Love is Stronger: Hope and Faith in the World Today

Saturday July 4th - Saturday August 8th Francis

About the Summer Program What to Expect

Madonna House is a community of Week 1 July 4–11 Love chose me • Daily Mass, communal prayer, men and women whose call to live – The Encounter that shatters Loneliness and adoration the Gospel of Love has brought them Week 2 July 11–18 • Working alongside community great joy. The Incarnation touches Made for Love members – A Christian anthropology every aspect of life. If you are • Seminars, lectures, witness Week 3 July 18–25 between the ages of 19 and 35 and Love casts out fear talks, discussions are searching for the deepest mean- – Say yes to the Risk • Recreation and free time ing of your existence come and Week 4 July 25–Aug 1 Love is a fire • Personal spiritual guidance experience our daily life of work, – the Gospel alight in the world prayer and recreation. Hear from our available Week 5 – members—women, laymen and Aug 1 8 Love never fails • Family-style meals – the triumph of the Cross priests—about our way of life (The • Dormitory living Little Mandate) which you can live anywhere. Come for all 5 weeks or • Open to men and women 19-35 just a minimum of 1 week. years of age. We Welcome Visitors Throughout the Year How to Contact Us We welcome visitors throughout To register, please write, phone or email: the year to share in our ordinary Summer Program daily life, and to learn the Registrar of Men / Women / Priests 2015 extraordinary truth of God's Madonna House presence in every moment of that 2888 Dafoe Rd, RR 2 life (minimum stay of one week). Combermere ON K0J 1L0 We pray, work, relax together, and Canada Love is Stronger Our Lady of Combermere participate in the following: Fall (October through early January) Telephone: 1-613-756-3713 Hope and Faith Fax: 1-613-756-0211 Ten classes on Fundamentals of the Spiritual Life, in the World Today with study and reflection time after each talk. Email: men: [email protected] Liturgy classes introduce the seasons of the Church women: [email protected] year, and our customs in celebrating them. Live the liturgical year in everyday life, beginning with Advent. (Include your postal address) Then enter Christmas to receive the Greatest Gift – the Child born to be King. Celebrate the full season There is no set fee. Donations welcome according into Epiphany, with rich traditions to feed both spirit to your means. and body. During Advent, use your free to time to learn a new craft in our handicraft department. For more information, please phone or visit Winter (January through Easter Sunday) our website: Weekly classes on the Catechism of the , with study and reflection time after each www.madonnahouse.org class. We continue the liturgical journey, entering Lent through a rich daily prayer life and spiritual readings From our web site you can: for the season. Then walk through Holy Week with • Take a tour of Madonna House with the Lord , so as to enter his Risen Life and full-colour photographs. proclaim: Christ is Risen! Truly He is Risen! During Lent, try your hand at the art of pysanky – a • Find out more about our community. type of Russian/Ukrainian/Polish egg decorating – to • Learn about Catherine Doherty, our th th “push back the darkness” in this world with the light foundress, and read excerpts from her July 4 - August 8 and joy of the Resurrection. talks, articles and books. Spiritual Formation Program • Discover the work of our mission We also offer a program for young men considering field houses around the world. a vocation to the priesthood. This runs from October through April. Combermere,