Life’s Healing Journey – St Mary’s Towers and beyond

Ed Travers, msc, has been gifting the Life’s Healing Journey retreat to the men of the Seminary of the Good Shepherd for many years.   This year Ed was supported in facilitating the retreat by the seminary Spiritual Director, Fr John Armstrong, Fr Manuel Garcia from the Sydney Archdiocese, Dominic Gleeson, MSC, Peter Harvey-Jackson, MSC and Sr Jenny Scally, RSJ. 

There were eight men from the seminary undertaking the retreat this year representing a number of different dioceses throughout Australia.  Peter Hendriks, MSC, Krish Mathavan, MSC prayed this retreat and Long Tran and Nang Vu, our own men of the MSC Novitiate also undertook the retreat.  There are a number of men from various dioceses around Australia who preparing for Diaconate or for ordination to Priesthood who participated in the retreat here at the Towers as well.  

Life’s Healing Journey was established by our US confrere, Peter Campbell MSC who died some years ago.

The MSC Life’s Healing Journey retreat has become a recognised and vital complement to the seminary’s spirituality program. It is providing a valuable resource for the men who undertake the retreat to continually reflect on their lives as a consequence of the Life’s Healing Journey that they embark on early in their preparation for Priesthood.  

Over recent years Dominic has been leading retreats in Fiji and India for MSC confreres.