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MISSION STATEMENT

Saint Ignatius Retreat House (Inisfada) is a Catholic retreat and apostolic conference center inspired by the vision of Ignatian Spirituality. Inisfada offers a spiritual home – a sacred and welcoming environment where people of all faiths and cultures can deepen their relationship with God, so that they may be renewed and be women and men for others. The Jesuits in collaboration with their partners – lay, religious, and clergy – are committed to the ministry of the Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius and to the education and on-going formation of those engaged in this sacred ministry.

We provide:

  • Days, evenings and weekends of prayer and reflection
  • Sacramental Ministry
  • Individual and group spiritual direction
  • Nineteenth Annotation & Thirty-Day Retreats of the Spiritual Exercises
  • Off-site outreach retreats and programs based on Ignatian Spirituality through our spiritual direction and mission teams
  • Educational and professional development programs to support on-going formation for spiritual and retreat directors and other ministers
  • Supervision of spiritual and retreat directors
  • Parish- and community-based programs for renewal and spiritual growth
  • Leadership development
  • Opportunities for Confirmation, Graduation, and High School Retreats
  • Interfaith programs & expressions for contemplative prayer
  • Twelve-Step programs, Zen and other spiritual and psychological programs
  • Programs for Singles, Divorced, and Widowed
  • Retreats to enhance and enrich married life
  • Outreach to new, disadvantaged and marginalized communities
  • Hospitality and overnight accommodations for meetings, retreats, workshops, and conferences.

Our Core Values:

  1. Ignatian Spirituality
  2. Hospitality
  3. Training and on-going formation of Spiritual & Retreat Directors in the Ignatian tradition.
  4. Professionalism on all levels
  5. Empowerment of Laity in our Spiritual Ministry
  6. Active Inclusive Love

Our Apostolic Priorities for 2007-08:

  1. To provide new opportunities for cross-cultural ministry
  2. To increase our Ignatian Mission with preferential option to the poor

Approved by the Board of Directors on February 7, 2006

 

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