The science of belief.

There is more 'belief' in the Big bang hypothesis of creation than there is in the belief that God created the earth and the Universe.

Now why do I, a scientific person say this?

People who claim to be rational, logical, non faith believing individuals claim that science is in counterposition to faith. I would say that there is more 'faith' and 'belief' in unproven and unprovable premises in many scientific explanations.
For example, the scientific premise that the universe was created with the Big bang is a hypothesis which cant even claim to be a Scientific hypothesis because a Scientific hypothesis requires that the said hypothesis can be tested using scientific method. And in this case it is clear as daylight that no person can PROVE that the universe WAS created through the Big Bang. Just like no person can prove that man descended from apes.

In the recent news there was a claim by a renowned anthropologist stating that man descended from a cross between an ape and a pig. Though these 'scientific' premises seem laughable to persons with awareness of self and faith, they may appear to be entirely plausible explanations for persons with no faith and then these unprovable 'scientific' explanations about creation and origin become their faith.

So we see that even the so called people of no faith do place their faith in certain other things of unprovable provenance and unscientific hypothesis.

As a scientific person with faith I understand the role and need for science to elucidate the things that she can elucidate and accept that not everything need or can be explainable by science because there are many parameters in our existence which are un measurable by using scientific method and only visible using faith and consciousness. These things dwell in a realm beyond current scientific practice and superficial human understanding.

Those who seek the truth truthfully will uncover the truth. But those who seek explanations for assumptions will fail at uncovering the truth. 

Being a Mum (or a Dad)

Being a mum or a dad is not easy. Far from it. But by its very nature it is a role essential for the survival of the species.
Sometimes, we as dads and mums, take ourselves too seriously :) Yes, thats true - we take ourselves too seriously, and worry without end about the future of our children, their character, their acheivements or lack of, their vulnerabilities, their illnesses, and so on and so forth.

But hold on for a moment! Are they actually our kids? Do we really know them? Arent they entirely disparate entities, with their own mind, thoughts and functions? And above all, weren't they created by the Almighty Father in the image and likeness of Jesus? If then they are brothers and sisters to Jesus, arent they Gods children? What then are we doing worrying our head off about them?

We are merely caretakers of these beautiful gifts to the earth. God has specially crafted them and given them to us to care for and nurture in His ways. Like a loving gardener it is our duty to tend, prune and feed them. But just like the gardener goes to his own home to sleep every night so must we also (albeit figuratively). We should leave our children in the arms of their natural father, The Almighty, and retire from the belief that they are our children.

This is not to say that we have no role to play. Quite the opposite in fact. Our role is to BE the child of God so that they see Christ and His love in us. Our role is to model the nurturing love and care of God to them. Our role is to help them discover their true identity and to empower them to live it.

We dont fail if our children fail at school, we dont fail if our children arent 'high acheivers', we dont fail if they 'fail'.
But we do fail if we have not been good role models to them, we do fail if we have forgotten to tell them to store riches in heaven and only taught them to store riches on earth, and we do fail if we still keep carrying on about them as if they were our possessions.

Fruits and Gifts of the Holy Spirit

Galatians 5:22-23 'But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.'


1 Corinthians 12:8-10
The gifts of the holy spirit are
Utterance of Wisdom
Utterance of Knowledge
Faith
Gifts of Healing
Working of Miracles
Prophecy
Discernment of Spirits
Various kinds of Tongues
Interpretation of Tongues

In todays world the most popular gifts are the highlighted ones - the gifts of healing, working of miracles and of prophecy. They are the crowd pullers. And paradoxically, those exercising these gifts are at greatest risk of being subjected to praise and adulation which may result in pride rearing its ugly head especially if the person remains a child of the earth. But if the person with the Gift has grown in humility and used the power bestowed on him to truly become the son of God the most high then the Spiritual Gift will merely be an extension of the Divine in him and cause no harm. But such people are few and far between.

The common man must learn to accept the fruit of the gifts without false attribution to the person exercising it, because all Gifts and their fruits are from the Holy Spirit and not the possession of the human person exercising it. We should also use our God given understanding to discern what is being preached from the pulpit and lecterns of miracle workers especially. Saying that a person has the gift of healing or miracle working or of prophecy does not mean that he has the gift of wisdom, understanding or of faith. These gifts can be identified only with discernment.

