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At the meeting with us in Krakow, during World Youth Days, Holy Father Pope Francis encouraged us Jesuits to be even more open to help religious brothers and sisters, but especially to accompany priests. In response to this invitation from our Pope, in October 2018  in Stara Wieś (south-eastern Poland) we opened the Permanent Formation House, which we named Manresa. It has been over two years now of our service of helping diocesan and religious priests as well as religious sisters and persons in formation.

The name of the house determines the spirit and direction of our mission. The spirituality of the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius is at the core of our ministry. We try to make Manresa truly a home that is always open to the clergy and religious brothers and sisters, where they can come and stay as needed, receiving help in both spiritual and human dimensions. We always serve by providing a place and time. We help those who wish to deepen their spiritual life or have weakened in their vocation.

We offer them spiritual direction, psychological assistance, days of recollection and various forms of Ignatian retreats (5, 8 and 30 days). We also offer psychological and therapeutic programs to help those who wish to respond more fully and maturely to the grace of their vocation or are experiencing a vocation crisis. We accompany each person individually. Priests and sisters from different dioceses and congregations come to us from Poland and from abroad.

The professors and graduates of the School of Formators at the Academy Ignatianum in Krakow help us to successfully offer our human formational program.

In 2019 we hosted a group of 50 Sisters from mainland China for over a month. They took part in the course for formators of women’s religious congregations, which we organized in cooperation with the Sisters Servants of the Holy Spirit and the association Sinicum.

Two years of experience and reflection on the functioning of Manresa - the House of Permanent Formation convince us of the validity of o   ur discernment and encourage the development of our work and this form of our ministry.

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