Retreat Space Availability

According to Father Xavier Ray, Miles Christi Retreat Director, historically there have been last minute cancellation by those who have registered. As a result, we will continue to take registration forms with a deposit of $100 if more women are interested in attending the retreat in February 2009. You will then be placed on a waiting list. We will notify you by phone as soon as possible when a space becomes available. If no space becomes available, we will refund your deposit. Please contact Melissa Crisostomo as soon as possible at (Oahu, Hawaii) 808-626-2469 or alohamc@yahoo.com .

Retreat Reminders

Final balance of the retreat registration fee is due by December 1, 2008. If you have any questions or concerns please contact me alohamc@yahoo.com or (Oahu, Hawaii) 808-626-2469. I look forward to our retreat in February.

God bless you,
Melissa Crisostomo

28 Women Register for Retreat

Praise be to God! We have 28 women registered to attend the retreat as of Oct. 1, 2008. We will continue to accept registration for the retreat until rooms are filled and then once filled, we will be placing people on a waiting list just in case the retreat center makes available more rooms. I am currently contacting the Sisters at the St. Anthony Retreat Center to check on the availability of more rooms. Thank you for your interest in the retreat. Please let me know if you have any questions.

Melissa Crisostomo
Hawaii Retreat coordinator
808-626-2469
alohamc@yahoo.com

Retreat Registration Information

If you are a woman interested in more information about retreat registration or would like to register, please email me, Melissa alohamc@yahoo.com and I will send you the registration form.

Retreat Registration Cost:

Private Room $265 per person (includes private room and meals)

Double Room $215 per person (includes double room and meals) if you would like to room with a particular person, please indicate that on the registration form.

$100 Non-refundable deposit due October 1, 2008
Balance of the registration fee due December 1, 2008

"Come Hear My Voice"

Come Hear My Voice

(Music Lyrics by Ann Timmons)

Come hear My Voice,

I have called you by name.

Come follow Me,

and walk in My Path.

Enter through Me;

I alone am the Gate.

I am the Way,

I am the Truth,

I am the Life.

Description of the Retreat Weekend

The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola outline the Catholic Church's classic means of orienting one's soul toward God and eternal salvation. The Spiritual Exercises are designed to make a person stop and examine the direction his life is taking and to seriously direct himself toward Heaven

Retreat director, Fr. Xavier Ray says, “The retreat is strictly Catholic and very faithful to Rome, the Pope, and what the Catholic Church has always believed throughout the centuries.”

4 to 5 spiritual talks on the Spiritual Exercises will be given by the priest each day with time for personal meditation in silence afterward.

Holy Mass is celebrated daily

Holy Rosary is prayed daily

Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament and Benediction with the Blessed Sacrament

Personal conference time or spiritual direction will be available with the priest

Opportunity to receive the Sacrament of Reconciliation or Confession

Regarding reception of the Sacrament of Holy Communion during Holy Mass:
Please understand that according to the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church, receiving Holy Communion is linked with being in communion with the Pope and pastors of the Catholic Church. Those who receive Holy Communion at a Catholic Mass not only receive the Body and Blood of the Lord and who are in unity with the pastors of the Catholic Church.

Meals are taken in silence. We listen to Gregorian chant or about the life of St. Ignatius of Loyola

Retreat folders will be distributed to each retreatant which includes notes on the spiritual talks. Please bring a pen or pencil to take notes.

People may borrow a copy of the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola book or purchase one at the retreat.

Other Catholic books and items will be available for purchase

St. Anthony's Retreat Center, Hawaii

St. Anthony's Retreat Center Entrance

Sr. Mary Gertrude Center, retreatants' dormitory

Located across the new conference room and accessible from the parking lot is a wheelchair ramp to the dormitory.

Statue of St. Anthony with the Child Jesus

Stations of the Cross walking path






Peace be with you.

The Miles Christi women's silent Ignatian retreat will be held at the beautiful St. Anthony's Retreat Center in Kalihi, Hawaii the weekend of February 12 - 15, 2009.

Miles Christi Website

Miles Christi is a Religious Order formed of Priests and Brothers. We are resolved above all, to fervently pursue sanctity with the grace of God and for His greater glory, dedicating ourselves to the sanctification of the laity, particularly of college students."This Religious Order wishes its ranks to be formed only of a select group of men of great heart, generous, deeply moved by the magnanimity of Christ, indignant at the indifference with which many respond to His love, with an ardent love for Calvary, and eager to serve" (Constitutions 12). "A horror for a mediocre, useless, and empty life is deeply rooted in every true miles Christi, who, looking at his Lord on the Cross, asks himself, `What have I done for Christ, what am I doing for Christ, what must I do for Christ?´" (Const. 11).
Weblink to the website of Miles Christi: http://www.mileschristi.org/?id=9

Hawaii Catholic Herald: "Miles Christi priests to direct retreats for women"

Miles Christi priests to direct retreats for women

Priests of Miles Christi, a religious order devoted to the sanctification of the laity, are coming to Hawaii to direct a silent Ignatian retreat for women, Feb. 13-15, at St Anthony Retreat Center. Reservations are being taken now and a deposit is due Aug. 1.

Read complete article here:
http://www.hawaiicatholicherald.com/Home/tabid/256/newsid884/1520/Default.aspx