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

Directed Retreat (June 9-17, 2012)

FR. AL BISCHOFF, SJ is now working with the Bellarmine Parish community and the Xavier University Campus ministry program. He has many years of experience in directing various retreats.

CAROL BRENNER, SC is a spiritual director and retreat minister. She completed her Internship in Spiritual Direction in Milford, Ohio in 1987 and has been companioning others on their spiritual journey since then. Her past ministry experience includes teaching, religious education, parish ministry, eleven years in St. Lucia and 16 years on the staff of the Spirituality Center.

MAUREEN HEVERIN, SC received formal training in Spiritual Direction at the Jesuit Renewal Center in Milford, Ohio in 1990. Her ministry experience includes elementary and adult education, social service work, spiritual formation, and leadership in the Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati Congregation. Presently, Maureen’s ministry in the Spirituality Center includes spiritual direction (individual and group), directing retreats and facilitating various spiritual programs.

Date:	June 9-17, 2012
Fee:	$475; $450 for SCs ($25 non-refundable deposite applied toward total cost)
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Conference Retreat: Traits of a Healthy Spirituality

This retreat explores some of the traits or signs of a healthy spirituality such as friendship, compassion, love for nature, prayer, laughter, hope, the art of balancing work and leisure, and the ability to live graciously with a certain amount of ambiguity and adversity. Using scripture, music, stories, poetry and humor, the retreat will assist retreatants to rediscover the ways God is alive and active in their personal lives.

Sister Melannie Svoboda, a Sister of Notre Dame from Chardon, Ohio, has an MA in English from Indiana University and an MA in Spirituality from Duquesne University. Sister has taught high school and college for over 20 years, ministered as novice director and provincial. She also served on the staff of the Jesuit novitiate in Detroit for six years. For over 30 years, Sister has been a free-lance writer with articles in dozens of publications including America, Catholic Digest, National Catholic Reporter, Religion Teacher’s Journal, Living Faith, and Country Woman. She is the author of ten books including Traits of a Healthy Spirituality, Gracious Goodness, Everyday Epiphanies, In Steadfast Love, When the Rain Speaks, When the Moon Slips Away and With the Dawn Rejoicing. Currently Sister Melannie writes and gives talks, parish missions, and retreats nationally.

Facilitator:	Melannie Svoboda, SND
Date:	June 11-17, 2012
Fee:	$375; $350 for SCs ($25 non-refundable registration fee applied to total cost)
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Conference Retreat: A Retreat on Forgiveness

The August retreat is titled “A Retreat on Forgiveness,” focusing on our accepting forgiveness, on forgiving ourselves, on forgiving others, and on forgiving God. To accept forgiveness is pre-requisite to repentance and conversion. To forgive oneself and one’s neighbor is to surrender to God. The second half of life is the time for letting go. Our prayer, reflection, and resolution during this retreat is to tap the power of forgiveness and be free of the unnecessary burden of guilt or resentment.

Father Norman Langenbrunner, ordained for the Archdiocese of Cincinnati in 1970, has been a high school teacher (seven years at Seton), an associate pastor, and then pastor (for 26 years). He retired from the role of pastor in 2009 to devote more time to teaching Scripture courses, preaching parish missions across the country, and writing for St. Anthony Messenger Press (Franciscan Media).

Facilitator:	Father Norman Langenbrunner
Date:	August 8-14, 2012
Fee:	$350 for SCs ($25 non-refundable registration fee applied to total cost)
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Directed Retreat (August 6-14, 2012)

JUDITH BONINI, IHM has been involved in retreat/spiritual direction for over 20 years. Presently she is pastoral services director at the Immaculate Heart of Mary Motherhouse in Monroe, MI. Her deep love is spiritual direction and retreat ministry. Judith invites the person to name God’s invitation, to reverence and to respond to this mystery as it unfolds in one’s life experiences.

BETTY FINN, SC is currently engaged as a facilitator to religious communities and various non-profit organizations. She has a private practice of spiritual direction and counseling. Formerly, Betty has been involved in community leadership, formation work, working with adult students at the College of Mt. St. Joseph, and elementary education. She has been giving retreats, both directed and conference, for over 20 years.

MAUREEN HEVERIN, SC received formal training in Spiritual Direction at the Jesuit Renewal Center in Milford, OH in 1990. Her ministry experience includes elementary and adult education, social service work, spiritual formation, and leadership in the Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati congregation. Presently, Maureen’s ministry in the Spirituality Center includes spiritual direction, directing retreats, and facilitating various spiritual programs.

Date:	August 6-14, 2012
Fee:	$475; $450 for SCs ($25 non-refundable deposite applied toward total cost)
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