Everything Is As It Were a Caress of God

Everything Is As It Were a Caress of God

Mondays and Thursdays: May 6 & 9, 13 & 16
7 – 8:30 PM (CT)
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Over two weeks and four sessions Sally Neaves and Margie Abbott, RSM will offer us an opportunity to reflect on the peril that Earth is undergoing and acknowledge Pope Francis saying in Laudate Deum “I have realised that our responses have not been adequate, while the world in which we live is collapsing and may be nearing the breaking point.”

They will reflect and share practices using Joanna Macy’s spiral (pictured above).

The spiral begins with “gratitude” which helps us to become present and grounded so that we can more fully acknowledge the “pain” of the world. When we honour pain, we learn the true meaning of compassion. This will help us to “see with new eyes” as we get to know more genuinely our relatedness to all that is. We taste our own power to change and feel the texture of our living connections with our human ancestors and those to come, as well as with our other than human kin. We go forth from the retreat open to “action” that is possible for each of us.

Expect in this online retreat time to deeply listen; to share in small groups; to meditate together, and to learn ways to bring the retreat alive with practices in small groups wherever you are situated.

On Zoom

Registrants will receive Zoom sign-in information via email
upon registration + a reminder the day before the program.

Facilitators: Margie Abbott, RSM, Sally Neaves 

Margie Abbott is a Sister of Mercy based in Geelong, with qualifications in education, spirituality, theology, facilitation and psychodrama. She leads eco-spirituality retreats, is a Laudato Sí animator, and facilitates groups nationally and internationally. Margie highly values inner independence, the contemplative stance and active hope for a healing world.

Sally Neaves is the Integral Ecology Animator of the Institute of the Sisters of Mercy of Australia and Papua New Guinea. She is also a permaculture teacher and practitioner, creating and designing ways in our lives where waste becomes resources, productivity and yields increase, and where nature (including people) are preserved! Sally lives in the Central West of New South Wales, which is west of Sydney, Australia.