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Scheduled Retreats
Retreats offer the opportunity to get away and to find time to journey with your God. Retreats range in length from one to 10 days. Silence is an integral part of most retreats.
Intensive Centering Prayer Retreat |
June 13-20, 2009 |
6:30 p.m. check-in time. Retreat runs from 7 p.m. Saturday to the following Saturday morning. (Program held at Kordes Center) |
The Centering Prayer Retreat includes conferences to renew the method of Centering Prayer and a moderate amount of Centering Prayer in common.
The Intensive Centering Prayer Retreat provides an opportunity to be immersed in the practice of Centering Prayer as taught by Contemplative Outreach. The Intensive features Parts I, II, III of the “Spiritual Journey” videotape series by Father Thomas Keating. Prior Centering Prayer Retreat experience is required. |
Facilitators: Sister Maria Tasto, OSB, is a certified presenter of Centering Prayer and a spiritual director. She has facilitated many Centering Prayer retreats and programs and has been a member of the resource faculty of Contemplative Outreach. She continues to be an active member of the Lectio Divina service team of the faculty.
Sister Renee Wargel is a certified presenter of Centering Prayer and a spiritual director. She has directed Centering Prayer retreats for about 15 years and has served as program director for Benedict Inn at Our Lady of Grace Monastery in Beech Grove, Indiana. |
Cost: $500
Includes all applicable taxes. |
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Post-Intensive Centering Prayer Retreat |
June 13-20, 2009 |
6:30 p.m. check-in time. Retreat runs from 7 p.m. Saturday to the following Saturday morning. (Program held at Kordes Center) |
The Centering Prayer Retreat includes conferences to renew the method of Centering Prayer and a moderate amount of Centering Prayer in common.
The Post-Intensive Centering Prayer Retreat provides an opportunity for intensive Centering Prayer, Lectio Divina, solitude, and silence in community. Prior Centering Prayer retreat experience is necessary. |
Facilitators: Sister Maria Tasto, OSB, is a certified presenter of Centering Prayer and a spiritual director. She has facilitated many Centering Prayer retreats and programs and has been a member of the resource faculty of Contemplative Outreach. She continues to be an active member of the Lectio Divina service team of the faculty.
Sister Renee Wargel is a certified presenter of Centering Prayer and a spiritual director. She has directed Centering Prayer retreats for about 15 years and has served as program director for Benedict Inn at Our Lady of Grace Monastery in Beech Grove, Indiana. |
Cost: $500
Includes all applicable taxes. |
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| Directed Retreat |
July 10-17, 2009 |
6:30 p.m. Friday to 1 p.m. the following Friday (Program held at Kordes Center) |
| The Directed Retreat focuses on the retreatant’s relationship with God, especially in her/
his experience of God in prayer and in life’s events. |
Directors for July retreat: Sister Chris Connelly, OP; Sister Betty Drewes, OSB; Sister Margaret Ann Hagan, OSU; Sister Maria Tasto, OSB; Sister Michelle Mohr, OSB; Peggy
Holthaus. |
Cost: $550
Includes all applicable taxes. |
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| Guided Retreat: Women in the Scriptures as Witneses, Mystics, and Prophets |
August 2-8, 2009 |
6:30 p.m. check-in time. Retreat begins at 7 p.m. Sunday and ends at 1 p.m. the following Saturday. (Program held at Kordes Center) |
| This will be remembered of her.... In Mark’s Gospel, Jesus defends the “unnamed” woman who anoints his head with oil and is disparaged by his disciples and others. If you were
to be remembered for one thing, what would you like it to be? We will look at women of
Scripture and women from all religious traditions/cultures/nationalities from around the
world, contemporary and past, and examine how they are remembered in the sense that
Jesus speaks about. |
Presenter: Megan McKenna is an internationally known author, lecturer, retreat leader, and spiritual director. She received her doctorate from the Graduate Theological Union
in Berkeley, California, and has taught in Asia, South America, Ireland, the Marshall
Islands, Thailand, Chicago, and Albuquerque, New Mexico, where she currently lives. She
is the author of more than 30 books, including And Morning Came — Scriptures of
the Resurrection, Praying the Rosary, Send My Roots Rain, The New Stations of the
Cross, On Your Mark — Reading Mark in the Shadow of the Cross, and the recently
released Harm Not the Earth. |
Cost: $650
Includes all applicable taxes. |
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| Directed Retreat |
September 4-11, 2009 |
6:30 p.m. Friday to 1 p.m. the following Friday (Program held at Kordes Center) |
| Reflect upon God’s presence in your life. Opportunities for daily conferences with a director. Body prayer and meditation experiences will be available during this silent retreat. |
A team of trained spiritual directors will help to guide your spiritual journey this week. |
Cost: $550
Includes all applicable taxes. |
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| Retreat: Dining in the Kingdom of God: Luke’s Gospel and Hospitality |
March 5-6, 2010 |
6:30 p.m. check-in time. Retreat begins at 7 p.m. Friday and ends at 3:30 p.m. Saturday. (Program held at Kordes Center) |
| Today the Eucharist is often experienced in isolation from the rest of the Gospel story, connected only with the Last Supper and not to its broader context in Jesus’ life and ministry. The Eucharist can also become disconnected from our daily lives. We fail to see the relationship between the Eucharist at the altar and the “eucharist” at the table in the home. We frequently take little time for that most important ritual of the “common meal” that gives life to our spirits as well as food to our bodies. Using the concept of hospitality from St. Luke’s Gospel, this retreat will explore the gathering of family or friends around a meal at the family table as an extension of the Eucharist. Participants will experience the ritual of a common meal, “dining in the kingdom of God.” |
Presenter: Sister Barbara C. Schmitz, OSB, is a gift officer in Mission Advancement for the Sisters of St. Benedict. She holds graduate degrees in education and spirituality as well as internships in spiritual direction and contemplative dialogue. She has held leadership positions in diocesan, seminary, and retreat ministries. |
Cost $130 per person for double occupancy, $150 for a private room, $80 for a commuter.
Includes all applicable taxes. |
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