If the FRUITS of the Holy Spirit are in evidence in a person, then there is more chance of that person being a true child of God with a close relationship with the heart of the Father as opposed to a person with mighty miracle working powers but little evident fruits of the Holy Spirit in their personal life.  

My Lord, My Lord, Why have you forsaken me. PART 2

John 1:12-13 “ But to all who received him, who believed in his name, he gave power to become children of God,  who were born, not of blood or of the will of the flesh or of the will of man, but of God”.

To all who believed in his name – he gave POWER to become children of God - Real flesh and blood children of the most High God! Becoming the son or daughter of the most High God is not an automatic or electronic process that occurs with Baptism or with professing faith in Jesus. It is an active voluntary process that needs to be initiated and executed by a well informed soul seeking said position with whole heart, mind and soul.

There is no denying that God is the father of all creation. But the simple fact that He remains Father does not mean that we automatically become children of His Divine personhood. Yes we were, once,  so very long ago in the garden of Eden. But there we wilfully stepped away from our Divine sonship into the realm of earthly sonship by separating, exercising and submitting our divinely gifted human will to the Satanly inspired earthly way.

The broken chords of love and paternity purchased by the blood of the Lamb, opened for us channels for re-establishing our Divine parentage. Just as it took wilful commission from man to disengage from the divine relationship, it takes wilful commission from man's part to avail of this power that has sprung forth from Christ.

Any Christian who has not actively and purposefully sought the divine parentage of God the Father, and endeavoured to love and know the heart of the Father, remains a child of the earth.

And the failure to teach this and to DO this is the greatest failure in the history Gospel proclamation. For this is the difficult part. It is easy to believe and receive Christ—for He has freely freed us from our sins. The only thing that stands between man and mans Divine personhood is ignorance and lack of humility.  

But it is difficult to see beyond the tips of our noses to seek the person of the Father because at any cost Satan does not want you to. Even if you have been washed by the Lamb, he has hope as long as you belong to the earth. He has hope that his spawn - your pride, will allow him to triumph! His battle is against my Father and yours. His battle is against my God and yours.

John 20:17 ‘Jesus said to her, “Do not hold on to me, because I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and say to them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’”

The children of the earth do not comprehend the rich parentage into which Our Lord has invited us to. Our Fathers heart burns in pain. For he waits for us, patiently and lovingly. Hoping that one day we will decide to rise from our earthly wretchedness into the richness of His sonship. He waits for the day that we will love him and him alone with all our heart, all our mind, all our soul and all our strength. He waits for the day that our hearts begin to beat with His, in love and compassion. And for the day we join our will with His.

My Lord, My Lord, Why have you forsaken me? PART 1.

We have all heard innumerable times, and perhaps have said it ourselves that we are unable to do the good we desire to do. This has been quoted to me in the context of evangelisation, one to one interaction, spousal relationships and such like. Remarkably I have never heard people say they are unable to give to charity or help the poor when they feel inclined to do so.

We have also seen many of our near and dear ones, and sometimes even ourselves, though ardent Christians and God fearing people, suffer immeasurably from anxiety, depression and profound loneliness.

We have also seen religious, spiritually powerful men and women of God fall away from grace, become absorbed with fame, recognition and wealth or simply leading double lives. Sometimes we follow such spiritually powerful people, believing all that they preach, because we see the extraordinary miraculous works of healing and conversion that happens at mighty crusades and events.  Sometimes WE maybe one of these. Often we do not even SEE the error of our ways, always imagining that the Lord is pleased with us because the spirit still works through us.

Oh how deluded and misguided we are!

If you are seeking a true relationship with God, today is the day that the truth will be revealed to you. But for those of you afflicted with the greatest and severest affliction of a believer, that of spiritual pride, what you are going to read will bring unease, anger, haughtiness, and spite. You will find numerous reasons to vilify and castigate me, question my faith and rubbish all that I write as pure nonsense which you were already aware of and believe that it does not need retelling.

But believe me, even if you have heard it before (which I doubt), it definitely needs retelling. Not for my sake. But for the sake of my Father and for your very own sake.

