All programs are held at the Sisters of Charity Motherhouse unless otherwise specfied.

A Personally Directed Retreat for a Busy Person
Do you wish to share your spiritual journey with someone who can help you know God more intimately? This retreat offers the opportunity for a directed retreat experience woven into your own busy schedule. An introductory group session at 7 p.m. on Friday October 3rd and a prayer and evaluation session on the 17th are interspersed with two weekly individual sessions with a spiritual director. Meetings are scheduled at the mutual convenience of you and your director. The spiritual director listens as you describe your reactions, thoughts and feelings that surfaced during your retreat and helps you identify God’s presence and action in your prayer and life.

Spiritual Directors:	Mary Ann Humbert, SC Maureen Heverin, SC
Date:	Oct. 3 – 17, 2008
Time:	7 p.m. – for introductory session. Other times to be determined.
Fee:	$125; $25 nonrefundable deposit due by Sept. 26
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Living Mindfully Throughout the Day: the Medicine
of Deep Listening
Facilitated by Macrina Wierdekehr, OSB
Our spiritual life is a great treasure needing constant renewal and care. We cannot minister to others without replenishing our own spirits. This silent retreat is an invitation to honor your soul’s need for reflection, to pause for the medicine of deep listening. You will be reminded of God’s breathing in you and spend time in the ground of your own being. Sister Macrina will explore with you a way of being attentive to the hours of the day, and search for ways to live reflectively right in the midst of the busyness of daily life. Themes will be drawn from her latest book, Seven Sacred Pauses. The moving story of the Emmaus Journey (Luke 24: 13-32) will be our scripture companion for the retreat. Sessions will include some conference time, quiet time for reflection, faith sharing and prayer.

Macrina Wiederkehr is a Benedictine Sister from St. Scholastica Monastery in Fort Smith, Arkansas. Monastic spirituality has had a great influence in her writing and retreat ministry. In her retreats she attempts to lead seekers on a contemplative path away from wordiness, into the space between the words where silence and solitude make their home. She loves to write and has authored seven books: Seasons of Your Heart, A Tree Full of Angels, The Song of the Seed, Gold in Your Memories, Behold Your Life, The Circle of Life, coauthored with Joyce Rupp, and her most recent publication, Seven Sacred Pauses. You can visit her website at www.MacrinaWiederkehr.com.

Leader:	Macrina Wiederkehr, OSB
Dates:	March 20-22, 2009
Time:	Begins Friday evening and ends at noon on Sunday. There will be a Saturday evening session.
Fee:	$165 (Includes overnight accommodations and meals.) $115 – commuter (Includes Saturday noon, evening, & Sunday noon meals.) $50 nonrefundable deposit due by March 6.
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