Retreats

Reflection: AMM Annual Retreat Day 2024

By Bianca Kallukaran, published in AMM Bulletin Spring 2024.

Exactly 4 days before the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Association of the Miraculous Medal, Sydney held its Annual Retreat Day. Elizabeth Hall (Daughters of Charity, Marsfield) dazzled in the 10 a.m. sunshine as the 20 retreatants for the day gathered to start a peaceful Sunday. Some retreatants were from the local parish of St Anthony’s, Marsfield (where the First Saturday Novena Masses are held), some from St Kevin’s Parish in Eastwood, some from Holy Spirit Parish in North Ryde and some even coming from St Joachim’s Parish in Lidcombe! Our Lady certainly gave them a beautiful welcome in this display prepared by Sr. Rosa (DC). The day started with Taize prayer that led participants into the peaceful presence of Christ and prepared them to receive Sr. Therese’s, DC talk on what it means to be a Disciple.

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St. Catherine Labouré, a Silent Herald of Love

Video shown at Annual Retreat Day in August 2024.

I was nothing but an instrument. Our Lady did not appear because of me. I did not even know how to write. If the Blessed Virgin chose me, it was in order that no one should be able to doubt Her.

Watch Time : 1:34 minute

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Discipleship

By Sr. Therese Haywood DC, presented at the Annual Retreat Day in August 2024.



A disciple is one who understands,
teaches and does what Jesus did.

Discipleship is not a distinctive role or office but the life of an ordinary follower of Jesus.


Mary

The figure of Mary stands out as a challenge and an inspiration to embody Christian attitudes and values. Mary is presented to us as the most perfect disciple of Christ and the first Christian, by her attitudes, in her own particular life, she fully and responsibly accepted the will of God, because she heard the word of God and acted on it, and because charity and the spirit of service were the driving force of her actions. She is worthy of imitation because she was the first and most perfect of Christ’s disciples. All of this has a permanent and universal exemplary value.

Delgado, Corpus C.M. (2002) “Marian Spirituality and the Vincentian Charism,” Vincentiana: Vol. 46: No. 4, Article 12, available at http://via.library.depaul.edu/vincentiana/vol46/iss4/12.

This example of Mary as a disciple gives us some principles of discipleship to take into our own lives.

  • Called and chosen
  • Attentive and available to the will of God
  • Allows Christ to take form in them
  • Announces the gospel of love to the poor
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