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Jesuit Online Lenten Recollection

Fr. Johnny Go, S.J. is doing it again this Lent 2010.

If you feel like you want to do a Lenten recollection but are having difficulty finding a good one, or too busy to go to one, you can spend time with our Lord from your computer desk or even with your laptop anywhere you are telecommuting. If you have a mobile phone which is browser-capable, you can likewise attend a recollection. If you are not in the Philippines, it does not matter. You can be anywhere around the world as long as you have internet access.

Fr. Johnny has prepared an ONLINE recollection where he effectively merges multimedia technology to make your Lenten journey with the Lord interesting and meaningful.

Titled “God in the Dungeons”, this is how Fr. Johnny describes the theme:

Dungeons are not exactly the first place we go to when we want to look for God.
We expect to find Him in churches and the other “holier” places of our lives.
But that’s exactly what Lent does not teach us about God.
In the mysteries of Lent, God enters precisely the “dungeons of our lives”
—the deepest, darkest experiences of human pain and suffering—because He wants us to find Him there.

Let’s find time this Holy Week and allow God to enter the dungeons of our lives and quiet down to hear Him speak to us.

The online recollection begins April 1 (Holy Thursday) till April 3 (Black Saturday) but you can already do a pre-recollection preparation even now by clicking HERE.

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A Jesuit ONLINE Holy Week Retreat

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* Do you have access to the internet?

* Do you wish you could go on a Holy Week retreat but cannot seem to squeeze in the time?

Now, you can meet the Lord and have a Holy Week retreat and you need not log off the internet or travel somewhere to an out-of-the-city retreat house. You don’t even have to be in Metro Manila (or for that matter, even in the Philippines).

You can join Fr. Johnny Go, S.J.‘s innovative and interesting ONLINE Holy Week retreat. He is currently the Director of Xavier School.

The online retreat, interestingly called “Meeting Places” is described by Fr. Johnny on his blog as follows:

I’ve called it “MEETING PLACES” because I think the mysteries of Holy Week unfold in three Lenten places: the Garden (Holy Thursday), the Hill (Good Friday), and the Tomb (Black Saturday). If we spend some time in those virtual meeting places, we may encounter the Lord in a special way.

It will come in 3 modules: one each for Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and Black Saturday. If everything goes as planned, each module will have video clips, songs and maybe even interactive activities. Starting today, there is already a Preparatory Prayer on the Philippine Jesuits’ site that serves as an introduction for the 3 modules which will be made available next week.

Fr. Johnny qualifies that this is not meant to take the place of a face-to-face retreat or be in lieu of the Holy Triduum liturgical services. However, it is another way by which people can, in his words, “find the Lord in yet another way this Holy Week.”

I invite you to visit the site and more than that, spread the word to your family and friends.