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THE JOY OF SURRENDER

Overnight Retreat for Women
February 14-15, 2016
Loyola Retreat House, Faulkner MD

A few of the books Father Dan referenced are included below, as well as the mp3 recordings of his talks, meditation, and homily. 

Please feel free to download these talks and share with others.  

We hope you will continue to remember Father Dan, Msgr. Hart, Father Flum and Father Raymond in your prayers!

We also invite all retreatants to submit a "Retreat Feedback Form" to help us plan and organize future retreats.  This was Father's 3rd overnight women's retreat at Loyola and we welcome your comments!

​Thank you!



REFERENCES
Total Surrender by Mother Teresa (edited by Br. A. Devananda)
Catechism of the Catholic Church
We Have Found Mercy: The Mystery of God's Merciful Love by Christoph Cardinal Schoenborn
The Name of God is Mercy by Pope Francis
Christ, God's Companionship with Man by Luigi Giussani
God is Near Us by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger

 
Talk 1 - The Joy of the Encounter
John 17:19   "For them I sanctify myself, that they too may be truly sanctified."

Talk 2 - The Joy of Hidden Sacrifice and Suffering

Matthew 9:9-13 The Calling of Matthew

1 As Jesus went on from there, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax collector’s booth. “Follow me,” he told him, and Matthew got up and followed him.
10 While Jesus was having dinner at Matthew’s house, many tax collectors and sinners came and ate with him and his disciples. 11 When the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”
12 On hearing this, Jesus said, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. 13 But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’[a] For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

Talk 3 - The Joy of the Holy Eucharist

John 4:1-42  The Woman at the Well

Jesus Talks With a Samaritan Woman
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1 Now Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that he was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John— 2 although in fact it was not Jesus who baptized, but his disciples. 3 So he left Judea and went back once more to Galilee.
4 Now he had to go through Samaria. 5 So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph. 6 Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about noon.
7 When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Will you give me a drink?” 8 (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)
9 The Samaritan woman said to him, “You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.[a])
10 Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.”
11 “Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? 12 Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his livestock?”
13 Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 14 but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
15 The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water.”
16 He told her, “Go, call your husband and come back.”
17 “I have no husband,” she replied.
Jesus said to her, “You are right when you say you have no husband. 18 The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have just said is quite true.”
19 “Sir,” the woman said, “I can see that you are a prophet. 20 Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem.”
21 “Woman,” Jesus replied, “believe me, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. 22 You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews. 23 Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. 24 God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.”
25 The woman said, “I know that Messiah” (called Christ) “is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us.”
26 Then Jesus declared, “I, the one speaking to you—I am he.”

The Disciples Rejoin Jesus

27 Just then his disciples returned and were surprised to find him talking with a woman. But no one asked, “What do you want?” or “Why are you talking with her?”
28 Then, leaving her water jar, the woman went back to the town and said to the people, 29 “Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Messiah?” 30 They came out of the town and made their way toward him.
31 Meanwhile his disciples urged him, “Rabbi, eat something.”
32 But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you know nothing about.”
33 Then his disciples said to each other, “Could someone have brought him food?”
34 “My food,” said Jesus, “is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work. 35 Don’t you have a saying, ‘It’s still four months until harvest’? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest. 36 Even now the one who reaps draws a wage and harvests a crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may be glad together. 37 Thus the saying ‘One sows and another reaps’ is true. 38 I sent you to reap what you have not worked for. Others have done the hard work, and you have reaped the benefits of their labor.”

Many Samaritans Believe

39 Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me everything I ever did.” 40 So when the Samaritans came to him, they urged him to stay with them, and he stayed two days. 41 And because of his words many more became believers.
42 They said to the woman, “We no longer believe just because of what you said; now we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this man really is the Savior of the world.”



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mp3 RECORDINGS of Father Dan's Spiritual Talks


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    • Loyola Couples Retreat Sept. 2014
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    • Holy Family, Davidsonville Jan. 11, 2014
    • Loyola Women Feb 15-16, 2015
    • Malvern Women 2013 Follow-up
    • St. Joseph's, Largo May 11, 2013
    • Camp Maria, Feb. 17-18, 2013
    • Holy Family, Davidsonville Jan. 12, 2013
    • Malvern Women 2012 Follow-up
  • Prayers/Reflections
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    • Beatitudes - October 2019
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    • Writings of the Saints (.pdf format)
    • Prayers for the Pope
    • Prayer for Our Nation
    • Inspired by Venerable Conchita Cabrera
    • Inspired by St. Teresa of Calcutta
    • Inspired by St. Faustina
    • Inspired by St. John Paul II
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