PilgrimstaysThe Logos Retreat Centre has already been selected by God to continue the ministry of Jesus through its various programs such as residential retreats, Bible conventions on Friday, Saturday and Sunday in Kannada, in English and in Malayalam along with Tamil respectively. It is located in Horamavu – a suburb of Bangalore. It was founded by the Vincentian Congregation , which is the order that runs the world famous Divine Retreat Centre, Muringoor , Potta. The director of the centre is Rev Dr Jose Vettiyankal VC is a retreat preacher. Ever since his ordination on Jan 4, 1988 he has preached all over the world. He has also served as tribunal judge in the Archdiocese of Mylapore in Tamil Nadu and defender of Bond in the Archdiocese of of Kottayam in Kerala. For a while, he was Provincial Superior of the St. Joseph Province of the Vincentian Congregation. At present, he serves as the Director of Logos Retreat Centre, Bengaluru, India. Fr Jose is appointed as the official Exorcist of the Archdiocese of Bengaluru, India. Excerpt from the website of Rev Dr Jose Vettiyankal: Man has a spirit even as he has a body. As the body gets ill, the spirit too gets sick. The reason for the sickness of the spirit is sin. There is no natural cure for this. When we pray after repenting and forsaking all sin, we get forgiveness. The Bible says that the sinner has no peace. “But the wicked are like the tossing sea that cannot keep still; its waters toss up mire and mud. There is no peace, says my God, for the wicked”, Isaiah 57: 20-21. Jesus is the God who forgives sin. He bore sin and sickness on his body and offered himself on the Cross. Thus were we relieved of sickness and curse. Jesus defeated Satan and death on the cross. The repentant sinner receives free forgiveness from sin by the invaluable crucifixion of Jesus. Only Jesus has authority to forgive sin, because he is God – Mark 2: 5,7,10.
It was founded by the Vincentian Congregation , which is the order that runs the world famous Divine Retreat Centre, Muringoor , Potta
It is located in Horamavu – a suburb of Bangalore
The director of the centre is Rev Dr Jose Vettiyankal VC is a retreat preacher
Ever since his ordination on Jan 4, 1988 he has preached all over the world
The extended Scripture teaching sessions — thematic, systematic, and delivered by trained retreat directors — are the distinctive offering of the Logos Centre. Retreatants spend 2–3 hours daily in direct engagement with biblical texts, in a combination of teaching, reflection, and lectio divina. Many describe this as the most productive engagement with Scripture they have ever had.
The inner healing retreat programme addresses the connection between emotional wounds and spiritual life — the way unhealed hurts from childhood, family, or significant relationships create barriers to prayer and faith. The Scripture-based approach is to apply specific biblical texts and promises to specific personal histories, in prayer.
The adoration hours at Logos are structured Scripture adoration — participants sit before the Blessed Sacrament with a specific biblical text and remain with it in silence for an extended period. This is one of the most distinctive elements of the Logos approach and one that many retreatants find unexpectedly powerful.
The retreatants at Logos represent the extraordinary diversity of Bangalore's Catholic community: software engineers from Keralite families, Anglo-Indians from generations of Bangalore residence, Goan families, Tamil Nadu migrants, north Karnataka converts. The community of a Logos retreat is a cross-section of Indian Catholicism.
The retreat centre grounds provide a quiet environment in which the extended prayer and Scripture engagement of the retreat can take place. In the midst of Bangalore's extraordinary growth and urban energy, the retreat campus offers a necessary counter-environment.
In the beginning was the Word. The Logos Centre in Bangalore takes that claim as its operating principle: the Word of God, engaged seriously and at length, is transformative. Not the word as doctrine, not the word as text to be memorised and cited, but the word as living and active, as sharper than any two-edged sword, as the presence of Christ in language. Six days of extended Scripture engagement in a retreat setting has changed many people's lives. That is the Logos testimony.
“For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.”
Read in full on Bible Gateway →The Logos Retreat Centre has already been selected by God to continue the ministry of Jesus through its various programs, such as residential retreats and Bible conventions on Friday, Saturday and Sunday in Kannada, English, Malayalam and Tamil respectively. It is located in Horamavu, a suburb of Bangalore. It was founded by the Vincentian Congregation, which is the order that runs the world-famous Divine Retreat Centre, Muringoor, Potta.
The director of the centre is Rev Dr Jose Vettiyankal VC, a retreat preacher. Ever since his ordination on 4 January 1988, he has preached all over the world. He has also served as tribunal judge in the Archdiocese of Mylapore in Tamil Nadu and Defender of the Bond in the Archdiocese of Kottayam in Kerala. For a while, he was Provincial Superior of the St Joseph Province of the Vincentian Congregation. At present, he serves as the Director of Logos Retreat Centre, Bengaluru. Fr Jose is appointed as the official Exorcist of the Archdiocese of Bengaluru.
In the words of Rev Dr Jose Vettiyankal: Man has a spirit even as he has a body. As the body gets ill, the spirit too gets sick. The reason for the sickness of the spirit is sin. There is no natural cure for this. When we pray after repenting and forsaking all sin, we get forgiveness. The Bible says that the sinner has no peace: “But the wicked are like the tossing sea that cannot keep still; its waters toss up mire and mud. There is no peace, says my God, for the wicked” (Isaiah 57:20–21).
Jesus is the God who forgives sin. He bore sin and sickness on His body and offered Himself on the Cross. Thus were we relieved of sickness and curse. Jesus defeated Satan and death on the cross. The repentant sinner receives free forgiveness from sin by the invaluable crucifixion of Jesus. Only Jesus has authority to forgive sin, because He is God (Mark 2:5, 7, 10).