Most Christians are in either one of two broad stages in their spiritual life. Those in the first believe in Jesus Christ as the son of God, and in His redemptory mission on earth. They try to live as good a life as possible but are constantly challenged by the contrariness of this world. They struggle, they fall, they rise up. But most persevere and Our Lord loves them for that.

Some Christians have come to see and experience the Holy Spirit, the third person of the trinity. They are ecstatic in this experience and are knowledgeable of the gifts of the Holy Spirit. Some amongst those in this group even possess many gifts of the Holy Spirit and earnestly desire more. They generally wish to use the gifts of the Holy Spirit to preach, heal, and pray. Many love to see miracles and many love to work miracles. Many are ‘high’ in the Spirit. They too try to live as good a life as possible and are sometimes challenged by the contrariness of this world. The Lord loves them too for their ardour and passion.

What happens then? Why and how does Satan manage to get a foot hold in believing Christians? To understand this we have to understand who Satan is. Satan is the Lord of the earth. And we of human kind are children of the earth (there is a qualification to this statement which I will come to later). Church tradition has taught us that the cardinal sin of Lucifer was pride. Pride was the reason Lucifer and a third of the angels were kicked out of the heavens. They freely roam the earth in authority.

 As long as we remain children of the earth we remain susceptible to his nature within us. The pride which we have been bestowed with rears its ugly head. It manifests in the nature of spiritual pride and haughtiness.

We may be great men or women of God. We may have learnt to sacrifice much for the Kingdom of God, we may know how to fast and pray for spiritual graces, and we may know how to work mighty miracles in the name of the Lord.  But we may also be infected with pride. Pride of knowledge, pride of spirit, pride of works. Pride can take any and every form. Pride grows stealthily and steadily. And all this while we may be working mighty miracles and giving mighty sermons. We might also have constructed an entire set of theological beliefs to go with our scheme of things. And there may be hundreds or hundreds of thousands who are besotted with our word.

The refiners’ fire awaits each of us. Every word, every work and every wisdom that we have said done or professed will pass through the refiners’ fire. All that will remain is that which is done out of pure unadulterated love for the Father.

As long as our earthly roots are intact and we remain children of the earth nothing much will pass through the refiners fire – none of our works, none of our words and none of our wisdom.

We have come to the end times. We have accepted the salvation from the Son of God, we have been baptized in the Holy Spirit, but have we made the last and important journey to the bosom of the Father? Are we still standing at the foot of the cross being bathed by his precious blood? Have we not seen and heard that the ardent desire of the Christ was to reconcile us to the Father? Have we not read the Gospel of John which tears open the heart of Christ to reveal the Father? Have we used the POWER bestowed upon us according to John 1:12-13 to break free from the shackles of earthly personhood to accept the Divine childhood? 

Part 5: God wants to raise up an Army of Little Davids. Are you ready?

Once, a very long time ago, God sent Samuel to the house of Jesse in search of the future King of Israel. The anointing oil flowed from Samuel onto the young son of Jesse, who was merely a shepherd boy.

This little Shepherd boy defeated Goliath and the mighty Phillistian army, while the great commanders of war looked on with stupefied wonder.

David knew little of the mechanics of war, He knew nothing of tactical warfare, and most importantly he knew too little to cower in fear.

We can, if we want, call him naive and inexperienced. If we were to choose someone for such an important task in today's world we would infact pass over David for his naivety and inexperience.

BUT GOD CHOSE HIM! WHY?

He was young and simple of heart, he knew not to doubt the wisdom of his actions but knew how to step out in confidence and faith without dwelling on his inadequacies. He knew that even his skills as a shepherd can be put to good use to fight the war for God. He KNEW NO FEAR.

That is why God wants to raise up an army of Little Davids. He is not calling out to the mighty evangelisers, he is not calling out to the large institutional churches, he is not calling out to hardened men of the world. He is calling out to you and me --- the little people of the world --- to say a strong and big yes to him. A YES founded in trust and conveyed with strength of heart and confidence of demeanour.

He knows that you and me will be the best army suited for his purpose. But we need to STOP focussing on our inadequacies and inexperience, and shrug away our impotence to do anything and say that BIG yes with all our heart mind and soul.

Are you ready to be naive, laughed at, ridiculed and yet stand proudly upright to serve Our Father?

Contact the Father @ personalprayer.kingdombuilding.com ( which is basically kneel your hearts and seek His face) or alternatively get in touch with me for more guidance.

