Talk given 11 July 2010 · Fr Michael Payyapilly VC
Published 11 September 2026
Mannix College, Clayton (Melbourne), Victoria
Let His Spirit Flow · Live-In Retreat · 9-11 July 2010 · Session 10
Fr Michael Payyapilly teaches that Christian faith cannot embrace only healing and miracles while rejecting the Cross. Drawing on Jesus' temptations, St Peter, St Paul and personal testimonies, he presents suffering as capable of becoming salvific, purifying and formative when united with Christ, and calls disciples to trust God's grace without reducing prayer to a demand for comfortable outcomes.
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Talk given 19 July 2025 · Fr Joby George VC
Published 17 August 2026
Belgrave Heights Convention Centre, Belgrave Heights, Victoria
Powered by the Holy Spirit · 3-Day Live-In Retreat · 18-20 July 2025 · Session 3
Fr Joby George VC reflects on the Holy Spirit as the Spirit who unites and on unforgiveness as a root that divides families, relationships and communities. Drawing on Scripture and his own struggles with anger and forgiveness, he explains why human forgiveness becomes exhausted and why we need to receive the forgiveness of Jesus from the Cross until it overflows from us to others.
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Talk given 19 July 2025 · Fr Michael Payyapilly VC
Published 17 August 2026
Belgrave Heights Convention Centre, Belgrave Heights, Victoria
Powered by the Holy Spirit · 3-Day Live-In Retreat · 18-20 July 2025 · Session 1
Christian discipleship cannot be reduced to prayers, retreats, blessings or a comfortable life. Fr Michael explains why the Holy Spirit is essential to accepting the lordship of Jesus, receiving difficult teaching, carrying the cross without cowardice, living love beyond ego, discerning truth and keeping eternal life as the destination of faith.
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Talk given 9 July 2010 · Fr Michael Payyapilly VC
Published 31 August 2026
Mannix College, Clayton (Melbourne), Victoria
Let His Spirit Flow · Live-In Retreat · 9-11 July 2010 · Session 1
The Cross is the definitive measure of God's love. Through Isaiah's suffering Servant, Fr Michael Payyapilly VC shows that Christ bears our infirmities and iniquity, loves us before we become worthy, and calls us to conversion as a response to love already given.
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