Jane Galvin FCJ has 20 plus years of experience in Spiritual Companioning and Retreat facilitation. She brings a background in Science education, and pastoral ministry in parish, university campus , HIV/AIDS and prison.
Jane currently ministers from the Spadina Avenue office of FCJ Resources in Spirituality. She also does outreach ministry in New Brunswick and elsewhere on invitation.
As a Spiritual companion she meets with persons individually and in small groups. She has a special interest in Celtic Christian Spirituality in which she currently offers an 8-day retreat on God of Creation, God of the Universe.
For leisure, Jane loves the out-of-doors in which to hike, bike, and swim. She is an avid reader and enjoys live theatre and music, especially Jazz.
Learn a little more about Jane by reflecting on some of her favorite quotes:
Yet, ruined as my house is, you live there.
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
Vision without action is a day-dream
Action without vision is a nightmare
Vision plus action is a dream realized.
I will die; but that is all I shall do for death...
We must be the change we see in the world.
What is unfelt remains the same; what is felt changes.
When we forsake matter and the building-blocks
with which God created the universe,
we forsake the energy and creativity invested in matter by the creator.
Part of that energy is expressed in joy.
Thus human play, entertainment, music, and the other ways
in which we discover and express the goodness of life,
are expelled, when we abolish these elements.
The result is like a plant deprived of wter,
a shrivelling up of the tissues of the heart and soul.
Snippets of Favorite Poetry
| If we were not so single-minded about keeping our lives moving and for once could do nothing perhaps a huge silence might interrupt this sadness of never understanding ourselves and of threatening ourselves with death. |
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Meditation isn't muffication
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| Rain comes down through the alders, its low conducive voices Mutter about let-downs and erosions And yet each drop recalls The diamond absolutes. |
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Primary Wonder, Denise Levertov
Days pass when I forget the mystery.
Problems insoluble and problems offering
Their own ignorant solutions
Jostle for my attention, they crowd its anti-chamber
Along with a host of diversions, my courtiers, wearing
Their coloured clothes; cap and bells.
And then
Once more the quiet mystery
Is present to me, the throng’s clamour
Recedes: the mystery
That there is anything, anything at all,
Let alone cosmos, joy memory, everything,
Rather than void: and that, O Lord,
Creator, Hallowed One, You still,
Hour by hour, sustain it.
Laughter, Hafiz
What is laughter? What is laughter?
It is God waking up! O it is God waking up!
It is the sun poking its sweet head out
From behind a cloud
You have been carrying too long,
veiling your eyes and heart.
It is Light breaking ground for a great Structure
That is really your Body - called Truth.
It is happiness applauding itself and then taking flight
to embrace everyone and everything in this world.
Laughter is the polestar
Held in the sky by our Beloved,
Who eternally says,
“Yes, dear ones, come this way,
Come this way towards Me and Love!
Come with your tender mouths moving
And your beautiful tongues conducting songs
And with your movements - your magic movements
Of hands and feet and glands and cells - Dancing!
Know that to God’s Eye,
All movement is a wondrous language,
And Music-such exquisite, wild Music!”
O what is laughter, Hafiz?
What is their precious love and laughter
Budding in our hearts?
It is the glorious sound of a soul waking up!
One of Jane's own poems (25/04/09):
Spring Storm The storm has passed
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