Testimonials

Death the only certainty - Peter Fishpool

Being told that Jenny may not last a year takes some adjusting to. I had looked forward to adventures over perhaps two decades of active retirement with my wife. We might have less than twelve months of failing health. On the road to work I see a hearse and my eyes fill with tears.

There is a crack in everything - Peter Fishpool

I had wanted to go on a Men’s Retreat to explore my relationship with my (now dead) dad. Much of my wariness with other men relates to uncertainties with him. I tell myself I did not doubt his love, but he never expressed it in words. He did lash out however with savage put-downs when upset. The explicitness of his furies seriously undermined what I was trying to read into his actions, as implicit signs of love.

NAKED FEELINGS - Peter Fishpool

Most blokes don’t mind taking off their shirts revealing their manly chests. At one of the camp sites I used as a boy scout there were ‘closed to the public’ sessions in the swimming pool when we swam nude. I remember how grown-up I felt revealing my all.

What did I Expect?

by Marty Togher
 
In June 2008 I headed to the Lakes for a 5 day holiday with the guys.  Well actually it was the Men's Rites of Passage with a load of guys I had never seen nor met.  It was with a sense of uncertainty and openness that I approached the venue.

The Men’s Rites of Passage: a personal reflection - Stephen A.

I blame my wife. It was she who had picked up a book with a rather strange title, “From Wild man to Wise Man”, by an American with a foreign-sounding name: Richard Rohr. It was she who read it, and it was she who saw an advertisement for this weird-sounding event, the Men’s Rites of Passage. It was she who talked, no, bullied me into attending it. It is she to whom I am eternally grateful.

Ghost Ranch comes to Ireland!

(Note - this was written for the 2009 MROP in Eire)

A Personal Testimony from Gerry Moore

From man's man to free man

by Daniel O'Leary
(This article appeared in the Tablet before the 2007 MROP.)

Summary: A visit to a prison revealed the damage that has been done to so many young men, some serving jail sentences, but most imprisoned in other ways. Yet the painful path to true liberation, through death to life, was also pointed out

Without a hard-won awareness, men will always tend to abuse power and people, to remain trapped in costly competitions

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