“JESUS CHRIST IS RISEN!” EMMAUS – bring it!
“HE IS RISEN INDEED!”
The Spiritan Center, south of the city of Pittsburgh in Bethel Park, is a ministry of the Congregation of the Holy Spirit. Situated on forty acres in a pastoral setting invites the guests to come away and rest awhile.
For me and many others, the Spiritan Center is a spiritual home. This is the place that many men and women al have come to find and know Jesus through the Holy Spirit within the Emmaus Retreat.
An Emmaus Retreat, geared separately for men and women, is an opportunity to find a deeper or new relationship with the Holy Spirit. The retreat is led by normal men and women like us, who tell their stories of how they came to know and live God. It is a retreat weekend of service and love. For me, my initial retreat was a simple 48 hours. The impact came in the weeks, months and years since that retreat closed out.
The biggest earthly benefit of this retreat is community. Most men have few if any relationships that go beyond the superficial – work, weather, sports. Emmaus gives men (and women) a depth of relationship that is eternal. I’ve seen this simple 48 hour retreat weekend change families, save marriages, altar eternities. There is so little to do for this weekend, just sign up and show up with an open heart and mind (tissues will be available when the Holy Spirit breaks through).
The men and women my wife and I have met through this ministry are beyond friends. They are family and even more. We are linked through the shared experience – even on different retreats spanning years.
I’d like to invite you to attend one of the soon upcoming retreats.
Women’s Emmaus Retreat: April 5-7
Men’s Emmaus Retreat April 12-14
For more information contact Deb or Regis. meteneyd@verizon.net – Deb Meteney Women’s Retreat Leader and r.mckenz2@gmail.com – Regis McKenzie Men’s Retreat Leader
After you go, message me and share your experience and I can share mine.
In 1848, because of the similar purpose, charism, and works of Claude Poullart and Francis Libermann the Church merged the original Spiritan community and the Congregation of the Holy Heart of Mary.
“The evangelization of the “poor” is our purpose. We go to those who haven’t yet heard the message of the Gospel, to those whose needs are greatest, to those who are oppressed. We willingly accept tasks for which the Church has difficulty finding workers”. —Spiritan Rule of Life #4
Amem brother!
God bless the Corbett family!