Faber CIS - Brisbane QLD

Contact us

Chris Gleeson SJ, Director
Faber Centre of Ignatian Spirituality
Box 110, Banyo QLD 4014

Tel: 07 36218908

Email: faber@cis.jesuit.org.au

Facilities

Launched in August 2006, Faber CIS is located within St. Paul’s Theological College, ACU Campus, Banyo, Brisbane. On a 40 hectare site it is 12 kms north of the Brisbane CBD.

Launched in August 2006, Faber CIS is located within St. Paul’s
Theological College, ACU Campus, Banyo, Brisbane. On a 40 hectare
site it is 12 kms north of the Brisbane CBD.
Venues for Faber Centre Retreats in 2008
With significant building in process at the Archdiocesan Spirituality Centre at Ormiston in 2008 – the disruption and duration of which is uncertain at the time of printing this schedule – it has been necessary for the Faber Centre to arrange for some different venues for its residential and non-residential offerings.

Contact Di Azzopardi at the Faber Centre of Ignatian Spirituality (located at St. Paul’s Theological College, Banyo), 8.30-3.00, Monday to Friday, on 07 3621 8900.

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.

John Drury SJ has been a leading figure in Ignatian Spirituality in this country for over 30 years. He has given the Spiritual Exercises to many different groups in Australia and overseas, and is still active in this ministry based in the Jesuit presbytery at St. Ignatius’, 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.

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.

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.