St Mary's Towers Retreat Centre

Come and see...

"What are you looking for?"
They asked, "Where do you live?"
He answered, "Come and See"

ST. MARY'S TOWERS RETREAT CENTRE

We acknowledge the traditional owners of this land, the Dharawal people, and honour their ancestors and elders.

Enquiries:

The Administrator
St Mary's Towers Retreat Centre
Postal Address: P.O. Box 19a
DOUGLAS PARK NSW 2569
Residential: 415 Douglas Park Drive
Phone: 02 4630 9232 Ext: 101
[answering machine operates after hours]
Fax: 02 4630 9364
Email: towersretreat@bigpond.com

Lay MSC Weekend
For Lay Members of the Chevalier Family
Friday 5 to Sunday7 September Not open to general public

St. James' Parish Retreat
Annual Retreat
Friday 12 to Sunday 14 September
Not open to general public

Spirituality of Aging
6 day Silent Retreat with presentations by members of the retreat team.
Tuesday 16 to Monday 22 September
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Heart Centred Leadership
A Chevalier Institute Program
Tuesday 23 to Friday 26 September
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Stirrings of Love: Cloud of Unknowing
6 day Guided Silent Retreat
Friday 26 September to Thursday 2 October
[with prayer weekend 26-28]
Presented by Dr. Kerrie Hide msc
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Life's Healing Journey Retreat
8 day Silent Healing & Forgiveness Retreat
Saturday 4 to Sunday 12 October
Facilitated by the Team
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Directed Retreat
8 day Silent Retreat
Saturday 4 to Sunday 12 October
With the Team
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What's a Life For?
Discernment Weekend
for Single Men
Friday 10 to Sunday 12 October
With Chris McPhee msc
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Pondering: Nourishing Women's Prayer
Women's Weekend Retreat
Friday 24 to Sunday 26 October
Presented by the Team
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A SPECIAL PLACE:
Set in 500 hectares of pleasant bush and pasture land, St. Mary's Towers is gifted with an atmosphere conducive to prayer and reflection.

A PLACE OF SILENCE:
We cultivate a place of profound contemplative silence in an hospitable environment which binds and communicates. This silence extends from our way of living and moving about ordinary tasks, to an inward contemplative attitude towards one's own self and God.
The silence of this place is at the service of a serious commitment to a spirit of prayer.

THE HOME OF THE SPIRIT:
Environment and silence, though precious to us, are but a preparation for what God alone can achieve.
St. Mary's Towers is home to a way of life. The people at The Towers are motivated and formed by their personal experience of the divine and human love of God in the heart of Jesus, now glorified and living on in all creation.
This spirit and life find expression in a natural and normal living out of the kindness of God, towards those who live here and those who visit.

All retreats commence with the evening meal at 6pm
followed by Eucharist on the first date shown.
They conclude following an early afternoon Eucharist
on the last date shown.
Complete silence is observed throughout all retreats.
Celebrations of Eucharist and reconciliation are part of each retreat.

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