Calendar for the “Step by Step” Online Retreat

along with the liturgical year 2007-2008

 

You should feel free to begin the retreat and do the Steps with your own pace, but if you wish you can follow this schedule that tries to harmonize the retreat with the celebrations of the liturgical year.  So you will contemplate the mystery of the Incarnation and of the birth of Jesus around Christmas and the Passion and Resurrection around Easter..

 

First we take the Steps biweekly that gives time to get familiar with the method, to experiment, to find the best place and time of the day for prayer and so on. During the holy Week we make out prayer more intense to contemplate the events of the passion and arrive to the Resurrection on Easter Sunday.

 

The Retreat ends at Pentecost with the “Contemplation to attain the love of God” that will lead us to the “ordinary” times of daily life in the aftermath of the retreat.

 

If you have any questions or comments, contact us by e-mail or on our Blog. The best is to join to share your spiritual journey in our Dialog and Prayer Group . Members of this Group will receive reminder e-mails for each Step of the Exercises so you will not miss the schedule.

 

 

Date	Step to take
Aug 15 2007, Assumption of Our Lady	Introduction to the Online Retreat in Everyday Life and scheduling
Sep 2-15	Step 1: Listening
Sep 16-29	Step 2: Our Human vocation
Sep 30-Oct 13	Step 3: The Principle of Freedom
Oct 14-27	Step 4: Existential Experience of the History of Salvation
Oct 28-Nov 10	Step 5: Our Personal History of Salvation
Nov 11-24	Step 6 Hell and Mercy
Nov 25, Our Lord Jesus Christ the King- Advent -Dec 8	Step 7: Introduction of the Second Phase - The Parable of the Kingdom of Christ
Dec 9, Second Sunday of Advent - Dec 22	Step 8: God Prepares a Way for Our Salvation - The Mystery of the Incarnation
Dec 23-Dec 25, The Nativity of the Lord (Christmas) –Dec 29	Step 9: God So Loved the World - The Birth of Jesus
Dec 30, The Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph-Jan 5, 2008	Step 10: The "Hidden Life" and the Value System of Jesus Christ
Jan 6, The Epiphany of the Lord – Jan 12	Step 11: An Enneagram Exercise and The Value System of Jesus Christ
Jan 13, The Baptism of the Lord-Ordinary Time-Jan 19	Step 12: The Value System of Jesus Christ - A Summary
Jan 20-26	Step 13: Three Types of Attitude toward Possessions
Jan 27-Feb 2	Step 14: Three Types of Attitude  in Scriptural Case Studies
Feb 3-9	Step 15: Baptism and Temptation of Jesus - Three Degrees of the Love of God
Feb 10, First Sunday of Lent – Feb 16	Step 16: Jesus Calls His Followers- Arriving to a Decision
Feb 17-23	Step 17: Jesus Teaches the Way - Arriving to a Decision (cont.)
Feb 24 -Mar 1	Step 18: Jesus Heals: To be Free to be Able to Choose - Arriving to a Decision (cont.)
Mar 2-8	Step 19: Who is Jesus? - What quality do I long and pray for - Arriving to a Decision (cont.)
Mar 9-15	Step 20: Jesus raises Lazarus and gets anointed at the supper in Bethany- Arriving to a Decision (cont.)
Mar 16, Palm Sunday	Step 21: Jesus arrives to Jerusalem, enters the city and the Temple- Concluding the Second Phase
Mar 17, Holy Monday	Beginning of the Third Phase and Step 22: The Last Supper – First Part
Mar 18, Holy Tuesday	Step 23: The Last Supper – Second Part: The last discourses of Jesus
Mar 19, Holy Wednesday	Step 24: Gethsemane
Mar 20, Holy Thursday	Step 25: Interrogated, denied, mocked, tortured and condemned...
Mar 21, Good Friday	Step 26: Crucifixion and Death
Mar 22, Holy Saturday	Step 27: Waiting at the Tomb of Jesus
Mar 23, Easter Sunday- Mar 29	Beginning of Fourth Phase and Step 28: The risen Jesus appears to his mother Mary and to the other women
Mar30, Divine Mercy Sunday-Apr 5	Step 29: Jesus appears to his disciples behind closed doors – Divine Mercy Sunday
Apr 6-19	Step 30: Jesus appears to the disciples on the road to Emmaus
Apr 20-May 3	Step 31: Jesus appears to the disciples on the lakeshore
May 4, The Ascension of the Lord –May 10	Step 32: The Ascension
May 11, Pentecost – May 25, The Most Holy Body & Blood of Christ and afterward in the daily life	End of the Retreat and Beginning of the Aftermath with the Contemplation to Attain the Love of God