Gospel Reflection: Second Sunday of Lent
SECOND SUNDAY OF LENT FEBRUARY 21, 2016 Glory and praise to you Lord, Jesus Christ One does not live on bread alone, But on every word that comes from the mouth of God Glory and praise to you Lord, Jesus Christ The Gospel of Saint Luke 9: 28b-36
Jesus took Peter, John, and James and went up the mountain to pray. While he was praying his face changed in appearance and his clothing became dazzling white. And behold, two men were conversing with him, Moses and Elijah, who appeared in glory and spoke of his exodus that he was going to accomplish in Jerusalem.
Gospel Reflection: First Sunday of Lent
FIRST SUNDAY OF LENT FEBRUARY 14, 2016 Glory and praise to you Lord, Jesus Christ One does not live on bread alone, But on every word that comes from the mouth of God Glory and praise to you Lord, Jesus Christ The Gospel of Saint Luke 4: 1-13
Filled with the Holy Spirit, Jesus returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the desert for forty days, to be tempted by the devil.
Using RPS To Monitor Your Recruiting Efforts
As you may know, the staff at Malvern has worked tirelessly for the past few years to upgrade their internal systems. Included in this process was a requirement to create a new reservation and retreatant management system. This new RPS (Reservation Processing System) includes an authentication process by which the Men of Malvern can have secure access to this vital information from the internet. Well I’m happy to say that this exciting new tool is now available to all Captains, Recruiters and Retreatants to streamline nearly every administrative aspect of our retreat, including reservations, check-in, room assignments, adoration schedules and more.
So how do we use RPS while recruiting?
There are three levels of access; one for Captains, one for Recruiters and one for Retreatants. The full range of reports is available to the Captain (and to whomever the Captain authorizes); a reduced range of reports is available to Recruiters.
Note: Each report in the system will have a ‘detail button’ that will provide a brief description of the report. We will not attempt to do describe each report here.
Login procedures may seem challenging to some of our less experienced computer users however they are necessary to safeguard the system. We encourage our Captains and Recruiters to be patient with the login steps and once you are authenticated in the system you will find the quality and timeliness of the reports and information well worth the effort.
Registration Processing System
Logging In To RPS
You may log into the Reservation Processing System by clicking on the RPS icon (shown here) on our www.sixthreegroup.com home page or by locating the “Captains and Recruiters Signon” link in the main navigation menu at www.malvernretreat.com
If this is your first visit to RPS you will fall into one of two categories; A) your email is in the database or B) your email is not in the database.
A) If this is your first time logging into the system, and your email is in the database, simply enter your email address and click the logon button. This will prompt you to enter a password for your account. (if you receive regular emails from SixThreeGroup.com, your email is in the database!)
B) If this is your first time logging into the system and your email is not in our database, select the “Create an Online Account” button to create your account. If you received a warning message indicating that your email account is invalid when attempting to complete the previous step “A)”, you may not have an account or your account may not have an email associated with it. In either case, use the “Create an Online Account” and it will guide you accordingly.
Maintaining Your Information
Top Section – Shows your Retreat Group and a selected Retreat Date. You are able to select the current (opened) retreat or as far back as three previous retreats (closed).
Personal Information – Shows YOUR information on three tabs, “Retreatant”, “Contact Information” and “Retreats”. You are able to modify most of these fields so that your personal profile remains up to date. Any field which is not accessible and requires modification must be updated by the retreat house staff. Please email the CA Captain at captain@sixthreegroup.com to request a modification on a restricted field.
Retreatants – From here you will be able to view basic information about each of your recruits and update their reservation status! YES, if you have a firm commitment from a man that he WILL attend, you may log into RPS and update his reservation status from “Invited” to “Registered”. Please make sure it’s FIRM!
- Click on Retreatants
- Click on a man’s name
- Click on the “Retreats” tab
- Click the date of the upcoming retreat and select “Registered” in the Status select box.
- No deposit is required in this process so be sure to remind your man that he will submit his free will offering in the green envelope while on retreat.
Add a New Retreatant – (click the plus sign next to Retreatants to reveal this feature)
This brand new feature (2013) allows recruiters to add new retreatants directly into the RPS system! Simply complete the form on the “Retreatant” tab and fill in as much of the “Contact Information” tab as possible (basic contact info is required), and your new recruit is registered to attend the upcoming six three retreat. No deposit is required in this process so be sure to explain the green envelope and our free will offering concept to a new man BEFORE retreat.
