Welcome to Integritas

Integritas is a domestic centre of Christian faith based in the family home of Linda Rainsberry and Patrick Treacy at Ennisnag, Stoneyford, County Kilkenny. It explores how to bridge the separation of culture and religion through the integrity of Christian faith.

Integritas (l. integrity) is a name chosen to reflect the dynamic truth of Christian faith, which is that the self-surrendering love between the Father and the Son draws all of us to them, to each other and into one body as the Holy Spirit proceeds from them. Through their mutual, self-surrendering and eternal love, the persons of the Holy Trinity never cease to gather us to themselves and to one another as they enfold us within their divine love.

This occurs when the person of Jesus Christ is gradually revealed as the centre of one’s life, the One who draws us to Himself through all else, because of His incomparable, infinite and transcendent glory. As He becomes the centre of one’s life, a new integrity emerges in how one lives because the Holy Spirit, preceding from Him, brings a life-giving coherence to the key relationships in one’s life. This new order in one’s life brings every aspect of one’s being into a vibrant harmony as one’s life become an increasing reflection of the eternal love of the Father, towards whom one becomes more oriented. One’s life becomes an indispensable piece in the Father’s infinite mosaic, reflecting His glory and that of His Son, the centre who holds, and the dynamic life between them both, the Holy Spirit. It is this life-giving integrity, which comes when one surrenders one’s life to the persons of the Holy Trinity, that the term integritas refers.

For this to happen in our lives, we need allow their love to pervade every dimension of our humanity. This means that we are called to prioritise four key and sequential relationships in our lives, being the relationship with:

I   God, the persons of the Holy Trinity

II  one’s nature, calling and mission

III family, friends and the local Christian community

IV the universal Church, humanity and creation

The programme at Integritas concentrates upon these four relationships by focusing on:

1. Contemplative Prayer as a way of being attuned to God, the persons of the Holy Trinity, with evenings of Christian contemplative prayer held each Wednesday at 8.00 p.m. (except during the months of July and August);
2. Missionary Discipleship as a way of being aligned with one’s deepest nature, calling and mission so as to lead a Christian life, with a course on how to do so entitled ‘Missionary Discipleship: The Christian Pilgrimage of Human Life’ held on Saturdays;
3. Familial Love and Friendship as a way of being attentive to one’s family, friends and local Christian community, with an ongoing series of seminars entitled ‘Love Revealed: the revelation of God in familial love and friendship’ held on Saturdays;
4. Christian Social Engagement as a way of being authentic by seeking to promote what is human, unify society and respect creation, with the specific emphasis here being upon the truth of Christian Anthropology through a lecture series entitled ‘The Christian Vision of the Human Person’ held on Saturdays.