Retreat-Holidays
Spain: Programme
for Holy Week and Easter 2009
Retreat leaders:
We told you that we have good retreat leaders...
Revd Mgr Joe Toal
Rector of the Royal Scots College, Salamanca
was to have been one of the leaders of this retreat-holiday. However, we are not the only ones to have appreciated his worth: he is to be ordained Bishop of Argyll and the Isles in December 2008 and so will not be available to help us in Salamanca next Easter. We are waiting for news of the appointment of his successor as Rector of the Royal Scots College. Either the new Rector or another priest will work on this retreat-holiday with
Ms Ann-Mary Redmond,
who describes herself as "avid reader, soul-friend, musician, involved in pastoral care and adult formation, kingdom worker, gap-filler...."
and
Dr Stephanie Rybak,
the Director of Retreat-Holidays
and formerly County Ecumenical Officer for West Yorkshire
Running from the Tuesday of Holy Week to the Tuesday of Easter Week, this retreat-holiday will offer the opportunity to focus properly on the astonishing events of the Passion, Death and Resurrection of the Lord. It will be structured around the Scripture readings for Holy Week and Easter.
The Mass of the Lord's Supper, the Commemoration of the Lord's Passion, and the Easter Vigil will be celebrated in English in the College Chapel. There will be a half-hour input session each morning, with ideas on how to pray with the Scripture passages of the day.
The week will include guided walks in Salamanca to places where the art or architecture can inspire our prayer.
People may wish to get an overview of the city, either by taking a tour on the little tourist train or by climbing to the top of the Cathedral tower (not for the faint-hearted!).
We shall also have the opportunity to attend some of the spectacular traditional processions in the streets on the evenings of Holy Week.
On Easter Monday, there will be an excursion to Alba de Tormes, where St Teresa of Avila founded a convent and was buried.
Spain: Royal Scots College, Salamanca
Spain: Dates price and flights