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JANUARY 2012Annual Women's Retreat - What Do You Thirst For? WAITING LIST ONLY
January 20-22
Registration 7:00 p.m. (Eastern Time)
We will spend time during this retreat reflecting on what you need spiritually and psychologically.
Each woman present will be guided to enter into herself to discover what she thirsts for.
Jesus said to the Samaritan woman:"whoever drinks of the water I will give will never thirst; the water I shall give will become a spring of water welling up to eternal life." Luke 4:13-14. Of course, Jesus is talking about the living water of grace. What do you thirst for? How do you usually pray? Jeanne and Kathleen will work as a team using guided meditations, scripture, dialogue, film and stories to facilitate your reflection. You may be surprised at what the Spirit reveals about your inner thirst.
Presenters: Jeanne Jones, Ph.D. is a licensed psychologist and spiritual director in St. Paul, Mn. For over 35 years she has specialized in working with women. Jeanne has given retreats here at Blessed Trinity Shrine Retreat with Matt Linn, SJ and she has given women's retreats in Minnesota and Wisconsin.
Kathleen Judge, CSJ is a Sister of St. Joseph of Carondelet. For 40 years she was a missionary in South America. She has been a teacher and a novice mistress and now lives in St. Paul, MN and works with the homeless and the Center for Victims of Torture
FEBRUARY 2012
Annual Men's Retreat - Meeting With Jesus: A Preparation For Lent
February 17-19
Registration: 7:00 p.m. (Eastern Time)
The purpose of this retreat for men is to prepare for the coming season of Lent. We will reflect on our spiritual life, the three traditional meetings with Jesus, the Lenten reception of the Sacrament of Penance and the expectation for a season of grace. The goal of the retreat is to make this Lent a more meaningful and fruitful experience.
Presenter: Bishop David E. Foley
Bishop Foley served in the Diocese of Birmingham, AL from 1994-2007. Before that he was Auxiliary Bishop of Richmond, VA and for thirty years a parish priest in the Archdiocese of Washington, D.C. As Bishop Emeritus, Bishop Foley continues pastoral services in parishes. He directs parish missions, and gives retreats to priests, permanent deacons, religious and lay people.
Fee: $160 (includes a $40 non-refundable deposit)
MARCH 2012
Journey Of A Celtic Heart
March 9-11
Registration 7:00 p.m. (Eastern Time)
During this weekend retreat, Carmel Boyle again invites us to pray with Celtic themes through song, reflection and movement. Led by the spirit of song, you will encounter the spirituality of the ancient Celts who were ever conscious of the immanence of God, and who were described as a God-intoxicated people. This retreat will be in the company of the Trinity, the angels and the Saints, especially St. Bridget and St. Patrick. Our intimate companion is Christ.
Presenter: Carmel Boyle, M. Min.
Carmel Boyle is a singer and songwriter who gives retreats, workshops and concerts throughout Ireland and the United States. She is co-founder of An Croi, an holistic retreat center in County Meath, Ireland. Carmel is well known at Blessed Trinity Shrine Retreat.
Fee: $170 (Includes a $40 non-refundable deposit.
APRIL 2012
HOLY WEEK RETREAT
April 2-8
Beginning
Monday with Supper at 6:00 p m. (Eastern Time)
Concluding
Easter Sunday following Brunch
Option to join us for any or all of these days
This year’s Holy Week retreat will simply be a time for joining our retreat center community in a silent retreat with the option of spiritual direction and of prayer times in common. There will be daily Mass at the retreat center on Tuesday and Wednesday. We will join St. Joseph Parish here at Holy Trinity for the liturgies of the Triduum (Holy Thursday through Easter). We welcome you to join us for all or a part of this week.
Fee: $60 per overnight (includes a $40 non-refundable deposit)
MAY 2012
BIBLE INSTITUTE: PAUL FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
May 25-27
Registration: 7:00 p.m. (Eastern Time)
In this Bible Institute, we look at the New Testament: Paul for the 21st Century. From the 1st century, Paul the Apostle still speaks to us in the 21st century with as much passion for “Jesus Crucified and Risen”! Paul gets a new look as we consider his letters, his relationship to the Judaism of his day and his message for today. How did he influence the formation of the New Testament? Was he the ‘true’ founder of Christianity? What are ‘the works of the Law’? Come and see.
Presenter: Fr. Gary Banks, S.T.
Fr. Gary Banks is at St. Joseph’s Parish in Holy Trinity, AL. A graduate of the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome, he has pursued biblical studies at Catholic University, Washington, D.C., Hebrew University, Jerusalem and St. Georgen, Frankfurt am-Main, Germany. His studies in Spiritual Theology were at Gregorian University in Rome. Father Gary is a Missionary Servant of the Most Holy Trinity and has been a missionary in the United States, the Caribbean and Mexico.
