MARIST OF

CHAMPAGNAT
Personnel Retreat 2021

WITH

Rev. Fr. Dean Johnpaul D. Menchavez, JCD

 03 Retreat Facilitator
05 Program Schedule
07 Joining the Virtual Retreat
08 How to Prepare for a Virtual Retreat
10 A Note to the Retreat
12 Opening and Closing Prayers
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Retreat
FACILITATOR
We are delighted to have Fr. Johnpaul
Menchavez, join us to facilitate the annual
Marist personnel online retreat with the theme,
“Through Mary, with Joseph, and in Jesus”. It
aims to deepen our experience of God who
dwells within our daily life so we can become
God’s passionate witnesses by full and happy
lives and to have a meaningful experience of
encounter with God in this turbulent world.
Rev. Fr. Dean Johnpaul D.
Menchavez holds a degree of
Doctorate in Canon Law at the
Pontificia Università della
Santa Croce in Rome. He was
ordained priest in 2012 and
incardinated in the Prelature of
Opus Dei and the Holy Cross.
He also holds the following
degrees: Bachelor of Sacred
Theology from the University of
Navarre (Spain), Master of
Science in Industrial
Economics, and Bachelor of
Arts in Humanities-Liberal Arts
from the University of Asia and
the Pacific (Philippines). He has
also contributed articles to
ecclesiastical and law journals,
and dailies, both local and
abroad.
"For I will satisfy the weary soul, and every languishing soul I will replenish."
He has been accompanying
individuals, couples, marriages
and families through one-on-one
and one-on-two regular
conversations before and during
the pandemic (online). He also
forms part of the Antipolo
Marriage Tribunal. Recently he
has also been invited to co-host
and guest in radio and social
media shows. He has been
preaching activities and giving
classes for various spiritual
communities. He is a proud
Marist School Marikina loyalty
awardee and has been a
chaplain of schools, youth and
professional's groups. He has
been involved in several
publications and researches and
has exercised pastoral ministry
among the youth and their
families.
JEREMIAH 31:25
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 The retreat will begin at 730AM on Thursday 28 October and
MARGORP concludes on Friday 29 October. Each session will be led by
Father Jp Menchavez . There will be personal time in
between sessions for you to pray, sit or walk, and reflect on
the questions Fr. Jp puts to you at the end of each session.
There will also be an opportunity to discuss any questions
that arise at the beginning of the sessions.

Thursday 28 October 2021

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7:30AM Zoom Meeting Room Opens

7:45AM Opening Liturgy

Fr Jao Leoveras, FDCC

8:30AM Retreat Orientation and Introduction
DAY 1
9:00AM Meditation ONE
9:30AM Rosary
10:00AM Meditation TWO
10:30AM Health Break
10:45AM Meditation THREE
11:30AM Meditation FOUR
12:00NN Angelus

Lunch Break
1:45PM Zoom Meeting Room Opens
2:00PM Meditation FIVE

2:30PM Examination of Conscience

2:45PM Meditation SIX
3:15PM Health Break
3:30PM Meditation SEVEN
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 MARGORP On the second day of the online retreat, we will begin as we
open the room by 8:15 AM and have the meditation sessions
with Fr. Jp. And to end this retreat this day, we will all
together have the celebration of the Eucharist to be
presided by
Fr. Jao Leoveras, FDCC of the Canossian Sons of Charity.

Friday 29 October 2021

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8:15AM Zoom Meeting Room Opens

8:30AM Meditation EIGHT
DAY 2
9:00AM Stations of the Cross
9:30AM Meditation NINE

10:00AM Litany of St Joseph

10:15AM Meditation TEN
Health Break
11:00AM Closing Liturgy
Fr Jao Leoveras, FDCC

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 JOINING
the Virtual Retreat

Our Annual Personnel Retreat will be conducted online through

the video conferencing application Zoom. Here are some
information we will be needing for you to join our virtual retreat.

Zoom Meeting ID: 902 169 9292

Password: CHAMPAGNAT

In joining the meeting, kindly follow the name format to be

admitted in the meeting: LAST NAME, Given Name Middle Initial

Access to the Zoom meeting is at 7:30AM and 1:45PM. It is better

to join the meeting earlier so we have time to relax and let our
spirits be ready. While the sessions are running, we keep our
microphones muted. Zoom details should be confidential to
avoid compromising the retreat with unwanted visitors.

d the soul will speak.

Quiet the mind an

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 How to prepare for a
VIRTUAL
RETREAT
Setup a quiet comfortable space in your

1 house and decorate your space with a

crucifix or a religious picture to focus on.

Schedule time on your calendar and

2 let all in the house know of retreat

times. You will need some silent time.

Test your computer or mobile device.

3 Do a test meeting to test your

software with Zoom.

4 Use headphones or speakers loud

enough for personal listening.

