Human Desires, God’s Desires¶
- Time of creation of outlines:
Fall 2007
- Place of first retreat:
Babice, Gliwice diocese
- Place of creation of outlines:
Gliwice diocese
- Target group:
Open retreats for people aged 13 to 23
- Retreat description:
Retreats based on the quote from St. Augustine: “You created us, O God, directed towards You, and our heart is restless until it rests in You”. We tried to appreciate desires, primarily as a source of information about ourselves. It is not wrong to desire many things; the question is only what these desires are directed towards. The leitmotif of these retreats is a built labyrinth. On the first day, participants wrote their desires on cards from which we later built a three-dimensional labyrinth of our desires. On the second day, we placed the Cross in the middle of this labyrinth. At the end of the second day, each participant received a string, which they laid out in the labyrinth as their path to Jesus, like Ariadne’s thread.
Table of contents of group meeting outlines
- Meeting 1. - Our Heart is Restless
- Meeting 2. - For You Created Us Directed Towards You Lord
- Meeting 3. - Our Heart is Restless Until it Rests in the Lord
- Goal of the Meeting
- Introduction for the animator
- Opening prayer
- Sharing the experience of the past day
- Introduction - did St. Augustine oversell God?
- God’s action is wise
- God’s action wants to transform
- God’s action is in response to dialogue
- Dissatisfaction on earth is natural and good
- Application – role of community