Priest Retreat - New Life & renewal

This is a free retreat for priests, led by the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal,

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It is only open to clergy, deacons & seminarians.

The retreat is free. Dinner will be provided on Monday afternoon. Tea & snacks will be available throughout the retreat.

Accommodation is not provided for! Please seek your own accommodation.

Retreatants may arrive either on Sunday evening or Monday morning.

The Sunday schedule :

Sunday

18:00 Arrival at St. John’s Centre: Fellowship & Sandwiches

19.00 Retreat begins

Confessions available.

On Monday tea & snacks are available from 8.45 am, with morning prayer at 09:15 am. Mass is part of the program at 11.45am

Please bring your own Alb & stole.

If you require any further information or clarification, please send your queries to: cfrpriestretreats@gmail.com

"I will make of Knock a place of healing for my priest sons"

- Words from Our Blessed Mother

In Sinu Jesu: When Heart Speaks to Heart

Tuesday, February 5, 2008 - At the Shrine of Our Lady of Knock, Ireland

Our Lady spoke thus:

"I desire, my dear son, that Knock should become a place of pilgrimage for priests. 1 I will make of Knock a place of healing for my priest sons. I will restore them to purity and to holiness of life. I will draw them into my company. I will give them a share in the sacred intimacy with me that was the allotted portion of Saint Joseph, my most chaste spouse, and of Saint John, my adopted son. Here at Knock I want to reveal myself to priests as Virgin Bride and Mother. This is a secret that I have held in my heart for this time of trial for the Church. To every priest who desires it and asks me for it, I will give the grace of living in my presence as Virgin Bride—this was the vocation given to Saint Joseph—and of living in my presence as Mother—this was the vocation given to Saint John when, from the Cross, my Son entrusted me to him, and him to me. I want priests to begin to come to Knock. I want them to come with their bishops. The desire of my merciful and Immaculate Heart is that Knock should become a wellspring of purity, holiness, and renewal for all priests, beginning with those of Ireland. I have waited until now to reveal this project of my Heart. The time is short. Let priests come to me here at Knock. I wait for them as Virgin Bride and as Mother. Let them come to wash themselves in the Blood of the Lamb, my Son, and to be united to Him, Priest and Victim, in the Mystery of His Sacrifice. 1 Knock is for all my people, but it was, from the beginning, destined to be a place of healing and of abundant graces for priests. Let this be made known to the bishops and priests of my Church. I long to be the Virgin Bride and Mother of all priests. In sacred intimacy with me they will find the holiness that my Son desires to give each of them: a radiant holiness, a holiness that will illumine the Church in these last days with the brightness of the Lamb. 2 Let them come here to remain in adoration before my Son, the Lamb Who was slain. Let them wash themselves in His precious Blood by seeking absolution from all their sins. Let them entrust and consecrate themselves to me as Virgin Bride and Mother. Almighty God will do great things in them and through them. I so desire that Knock should become for all priests a fountain of living water, a place of healing, of comfort, and of renewal. 3 My hands are ever raised in supplication for my priest sons, and my Heart is ready to receive them here.

Let them come to me and I will manifest myself to each one as the Mediatrix of all graces and as the helper given them by God in their priestly ministry. 1 I am the New Eve given to the New Adam —and given by Him from the Cross to all His priests, to those called by Him to continue His mission of salvation in the world. I, the Lady of Knock, am the Virgin Bride and Mother of all priests. Let them come to me and, in the company of Saint Joseph and Saint John, taste of my sweetness. It is for this reason that I brought you here. I want you to be the first to consecrate yourself to me as Virgin Bride and Mother. I want you to model your own life after that of Saint Joseph and Saint John. Live in my sacred intimacy. Share all things with me. 2 There is no need for you or any priest to remain alone. My Heart is open to all my priest sons, and to those who ask for it, I will not refuse the grace of a special intimacy with me, a participation in the unique grace given Saint Joseph and Saint John in the beginning. This was the grace that I gave Archdeacon Cavanagh in this very place. 3 From his place with me in heaven, he intercedes for the priests of Ireland and for all priests. And now we bless you, in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. "