YOUR FATHER NEEDS YOU. THIS IS THE TIME TO SAY YES. 

Part 4 : Why do you want to Evangelize?

Before embarking on any endeavour it is very important that we question our motives. Unless and until our motives are wholesome we will not be able to bear true fruit.
As I ask the question 'Why do you want to evangelise?', may be I should try and answer that myself.

For me the why is closely related to the what i.e. -- what is the good news that I have to share with the world.
Through the very unique twists and turns and highs and lows of my life I came to know a God. I came to know that this God was not only an all powerful chap, but that He was also my real dad. From those days on my relationship with Him deepened. I realised the privilege of being privileged, the coolness of being carefree, and the contentment that comes from within.

And then I realised that this was heaven. And that heaven was not some utopian concept to be acheived after a strenous and ardous journey battling sin in this life spent awaiting to be awarded in my afterlife.

And then I realised what the Gospel aka Good news was! It was exactly this -- the good news that Jesus came to preach was His Father and my Father. Having the Father was the gateway to heaven; loving the Father was the gateway to bliss; and trusting the Father was the gateway to carefree abandon and contentment.

This brings us back to the question of Why do I want to evangelize. Over the years I have had the privilege to lend my ear, arms and heart to many tears, troubles and travails. There is no person in this whole wide world who does not seek contentment - whether we know it or not--there is an innate need within us that seeks to be content. To be in that place where everything is just right. But oftentimes our contentment is based on several factors external to us being optimal. Therein lies the intrinsic pitfall. For true contentment to be enduring it  needs to be achievable and sustainable with minimal reliance on factors external to us the person.
And this can happen only if we love our Lord and God with all our heart soul mind and strength. With the entirety of our being, and above and beyond all else. This is the gospel which we need to live and which we can then share.

May the desire to help and to love and to alleviate suffering  be the prime reason for anyone to set out to evangelize. MAy our deep joy in loving this great daddy be the driving force for all our actions.

P.S--A short note on why not to evengelize.
1. Do not evangelize to increase your church/denomination/prayer group /community numbers.
2. Do not evangelize because you feel that the person you are evangelizing is going to go to hell without you.
3. Do not evangelize simply to populate the afterlife heaven but rather to proffer the 'this life' heaven.

Part 3 : Are You Building The Kingdom of God

Or are you thinking about it? If so go on and read this. 

Are you a servant? Are you a citizen? Are you a soldier? Are you a builder building the Kingdom of your Father?

Whoever you are, you are precious in the eyes of the Father. The Father who desires that all of mankind be reconciled to Him and awakens from their deep slumber into recognizing that He has crafted them in His likeness and image. Like Father, like son we say. Like Father, like son we must be.

In this unique building trade there are three main requirements. Ask these questions of yourself and ponder over them. Chew them and ruminate. And endeavour to answer them honestly. If you can answer a yes to all three then a master builder you shall be.

1.   Do you have the desire to Evangelize? Ask yourself, search within, do you desire to share the good news that you have come to enjoy and the good news that liberated you with those suffering around you? Do you know with every fibre of your being that God the creator is your real Father? Are you able to say Yes to your Father and my Father, that His will may be done in your life and through you? 

The main addendum to the desire to Evangelize is the ability to say a YES with all your strength, body, soul, and mind to Almighty God. A YES to submit to His WILL at all times and to permit His WILL to be done through you in His measure.

If you can say Yes to this give yourself one point.

2.   Do you have the willingness to Encourage and Support fellow builders in Evangelisation? A builder never builds alone. He always works in fellowship. There are always others involved. And these others are like the different cogs in a wheel. Each needs to work and support the other. Each builder needs to serve the other. Each needs to respect and love the other.

You need to have it in you to encourage and support those around you. You need to pray for them, be a sounding board for them, use your gifts and talents in encouraging them and use discernment in guiding them. In a nutshell you need to be a brother to fellow Kingdom builders.

If you can say Yes to this then give yourself another point.

3.   Do you understand the need to grow in Holiness and Humility?

Growing in Holiness and Humility is the most physically painful process. Why do I say that? Because I know that. Understanding and realising this need is the first step. Recognising this need is the quintessential step in spiritual growth. For we need to rise from being servants to being rightful heirs to the Kingdom of God. When we step out as kingdom builders the forces of the world will rise against you and within you. This can only be conquered by personal holiness and humility.

