Heart of Life

.... enlarge the place for your tent

.... spread out your tent cloths unsparingly

.... lengthen your ropes and make firm your stakes.

Isaiah 54:2

God's people have always been tent dwellers!   

We know deep within our spirit that we are constantly being called, invited to a new way of being.

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Heart of Life Spirituality Centre began in 1983 as an initiative of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart. The Centre is an oasis for the human spirit  thirsting for God.   Our Centre offers  spiritual direction,  spirituality seminars,  the formation of spiritual directors and supervisors and  supervision of spiritual directors and other pastoral ministries.

Ours is a way of the heart by which we are drawn into and bonded with other human hearts, the heart of humanity and, indeed, the sacred mystery at the heart of all reality.

Our way of the heart rests on the contemplative attitude and authentic discernment integral to all our ministries. This way of the heart is fundamental to the rich tradition of Christian spirituality of which we are part.

New Realities at Heart of Life 2008

#  Sue Richardson PBVM is our Director - we welcome her return on this 25th. year of Heart of Life.

#  Our Centre is on the move from Wantirna at the end of the year. Where to ? Not finalized - watch this website for details.

#  We are very pleased to announce that SILOAM - our program for the formation of spiritual directors has been recognised by the Australian Ecumenical Council for Spiritual Directors: "AECSD has granted the Heart of Life's Siloam Formation Program, recognition as a formation program which meets the Council's standards for the Formation of Spiritual Directors. We warmly commend this Program and rejoice with you in the ongoing ministry of the formation of competent spiritual directors"

Philip Carter, President AECSD. November 2007

# Siloam Part-time will be offered,1 day a week 9am-5.30pm, for two years duration from 2009.  Siloam Part-time will start every February.

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oOo

A Mysterious Love

moves in our hearts

and in our world inviting us to a

deeply human way of being

(from our Mission Statement)