Pastoral Ministry
- September
16 - December 13 2007
- UPDATE / SEPTEMBER 2007
- ALL COURSES AT MARIANELLA TO CLOSE AS FROM FEBRUARY 2008
Marianella’s three-month renewal programmes offered the best
of contemporary Catholic scholarship in ways that were both personally
enriching and pastorally useful.
The Programmes were designed for priests, religious and lay ministers
who were seeking a sabbatical experience that promoted personal renewal,
theological updating and the development of pastoral skills.
**********AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE********
In July 2007 the Irish Provincial of the Redemptorists, together with his Council, decided to close the Marianella Pastoral Centre, as of the first week of February, 2008.
We are enormously grateful to God and to so many men and women, who have been part of Marianella at some stage over the past 30 years, for the many blessings of these years in our Pastoral Centre. The decision taken hinged very much on the decline in numbers over the past two years of those attending the Spring and Autumn sabbatical programmes.
We share in the sense of loss that many feel. We also are grateful for so many good years!
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Pastoral Group Visits to Monasterboice and Glendalough
The programmes were residential. Classes were held from Monday morning
to Friday lunchtime. Wednesday afternoons were generally free and
there was one free week during the programme. In each ministry course
arrival/check-in was on Sunday evening between 4.00 and 6.00 p.m.
Departure was on Thursday morning.
During the three-month Pastoral Ministry course, the following subjects
were treated. Depending on the availability of lecturers, one or
other subjects were omitted or replaced or given by a different
lecturer.
| Celtic Spirituality |
John J. Ó Ríordáin |
| My Body, a Temple of the Divine |
Collette Cullinan |
| Christology |
Cornelius J. Casey |
| Ecclesiology & Ministry: Being Christians
Together |
Fáinche Ryan |
| Old Testament |
Wilfrid Harrington |
| New Testament |
Ciaran O'Callaghan |
| Rediscovering God in our Great Story |
Diarmuid Ó Murchú |
| Hope in History |
Derek Poole |
| Moral Theology in Pastoral Practice |
Raphael Gallagher |
| Theology of Marriage |
Cathy Molloy |
| How Evil is Passed On |
Kathleen Coyle |
| Eucharist |
Liam Tracey |
| Women and the Gospels |
Anne Thurston |
| Listening to self and others |
Brendan S O'Rourke |
| Addiction, Suicide & Homosexuality Lectures |
Brendan S O'Rourke |
| Introduction to Ireland |
George Wadding |
| Church |
Eugene Duffy |
| Myers-Briggs Workshop |
Dan Baragry |
| Pilgrimage of Reconciliation (Belfast) |
Gerry Reynolds & Paul G. Turley, C.Ss.R./
and team |
| Negotiating Life Transitions |
Therese Larkin |
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| Organist |
Marian Cox, IBVM |
| Secretary |
Anne Hughes |
| Programme Director |
Brendan S. O'Rourke, C.Ss.R. |
| Associate Director |
George Wadding, C.Ss.R. |
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