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Help us evangelize and share this experience with those who have not had the opportunity to attend an ACTS Retreat. Please prayerfully consider making a donation of $25, $50, $100 or whatever God places on your heart to help us continue the ministry of ACTS. Your generous gift helps us to Share Scholarships: Helping men, women and teens to live an ACTS Retreat Weekend when finances may be an obstacle to them attending.
Catholic lay men and women present the ACTS weekend retreat with spiritual direction provided during the weekend. The retreat’s goals are to allow you an opportunity to focus on your faith and its application in your daily life, to develop and build purpose in your prayer life, and to cultivate friendship and strengthen bonds among members of your church community.
After an ACTS Retreat, our hearts are full and we want to share the joy. The love of God and Christian
community becomes real, revitalizing lives, parishes and whole communities. Many feel changed with the love of God and burn with a desire to serve. Now you can serve as an ACTS Missioner supporting the work of ACTS Missions.
After an ACTS Retreat, our hearts are full and we want to share the joy. The love of God and Christian
community becomes real, revitalizing lives, parishes and whole communities. Many feel changed with the love of God and burn with a desire to serve. Now you can serve as an ACTS Missioner supporting the work of ACTS Missions.
ACTS History
A.C.T.S. is a Catholic renewal movement and a retreat experience that is administered by parishioners for parishioners, offering weekends for spiritual growth. Talks and activities during the retreat sessions focus on Adoration, Community, Theology and Service, hence the acronym A.C.T.S. You will return to your faith community with an increased desire to become more involved in your relationship with God, your relationship with your family, and your relationship with your community. Each year our parish ACTS community sponsors retreats for men and women, as well as a summer ACTS Teens retreat. For more information regarding ACTS Missions click on www.actsmissions.org/
The ACTS movement came to birth from the Cursillo Movement through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, in the Archdiocese of San Antonio. ACTS started in 1987 at Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Selma, Texas, a small suburb of San Antonio.
"Three men who were formerly involved with Cursillo, Ed Courtney and Joe Hays of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church in Selma, and Dr. Marty Sablik of St Luke's parish, met in the spring of 1987 at a local restaurant and discussed the possibilities of starting a retreat program that would concentrate more on parish life and community.
The proposed retreat program was approved by Joe Hayes' pastor, Father Patrick Cronin, at Our Lady of Perpetual Help, his pastoral council and Archbishop Patrick Flores. The men received the blessings to form a committee to develop a retreat weekend with a goal of having a men's retreat in July 1987 and a women's retreat in the fall of 1987. Archbishop Flores asked that the committee be sure to allow non-Catholics to attend as part of the community.
The ACTS movement came to birth from the Cursillo Movement through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, in the Archdiocese of San Antonio. ACTS started in 1987 at Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Selma, Texas, a small suburb of San Antonio.
"Three men who were formerly involved with Cursillo, Ed Courtney and Joe Hays of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church in Selma, and Dr. Marty Sablik of St Luke's parish, met in the spring of 1987 at a local restaurant and discussed the possibilities of starting a retreat program that would concentrate more on parish life and community.
The proposed retreat program was approved by Joe Hayes' pastor, Father Patrick Cronin, at Our Lady of Perpetual Help, his pastoral council and Archbishop Patrick Flores. The men received the blessings to form a committee to develop a retreat weekend with a goal of having a men's retreat in July 1987 and a women's retreat in the fall of 1987. Archbishop Flores asked that the committee be sure to allow non-Catholics to attend as part of the community.