- HEALING HURTS & REGRETS: Forgiving & Healthy Alternatives to Forgiving
Fri., Feb. 24, 7:00pm – Sun., Feb. 26, 2012, 1:00pm
Director: Gary Egeberg – nationally-known retreat director & author
Though our brains are “wired” to remember our hurts for survival purposes, they are also wired for healing. If you are unable to forgive someone, or if you can’t seem to forgive yourself, learn how to honor your own unique way of healing. Discover a variety of spiritual and psychological tools. You will learn . . .
- When forgiving is likely to work well and when a healthy alternative might be more effective
- How to keep the focus on your needs rather than on your offender, so that you can heal
- Ways to manage disturbing thoughts and upsetting emotions so that you can enjoy more peace of mind and heart
- How to reinterpret your life through a gentle and compassionate lens
Offering: $165. Commuter: $145.
Register by Feb. 17, 2012. $50 deposit.
- Take Back the Light Concert & Multimedia Presentation
Friday, March 23, 2012, 7:00 – 9:00pm
Gifted Musician: Jan Phillips
An evening of music, video and storytelling to celebrate our community, our collective potential and our creativity.
Offering: $17.50, if registered/paid by Mar. 21, after Mar. 21: $20.
- The WORD, The IMAGE, The STORY: TOOLS OF TRANSFORMATION RETREAT (includes Take Back the Light Concert)
Friday, March 23, 7:00pm – Sunday, March 25, 2012, 1:00pm
Director: Jan Phillips – worldwide keynote speaker, author, artist, activist
In this multi-sensory, multi-media retreat, we’ll be using music, poetry, story and video to help us access our unique wisdom and find new ways to share it personally and professionally...We are on the verge of a new era, an epochal shift from the Age of Information to an Age of Transformation. Each of us is a co-creator, a carrier of the new consciousness. The future is within us, like the oak in the acorn, and it is unfolding in the creation of our lives, our stories, and our artistic expressions. Like caterpillars dying to the old ways, we are readying ourselves for a quantum leap in the evolutionary journey – the realization and expression of our deepest potential.
Offering: $160. Early Bird: $145, if registered by Feb. 24.
Commuter: $130. $50 deposit.
- LENTEN RETREAT: TRANSFORMATION – The Music of God
Sun., Feb. 26, 5:30pm – Fri., March 2, 2012, 9:30am
Director: Thomas Hartle OFM – itinerant retreat director, pilgrimage leader to Rome and Assisi
Using the Lenten Scriptures, and drawing upon Francis and Clare, we will come to understand Metanoia as the Music of God, Prayer as the
Music of God, and Penance as the Music of God. Daily Eucharist.
Offering: $365. $75 deposit. Early Bird: $340, if registered by Feb. 1, 2012.
- I WANT TO KNOW CHRIST JESUS — A Retreat with St. Paul
Sun., June 3, 5:30pm – Sat., June 9, 2012, 9:30am
Director: Wendy Cotter, CSJ – Synoptic Gospel specialist, professor, author & retreat leader
When I was a graduate student, I dreaded taking the necessary course on Paul because I thought he was sexist and caught in the first century, endorsing slavery and women’s subordination. Then I discovered in the courses, that those are precisely the letters that Paul did not write! Instead we see the Apostle with women friends and leaders and married couples on whom he counted! Together we will share a retreat with St. Paul and be inspired by his love of Christ and longing to reach out to everyone in the world in Christs’ name.
Daily Eucharist.
Offering: $420. $75 deposit. Early Bird: $395, if registered by May 7, 2012.
- DARING TO EMBRACE THE OTHER: Doing Peace in Our Day
Sun., June 10, 5:30pm – Sat., June 16, 2012, 9:30am
Director: Kathy Warren OSF – author, lecturer, producer, Franciscan Pilgrimage Program guide
Too many people in this world are having a difficult time living peacefully with those who are “other.” Peacemaking occurs when people hear about and see peace initiatives – whether simple and ordinary ones or bold and unusual ones. Francis of Assisi’s timeless vision and spirituality is at the core of this retreat as we reflect on both ordinary and extraordinary ways to “do” peace. Francis’ encounter with the Sultan of Egypt, Malek al-Kamil, stands as a poignant paradigm for our time as we seek ways to respect differences among people and to tame the violence in our world. This retreat explores the questions about how to live as neighbor with those we do not know or understand even as we commit ourselves to being more forgiving and accepting of those closest to us. Daily Eucharist.
Offering: $420. $75 deposit. Early Bird–$395, if registered by May 14, 2012.
- EARTHBOUND & MYSTICAL – Using the Psalms as a School of Prayer
Sun., June 24, 5:30pm – Sat., June 30, 2012, 9:30am
Director: Nancy Schreck OSF – eminent educator and facilitator for groups worldwide
This retreat will explore prayer (psalms) in the light of issues of personal suffering and national disaster, individual hope and the collective aspirations that constitute the human spiritual terrain. It will explore the deep concerns that form the heartbeat of the book of Psalms, questions of suffering, social justice and worship. Two formal sessions a day, with time for faith sharing and psalm praying throughout the retreat. Daily Eucharist.
Offering: $400. $75 deposit. Early Bird: $375, if registered by May 28, 2012.
- ENGAGING WOMEN IN THE ORDINARY MYSTERIES OF LIFE
Sun., July 8, 2012, 5:30pm – Sat., July 14, 2012, 9:30am
Director: Ann Willitts OP – worldwide itinerant preacher, Lands of Dominic pilgrimage leader
We all know by heart the joyful, sorrowful, and glorious mysteries of the Rosary. Some people even know the luminous mysteries! But there are other mysteries within the pages of scripture which seem to be ordinary mysteries. If we listen to our lives we discover how many ordinary mysteries there are, and in that discovery, the gospel happens. We will reflect on some of these mysteries which we find not only in the life of Jesus and Mary and the early disciples but also in our lives. We will reflect on these ordinary mysteries like displacement, gratitude, friendship and others. Daily Eucharist.
Offering: $400. $75 deposit. Early Bird: $375, if registered by June 11, 2012.
- Serenity Retreat
Fri., Sept. 7, 7:00pm – Sun., Sept. 9, 2012, 1:00pm
Director: Allan R. Smith – Serenity Weekend presenter at Franciscan Retreats & Spirituality Center, Prior Lake, MN
Based on forgiveness and reconciliation. An actual method of forgiveness aimed at making relationship compatible will be represented. Presentation topics:
1. Who are you mad at? Taking personal inner inventory.
2. It’s your call. You can love. It’s your choice.
3. Will the real God please stand up? Finding out whose side God is on.
4. The Good Stuff. What do you set your mind on?
5. Where the rubber meets the road. Challenges retreatants to move in the direction of reconciliation. Designed for those in AA / Al-Anon / anyone in recovery. Sunday Eucharist.
Commuter: $145. Register by Aug. 31, 2012.
