2014-02-09 Pan De Vida Young Adults Retreat 1

We all know the challenge of Christ-like living in a totally secularised society. It requires supernatural strength to overcome the many temptations to let ourselves be enslaved, to let ourselves “live as if God did not exist”, as Blessed Pope John Paul II used to say. The Holy Eucharist is the font of energy to live in freedom, to love as Christ loves, purely and selflessly. Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI reminds us that participation in the Eucharistic Sacrifice issues in us “the concrete practice of love... it is before all else the joy-filled discovery of love at work in the hearts of those who accept the Lord’s gift, abandon themselves to Him and thus find true freedom.” It is our intimacy with the Lord in the Holy Eucharist which, at one and the same time, makes us conscious of our own sinfulness and inflames our desire to live always in Christ and, therefore, to love as He loves. Pope Francis stated recently, “Jesus speaks in the silence of the mystery of the Eucharist and reminds us each time that following him means going out of ourselves and making our lives not something we ‘possess,’ but a gift to him and to others.” Pan de Vida Retreat enables young people, young adults and married couples the opportunity to deepen and strengthen their relationships with our Lord truly present in the Blessed Sacrament and after having spent a weekend with Him they will not go away hungry.
Held at the St. Catherine of Siena Parish gym on 2-9-2014.