Holiness is not your passport to the bosom of your Father, the blood of Jesus was. Your father enfolds you in His bosom out of love. The only currency in His Kingdom is love. He wants you to love Him just as He loves you, He desires that you desire to walk with Him just as He walked with Adam.

Holiness is to be like Jesus. Holiness is to shed our grimy past and stand washed and clean in the precious blood of the lamb. Holiness is to recognize the fangs of sin and develop strategies to avoid and overcome it. Holiness is to seek the grace of God to overcome sin and to live in purity. On a more practical level Holiness is to turn the other way when sin comes knocking through flesh, mind and sight. 

Holiness is to dress honourably, and speak honourably. To act honourably and to think honourably. When confronted with sin never forget that the Holy Spirit within you is comforter and paraclete. He speaks on your behalf  if in need. Remember that and ask his help.

Grow in humility we all must. Pride goes before a fall we say. It’s much truer for those that walk in the Kingdom of God. The only thing worthy of pride is that you are the son of God the most high. Humility is the knowledge that the graces and personality that you exude, the awe and glory that is accorded to you is just one step away from destruction. Nothing that you have or nothing that is accorded to you is something that has more life than that of a flutter of a butterfly’s wings. Even your spiritual gifts! Recognising this and learning to grow in humility is essential in the life of a builder.

If you understand the need to grow in Holiness and Humility give yourself another point.

Now finally how many yes’s are there?

Three? – Then go ahead and prepare for your work.

Two? One? None? – The time has not yet come. Grow more in knowing your God and Father. Read and ruminate on the Gospel of John and seek the help of the Holy spirit to grow more like Christ. One day the love within you will know no bounds and will begin to overflow. 

Remember always that you have been carved out of God. Your place in him is secure. Secured by the precious blood of the lamb. But in return, love like you have never loved before.

By Dr.Jacqueline Michael

Part 2 : Answering the questions, Why did Jesus come and Who Are You?

Why I Believe What I Believe 

My Father and your Father, My God and your God.

Yes these were the words of Jesus to Magdalene Mary soon after he rose from the dead.

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Why? Why? Why did Jesus come? Have you ever asked yourselves that? The last time I asked a bunch of primary school children they told me that Jesus came to save us, Jesus came for our sins and that Jesus came for our salvation.

You and I will agree with all those answers. But do you know why Jesus came?

Whom do you think knows the heart of a Father the most? The one who loves him the most. It seems pretty obvious. Its either the spouse or his children. But when we consider the spouse we all know that once a woman becomes a mother she automatically changes her deepest affections to her offspring. SO who then loves the father the most. Yes—his child, his son or his daughter.

So it is with God. Jesus the son of God came from the very heart of God. But why did he come? I just said that he came from the heart of God. What was he doing there? There he felt every throb and every sigh and every heave of the fathers heart. There he witnessed the pain of The father when it was wounded. There he learnt the lessons of love He was to teach. There he knew that the father would never be happy unless His offspring were reconciled with Him – His offspring crafted in His own image and likeness. There Jesus knew, in every sense, the heart, desire and will of the Father. There He decided to come down to earth, in the image and likeness of His Fathers precious creation, as the first born among many(ref Romans 8:29).

When Jesus walked the earth he was constantly astounded at the hardness of heart that he witnessed. He knew that man, created in His Fathers image and likeness, never knew their father. He knew they were lost. And he knew that he had to restore them to the heart of His Father.

On earth Jesus came upon a young man who was but merely a boy. Young John began to follow Jesus. He loved His Lord and master so deeply. Scripture says that he reclined at His bosom at the last supper whilst Jesus gave the longest sermon recorded in scripture - the discourse at which he talked at length about His Father. John knew the throb of His masters heart. He saw within those eyes and within each heartbeat the love that Jesus had for his father. And so, many years later, when He put pen to paper, he recounted the deepest of passions of His Lord and master. He drew out the soul of the Christ and wrote the most powerful gospel ever. The Gospel that shines light into the very being of the Christ. The gospel that teaches us why Jesus came. And the gospel that teaches us who we are.

