Retreat-Holidays
Italy Programme: Being there
Retreat leader: 
Sr. Amadeus Bulger is a member of the Congregation of Jesus. She is currently the Vicar for Religious in the Diocese of Westminster. Her apostolates have included school teaching, parish catechetics, being diocesan adviser to schools, and university chaplaincy. For the last 10 years she has been dedicated more specifically to seminary formation and to leading retreats. She was on the staff of the English College, Rome, for nine years, so knows the city and the Villa Palazzola very well.
We have called this retreat-holiday
Being there because Palazzola is very much a place to be rather than a place for busily doing things.
However, we shall also be visiting places hallowed by the faith and
martyrdom of early Christians . Other visits will make connections between natural beauty and passages of Scripture. We hope to walk along the shore of the lake, imagining Jesus there, walking on the water, and to go up to the viewpoint of the Tuscolanum, imagining the devil showing Jesus all the kingdoms of the earth.
Programme
Day 1: Travel via Rome-Ciampino airport
Day 2: Being there: the grounds and surroundings of the Villa Palazzola
Day 3: Being there: a walk along the shore of lake Albano and a drive round some of the Castelli Romani, including Frascati and 
Castelgandolfo –
the beauty of God’s creation combined with human artistry
Day 4: Being there: Rome, one of the greatest cities the world has ever known, with its unique place in Christian history
Day 5: Being there: a day of rest at the Villa Palazzola
Day 6: Being there: the San Callisto catacombs – celebrating the way our living faith has been fed by that of the early Christians
Day 7: Being there: the water gardens of Tivoli – a chance to reflect on the Living Water
Day 8: Travel
The more energetic can return to Rome on one of the two free days by
getting a taxi to a nearby station and then catching a train. We suggest,
though, that you don’t get too active, as you would lose some of the benefit of just being there.
The programme is subject to change.
Italy: Dates, price and flights