Father Séamus O'Connell - 6 Day Scripture Retreat

Step by Step after the With-Us-God: a journey with the Gospel of Matthew towards an encounter with the One who meets us in the ‘hidden place.’ (Matthew 6:6)

This week-long retreat is an in-depth reading, reflection, and prayer of the Gospel of Matthew with a view to permitting the evangelist speak with his own voice. Taking a lectio divina approach, participants will read and explore one key passage during each of the retreat’s six days. This attentive reading and listening, is not primarily a course on Matthew; rather we read the Gospel and listen in the hope of an encounter with the Word of God, and a first-hand engagement with the life-mysteries that shape the Evangelist’s concerns: God’s closeness and otherness, the newness and surprise of Jesus, the hope of the Kingdom, the life that is revealed in forgiveness, the dynamics of a community that would try to follow Jesus,…