Building Integrity for Mission
What’s on in March… Contemplating some space? We are offering just the thing on the 2nd Fri of each month, from Mar–Nov 2023, 10am–12pm. Our contemplative space will be open each month via Zoom, with two in-person opportunities. The Read More …
See What’s On in our 2023 Program!We are pleased to present Heart of Life’s 2023 Program of courses and events. Whether you’re seeking to: undertake spiritual formation through one of our formation programs, participate in a 14-week seminar for professional and/or Read More …
From the Director’s Desk…Welcome to our first eNews of 2023. It’s a bumper first edition! In 2023, we celebrate 40 years of service. Keep an eye on our eNews and social media for special events in which you can participate to Read More …
Check out retreats for July and August being held at St. Mary’s Towers Retreat Centre, Douglas Park, Australia
Heart of Life celebrates its 40th birthday in 2023, having witnessed over 1100 women and men – lay and ordained – graduate from our spiritual formation programs. Our graduates, in their journey of contemplative discernment following the way of the heart, have been listening, discerning, and taking up formation roles in communities across the globe since 1983.
Heart of Life Centre for Spiritual and Pastoral Formation, Melbourne Australia. Retreats, programs, courses for Winter.
On 12-14 May 2022, Jesuit and Ignatian Spirituality Australia is offering a transformative conference to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the conversion of St Ignatius Loyola.
This three-day conference will be an Ignatian murmuration, a series of spiritual conversations using the Spiritual Field Hospital exercises of Michael Hansen SJ during Covid, to make connections with Ignatius in his interior journey of receiving new life in Christ. Receive new life yourself. And do it in enjoyable company.
Heart of Life Spiritual and Pastoral Formation Centre, Program 2022. Check out what is on offer.
Heart of Life Centre for Spiritual & Pastoral Formation is a work of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart, was founded in 1983. It offers a ministry in spirituality, the formation of spiritual directors and pastoral supervisors, spiritual direction, pastoral supervision, and reflection events. Because of its international reputation, participants from Australia and overseas attend Heart of Life’s formation programs in spiritual direction, supervision and spiritual leadership. The Centre’s Siloam and Spiritual Leaders programs are accredited by Yarra Theological Union (YTU) and the University of Divinity.
This is the sixth section in this series of reflections on self-understanding for the sake of mission. In this section we discuss in more detail the differing dimensions of human needs, in order to gain some understanding of how we, as MSC, are influenced by our own needs.