Events
Silent Retreats
The Center for Ignatian Spirituality offers an Ignatian silent retreat for all LMU faculty and staff. Participants spend this time of rest, silence, and the chance to reflect at a peaceful off-site location. The silence of the retreat provides an opportunity to still the mind, body, and heart and to listen deeply. With this in mind, whether it’s a weekend or a longer period of time, it is an opportunity to open one’s heart with a willingness to embrace what God wants to reveal to us in the silence.
Faculty and staff of all convictions and faith backgrounds are warmly welcome. Retreat costs, including lodging and meals, are borne by the Center for Ignatian Spirituality.
For more information, contact ignacio@lmu.edu.
Spiritual Exercises for Faculty and Staff
Faculty and Staff are invited to participate in the Ignatian Exercises, gathering with fellow colleagues in a peaceful space of reflection, contemplation, and prayer to enrich their work and teaching experience at LMU.
St. Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the Jesuits, developed the spiritual exercises as a means for using the senses and imagery to deepen one’s experience of Scripture, discernment, and relationship with God. Ignatian spirituality places emphasis on spiritual reflection and discernment, finding God’s presence in the everyday activities of ordinary life.
Books and material are provided by the Center.
For more information, please contact the Center for Ignatian Spirituality at Ignacio@lmu.edu.
Annual Advent Musical Luncheons
The Advent Musical Luncheons welcoming Christmas and the holiday season, have become a cherished tradition for our LMU faculty and staff. The event is hosted by the Center for Ignatian Spirituality offering music for the season, prayerful reflection, and a chance for shared companionship over a delicious meal. As our gift to you, we offer a contemplative booklet for the Advent and Christmas season. For more information, please email Ignacio@lmu.edu or call (310) 338-3019.
Annual Faculty and Staff Retreat
The Center for Ignatian Spirituality offers in early spring, an annual Ignatian retreat for all LMU faculty and staff. Participants spend a weekend of rest, silence, and the chance to reflect, in an atmosphere of a calm and peaceful setting. These important elements of the retreat, along with Ignatian contemplations of guided meditations on Gospel stories, can sometimes illuminate our current lives in surprising and helpful ways. Faculty and staff of all convictions and faith backgrounds are warmly welcome, especially those who have never gone on a retreat or who are new to Ignatian spirituality. Partners and spouses are also welcome. Retreat costs, including lodging and meals, are borne by the Center for Ignatian Spirituality.
For more information, contact ignacio@lmu.edu.
Annual Lenten Lunch
Each year, Faculty and Staff are invited to join a lunch hosted by the Center for Ignatian Spirituality to prayerfully welcome the Lenten season. LMU colleagues share in a peaceful experience of conversation, music, reflection and prayer as a much-needed pause from our daily responsibilities. This lunch supports the Kino Border Initiative offering humane and just support for the marginalized, with a requested donation of $10 per person.
For more information, please email Ignacio@lmu.edu or call (310) 338-3019.