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Our Invitation
With active and inclusive love, we welcome ALL persons as together we seek and experience the Sacred in life, oneness with Earth and the common good. Step back from the daily whirlwind to nourish your spirit in prayer and  your spiritual yearnings with our speakers and programs.

The Spirituality Centre is both a place and an experience. It offers an atmosphere of quiet and contemplation as well as activities including dialogues with spiritual leaders from among our local community and farther afield; days of stillness & solitude; workshops, discussion forums; healing Liturgies; spiritual direction & companionship; and faith-sharing and conversation groups.

SPECIAL NOTICE  -  CLOSURE OF THE SPIRITUALITY CENTRE

The Spirituality Centre at Mount St Joseph will officially close as of June 27, 2008. 

The Sisters of St Joseph will continue this ministry in a new direction at the Medaille Centre in a downtown location where spiritual direction, massage therapy and other ministries will be offered. This will commence in the fall of 2008.

In the 16 years of its existence, we hope that The Spirituality Centre has been a place where your mind and soul have found refuge, challenge, learning and peace; where “the fires that burn within you” were fuelled and your spirit nurtured.

We thank you from the bottom of our hearts for your presence with us at programs, days of stillness, forums and retreats.  You were the reason for our being and your support was an ongoing gift.

All events after June  are CANCELLED.

Programs

Amidst all the portents of doom and despair, a thread of Hope emerged as we put together our 2008 program. It was not a conscious effort on our part to focus on Hope; she surfaced by herself – an insistent, strong but quiet voice calling to a need in our times. Hope to those wearied by caring duties, hope in the face of death, in personal relationships, in the personal journey through darkness to light (as symbolized by Lent & Easter). Hope in the face of environmental catastrophe; hope to those clinging to the edge of institutions in crisis; hope from the perspective of children. We will close our year with a jubilant, hope-filled musical celebration of The Spirituality Centre in the historic Mt St Joseph Chapel before we move to a new location.

Click on PROGRAM SCHEDULE in the list on the left for all 2008 events and resources


Sharing the Mystery

The Real Wizardry of Oz - Fr Pierre Teilhard de Chardin defined contemplation as "the world becoming luminous from within as one plunges into human activity". St Teresa of Avila tagged it "awareness, absorbed and amazed". A good parable about how a contemplative stance int he world works is "The Wizard of Oz", a film that's chock-full with dark tornadoes, witches sporting striped socks, officious munchkins, fanged flying monkeys and bad puns. With it's open-eyed gaze at aspects of nature that don't dance in goody two-shoes, some tots watch it stiff with fright. We learn though that the larger-than-life figures and scenes over the rainbow turn out to be the same people found in our kitchen, in the backyard, in the landscape down the street.

When you know down in your rusting joints and up in your straw-filled head that you live in a world where the Incarnation took place, in a sacred cosmos, well, the ordinary is always extraordinary. The way to the Emerald City is an adventure that tests our courage, compassion and wit - as good a definition of spirituality as any. ...

The real wizardry of Oz turns out to be the insight that our feet are shod with the magic of our heart's desire, always have been." - National Catholic Reporter, Dec. 14, 2007

 

Spirituality Centre, Mount St. Joseph, 1545 Monaghan Rd., P.O. Box 566, Peterborough, Ontario K9J 6Z6. Phone: (705) 745-4478; FAX: (705) 745-9219;
E-mail: spirituality@nexicom.net