Leah Perrault Executive Director

Mount St. Francis Retreat Centre

is pleased to Welcome

Leah Perrault Executive Director

Leah Perrault is thrilled to be coming from Saskatchewan to join the Mount St. Francis team as Executive Director. She studied English, Geography, and Theatre at Campion College in Regina and Pastoral Theology at St. Michael’s College at the Toronto School of Theology in Toronto.

 

She has spent the last twenty years in senior leadership positions with the Roman Catholic Diocese of Saskatoon, Emmanuel Health and St. Paul’s Hospital in Saskatoon, and most recently as Executive Director of Southwest Homes in Swift Current.

 

On the side of her day jobs, she has been a sought-after speaker and retreat leader across Canada, and she is the author of three books, in addition to being a regular columnist for the Catholic Register and on her website at www.leahperrault.com.

 

Leah’s most important role is partner to her husband, Marc, and mom to their four children: Robyn, Eliot, Charlize, and Atticus. She loves to connect with people around faith in our real lives, visit over food and games, and squeeze in time to knit, play guitar, and get out snowboarding.

 

 

Pentecost: A Prayer To Begin Again

– Br. Michael, ofm

Pentecost is a time of new beginning. The Holy Spirit is wild and full of life leading us new ways and guiding our steps unto new paths. Each day is an invitation to begin again and to be a vessel of the Holy Spirit.

In early May I had the opportunity to be in Assisi. I sat in prayer gazing upon the church Francis rebuilt and listened to the Holy Spirit. This is the simple prayer which arose in me.

Begin

Begin again

Your invitation, O Holy Spirit

to be rooted in life in Christ.

 

Begin

Begin again

My daily invitation

as one rooted in Christ.

 

Begin

Begin again

Our communal invitation

as a universal family.

 

Begin

Begin again

An invitation

to be a disciple

to be brave and to trust

to be one who lives the gospel

 

Begin

Begin again

An invitation

to take a step

trusting you O Holy Spirit are leading.

 

Amen.

 

May the gift of the Holy Spirit which is a gift for each of us inspire and encourage us to begin again today and in each day of this summer.

 

 

Photo Credit: Jon Tyson