For summer retreat registration, please complete and return the registration form. For questions please call 513-347-5449 or email spirituality.center@srcharitycinti.org.

Directed Retreats – June 15-22
Villa San Bernardo – Bedford, OH

Mary Ellen Murphy, SC
Mary Ellen Murphy, SC is engaged in the ministry of spiritual direction/companioning and leading retreats and days of reflection. She is a level II Reiki Healing practitioner. Her ministry experience includes teaching, parish work, religious education, missionary work in Africa and social service work with low income elderly in Cincinnati. She has also served as executive councilor and president of the Sisters of Charity Congregation. She has a MA in Religious Education from the University of Notre Dame and completed the Spiritual Direction Internship Program at Kordes Center in Ferdinand, Indiana in 2005.

 

Conference Retreat – June 15-22
Villa San Bernardo – Bedford, OH

Facilitator: Joan Cook, SC

Lift up Your Heart: A Retreat with the Psalms

The Psalms have been the prayer of the worshipping community for three thousand years. They also serve as models four our own personal prayer today. This retreat will focus on the Psalms as the outpouring of the human heart and the revelation of God. There will be two sessions per day and the Liturgy of the Eucharist. Morning sessions will offer reflections on the Psalms, and afternoon sessions will offer ways of incorporating them into our prayer.

Joan Elizabeth Cook, SC has a special interest in biblical prayer. She has given presentations and taught courses on biblical prayer, including the Psalms, to school and parish groups, and has written articles on prayer for The Bible Today and Catechist. She combines this interest with the study of biblical women. Joan teaches Scripture at Georgetown University. She was the 2005 recipient of the Elizabeth Seton Award from the College of Mount St. Joseph, OH, for her outstanding contributions in the field of biblical studies

 

Directed Retreats – June 17-25
SC Motherhouse – Mount St. Joseph

Tom Speier, OFM
Fr. Tom Speier is a member of the OFM Province of Franciscans based in Cincinnati. He conducted Internship Programs in Spiritual Direction and Directed Retreats in the USA and overseas. Tom taught in his order’s college seminary and at the Franciscan School of Theology in Dayton, OH. He has served as Director of Formation for temporary professed friars, and conducted retreats at the Franciscan Retreat Center in Cincinnati. Presently he ministers on the St. Monica – St. George team which also serves the students attending the University of Cincinnati. He continues his retreat ministry as time allows.

Pat Bernard, SC
Pat Bernard, SC, RN, has been a spiritual director and retreat director since 1990. She received formal preparation in spiritual direction at the Mercy Center in Burlingame, CA. Pat has training in dream work, journaling, centering prayer, Lectio Divina, Native American spirituality and creative expression work. She served on the retreat staff of the Sangre de Cristo Renewal Program in Santa Fe, NM. Her ministry experience includes healthcare outreach with management and nursing services among the poor.

Carol Brenner, SC
Carol Brenner, SC is a spiritual director and retreat minister. She offers prayer experiences and Reiki Healing. She is a level II Reiki Healing practitioner. Her ministry experience includes teaching, religious education, parish work, and missionary work in the West Indies. She has an MA in Religious Studies from Aquinas College in grand Rapids, MI and completed an Internship in Spiritual Direction at the Jesuit Renewal Center in Milford, OH. She has been on the staff of the Spirituality Center since 1992.

 

Conference Retreat – June 19-25, 2008
SC Motherhouse – Mount St. Joseph

Facilitator: Patrick McDevitt, C.M.

God Makes Everything Easy to the Simple and Confiding

The theme of the retreat is from the words of Elizabeth Ann Seton. Retreat is a time to put aside all the chaos and clutter of life and to focus on what really matters. The simplicity of retreat helps us grow intimacy and confidence in our Divine Creator. The retreat will invite us to “come away” and just “be” with self and with God. The topics of the conferences will help set this tone and theme of the retreat. While in the simplicity of retreat, the conferences will also focus on the Vincentian and Setonian values of the Paschal Mystery, Mercy, Reconciliation, Justice, the Evangelical Counsels, the Gift of Faith, and the Service to the Poor.

Each day retreatants will be given a handout with prayers, scripture, and excerpts from spiritual writing to assist in their prayers. These handouts are useful prayer aids and reminders of the retreat throughout the year. The retreat will consist of two conferences per day and Liturgy of the Eucharist.

Patrick J. McDevitt, C.M. is a member of the Congregation of the Mission (Vincentians). he has been involved in parish ministry, diocesan seminary formation, spiritual direction, counseling, and preached retreats. Patrick holds a Bachelors of Arts in Philosophy, a Masters in Divinity, a Masters of Science, and a Ph.D. in Pastoral Counseling Psychology. His research and clinical interests are the role of spirituality in mental health, adolescent developmental issues, and psychological crises facing clergy and religious. Presently he is Chair of the department of Leadership in Education, Language, and Human Services at DePaul University.

 

Directed Retreats – July 28 – August 5, 2008

Nicholas Lohkamp, OFM
Fr. Nick is a Friar of St. John the Baptist Province. He earned a Doctorate in Sacred Theology from the Catholic University of America. Over the past 50 years Fr. Nick has engaged in formation work, teaching, preaching, retreats, workshops, Missions, Provincial leadership, writing, chaplain to the Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration in Canton, OH, and priest assistant of the Cincinnati region of the Secular Institute, “Caritas Christi.” Presently he continues to do Sacramental ministry in the various parishes and give retreats.

Betty Finn, SC
S. Betty 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 Mount St. Joseph, and elementary education. She has been giving retreats, both directed and conference, for over 20 years.

Mary Ann Humbert, SC
Mary Ann Humbert, SC, participated in the summer Institute in Spiritual Direction out of Loyola University, Chicago, and studied in the Christian Spirituality program at Creighton University, Omaha, NE. She completed her internship in retreat and Spiritual Direction at Milford Spiritual Center where she subsequently worked as part of the internship training team. She has conducted prayer classes, retreat opportunities and adult educational sessions for men and women from diverse religious traditions. She is trained in Bio-Spirituality and Focusing and has been journeying with others as a Spiritual Director since 1973.

 

 

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