John the Apostle says in John 1: 12-13 But to all who received him, who believed in his name, he gave power to become children of God, who were born, not of blood or of the will of the flesh or of the will of man, but of God.

Isn’t this then the greatest good news of all time and for all mankind? Isnt this then the good news that we should be shouting out from the rooftops and teaching our children?

How  can we afford to live as mere servile human beings when the greatest gospel of all time proclaims our true parentage?

Yes, my dear brothers and sisters reading this, if you have received and believed in Jesus the son of God and the son of Man, then you HAVE been given the power –The power to become children of God who are born not of blood or of the will of the flesh or of the will of man, BUT of God!

Now then if you have been given this power that means there is something you need to do with this power to truly become this child of God the Father. All those whom God foreknew and called, he called to be part of the family of Christ—siblings to His son. Let us read the verses in Romans 8 that explains this more fully.

Romans 8: 28-30 ‘We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, who are called according to his purpose. For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn within a large family(or among many brothers). And those whom he predestined he also called; and those whom he called he also justified; and those whom he justified he also glorified.’

God the Father  foreknew and predestined us to be conformed to the image of Jesus—as he is so shall we be in this world (ref 1John 4:17). This is our call. To be reconciled to God the Father and to answer his call. Jesus clearly teaches us two things. The first one is the first commandment. Love your Lord and God with all your heart, all your strength, all your mind and soul. The second is that Jesus calls upon the father and teaches us to call upon the father as ‘Our father’.  It is a joint call—to call upon God the Father together with Jesus our brother.

The cry of God still rings out to this day — hear me my children, and come to me. Know that I am your Lord and Father. True God and true Father and of me you have been made, in my likeness and image, crafted to fit perfectly within my heart. 

Why then do we not hear this cry?  Why have we stopped our journey at the foot of the cross? Isn't heaven our inheritance and earth our abode? Why then aren't we crying out for the will of our Father to be done  here on earth as it is in heaven? Why then aren't we standing in the gap and fulfilling his will on earth?

Arise my dear brothers and sisters. Arise as sons and daughters of the most high God. Grow as children of the Father, Knowing Him and loving HIM above ALL else. Arise from sinful penury to heavenly riches, washed and made clean by the lamb. 
AND STAND IN THE GAP.

May His will be done.

by Dr. Jacqueline Michael

Part 1 : Belief, Faith, Knowledge --which is the greatest of them all?

KNOWLEDGE - KNOWLEDGE - KNOWLEDGE

Beliefs change, faith can get shattered, but knowledge remains. 
Knowledge grows and Knowledge remains.

But we always hear about beliefs and faith, especially in Christianity. And they are considered very good things.

Yes. They all belong to a spectrum. Belief needs to become Faith and Faith when verified becomes Knowledge. 
Knowledge grows and knowledge remains.
Why repeat myself? Important things are worth repeating and worth taking the time to understand fully.

Knowing God, knowing the person who God is, opens the door to knowing oneself. True freedom and liberation comes from this knowledge. Knowing and loving the Almighty creator God empowers and liberates and sets free. Fear no longer has power. For fear has to do with punishment and fear is not the portion for Gods children. We are born into sonship of God. By emulating the firstborn and being the light we walk into majesty.

DIVINE Retreat at Revesby - July 20th, 2013

The Divine Retreat Centres are known all over the world in charismatic circles. This is mainly because their flagship retreat centre located in Kerala, India is the largest Catholic retreat centre in the world. Over 10 million people from all over the world have attended retreats here since 1990. Weekly retreats are held in 7 different languages throughout the year.

The Divine Retreat Centre in Somersby, New South Wales, Australia opened its doors in April 2013 under the Broken Bay Diocese with Fr. Michael Payyapilly as its Director. Much spiritual and physical graces are sought and received at Divine Retreats by the grace of the Holy Spirit.

In addition to the residential retreats being conducted at Somersby, Father Michael will be leading a One Day Charismatic Retreat at St. Luke's Catholic Church, Revesby on Saturday, July the 20th. The Retreat begins at 10.30 am and concludes with a healing mass by 5 pm.

Retreat attendees are usually multi-denominational as everyone is welcome. There is no registration fee for the retreat and a light lunch will be provided. Revesby is on the Airport Line for those hoping to come by train.