Link to interview promoting Regional Kairos on Fr. DeLacy's Vocation Hour on Holy Spirit Radio Friday, September 5, 2014. Regional Kairos is discussed during the first 15 minutes of the show.
Regional Kairos commercial, heard on Holy Spirit Radio:
Please check out the article Lou Baldwin and CatholicPhilly.com ran about Philadelphia Regional Kairos. The article can be found here.
Our Sunday Visitor wrote a short piece on Regional Kairos on page 2 of their December 29, 2013 issue. The article read:
Kairos retreat open to home school, public school students
They have become almost a staple at Catholic high schools, and the final touch on the religious formation of students especially in their senior year, and in some cases carrying through to their college years.
They are Kairos retreats, in which teenagers spend three and a half days cut off from everyday life at a retreat facility. What makes the retreats distinctive is the leaders are peers or near-peers to the retreatants. The leaders speak the same language and face the same problems as the other retreatants do on a daily basis.
Kate Greenhalgh, who is a sophomore at Franciscan University in Steubenville, Ohio, was personally transformed by the Kairos retreats she experienced as a student at Lansdale Catholic High School and later as a leader at Archbishop Carroll and Pope John Paul II High Schools.
"I got so much out of it, a relationship with God," she remembers of her first Kairos retreat, and then as a leader, "the satisfaction was watching other retreatants experience God."
Kate, who is majoring in theology and catechesis, is convinced Kairos is a grace that should be shared with everyone, not just Catholic school students.
Why not have Kairos retreats for public school and home-schooled students? she asked herself.
She mentioned it to her pastor at St. Anthony of Padua Parish in Ambler, Msgr. Stephen McHenry, and "he was excited about it," she said.
She e-mailed Archbishop Charles Chaput to tell him about her idea, and he too was supportive. The archbishop passed her e-mail on to Auxiliary Bishop Daniel Thomas, and Kate outlined her proposal during a meeting with him.
Her intention is to begin on a regional parish level and then branch out, depending on interest and attendance.
The initial "Philadelphia Regional Kairos Retreat" will be held Thursday evening, Feb. 13 through Sunday, Feb. 16 at the Mother Boniface Spirituality Center in Northeast Philadelphia.
The four-day, three-night retreat, which is open to both boys and girls in the junior and senior years, will include meals and supplies and will cost $250.
Kairos retreat open to home school, public school students
They have become almost a staple at Catholic high schools, and the final touch on the religious formation of students especially in their senior year, and in some cases carrying through to their college years.
They are Kairos retreats, in which teenagers spend three and a half days cut off from everyday life at a retreat facility. What makes the retreats distinctive is the leaders are peers or near-peers to the retreatants. The leaders speak the same language and face the same problems as the other retreatants do on a daily basis.
Kate Greenhalgh, who is a sophomore at Franciscan University in Steubenville, Ohio, was personally transformed by the Kairos retreats she experienced as a student at Lansdale Catholic High School and later as a leader at Archbishop Carroll and Pope John Paul II High Schools.
"I got so much out of it, a relationship with God," she remembers of her first Kairos retreat, and then as a leader, "the satisfaction was watching other retreatants experience God."
Kate, who is majoring in theology and catechesis, is convinced Kairos is a grace that should be shared with everyone, not just Catholic school students.
Why not have Kairos retreats for public school and home-schooled students? she asked herself.
She mentioned it to her pastor at St. Anthony of Padua Parish in Ambler, Msgr. Stephen McHenry, and "he was excited about it," she said.
She e-mailed Archbishop Charles Chaput to tell him about her idea, and he too was supportive. The archbishop passed her e-mail on to Auxiliary Bishop Daniel Thomas, and Kate outlined her proposal during a meeting with him.
Her intention is to begin on a regional parish level and then branch out, depending on interest and attendance.
The initial "Philadelphia Regional Kairos Retreat" will be held Thursday evening, Feb. 13 through Sunday, Feb. 16 at the Mother Boniface Spirituality Center in Northeast Philadelphia.
The four-day, three-night retreat, which is open to both boys and girls in the junior and senior years, will include meals and supplies and will cost $250.