Fr. Mark Yavarone, OMV Presents
Overcoming Spiritual Discouragement: An Ignatian Path to Hope
All of us experience ups and downs in our daily spiritual life: times when God feels close and we have spiritual energy, and times when that energy wanes, and we
struggle with discouragement. In fourteen practical guidelines (“rules”), St. Ignatius of Loyola offers invaluable aid toward understanding this experience, finding freedom from discouragement, and living our daily lives with joy. If this teaching is perennially important, it is more so now in such uncertain times. In this retreat, Fr. Mark Yavarone, OMV, will explore St. Ignatius’ teaching and apply it to our experience through concrete examples.
Fr. Yavarone was ordained in 2000 as a member of the Oblates of the Virgin Mary, a religious community dedicated to retreats and spiritual formation according to the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius. He has since served as an Associate Pastor at St. Andrew’s Parish in Avenel, NJ; a missionary in the Philippines; a member of the faculty at Pope St. John XXIII National Seminary in Weston, MA; and Director of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Retreat Center in Venice, FL. His work has appeared in The Way, Linacre Quarterly, and Homiletic and Pastoral Review.
Schedule
8:30 – 9:00 a.m. Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00 – 9:50 a.m. First Conference
10:00 –10:50 a.m. Second Conference
11:00 – 11:30 a.m. Mass
Buffet Lunch follows Mass—Confessions during this hour
1:00 – 1:50 p.m. Third Conference
2:00 – 2:50 p.m. Fourth Conference
3:00 – 3:30 p.m. Question and Answers
