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    • Men's ACTS Retreat March 16 - 19 2023 - Online registration
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  • ACTS is a parish-based retreat in which parishioners serve parishioners. The ACTS Retreat, an acronym for Adoration, Community, Theology and Service, began in the 1980’s in San Antonio, Texas. The retreat’s goals are to strengthen our faith and its application in our daily life, to renew ourselves spiritually, to build strong, lasting friendships, and to grow in our relationship with our Lord, our parish and one another. The ACTS weekend is presented by lay Catholics, with support provided by a Spiritual Director/companion or clergy. Parishioners who serve on ACTS retreats strive to provide the opportunity for our parish community to experience, become, and share the Body of Christ. Once parishioners attend a Holy Cross Parish ACTS Retreat, they can help serve in future retreats. Please consider this wonderful gift for yourself or someone you love.

    Are you interested in deepening your faith and finding a community of faith to help support you on your faith journey?  If so, consider attending a Holy Cross Parish ACTS Retreat.  Typically held twice a year for women and once a year for men. The retreats begin Thursday evenings with check-in at 5:00 p.m. Retreatants return on Sunday for the 11 am return Mass.

    Registration for a retreat opens a few months before it is scheduled to take place, usually at noon on Sundays.  Registration remains open until all spots have been filled.  Those interested may register online by filling out an application.  Registration links will be published in Holy Cross bulletin, website and/or Facebook.

    The cost is $295.00 per person. Payment instructions are given to those who are accepted into the retreat. For more information, call the Parish Office at 337-984-9636 or contact one of the ACTS volunteers  referenced on this page.

    Men’s Retreat Dates
    March 16 - 19, 2023 (registration opens December 4, 2022)

    Women’s Retreat Dates
    May 18-21, 2023 (registration opening to be determined)
    October 12-15, 2023 (registration opening to be determined)




    • The mission of Holy Cross ACTS is to help our brothers and sisters enter into a new or deeper relationship with our Lord and fellow parishioners. We do this by sponsoring and facilitating retreat weekends that foster and encourage these relationships. 

      This is accomplished through Adoration and daily prayer, the call to Community in one's parish as a member of the Body of Christ, and Theology in encouraging the study of scripture and our Catholic Faith. All of which emphasize and encourage the virtue of Service to our Lord, our parish, and one another.

  • Core Team

    • Facilitator
      David Wooten

      Co-Facilitator
      Michelle Binnings

      Communications Coordinator
      Greg Ducharme

      Financial Coordinator
      Vince Comeaux

      Retreat Supply Coordinators
      Dwayne Dugas
      Suzanne Boutte

      Retreat Support Coordinators

      Diane Kincel

      Spiritual Coordinators
      Connie Leblanc


      Events Coordinator
      Jacob Bergeron

      Music Coordinator
      Joey Chauffe

      Pastor Liason
      Joel Sandridge

    • What is the ACTS Core Team?

      The ACTS Core Team is a governing body of 6 women and 6 men. The greater good of the Holy Cross ACTS mission is foremost in the activities and decisions of the Core Team.

      Core Team meets once a month. 

      How are members of Core Team selected?

      Members of the Core Team are practicing Catholics who are committed to the building of the ACTS community and to the ACTS Core as a ministry. These members must have been a retreatant on an ACTS retreat, served on an retreat ACTS team, and displayed leadership abilities.

      Core team prayerfully chooses, from a list of eligible people, who will be asked to serve. To be an eligible member the person’s spouse may not be on the present Core team. It is the intent to maintain a balance of gender and experience levels on the Core.

      How long does a Core team member serve?

      The standard term is three years.

  • More Information

    • What is ACTS?
      • What is ACTS?

        Adoration- the call by, acceptance of, and response to God
        Community- the love and caring of each other
        Theology-the study of God through scripture and the Catholic Faith
        Service - to God and his people.

    • What is an ACTS Retreat?
      • What is an acts retreat?

        An ACTS retreat is a three day and three night Catholic lay retreat presented by fellow parishioners. The retreat begins on Thursday evening and ends the following Sunday at a Mass celebrated with the parish community. Retreats for men, women and teens are given separately. The focus of the retreat is Adoration, Community, Theology, and Service, from which the ACTS acronym is derived. Holy Scripture and the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church are the guides for the retreats.

    • What is the purpose of an ACTS Retreat?
      • What is the purpose of an acts retreat?

        An ACTS weekend is designed to help the retreatants enter into a new or deeper relationship with our Lord and fellow parishioners. This is accomplished through Adoration and daily prayer, the call to Community in one's parish as a member of the Body of Christ, and Theology in encouraging the study of scripture and our Catholic Faith. All of which emphasize and encourage the virtue of Service to our Lord, our parish, and one another.