Pick out a book for spiritual reading

5 during the retreat breaks (and even

begin reading in advance)

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 How to prepare for a
VIRTUAL
RETREAT

Light a candle to help set the scene.

6

Have a container of fresh drinking

water available or a pot of herbal tea
or coffee to help you relax.
7

Have healthy foods available in meal

breaks e.g. milktea, some nuts, a fresh
salad, fruit, juice, bowl of soup, bread,
etc.
8

Wear comfortable clothes.

9

Turn your mobile phone off and close

email and other auto-notifications to
eliminate distracting “pop-ups”.
Down time!
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 Good online educators concern themselves with engagement of
their students. This is also true with speakers of online spiritual
God-centered activities. If you look at the bigger picture though, more than

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TAERTER
engagement, there is a loftier goal in our retreat: an experience, a
spiritual conversion for each of you as you once more bring back
God at the center of your life.

I pray that you share with me this premise, whether you are a new
or not-so-new Marist personnel (admin staff, teacher, former
teacher), participating in this year’s retreat: You want to meet Christ
Encounter more especially in the next two days our Marist community has
dedicated for it. You plan to use all the means within your reach for
with Christ that to happen. You will take advantage of all the offered activities
not because the attendance will be checked, but since you
understand completely well that God wants to tell you something
on a personal note in each of them, and you want to listen
exclusively to His voice this time.

So that the resonance of God’s voice, the Holy Spirit’s whispers, be

Noting down loud and clear, I advise that you use all your energies to pay attention.
As we go through considerations in every session of guided prayer
the Holy
which is called, a ‘meditation’[1], be ready with your materials to jot
Spirit’s down the resolutions, affections, inspirations, or any idea that strike
motions you. Reread what you noted down at the end of the day and answer
these questions: what did God tell me today and now? What did he

point out to me in improving my relationship with Him, with my family
with the people I work with? What dispositions, attitudes and habits
should I change? How could I concretize them?

The path through which we encounter Jesus is through our Blessed

Mother and Saint Joseph. Our theme is Through Mary, With Joseph
and In Jesus. Apart from our community’s praying of the Rosary in
Our Theme
which we beg our Lady for our personal conversion, the Beatitude-
centered Examination of Conscience will make several allusions to
the virtues of our Blessed Mother and her spouse. In this Year of St
Joseph, our meditations will also feature the protagonism of our
father and lord.

[1] A meditation is simply a guided prayer. I lead it by mentioning some point of

consideration which you could use to talk to God. I learned this way of praying from St
Josemaria, founder of Opus Dei. Indebted to the latter’s spirituality, it is inevitable that I
once in a while talk about him or his writings. You may get to know more in
stjosemaria.org.

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 As you go through the retreat, it his highly probable that you

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encounter an obvious dilemma: distraction. You will be tempted to
Some tips while away and scatter your attention. You could easily connect to
other web sites and social media platforms. You could also readily
for a
zone out as you tire yourself in listening. Aside from the proactive
fruitful stance in note-taking (which I earlier recommended), enough sleep,
retreat a decisive ‘social media detox’, informing your family and friends
about your two-day-retreat in relative silence could all together do

the trick. Repeating our premise several times could also put you
back on track in case you get lost. Once in a while, as you
experience screen fatigue, you may opt to merely listen. Don’t worry
if in the end at one point you ever fall asleep, we will provide the
materials which you may have missed. Same goes if all of a sudden,
internet connection falters.

To maintain focus, the meditations that I will preach in audio will be

accompanied by a visual: a live-streamed exposition of the Blessed
Go Sacrament. All the activities are online, but I recommend that you try
to visit the church near you to physically be drawn to our Eucharistic
sacramental! Lord. If possible, go and ask pardon sacramentally as well[2]. Likewise
plan your physical attendance of the mass. All our activities
broadcasted via the internet are devotional (even an online mass is
such!) and for meetings with Christ, nothing beats the sacramental
encounter!

I will definitely pray for each of you Through Mary,

with Joseph and In Jesus.

In Christ,

Rev. Fr. Dean Johnpaul Menchavez

[2] You may take advantage of this confession hub: Chaplaincy Advisory: Confessions at
PSB | UA&P (uap.asia)

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 SREYARP
gnisolC dna gninepO

My Lord and my God, I firmly believe that you are here;

that you see me, that your hear me. I adore you with
profound reverence; I ask pardon for my sins, and the
grace to make this time of prayer fruitful. My Immaculate
Mother, Saint Joseph my father and lord, my guardian
angel, intercede for me. Amen.

I thank you, my God, for the good resolutions,

affections and inspirations that you have
communicated to me in this meditation. I ask your help
in putting them into effect. My Immaculate Mother,
Saint Joseph my father and lord, my guardian angel,
intercede for me. Amen.

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