Recruiters Reports >> Reservation Status Report – Will show you the status (reservation date or “none”) for each of your recruits along with their contact information. This report allows you to quickly see and print a report of who has not yet registered and requires a follow up call.
Video Overview (by Patrick McKay – Malvern)
Still Having Trouble?
No problem, contact me (Ralph Shicatano) with a detailed email indicating where you are having a problem and I’ll get it straightened out and send you response. No detail is too small!
ralph@sixthreegroup.com
2014 Annual SixThree Spiritual Retreat
This event is complete but we have left this page active for reference.
Visit the 2014 Wrap Up page for more about our 2014 retreat
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We are pleased to announce that our 93nd Annual SixThree Spiritual Retreat at Malvern is scheduled for June 13-14-15, 2014.
Our goal this year is to continue to incrementally improve the spiritual quality of the SixThree retreat experience and begin a trend of growing the number of annual retreatants for years to come. This year we are planning an exciting retreat which includes:
- C.A. Captain for 2014: Dr. Stephen Humbert
- Retreat Director St. Joseph’s Hall: Fr. Michael Shea, C.M.
- Retreat Director Our Lady’s Hall: Fr. John Corbet. O.P.
Our 2014 Annual Six-Three Spiritual Retreat at Malvern is scheduled for:
June 13, 14 & 15, 2014
Suggested good will offering is $235
Your Malvern Story
Use this location to share your Malvern story!
We all have a unique Malvern story to tell. How you ended up at Malvern for your first retreat… how a special moment had a powerful impact on your life… which location on the Malvern grounds are you especially fond of…. or maybe even a first hand example of the power of the Holy Spirit. Use this space describe why Malvern is special to you.
A Christmas Tune for Sandy Hook Elementary
A Christmas Tune for Sandy Hook
by Joe McAvoy (Germany Hill)
I wrote this song on 12-12-12 (originally inspired by the notion of keeping Christ in Christmas). However, the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary in CT on Friday inspired me to use this song in homage to the children who lost their lives. Read more
New St. Joseph’s Statue
The long awaited refurbishedSt. Joseph’s statue that stands in the main round-about driveway in from of Joseph’s Hall has arrived. Here are a few pics of the men very gently placing the figure on it’s pedestal.
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Bring a Man – Intentions from the Prayer Wall
Our 2012 retreat is just about to start! Just wanted to put out a few last minute thoughts.
BRING A MAN! There is still an opportunity for you to bring a man with you on retreat. If there is a man that will benefit from retreat who is not yet registered for our 2012 retreat, bring him along. Our newly automated registration desks are more prepared than ever to handle “walk-in” retrreatants. So just bring a man with you, we’ll get him room and the Holy spirit will do the rest!
Prayer Wall – SixThree men, family members and even strangers are invited to submit prayer intentions through our website. ALL intentions submitted through the SixThreeGroup.com Pray Wall will be printed and placed on the alters for the duration of our retreat.
We have a great retreat planned and we look forward to seeing everyone for this wonderfully uplifting and spiritually refreshing experience that is Malvern.
Prosit.
SixThreeGroup Executive Committee
Fr. Robert Barron Video Gallery
The following videos are part of a video series from Wordonfire.org. Father Barron will be commenting on subjects from modern day culture.
Father Robert Barron is an acclaimed author, speaker, and theologian. He is the Francis Cardinal George Professor of Faith and Culture at Mundelein Seminary near Chicago and also is the founder of Word On Fire (www.WordOnFire.org).
Recruit with SixThreeGroup.com ID cards!
Start recruiting with SixThreeGroup.com ID cards!
We continue to emphasize the concept of “Bring a Man”. If each recruiter were to bring one new man in addition to his normal recruiting effort, we would be successful from this effort alone. To help facilitate this process each recruiter received five SixThreeGroup.com awareness cards that can be used by you and members of your group to help recruit. Use these cards to introduce your friends and family to Six Three and Malvern.
 SixThreeGroup.com ID Card Front |
 SixThreeGroup.com ID Card Back |
The front of the ID card prominently displays the SixThreeGroup.com website url and a grapic of the Pieta shrine which was reconditioned and dedicated to Malvern by the Six Three Group in 2010.
The rear face of the ID card also shows the website url along with an inspirational call-to-action to come and join us. In addition, it features a convenient QR code link to our website so that mobile users can easily scan and visit our site using their mobile device during a break, while communting or when relaxing at home with their iPad or tablet.
