Faith Requires Questions

Creation time:

Spring 2007

Place of first retreat:

Babice, Gliwice diocese

Place of creation:

Gliwice diocese

Target group:

Open retreat for people aged 13 to 23

Retreat description:

Lent retreat aimed at showing faith as a journey - with moments when we see everything from the top and know where we are, but also with moments when we are in a valley through which we have to pass. We appreciated the role of doubts, which, well used, are a priceless gift for a believer. The retreat was inspired by Vladimir Holan’s poem Is in which he writes: “what is not shaky in it, is unstable”.

Table of Contents

• Meeting 1 - Question to Myself
  • Tips for the Animator
  • Goals
  • To Know, To Believe, To Believe In
  • Living Faith. Paradoxes of Atheism.
  • Features of a True Meeting
  • Distant God
  • Questions of Faith
  • Man as a Question to Himself
  • What Is Faith?
• Meeting 2 - Personal Experience of Faith
  • Meeting Goal
  • Introduction for the Animator
  • Initial Prayer
  • Introduction
  • What Does Our Faith Look Like?
  • About Doubts
  • Profession of Faith
  • What to Do with This Situation?
  • Conclusion
• Meeting 3 - Dynamism of Faith
  • Notes for the Animator
  • Goals
  • Would That You Were Either Cold or Hot!
  • Examples of Human Heat, Cold and Lukewarmness
  • Novelties in Our Lives
  • Hiking in the Mountains
  • Faith and Travel
  • Conclusion