Special Thanks to Fr. Joe Corley
The Six Three Group at Malvern would like to offer a special thank you to Father Joseph Corley, the pastor at B.V.M Parish for leading us spiritually on our 2016 retreat. Father’s pleasant nature, whit and kindness is out shined only by his insight and devotion to Jesus Christ and his vocation. The men of Six Three are very thankful for the opportunity to have received the guidance of Fr. Corley as we made our retreat. We encourage all of our members to reflect on the spiritual inspiration he provided and to remember Fr. Corely in our prayers.
Whant to know what Fr. Corley is up to? Visit his website at http://www.bvm-darby.com
Special Thanks To Kevin Reilly!
The Six Three Group would like to thank Kevin Reilly for visiting and sharing his life story with us. Many members of the group have contacted us with very positive comments regarding our Saturday afternoon guest speaker. Thank you Kevin for helping to make our 2016 retreat exceptional!
We encourage all Six Three Men to keep Kevin in your hearts and keep his powerful message in your thoughts. Also you can hear Kevin talk sports before and after every Eagles game on the Philadelphia Eagles Network. Click here to LISTEN LIVE!
– Eagles Radio – 94WIP ( 94.1FM) 1pm Game:
– Countdown to Kickoff Show – 10AM – 11AM
– Eagles Pre-Game Show – 11AM – 1PM
– Eagles Post Game Show – Follows game – 6PM
– Eagles 5th Quarter – 6PM – 7PM
We also encourage you to support his efforts by referring Kevin Reilly to speak to other groups with whom you are associated, so that they may witness the power of the Holy Spirit as we did on retreat this year. Visit Kevin’s website for details.
A Letter From 2016 C.A. Captain Mark Angelo
Dear Retreatants,
I am honored to have been chosen as this years C.A. Captain and am looking forward to seeing everyone for our 95th Annual Six-Three Spiritual Retreat at St. Joseph’s in the Hills, Malvern Retreat House.
Our Six-Three Group will hold its annual retreat this year as follows:
Friday JUNE 17, 2016 through Sunday JUNE 19, 2016 – Register Now
In recent years we have been able to provide spiritual speakers and presentations from high quality, inspirational persons. It is our goal this year to continue to provide the highest quality guest presenters for the men of the Six-Three Group.
We are excited to have the former Philadelphia Eagle and current Villanova football commentator Kevin Reilly as our guest speaker. He has an amazing story of faith and courage and has presented to many business organizations and Catholic groups. Click here for more on Kevin.
Our Retreat Directors this year will be Fr. Joseph Corley ….he has received great reviews for his past retreats.
Online reservations can be made by visiting our “Quick Registration” page on this site. I am encouraging you to inform your Men and get a jump on Registering for this year’s Retreat on-line. The first 225 reservations will be assigned a room in advance with all others being handled upon arrival.
The cost for this year’s Retreat is $245. We continue to offer a free-will Retreat without requesting mandatory payments; however, as you know the times have been tough on some of us and costs of our Retreat have not been self funded. Revenues from Development, other Malvern retreat programs and outside group rentals have helped make up the difference. Your gifts to the Annual Appeal and your generous green envelope contributions will allow us to continue our free-will offering tradition.
Great news! A new Board policy passed in December of 2015 encourages parents and grandparents to bring their children of high school age and younger on retreat at no cost. It asks parents of college age children to consider a free will offering of one hundred dollars. Families that have the means are asked to consider the requested amount.
“Bring A Man” is a concept we have created in an effort raise the total number of Retreatants. Many of us were introduced to Malvern by a Family Member or close Friend. The first year we did it for them; however, we have been coming back for ourselves and the fulfillment we receive each and every year. Please give someone else this gift by inviting them to our Six-Three Retreat!
I look forward to joining you at Malvern on June 17th.
Prosit!
Mark Angelo
C.A. Captain 2016/Six-Three Group
Revised Weekend Schedule for 2016
As you may know, 7 years ago in an attempt to improve the overall men’s weekend retreat experience, the Board of Directors selected Dr. Joseph Capista and the Six Three Group to serve as a Pilot Group to investigate and moderate various aspects of the weekend retreat. Over this time period we have seen the introduction of guest speakers as well as a variety of subtle program and schedule changes in our weekend retreat. This year we will continue the process and introduce a change in format that we feel is best communicated in advance. Below you will find a link to our new weekend retreat schedule for 2016. One significant change is that we plan experience the retreat with a single retreat master, Fr. Joseph Corley. Fr. Corley will deliver retreat conferences in the Upper McShain meeting room. This will leave the Our Lady’s and St. Joesph’s Chapels open (and quite) so that retreatants my use them for private silent reflect.
Recruiters are encouraged to get familiar with the new schedule so that they may answer any questions presented by their recruits and other retreatants.
VIEW THE 2016 PILOT GROUP SCHEDULE
2016 Annual Kick-Off Dinner
Dear Six-Three Group Members,
I am honored to have the privilege of being your C.A. Captain this year and am looking forward to seeing everyone for our 95th Annual Six-Three Spiritual Retreat at St. Joseph’s in the Hills, Malvern Retreat House. Our Six-Three Group will hold its annual retreat this year as follows:
Friday JUNE 17, 2016 through Sunday JUNE 19, 2016
In recent years, we have been able to provide spiritual speakers and presentations such as last year’s Keynote Speech by Bill McGarvey. It is my goal this year to continue to provide the highest quality of spirituality for the men of the Six-Three Group.
