{"id":22205,"date":"2020-08-10T06:00:40","date_gmt":"2020-08-10T10:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.org\/en\/?p=22205"},"modified":"2023-11-29T16:16:23","modified_gmt":"2023-11-29T21:16:23","slug":"an-instrument-of-encounter-father-kenneth-leblanc-lc-on-preaching-retreats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/an-instrument-of-encounter-father-kenneth-leblanc-lc-on-preaching-retreats\/","title":{"rendered":"An Instrument of Encounter: Father Kenneth LeBlanc, LC, on Preaching Retreats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In the quiet village of Rogersville, New Brunswick, on the east coast of Canada, lies the peaceful Cistercian-Trappist Monastery of Our Lady of Calvary, not far from where Father Kenneth LeBlanc, LC, was born and raised. Here, amid the rural stillness, the LeBlanc family came to pray and celebrate Mass with the Trappist monks, whose silent prayerfulness fascinated Father Kenneth as a young boy. Here, too, is where his father said something to Father Kenneth that would remain with him for a long time: one day, they would spend the entire weekend on retreat together at the monastery. The idea stuck.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/frkennethleblanc3-300x214.jpg\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-22209 lazyload\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-22209\" src=\"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/frkennethleblanc3-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\"><\/noscript>When he was sixteen years old, Father Kenneth attended his first weekend retreat at Our Lady of Calvary Abbey. In a subtle but significant way, he knew that he had been changed. The very next weekend, he returned to the monastery for another retreat, this time with his brother and cousin, who were curious about this experience that he had had the week before. The three of them went the following weekend as well, and when word got out that the three were attending retreats at the monastery, the boys\u2019 friends were upset that they had not been invited. By the next weekend, Father Kenneth had brought six young men to the monastery with him for a retreat with the Trappist monks and, as the one who had attended the most often, he became their designated retreat guide. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Two years later, Father Kenneth entered the Legion of Christ, and in 2002 in Rome, he was ordained a Legionary priest. \u201cThinking back on it,\u201d says Father Kenneth, who now spends much of his time preaching retreats, \u201cit is funny how God was already preparing me in my teenage years to guide retreats for others.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/frkennethleblanc1-300x200.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-22211 alignright lazyload\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-22211 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/frkennethleblanc1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\"><\/noscript>Currently, Father Kenneth is back in Canada, serving as the Superior of the Legionaries of Christ Community and Chaplain for the Women\u2019s Section in Calgary, Alberta. Besides the many duties that these roles entail, Father Kenneth is also busy preaching retreats. These include eight-day Spiritual Exercises for Legionaries, Consecrated women, and Regnum Christi members and friends; Triduums of Renewal; weekend silent retreats; mornings and evenings of reflections; and even parish missions, from time to time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Of all the retreats and days of reflections that Father Kenneth has had the opportunity to lead, his favorite are those that last seven or eight days. According to Father Kenneth, the longer the retreat, the better. \u201cIt allows for more time for retreatants to digest the material given, and permits people to really enter into prayer on their own,\u201d says Father Kenneth. \u201cI see my role as an instrument of the Holy Spirit, and try to follow what he wants for each person and their needs. The longer I have on the retreat, the more I can help follow up individually with each person.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/frkennethleblanc4-300x162.jpg\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-22208 lazyload\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"162\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-22208\" src=\"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/frkennethleblanc4-300x162.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"162\"><\/noscript>In order to be that instrument of the Holy Spirit, and the guide that God is calling him to be, Father Kenneth turns first to prayer. \u201cThe first thing I do is to pray,\u201d Father Kenneth says, of the steps he takes to prepare well to lead a retreat. \u201cThe more we are in union with God, the better we can be a good instrument of the Lord, and speak with conviction, enthusiasm, and joy.\u201d The second thing he does is to prayerfully prepare his meditations, basing them on Scripture, and framing them within the structure of the Ignatian Spiritual Exercises as much as possible. Finally, he tries to come up with considerations and questions that his retreatants can take to prayer, and which, he hopes, will provoke interior reflection and create a space where they can encounter Christ. \u201cI try to foster the right atmosphere and the right framework,\u201d says Father Kenneth, \u201cto bring people to a real union with God.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/frkennethleblanc2-200x300.jpg\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-22210 lazyload\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-22210\" src=\"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/frkennethleblanc2-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\"><\/noscript>The hardest thing about preaching retreats, however, according to Father Kenneth, is first convincing people to attend. \u201cA lot of times, people are afraid of the silence, and having to face themselves,\u201d says Father Kenneth. \u201cIt can be scary.\u201d The second hardest thing is convincing retreatants, once they are there, to not be nervous or afraid. \u201cThere is nothing to fear with the Lord,\u201d is the message Father Kenneth strives to impart on his retreatants. \u201cHe is gentle and patient. He will accompany us with his presence and give us inner peace and freedom.\u201d This is why Father Kenneth knows that once someone arrives at one of his retreats, God\u2019s grace has already done all the work, and it\u2019s up to him, as retreat guide, to merely be an instrument of that grace for the remainder of the retreat. \u201cGod can do incredible things with someone who enters a retreat with hunger and thirst for him,\u201d says Father Kenneth. \u201cI marvel at the Holy Spirit, and what he is capable of doing with imperfect instruments like me.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">As retreat guide, Father Kenneth never ceases to be in awe of the fruits that an encounter with God\u2019s grace through retreat can produce. A young man, struggling with his vocation and his future, decides to discern the priesthood when he leaves the retreat. A mother returns home inspired to encourage her husband to start a Conquest boys\u2019 club. A woman receives healing, and is ultimately able to get back on track with her life. A man accepts the forgiveness from God that finally allows him to let go of his own crushing guilt. And, what Father Kenneth has the opportunity to witness most of all, over and over again, are simply the many people who \u201cget a renewed vigor and enthusiasm to fight another year for holiness in their families.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">And the participants aren\u2019t the only ones who experience the fruits of retreat; Father Kenneth feels that, whenever he preaches a retreat, he participates in it just as much as, and if not more than, the retreatants themselves. \u201cWhen you preach a retreat, you have to really get into it. You spend a lot of hours and days preparing, and then you do it with them,\u201d says Father Kenneth. \u201cJohn Paul II used to say that the more you share your faith with others, the more it expands inside of you. I found this to be very true!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Unfortunately, many of the retreats that Father Kenneth had recently scheduled have had to be cancelled due to the current COVID-19 pandemic. However, he hasn\u2019t let this stop him from preaching and, despite feeling somewhat shy in front of the camera and needing a fair bit of coaxing, he\u2019s transitioned his reflections, retreats, and conferences to an online format. \u201cIn certain ways, it has expanded my field of preaching,\u201d says Father Kenneth who, although he\u2019d much prefer to preach retreats in person and face-to-face, is growing accustomed to this new way of transmitting the Gospel. \u201cI think if St. Paul were around today,\u201d he says, \u201che would be in the media for sure.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/pilgrimsojourner-300x165.jpg\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-22206 lazyload\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"165\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-22206\" src=\"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/pilgrimsojourner-300x165.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"165\"><\/noscript>In May, Father Kenneth began producing a new video series called the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PFOuCNrUj9g\"><span class=\"s2\">Pilgrim Sojourner Series<\/span><\/a>, which explores the Our Father, phrase by phrase. 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