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Kairos Inside is a program that works inside prisons to develop a sense of Christian fellowship. It is active in both men's and women's prisons, and is conducted by volunteers of the same gender. The 3.5-day retreat includes talks, discussions, and chapel meditations. The Kairos Inside program strives to create Christian communities inside prisons.
Sustained by secular clergy, the laity, and other previous participants, the movement is associated with a retreat spanning three days. Some adherents proclaim the life of an attendee transforms on the fourth day. Such retreats began as an apostolic movement on the island of Mallorca, where a group of Catholic laity first developed the Cursillo ...
Outside the retreat, Miller and other inmates participate in regular prayer-and-share groups. These groups allow them to continue the spiritual growth that began during the retreat.
A story from the early days of the movement in Spain tells of an occasion where a group of men were returning from a Cursillo weekend when their bus broke down. They began to sing De Colores, a traditional folk song. The use of the song in Cursillo took hold, and has held up as the movement has spread outside the Spanish-speaking world and to ...
Men's retreats offer participants a safe space amid loneliness epidemic. Mark Strassmann, Samantha Wender. December 17, 2024 at 7:40 PM. At "Evryman," a weekend getaway in the Berkshires of ...
Samuel Jackson Gilbert Jr., pastor-emeritus Mt. Sinai Baptist Church, Houston, Texas. [7]Ken Gross, author of the Emotional Prisons series. [8]Donald C. Simmons Jr., former dean at Dakota Wesleyan University, Director of Pastoral Care at North Mississippi Medical Center, pastor, author and editor of Organizational Leadership: Foundations and Practices for Christians (Intervarsity Press).
All freshmen make the El Camino retreat in which they come to see life as a journey, with role models, heroes, and acceptance of oneself. It is led by seniors and includes team-building exercises, small-group discussions, and faith sharing. The Kairos retreat runs three days and is led by seniors who have made it.
Students make day-long retreats in the first three years and in their senior year they make a 3-day Kairos retreat. [4] Three days each week the entire school participates in the 5-minute daily examen practice, [ 5 ] which grew out of Ignatian retreats.