As Six Three Group Members, I am cordially inviting you to join me at the Annual Kick-Off Dinner as we fine tune our recruiting efforts to ensure the safety of our Group and this wonderful Retreat House. If you are unable to attend please consider sending one of your men in your place.
DATE: Thursday, March 31, 2016
MASS: 6:00 PM – St. Joe’s Chapel
DINNER: 6:45 PM – Main Dining Hall
MEETING: 7:45 PM – Main Dining Hall
I would also like to encourage you to take the first step in your annual recruiting effort and register right now for this year’s retreat. Then invite your men to do the same. Our one-step registration process is the easiest way to get you and your men registered. Register today!
If you are unable to make the Kick-Off Dinner, then I look forward to joining you at Malvern on June 17th.
Prosit!
Mark Angelo
C.A. Captain 2016/Six-Three Group
2015 Annual Communion Mass & Luncheon
Event Information
Date: Sunday | November 15, 2015
Time: 11:00 am
Location: Upper McShain Conference Center
Entrance B, 315 S. Warren Avenue Malvern, PA 19355
Contact: 484-321-2544
If you prefer to be seated with other members of your group, Six Three Group tables are now forming (by request).
Join us for our annual communion Mass and luncheon to honor this year’s recipients of the St. Joseph the Worker Medal. Honorees will include Martie Gillin, a nationally acclaimed speaker, nonprofit leader and founder of SpeakUP; Bob Sims, a financial adviser and 65 year retreatant, friend and benefactor of Malvern Retreat House; Lou Baldwin, a renowned writer who is well known in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia and James F. Nolen III, builder and philanthropist.
This event is for both retreatants and friends.
Tickets
$50 individual
$400 – Table of Eight
Email about tickets: mail@malvernretreat.com
or call: 484-321-2544
Please see the sponsorship information below:
For additional information about Sponsorship Opportunities, contact Edie Petillo at 484-321-2544 or epetillo@malvernretreat.com
Sponsorship Opportunities
‘$2,500 Founders Sponsor (Note: Tables sit a maximum of 8)
Company/Family name recognition – Inside front cover page ad (first in receives front cover)
8 tickets for Lunch
Company/Family name in Annual Report
$1,000 Prosit Sponsor
Company/Family name recognition – Inside back cover page ad (first in receives back cover)
6 tickets for Lunch
Company/Family name in Annual Report
$500 Ferreck Sponsor
Full page ad
4 tickets for Lunch
Company/Family name in the Annual Report
$250 Sullivan Sponsor (Ideal for retreat group sponsorships)
Half page ad
2 tickets for Lunch
Company/family name in the Annual Report
$100 Cabrey Sponsor
Quarter page ad
Company/family name in the Annual Report
The Argentinian (Good Francis)
Welcome Pope Francis!
by: Two Knight Show (aka. John Harris & Chris Sidoti)
In anticipation of the Pope’s visit to our area later this month, please listen to the song “The Argentinian (Good Francis)” we posted on our songs page by our friends Two Knight Show (aka John Harris and Chris Sidoti)! We hope you enjoy the song and will share it with your friends and family!
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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
2015 Six Three Guest Speaker Bill McGarvey
2015 Guest Speaker, Bill McGarvey
McG-Media LLC Founder/Owner, Bill McGarvey,
As an author, editor, musician, producer and entrepreneur Bill McGarvey has had extensive experience in all facets of media.
As the editor-in-chief of BustedHalo from 2004-2010 he presided over a seven-fold increase in traffic while winning multiple awards and having the publication’s content picked up/featured in numerous venues, including New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic, USA Today and The Houston Chronicle.
He is co-author of The Freshman Survival Guide, which was published by Hachette Book Group in April 2011 and is now in its 12th printing with 50,000 copies sold. In late 2013, the book was featured on The Late Show with David Letterman.
Bill is a culture columnist for America magazine and the owner of CathNewsUSA.com—an aggregator of Catholic media content with 7,500 subscribers to its daily email newsletter. A graduate of Georgetown University, Bill has written also for the Washington Post, NPR, Commonweal, America, The Tablet (London), Factual (Spain), Time Out New York, and Book magazine.
As a musician, Bill is a singer/songwriter who has numerous albums to his credit. He has toured throughout the United States as a solo artist and with his former band Valentine Smith. His music has been featured on network television and films and has been critically acclaimed by the New York Times, Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, Billboard and Performing Songwriter.
Passing of Joseph F. O’Donnell
It is with great sorrow that we inform you of the passing Joe O’Donnell in the early hours of January 4, 2015. As soon as we have further details regarding services for Joe we will make them available here.
Update 1/5/2015 (2:03 pm):
Joe’s viewing will be at O’Leary’s Funeral Home on Springfield Rd. near Holy Cross Church on Friday evening January 9, 2015 beginning at 6pm. The funeral mass will be at St. Kevin’s Church in Springfield at 12:30 on Saturday January 10, 2015. Joe’s obituary will be referenced here as soon as it is made available.