    • What is the goal of an ACTS retreat?
      • What is the goal of an acts retreat?

        A parish ACTS retreat strives to achieve the directives of Vatican II and goals of the Revised Code of Canon Law of 1983 which emphasize "community and pastoral care" within a parish.  The weekend allows the retreatants to experience God's love and joy.  They return to their parish with a deeper love for each other and a desire to become more involved in their parish community.
        The retreat emphasizes our call to service to the parish community and to our world community.  There results a new or renewed dedication to the life of the parish community and a new recognition of the needs of those around us and of our obligation, as followers of Christ, to help meet those needs.

    • Who can attend an ACTS retreat?
      • Who can attend an acts retreat?

        ACTS retreats are open to all faiths.

    • What is an ACTS Chapter?
      • What is an acts chapter?

        The ACTS Chapter is a support branch of ACTS Missions dedicated to the missioning process of Catholic communities seeking to bring the ACTS retreat to their parish. Its members represent the various areas of the Diocese.
        The Chapter also was created to facilitate the missioning process for parishes interested in having ACTS in their communities and to ensure fidelity to the integrity and spirit of the retreat. In addition to working with and supporting parish Priests and members in the development of ACTS ministries, the Chapter also elects directors to lead retreats for parishes in the missioning process. Typically, the Chapter will work with a new parish over a 2-3 year period to prepare the parish to establish its own Core group.

        The Chapter also helps the ACTS community by providing quarterly director workshops, maintaining a diocesan website for disseminating information, conducting Core installation ceremonies, offering support to newly established communities, offering specific training & guidance as requested, and acting as a liaison between the diocese and the ministry.

    • The History of ACTS
      • The History of acts

        No history of ACTS would be complete without the help of, and some familiarity with, the Cursillo retreat. Cursillo began in Spain in the years between WWI and WWII, in response to what many in the church saw as the increasing secularization of many Catholics in Spain at the time. It was intended to be a short course (the Spanish for short course is "cursillo") on the Catholic faith, and soon became widely popular for its profound effect on people's spirituality. By the mid 1980's, it had spread to many places in the world, including Our Lady of Perpetual Help parish in Selma, Texas, a suburb of San Antonio. It was here that three men who were heavily involved in Cursillo planned the first ACTS retreat.

             Ed Courtney, Joe Hayes, and Marty Sablik were instructors and coordinators with Cursillo, with years of Cursillo experience and a mutual friendship. They thought that several aspects of Cursillo could be improved in order to make the retreat more relevant to the needs of the parish, especially after the changes brought about by the Second Vatican Council. From the beginning, they all felt that it was important for the retreat to be open to everyone, not just to Catholics, and not just to those who were sponsored by someone. Ed, acting under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, met Joe and Marty at a coffee shop to build a new retreat called ACTS. This seemed logical to Ed since the Acts of the Apostles described what the apostles did, and are we not the apostles of today? Since the three main points in Cursillo were Piety, Study, and Action, Ed felt it absolutely necessary to bring them into ACTS. Once again under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, Ed used a dictionary to help him correlate the letters A, C, T, and S into the themes of Adoration, Community, Theology, and Service. Joe Hayes, with the help of the Holy Spirit, was instrumental in securing the approval of both their pastor, Fr. Patrick Cronin, and that of Archbishop Flores. Another friend and parishioner, Wallace Vaughn, was inspired by the Holy Spirit to read Acts 2:42-47, the passage that became the biblical inspiration for the weekend.

             After that first retreat in 1987, ACTS spread parish to parish in the San Antonio Archdiocese, and by 1997 there were perhaps 15 parishes with an ACTS program in place. In that year, ACTS Missions was formed as a 501(c)3 non-profit organization for the purpose of spreading and maintaining the ACTS retreat wherever the Holy Spirit prompted it. ACTS Missions was started by Larry Lopez and Tony Deosdade, two men who had such a profound experience on their retreat that they were inspired to make sure everyone in the world should have the opportunity to receive it as well. From its headquarters at the Oblate School of Theology in San Antonio, Texas, this small organization now leverages thousands of volunteers every year to bring the retreat to even more thousands of people, allowing them to experience the love of God through their fellow Christians. Today, ACTS is in at least 22 states in the U.S., 8 states in Mexico, as well as Canada, Honduras, South Africa and England. Interest is growing literally around the world.

             People have credited ACTS with saving their lives, saving their marriages, convincing them to be ordained as priests or deacons, or leading them to the religious life, simply by opening their eyes and their hearts to God's word. Pastors have praised its positive effects on their parishes, leading to highly invigorated parish life. Bishops and other church leaders have called it the most important movement in the Catholic Church today; all this from a handful of faith-filled people with the courage and perseverance to be led by the Holy Spirit.

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