Campion CIS
Kew VIC

The Campion Ignatian Spirituality Centre began in 1978 with the goal of offering personally directed retreats based on the Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556). In addition to these retreats many different weekend retreats have been offered over the years. Today Campion offers a diversity of programs based on the spirituality of Ignatius. Ignatius developed his spirituality while he was a lay person - a Basque nobleman and courtier known as Iñigo. Today his approach continues to be effective for busy people in daily life.

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Canisius CIS
Pymble NSW

Our Centre is located within the extensive grounds of Canisius College on Sydney’s leafy North Shore, 30 mins from Sydney’s CBD by public transport, 45 mins from Sydney Airport. We offer 15 well appointed retreat bedrooms, separate bathroom amenities, a conference hall and small meeting rooms.

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Loyola CIS
Norwood SA

Loyola Sprituality Centre is Ignatian in character. The Centre has developed through the combined initiative of lay people involved in the spirituality ministry in Adelaide and the Jesuits. This collaborative approach is at the heart of the way the Centre operates, develops and presents its programs and retreats.

Loyola finds its deepest sense of identity linked with the Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius of Loyola. The mission of the Centre is to make Ignatian Spirituality and its insights accessible to people in today’s world and assist them to open themselves fully to the experience of God’s action in their lives.

The Loyola Centre is co-located with St Ignatius Parish, Norwood with the majority of live-in retreats at the Jesuit Retreat House at Sevenhill. The Centre also conducts some retreats and programs at St Joseph Retreat Centre, Aldgate.

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Sevenhill CIS
Sevenhill SA

Our retreat centre is in the middle of the oldest winery in the Clare Valley. It offers a unique place for prayer and contemplation. We have 11 single rooms and three double rooms, with shared bathroom facilities. Other facilities include a large church, small chapel, a meeting room and dining room where all meals are fully catered.

Live-in retreats include all meals, bed linen and towels.
The grounds, shrines, walking paths and the surrounding vineyard create an environment conducive to encountering God in a restful and peaceful rural setting. Our desire is to foster an atmosphere of consoling the spirit, healing the soul, and loving the world with the heart of God.

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Faber CIS
Brisbane QLD

Launched in August 2006, Faber CIS is located within St. Paul’s Theological College, ACU Campus, Banyo, Brisbane. On a 40 hectare site it is 12 kms north of the Brisbane CBD. Venues for Faber Centre Retreats in 2008 With significant building in process at the Archdiocesan Spirituality Centre at Ormiston in 2008 – the disruption and duration of which is uncertain at the time of printing this schedule – it has been necessary for the Faber Centre to arrange for some different venues for its residential and non-residential offerings.

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History of Centres of
Ignatian Spirituality

The 16th Century founder of the Jesuits, Ignatius Loyola, was led on a pilgrim path in search of God. He discovered that God can indeed be found in all things, in all events, in every moment. Learning to acknowledge the movements of his heart, he was led to a profound assent of faith in Jesus.

Ignatius invited others to journey along the path he trod. Generations later we call this path ‘Ignatian Spirituality’. It is a pilgrim’s path, a way that respects each one’s life journey, but profoundly challenges the pilgrim to hear, to diecide and to journey onwards.

At the Centres of Ignatian Spirituality you are invited to take steps along that road, seeking to meet the Stranger who is already a friend, indeed even an old friend whom we have known all our lives. You may encounter the self within yourself. Meeting, we come to know more clearly; knowing, we come to love more strongly; loving, we come to follow more closely.

We invite you to choose one of the programs at any of our Centres of Ignatian Spirituality in Australia. Or just come and talk to one of our experienced spiritual guides. It is our hope that you will find with us an environment of prayer and the guidance that will help you discover God’s presence in your life.