Below is a “typical” Schedule For a Matt Talbot Retreat

Friday 5:00 – 7:00 ...... Registration Mission Statement 7:15...... Dinner 8:15...... Orientation & Conference 9:15...... & Night Prayers Loyola Jesuit Center is inspired by the 10:00...... Collation Person and Good News of Jesus Christ as experienced in the Catholic tradition of Saturday the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius of 7:50...... A.M. Prayers Loyola. 8:00...... Breakfast 9:00 ...... Conference We commit ourselves to meet people of all Offering Retreats since 1927 10:00 ...... Free Time, Consultations ages and cultures, wherever they may be 11:30 ...... Conference in their spiritual life, and offer them the 12:15 ...... Lunch resources and contemplative atmosphere to Matt Talbot 1:00 ...... Stations of the Cross foster the spiritual fire necessary to be free 2:00 ...... Free Time, Consultations and fully alive as children of God. #1 Retreats 3:15 ...... Conference We hope to inspire people who will continue 4:00 – 4:30 ...... Confessions January 6-8, 2017 the mission of Jesus - bringing God’s mercy, 5:00 ...... Mass love and justice into the world. July 21-23, 2017 5:45 ...... Dinner 7:30 ...... A.A. Meeting 9:00 ...... Benediction & Healing 9:50 ...... Night Prayer 10:00 ...... Collation Sunday 7:50...... A.M. Prayers 8:00...... Breakfast/Awards 9:00...... Conference Loyola 10:00...... Free Time, Consultations Jesuit Center • Morristown, NJ 11:15...... Rosary 11:30...... Sunday Mass 161 James Street, Morristown, NJ, 07960 P: 973-539-0740 • E: [email protected] Loyola 12:30...... Lunch & Departure Jesuit Center • Morristown, NJ Visit www.loyola.org A Matt Talbot Retreat? first step toward Sainthood in the Catholic Directions Church. Although a devoted Catholic and dedicated Christian, Matt is a model for every By Bus: Community Bus Co. from Port Born in , , in 1856, Matt Talbot man and woman who seeks the great, graced, Authority Terminal, N.Y.C. Get off at came from a poor family. Then, Dublin was a gift of sobriety and who wants to improve his Morristown, Head-quarters Plaza, last stop. desperate city and many turned to alcohol for or her conscious contact with God. That’s what the false, “alcoholic,” promise it gave of relief Matt Talbot retreats are all about, alcoholics By Train: New Jersey Transit leaves New York from life’s burdens. At the age of 12, after quitting helping other alcoholics to realize what we City and Hoboken for Morristown. school, Matt began a life of hard labor and, like alcoholics have come to call the spiritual many of his co workers, picked up the bottle. fellowship of the program. By Car: From north, I-287 South to exit #33 No recovering alcoholic will be surprised to learn (Harter Rd.). Turn right on Harter Rd. continue that at one point in his hard drinking life Matt (Based on Venerable Matt Talbot 1856-1925 by for ¼ mile. Turn left at traffic light on to James was so desperate to maintain his addiction that Leo Austin Dolan) Street. Travel 1 ½ miles to Loyola on left, he sold his only pair of shoes to buy alcohol. (Red Sign) across from tennis courts.

Thanks be to the mysterious grace of God, Matt Our House In General From east or west, I-80 to I-287 South; I-287 had his painful awakening at age 28. Negatively, South to exit #33 (Harter Rd.) and follow that awakening was learning that his “friends” Loyola is a Jesuit retreat house set in beautiful as above. were not really friends at all but desperate rolling terrain of northern New Jersey. 90 From south on I-287 North take exit #33 alcoholics like himself who could not be true individual rooms for retreatants, two chapels, (Harter Rd.) and follow as above. to him when he most needed them as he could a library and spacious meeting rooms are enhanced by 33+ acres of lawn, gardens and not be true to them when they needed him. Want to stay up to date with events Positively, Matt’s spiritual awakening included a woodland. good Confession for the first time in his life after at Loyola? Send us your email address Loyola offers a time to relax, away from business which he made a promise (dangerous for most by visiting our website problems and family worries; a time to reflect alcoholics) that he would abstain from alcohol and get a fresh slant on your life; a time to pray, and joining our mailing list. for six months. He began a life of great to reawaken the sense of the reality of God and on his way to a holiness that came, not from his to grow in the precious gift of faith. Suggested Offering efforts, but from God alone. Although A.A. was $200.00 not founded yet, Matt went through something Over and above the various scheduled retreats, Please call or email to Register. like the steps in his conversion. He did as one Loyola offers days or evenings of prayer for adults, A.A. put a summary of the 12 Steps: Trust in for school faculties, for parish societies, parish Please call our office at 973-539-0740 God, Clean House and Help Others. councils and teens/children. These can be arranged if you require financial assistance on mutually agreeable dates and the program As he was making his way to Mass on Trinity or need flexible funding at this time. adapted to the needs of the particular group. Sunday, in 1925, Matt died. He was 68 years No one is ever turned away old. Today Matt is Venerable Matt Talbot, the for lack of funds.