discussion, journaling, prayer and walking in silence. There will also be plenty of time for laughter!
Pilgrims on a hope filled Journey… living spirituality in Everyday life. Br Terry Casey CFC will link his lived experience of Spirituality with the CLC National Priorities discerned in July 2024.
Priority 1: Forming our members and sharing Ignatian Spirituality
Priority 2: Caring for God’s Creation
Priority 3: Walking with the excluded
Join the eco-spirituality group and Ignatian Spirituality WA for a reflective walk at the picturesque Tomato Lake, 27 Oats St, Kewdale. on April 12th, from 9.30 AM to 12.00 PM, as we embrace the serene beauty of the Djeran season.
Tomato Lake, a hidden gem nestled in the heart of the city, offers a tranquil escape from the hustle and bustle of urban life. Surrounded by lush greenery and a diverse array of flora and fauna, the lake provides a perfect backdrop for a peaceful walk. The reflective walk is designed to promote mindfulness and a deeper connection with God and nature. Psalms 24:1: "The earth is the Lord's, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it."
A gentle, contemplative weekend of silent walking, reflection and sharing. The walk will be in the hills around Mundaring but it is not a walk for fitness, rather a walk to slow down and allow oneself to be immersed in and present to Nature around you and to your own sense of the sacred. It is an opportunity to slow down and deepen your relationship with yourself and the Divine.
Fr Iain Radvan SJ will lead us through a gentle exploration of the latest encyclical from Pope Francis “Delixit Nos” - “He Loved Us First”. This encyclical retraces the tradition and relevance of thought on “the human and divine love of the heart of Jesus Christ.” “His open heart has gone before us and waits for us, unconditionally, asking only to offer us His love and friendship,” the Pope writes in the introductory paragraph.
Join the Eco-spirituality group and Ignatian Spirituality WA for a silent reflective walk in Kings Park. There will be 2 options for walking: one easier and the other more challenging. However, the emphasis is always on silence and contemplative walking.
The world is in crisis, many of the causes of which are fundamentally spiritual. What we see and hear does not provide a coherent inspiring life-giving story inviting us into deeper relationships with God, others and the natural world. We need a new story.
Ignatian Spirituality and Christian Life Community WA offer an ignatian reflective walk in nature at Perry Lakes Reserve in Mt Claremont for the Season of Creation. This will take place on Sunday October 13th 2024 from 10-12pm.
Pope Francis: “ In our reflection on the environment we must make central the connection between the cry of the poor and the cry of the Earth”
Sr Frances McGuire is a Josephite sister who is both a wonderful retreat leader but also has lived with the poor and marginalised in places like northern Australia and Peru. She is well placed to lead this retreat having experienced first hand the devastation of poverty, marginalisation and damage to our common home.
In their vibrant colours, rock and stone are radiant bearers of Earth’s Story. In company with Teilhard de Chardin, we will explore the divine plan for our planet and all creation. "All things were created through Christ and for him, and in him all things hold together." Col 1.15-20
Join the eco-spirituality group on another Ignatian reflective walk this time at the beautiful and easily accessible Kent St Weir in Cannington. this easy, flat 4km walk will be done with some time for prayer, reflection and silent walking.
Come on an Ignatian Reflection walk on the Banks of the Canning River at Salter Point. Slow walking, Pausing, Reflecting and sharing are all part of this time.
Ignatian Spirituality focuses on seeing God in all of Creation. Pope Francis urges us to be caring of our common home, planet Earth - by recovering our connection with the natural world. Our new story reminds us of God as Trinitarian relational Being, a God whose loving presence is expressed in and through all living beings; which is called eco-spirituality. John Auer will lead us through the current understanding and the evolving ideas about this exciting new story, which begins at the first moment of creation.
How does Ignatian Spirituality, with its gifts of discernment and deep listening, inform our understanding of Synodality - walking together - a new model for Church?
Dr Sandie Cornish is well placed and informed and will help us navigate some of the issues and language around Synodality and explain what Pope Francis is seeking to introduce into the way of being Church in the future.
