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PHYLLIS TICKLE AT SSJD
The Great Emergence
May 13-16 details »
Food for the Soul 2009-2010 is the listing and description of retreats and quiet days for the upcoming year.
here »
RETREATS
St. John's Convent, Toronto
GUIDED RETREATS
Overnight and Guided retreats here » • Personally scheduled retreats here » • Customized Sabbatical Programs here »
QUIET SATURDAYS
here »
QUIET GARDENS
here »
Deepen Your Prayer Life - Individually Directed Retreats here »
REGISTRATION
here »
RETREATS
at BC House, Victoria details »
ARCHIVE
of recent retreat topics here »
Want to do it yourself?
DESIGN YOUR
OWN PROGRAM
Contact the Guest House for information on the following:
Personal retreats scheduled to suit your timetable, for a day, a week, or longer
Group retreats, quiet days, and workshops scheduled to suit your church or fellowship group (bring your own leader or ask for a Sister to lead)
Personal sabbatical time: come for a month or longer and enjoy the prayerful, peaceful environment of the Convent chapel, library, and gardens as well as comfortable accommodation and delicious meals.
Phone: 416-226-2201, ext. 305
Fax: 416-226-2131
E-mail: guesthouse@ssjd.ca
WOMEN AT A CROSSROADS
This four-week program, held each summer, is for women who are intentionally committed to seeking God's guidance in living out their baptismal call — in business or professional careers, in homemaking or lay careers in the church, in ordained ministry or life in a religious community, or in the many other ways in which we may serve God. June 29 - July 25, 2010 read more here »
The Gathering of Sisters, Associates and Oblates of the Sisterhood of St. John the Divine was held May 2009 - Read about it, see photos here » |
Welcome
The Sisters welcome guests for rest, refreshment, retreat,
and participation in the Community's prayer and liturgy. All are welcome.
Please call the guest house ahead of time if you wish to attend a liturgy at the Convent.
COMING UP at the Convent
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Music for the Soul: Jazz Vespers: Tim Elliott & Friends, Sunday February 14, 2010 at 4 pm see Music for the Soul - webpage »
Individually Directed Retreat: Deepen Your Prayer Life
READING WEEK RETREAT February 14-19, 2010
This is a 5-day individually directed retreat details »
Taizé Friday February 19 - & every third Friday of the month - at 5 pm. Visit the worship page here »
Quiet Saturdays:
SPIRITUAL FRIENDSHIP: LENT QUIET DAY FOR ASSOCIATES AND FRIENDS February 20, 2010
Growing in love for the Lord is quickened when we have friendships to learn from. read more here »
Guided Retreat:
SIMPLICITY & JOY February 26-28, 2010
Instead of focussing on traditional Lenten disciplines of penitence and “giving up,” Sr. Anitra, SSJD believes we need to pay attention to the message Jesus .... see info here »
Special Events & Guided Retreat:
PHYLLIS TICKLE - THE GREAT EMERGENCE May 13-16, 2010
Phyllis Tickle, widely-published and well-known retreat leader, will lead us in reflection on three key questions: What is happening to us? Why is it happening? Where are we going? The retreat will wrap up with a disccusion of how we go forward together as Christians in the emerging church of the 21st century. .... see info here »
WHAT'S HAPPENING at BC HOUSE
“A Season of Conversion” A Quiet Saturday at St. Peter’s Lakehill Anglican Church, Victoria - February 20, 2010 (Saturday) - details »
“Consider the lilies of the field - How St Luke’s Gospel could save the Planet” A Wednesday evening series during Lent - February 24, March 3, 10, 17, 24, 2010
The reality of climate change, and the challenge it presents to sustainable living is perhaps the key issue facing humanity at present. - details »
THE EAGLE • SSJD NEWSLETTER
 Christmas 2009
see the latest newsletter onscreen now here » or download the pdf here » [1.5 MB pdf]. See past issues here »
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Who we are
Called to be a sign of Christ, the Sisterhood witnesses to the power of his reconciling and forgiving love through the gospel imperatives of prayer, spiritual guidance, justice, peace, care for creation, hospitality, ministering to those in need, and promoting unity, healing, and wholeness.
See the SSJD community page here »
Artwork above by Sr. Jessica, SSJD
SSJD in 1885: the field hospital opened in Moose Jaw, Sask. by Mother Hannah and the work she and the Sisters did with the soldiers during the Second Riel Rebellion earned Mother Hannah and SSJD a medal from the Canadian Government for our work.
See a brief history of the SSJD community here »
Advent & Christmas 2009
During Advent & Christmas 2009, the Sisters made way for wonder by sharing a reflection, pictures and the wonder of the season via the website. See here »
WHAT'S NEW AT BC HOUSE? - see here »
HOMILIES - by Sisters, Associates & Friends - here »
MUSIC FOR THE SOUL - series continues Sunday February 14, 2010 at 4 pm: Jazz Vespers - Tim Elliott & Friends. Details here »
AT THE DIOCESE OF TORONTO WEBSITE: Home Religious orders celebrate anniversary - by Br. Richard Vaggione, OHC
" We don't usually associate monks and nuns with revolution, but 125 years ago the revival of monastic life in the Anglican Communion was just that - what author Donald Allchin has called a "silent rebellion." It involved people from privileged backgrounds leaving their homes to serve God in the outcasts of their society, under the vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience. Contemporary Anglicans were outraged, not least because the pioneers were women." ... read more here »
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See SSJD photo collections at our flickr account here »
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