{"id":70773,"date":"2024-05-31T08:01:51","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T07:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emmanuel.info\/en\/?p=70773"},"modified":"2024-06-03T08:51:00","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T07:51:00","slug":"emmanuel-community-pentecost-retreat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emmanuel.info\/en\/emmanuel-community-pentecost-retreat\/","title":{"rendered":"Emmanuel Community Pentecost Retreat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe retreat was a grace-filled opportunity to celebrate the great liturgical event of Pentecost, with a focus on receiving God\u2019s passionate love &#8211; the Holy Spirit &#8211; in order to be strengthened in our call to evangelise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Pentecost Retreat run by the Emmanuel Community was held at the beautiful Benedict XVI Retreat Centre Grose Vale on the 18th and 19th May 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Fr Josh Miechels and Fr Wojciech OFM Cap joined us to minister together in\u00a0both\u00a0word and sacrament.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">The theme of the retreat was taken from John 7:37 &#8211; 39:<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">37\u00a0On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and proclaimed, \u201cIf any one thirst, let him come to me and drink.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">38\u00a0He who believes in me, as the scripture has said, \u2018Out of his heart shall flow rivers of living water.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>39\u00a0Now this he said about the Spirit, which those who believed in him were to receive; for as yet the Spirit had not been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.<\/p>\n<p>Approximately 60 participants experienced\u00a0a time of intimacy with the Sacred Heart of Jesus, who sends us His Spirit at Pentecost.\u00a0Each day we had a time of joyful praise,\u00a0adoration, Holy Mass and a teaching from Dominic and Victoria Lawrence. The teachings focused on Intimacy with the Heart of Jesus and the Outpouring of the Holy Spirit flowing from Jesus&#8217; Heart.\u00a0 On Saturday afternoon we experienced God&#8217;s Mercy through confession, adoration, testimonies and prayer and Saturday night eucharistic adoration was held throughout the night.<\/p>\n<p>This joyful, profound weekend drew us closer to the Heart of Jesus, source of living water:\u00a0the Holy Spirit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/emmanuel.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/03\/FROM-THE-HEART-OF-JESUS.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-70654\" src=\"https:\/\/emmanuel.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/03\/FROM-THE-HEART-OF-JESUS-724x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"724\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/emmanuel.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/03\/FROM-THE-HEART-OF-JESUS-724x1024.jpg 724w, https:\/\/emmanuel.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/03\/FROM-THE-HEART-OF-JESUS-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/emmanuel.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/03\/FROM-THE-HEART-OF-JESUS-768x1086.jpg 768w, https:\/\/emmanuel.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/03\/FROM-THE-HEART-OF-JESUS-1086x1536.jpg 1086w, https:\/\/emmanuel.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/03\/FROM-THE-HEART-OF-JESUS-1448x2048.jpg 1448w, https:\/\/emmanuel.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/03\/FROM-THE-HEART-OF-JESUS-200x283.jpg 200w, https:\/\/emmanuel.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/03\/FROM-THE-HEART-OF-JESUS-500x707.jpg 500w, https:\/\/emmanuel.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/03\/FROM-THE-HEART-OF-JESUS.jpg 1587w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 724px) 100vw, 724px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe retreat was a grace-filled opportunity to celebrate the great liturgical event of Pentecost, with a focus on receiving God\u2019s passionate love &#8211; the Holy Spirit &#8211; in order to be strengthened in our call to evangelise.\u201d The Pentecost Retreat run by the Emmanuel Community was held at the beautiful Benedict XVI Retreat Centre Grose [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":186,"featured_media":70654,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[627],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sydney"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/emmanuel.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/03\/FROM-THE-HEART-OF-JESUS.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emmanuel.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emmanuel.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emmanuel.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emmanuel.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/186"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emmanuel.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70773"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/emmanuel.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70785,"href":"https:\/\/emmanuel.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70773\/revisions\/70785"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emmanuel.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emmanuel.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emmanuel.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emmanuel.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}