Faber CIS - Brisbane QLD

Contact us

Chris Gleeson SJ, Director
Faber Centre of Ignatian Spirituality
PO Box 721, Toowong DC, Qld 4066.

Tel: 07 3368 2450
Fax: 07 3368 2486

Email: fabercis@bigpond.com

Facilities

As this national CIS schedule goes to print, uncertainty about the timing of building and renovation works at Santa Teresa Spirituality Centre in 2009 makes it very difficult for Faber to plan for and provide any residential program offerings next year. To add to this complexity, Faber is in the throes of moving its headquarters from Banyo to what was formerly Freers’ Potato Chip factory in Sir Samuel Griffiths Drive, Toowong, where we hope to be settled before Christmas this year.
These difficulties aside, we will continue to offer the following programs in 2009 which do not require overnight accommodation.

More detail on venues, dates and times, and costs for these programs and regular newsletters can be obtained from The Administrator on the Faber CIS email address at “faber@cis.jesuit.org.au”:

Our new postal address next year will be Faber CIS, PO Box 721, Toowong DC, Qld 4066. The actual offices will be at 111 Sir Samuel Griffith Drive, Toowong.

Chris Gleeson SJ (Director) After spending many years in school leadership positions, he is very interested in promoting Ignatian spirituality and helping people discover a spirituality of leadership for themselves and their communities.

Steve Cunningham – a semi-retired Pharmacist, Steve has been trained as a giver of the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius in the Queensland Arrupe Program. His special interests are in the thirty-week Everyday Life Retreat Program and in the shorter, Parish-based five-week directed retreats. He and his wife, Jean, have long been committed to the Christian Life Communities (CLC).

Anne Dawson OSU has had a long association with CLC, and involvement in guided retreats and spiritual direction. She currently teaches courses in Christian Spirituality at the Brisbane College of Theology.

Kerry Holland a Companion in the Ministry of the Ignatian Spiritual Exercises, is a practising artist. Originally studying physics and education, she is married with three children. She is particularly interested in the 30 week experience of the Exercises and creative expression as prayer.

Vince Hurley SJ has been a lecturer in Spirituality at Pius X Seminary, Banyo, and has introduced many people to the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius in both Queensland and New South Wales. He is currently the Director of the Apostleship of Prayer.

Dale Keenan has completed the Certificate in Spiritual Direction and the Graduate Certificate in Ignatian Spirituality (Arrupe). She is especially interested in expanding opportunities for lay people to uncover the jewels of Ignatian Spirituality. In Brisbane she has focused on giving the Spiritual Exercises to people in regional areas combining traditional methods with emerging technologies as well as facilitating short retreats based on Ignatian themes.

Elizabeth Kerr is a Pastoral Associate at St Ignatius Parish, Toowong. Married with eight adult children, she has a theology degree from the BCT and a special interest in Ignatian spirituality and retreats in daily life.

Fr John Reilly SJ a Doctor of Theology, based in Brisbane, has worked mostly in India, East Asia and the Pacific, in theology, Spiritual Exercises and Formation Programs, and more recently in Australia with priests.