  Campfire_girl Member Username: Campfire_girl Post Number: 661 Registered: 03-2008 |
EB, of course we're trying to be inspirational! ;-) I don't know what Cursillo is - as this is my first retreat. If the silence gets too loud, J - I'll jump the gates and into your getaway car. | ||
Eastburn Member Username: Eastburn Post Number: 696 Registered: 03-2008 |
Z, the PIME Missionaries had a large facility on Stoddard Rd. (the county line between Macomb & St. Clair counties) outside of Memphis. It was, I'm told, a seminary and home for "wayward boys". It was later sold to a group headed by the famous Fr. Vaughn Quinn & became Sacred Heart rehab and remains so to this day. I'm well familiar with it in that it was our next door neighbor (actually 1/4 mile up the road) before we moved up here. Beautiful location. | ||
12468_laing Member Username: 12468_laing Post Number: 422 Registered: 07-2008 |
CFG, Cursillo is a weekend long retreat - one weekend for men, the next weekend for women. Talks, group tables, etc - a very good thing to go through. It is a national movement for the Catholics which is sililar the Emmaus Walk or Tres Dias for Protestants. Truly life changing. I knew some Capuchins back in the day. Good luck on your retreat as well as you, Eastburn. | ||
Eastburn Member Username: Eastburn Post Number: 697 Registered: 03-2008 |
Thanks, Laing. It's always a good weekend. Sort of feels like going home since I've done the retreat for so many years. It also lets me spend time with a bunch of good friends whom I only see once a year. | ||
Kellyroad Member Username: Kellyroad Post Number: 1352 Registered: 04-2007 |
 Cfg: I understand the above group will be at the silent retreat. God bless | ||
Kellyroad Member Username: Kellyroad Post Number: 1353 Registered: 04-2007 |
Wishing all who are attending retreats an introspective, contemplative, and a spiritually enriching time of reflection. God bless you all. | ||
Campfire_girl Member Username: Campfire_girl Post Number: 662 Registered: 03-2008 |
Thanks KR - the above group would certainly match the criteria required for this retreat! I'm very much looking forward to this spiritually enriching time - Life details can certainly remove me from what I feel I need to do in terms of a more prayerful committment. God Bless you too! | ||
Campfire_girl Member Username: Campfire_girl Post Number: 663 Registered: 03-2008 |
Thanks, Laing - I didn't know that. I think I'll be going to the best retreat for me at this time and that's the Silent one as opposed to open forum talking. Hopefully, it will be a nice weather weekend, even if cold, so I can walk some of the nature trails...we'll see. | ||
Jcole Member Username: Jcole Post Number: 5964 Registered: 04-2005 |
Hey, EB, how did the retreat go? | ||
Eastburn Member Username: Eastburn Post Number: 698 Registered: 03-2008 |
I'm so holy you couldn't stand to be near me. It was great. One of the priests is a friend of Bill's so that makes it even better. | ||
Jcole Member Username: Jcole Post Number: 5967 Registered: 04-2005 |
Aren't a lot of priests FOB? I'm glad you had a good and holy time. Wasn't it a bit chill to walk the grounds, though? | ||
Campfire_girl Member Username: Campfire_girl Post Number: 664 Registered: 03-2008 |
Morning J - and EB - Hope to come back "holier than thou" next weekend! :-) Glad you enjoyed your retreat - I sure am looking forward to mine! | ||
Eastburn Member Username: Eastburn Post Number: 699 Registered: 03-2008 |
JC, yea, I've met a lot of them. What else do they have to do? CFG, I'm sure you'll get a lot out of it. The silent part isn't bad. At St. Paul's we talk at meals & can talk outside & in the gathering room at any time. I only took one short walk. | ||
Jcole Member Username: Jcole Post Number: 5968 Registered: 04-2005 |
EB, not much to do other than cards, a drink or two and maybe a good cigar. I remember the old days. | ||
Campfire_girl Member Username: Campfire_girl Post Number: 665 Registered: 03-2008 |
EB - the Silent part is the part I'm looking forward to the most! | ||
Eastburn Member Username: Eastburn Post Number: 700 Registered: 03-2008 |
A lot of the reason I go is to reconnect with guys I only see there. There's not so much noise in my life these days so the silence isn't as important as it is to young kids like you, CFG. | ||
Eastburn Member Username: Eastburn Post Number: 701 Registered: 03-2008 |
JC, isn't it a damn shame they have that Guest House to spoil the fun? Of course it's not in Orchard Lake any more. They have to go to MN now. | ||
Jcole Member Username: Jcole Post Number: 5970 Registered: 04-2005 |
I thought Columbiere was still around Oakland County somewher | ||
Zitro Member Username: Zitro Post Number: 2730 Registered: 04-2008 |
Clarkston | ||
