Date/Time
Date(s) - 08/13/2018 - 08/20/2018
4:30 pm - 1:00 pm
Location
Immaculate Heart Retreat Center
Categories
8-Day Ignatian Retreat
An Ignatian Journey to Harmony and Peace
Fr. David Robinson, S.J.
Areas of discourse and public life today bring discord into our family living rooms, making it difficult to realize that Christ is ever available with a gift of peace and grace. Come to the silence of this retreat to experience Ignatian prayer practice and inner reflective discernment. Father David will assist participants in the use of Ignatian imagination in the spiritual life, along with Pope Francis’s teachings on mercy and the promotion of social harmony, with a particular emphasis on the fostering of hope. In addition, he will share living life as the Beloved of God from the work of Henri Nouwen.
$595 overnight with meals
Speaker Bio – Rev. David C. Robinson, S.J.
Fr. Robinson was born and raised in Billerica, Massachusetts, in the historic shadow of Lexington and Concord. After completing undergraduate studies at Boston University, he went to UC Berkeley for graduate work in English Literature. His spiritual journey then led him to migrate ‘across the road’ to the Jesuit School of Theology and the Graduate Theological Union, immediately north of the Cal campus, where he commenced an odyssey of exploration in varied areas of philosophical studies, biblical literature and languages, systematic theology, and the sociology and anthropology of religion. After entering the Society of Jesus in 1982, he began a decades-long connection to ministry in the Latino community, as well as pursuing advanced studies in music. He earned his Ph.D. in Theology and the Arts from the Graduate Theological Union in 1995.
On the professional front, he spent nearly fifteen years at the University of San Francisco at the College of Professional Studies, in the areas of Interdisciplinary Studies, Academic Administration, and Educational Mission and Spirituality. From 2007 to 2009, he was Director of the Nestucca Sanctuary Spirituality Center on the Oregon coast. His ministry at the Loyola Institute for Spirituality includes liturgical work with the Sisters of St. Joseph of Orange, support for Latino community groups, Ignatian pedagogy workshops for professors at Jesuit Universities, and spirituality and the arts projects focused on music, photography, and website development. On the personal front, he considers himself a work-in-progress—mingling interests in music, tennis, media, and global networks with an ongoing connection to international Jesuit educational ventures (especially online), organizational spirituality, and the impacts of complex-systems theory on contemporary models for learning and communication.
