* 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.