The Center for Ignatian Spirituality is inviting the LMU community to participate in a virtual retreat Embodying Peace with Ignatian Themes. “We really want to focus on how spirituality isn’t just in our heads,” said Randy Roche S.J., director of the Center for Ignatian Spirituality. “We want to pay attention to our bodies. We want to focus on how our spirit lives within our bodies and then utilize Ignatian prayer in that experience.”
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the center provided their first on-line retreat for faculty and staff at LMU. After that successful and meaningful experience, the team realized how virtual experiences have some real perks and prepared this virtual retreat that already has participants from around the globe. Embodying Peace with Ignatian Themes is free and open to everyone regardless of their faith tradition or background. “People who experience this retreat say they become more peaceful and that it affects everyone around them,” said Roche. “They become more centered and focused.”
The retreat can be done in one weekend or over a longer period of time, whatever is more conducive to the retreatant’s schedule. The series, videos and accompanying texts, offers ways of praying and reflecting on Gospel passages as described in the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius. “When we get focused, centered and intentional we connect with what is good,” said Roche. “That is the purpose of this retreat to notice what is good and to experience God’s love, because if you’re open to it, the retreat seems to really promote that.” Click here to register for Embodying Peace with Ignatian Themes and you will get a follow up email on how to begin the retreat.
