Maryknoll Seminary, Los Altos, CA
APRIL 25 - MAY 2, 2025
A Christian Contemplative Retreat!
APRIL 25 - MAY 2, 2025
About our Christian Contemplative Retreat
An introduction to the Contemplative Way of Life and to the Jesus Prayer
This Individually Guided Contemplative Retreat is also a School for Meditation and will provide a step-by-step introduction to the Gries Path of Prayer developed by Fr Franz Jalics SJ and is for those seeking a more contemplative way of praying and living. We ask that participants be willing to commit themselves to being guided through these steps for the duration of the Retreat.
Led by Fr Anton Altnoder SJ
Spirtual Director Wilhelmsthal, Germany
Gries Path of Contemplative Prayer
An introduction to the Contemplative Way of Life and to the Jesus Prayer
What You Are Being Invited to
“There are many paths to contemplation. I show you just one of them. I’m conscious of the fact that God leads many people to contemplation without any external help. Frequently he uses natural circumstances. A simple life of love, some years on a sick-bed, a brush with death, the leaving of one’s homeland in order to live among the poor, and other events can lead to contemplation. I also deeply respect the non-Christian ways of contemplation. And there are in the Catholic Church itself many other introductions into contemplation. I do not want to exalt my way above others. On the contrary, I am very happy that they exist and I appreciate them. I myself have walked the way I describe: should it help someone else to find his or her way, I am satisfied”.
- Franz Jalics, from his book, "Contemplative Retreat".