Jcole Member Username: Jcole Post Number: 5972 Registered: 04-2005 |
That's it. Thanks. Wasn't that religious and laic? | ||
Campfire_girl Member Username: Campfire_girl Post Number: 666 Registered: 03-2008 |
Thanks EB - I needed that! Columbiere is near my brother's house in Davisburg - We pass it when on a visit. | ||
Campfire_girl Member Username: Campfire_girl Post Number: 667 Registered: 03-2008 |
I feel like Greta Garbo - isn't she the one that said I Just Vant to be ALONE! Obviously well before all of our times! | ||
Eastburn Member Username: Eastburn Post Number: 702 Registered: 03-2008 |
Alcoholic priests don't go to Columbierre (at least as far as I know) they go to Guest House. Used to be in Lake Orion - now treats women religious (all those nuns we drove to drink) the one in MN is for men. "Opened in Michigan in 1956, Guest House is a charitable organization dedicated to the treatment of Catholic priests, deacons, brothers, seminarians and (since 1994) women religious with alcoholism, other chemical dependencies and related problems. Guest House operates two licensed treatment centers, one at Rochester, Minnesota for priests and male religious and the other in Lake Orion, Michigan for women religious. More than 7,000 priests and religious have been cared for. They have come from more than 165 dioceses, 120 religious communities and 48 countries worldwide. The vast majority have returned to their ministries renewed in health, purpose and spirituality." - from http://www.charitynavigator.or g/index.cfm?bay=search.summary &orgid=8118 See, JC, I can use Google, too. | ||
Jcole Member Username: Jcole Post Number: 5974 Registered: 04-2005 |
Here's the skinny on Colombiere: About Colombiere Colombiere is one of the best-kept secrets in Southeastern Michigan. Secluded, yet only a short drive from Flint, Detroit or Lansing off I-75, conference attendees avoid the distractions of the city and surround themselves with acres of towering pines, oaks and walking trails. Gardens and pathways are open invitations for quiet walks. Colombiere opened as a Jesuit training facility in 1959. It is named after Claude de la Colombiere, a Jesuit teacher, orator and spiritual director, who lived in France from 1641 to 1682 and was canonized May 31, 1992. From the beginning, the Jesuit infirmary for the sick and retired priests and brothers has been located here, as well as a large community of Jesuits involved in the operation of Colombiere. Since 1978, Colombiere has been the home of an independently operated residential treatment center for substance abusers called Insight Recovery Center, Inc. Shepherd's Hollow, a 27 hole public golf course, was opened on our grounds in July 2000. Currently we serve as a conference and retreat center with accommodations for day and overnight guests including appealing buffet style meals, spacious meeting rooms, an auditorium, gymnasium and other amenities. Although the facilities reflect the Jesuit influence, they are not limited to those of the Catholic faith. The Conference Center hosts a wide spectrum of non-profit and for profit groups and is available for educational, religious, and governmental day and overnight programs, as well as both corporate and religious retreats. Colombiere That's why I was confused, I think. They offer rehab by Insight Recovery, INC on the premises Also, I think a priest I knew went there a couple times | ||
Eastburn Member Username: Eastburn Post Number: 703 Registered: 03-2008 |
I think they might treat Jesuits there. Seems I've met more alcoholic Jesuits than any other "brand" of priests. also some of the best, and most intellegent, priests I've known, especially the drunks. | ||
Jcole Member Username: Jcole Post Number: 5975 Registered: 04-2005 |
The Jesuits, as an order, work very hard. I've read some and seen some movies about them as well as my older daughter going to UDM, which is a Jesuit run university. The also don't take any shit from anybody | ||
Eastburn Member Username: Eastburn Post Number: 704 Registered: 03-2008 |
I went to UD for my 1st 3 years of college & was impressed by the Jesuits. That positive impression has been increased by social interaction I've had with a number of them, especially FOBs. | ||
Zitro Member Username: Zitro Post Number: 2731 Registered: 04-2008 |
The grounds of Columbiere was also the sight of the first Michigan Renaissance Fair for the first 4-5 years or so. | ||
Jcole Member Username: Jcole Post Number: 5979 Registered: 04-2005 |
I never went to that location, but I used to take the girls to the one on Dixie Hwy. til they were in college. | ||
7andkelly Member Username: 7andkelly Post Number: 1836 Registered: 04-2008 |
... a couple of days of seclusion, silence, prayer, rest, ... sounds great! |