Fee: $160 (includes a $40 non-refundable deposit)
JUNE 2012
THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD
FAMILY RETREAT
June 22-24
Registration – 7:00 p.m. (Eastern Time)
This is a fun-filled, faith-filled retreat for all the family! Children, parents, grandparents alike enter into songs, crafts, prayers, the Eucharist, meals, peer group sharing and games. We will join together for the theme of “The Lord is My Shepherd” based on Psalm 23. We encourage you to sign up early to insure a place.
Presenters: Sr. Florence Waters and her creative team along with the staff at Blessed Trinity Shrine Retreat. Sr. Florence is a member of our retreat staff here in Holy Trinity, AL. She is a teacher and has experience with children and youth of all ages. Sister is a Missionary Servant of the Most Blessed Trinity and brings experience with family retreats, youth ministry and related work with children.
Fee: $100 each adult and $50 each child (includes a $40.00 non-refundable deposit.) Children under four are free. (Additional donations are welcome to defray costs) For registration and important details, call 334-855-4474.
JULY 2012
WALKING WITH JESUS IN THE GOSPELS: COMMUNION OF LIFE AND MISSION OF LOVE
July 17-22
Beginning Tuesday with Supper at 6:00 p.m. (Eastern Time) Concluding on Sunday with Brunch
The Gospels make it clear that Jesus chose people to walk the hills of Galilee with him, to share his prayerful confidence in God and to learn and subsequently witness to his teaching about the nearness of the Kingdom of God. This style of life of the earliest disciples eventually became a model for each Christian as well as the development of various forms of religious life for men and women through the centuries. As diverse as our vocations in life might be, the essence of relationship with Christ remains the same, namely “to walk with Jesus” in a communion of life and then to be sent by the Spirit on a mission of love in the modern world in the diversity of our gifts and location. This retreat will invite us to continue our “walk with Jesus” with renewed enthusiasm as well as openness to new depth of relationship in our mission.
Presenter: Fr. Paul Zilonka, C.P. is a native of Baltimore, Maryland, and a member of the Congregation of the Passion (or Passionist Community). Fr. Zilonka’s biblical-pastoral ministry has included twenty-five years of seminary teaching, Bible study in parishes and many biblical retreats in the USA and abroad. He holds Roman post-graduate degrees from the Pontifical Biblical Institute (SSL) and the Gregorian University. He has taught in Boston, New York, Jamaica and at St. Mary’s Seminary and University at Roland Park in Baltimore. He is on the Provincial Council of his Community.
Fee: $350.00 (includes a $40.00 non-refundable deposit)
AUGUST- SEPTEMBER
BECOMING FREE TO CHOOSE: DISCERNMENT OF THE NEXT STEP
One-day Workshop Friday, August 31
10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. (Eastern Time)
Life is full of decisions that can lead either to losing life or to new life. How do you know whether you are listening to God or to your own fears and limitations? This workshop will explore the steps for discerning: becoming open to new dreams, hearing the real God in our consolation and desolation, healing our fears and limitations, risking new actions and evaluating our lived experience. Although everyone will profit who wishes to dream new dreams and become free to live them out, the workshop will especially benefit those who are facing decisions. There will be exercises to apply Ignatian discernment so that it becomes a practical tool for future discernment.
Fee: One-day workshop $50 (includes a $15 non-refundable deposit)
Presenter: Fr. Matthew Linn, S.J. See below.
HEALING OUR FUTURE
August 31-September 2
Registration 7:00 p.m. (Eastern Time)
When looking at the future what keeps me from really being happy? Perhaps it is anxiety over health, an ongoing difficult relationship or the loss of one’s dream. Maybe it is a bigger problem of surviving in a world with increasing violence, global warming and financial insecurity that makes retirement a nightmare. Whatever we fear in the future robs us of peace and health now. Those who look forward to the future actually live 7.6 years longer and become happy and healthy rather than sad and sick! This retreat based on the Linns’ new book, Healing the Future, will offer processes of healing to create a future giving new life rather than the future that is now taking our life and the life of our grandchildren.
Presenter: Fr. Matthew Linn, S.J.
Fr. Matt Linn is an internationally known author and retreat director. He has been involved in retreat and healing ministry for years, nationally and internationally, and has been with us annually for many years.
Fee: $160 (includes a $40 non-refundable deposit)
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We host several support-type group retreats in addition to our sponsored retreats. If March 23-25, 2012 Strength for the Journey Retreat for women facing stress, loss or a difficult disease. Call - Laura Henry, 334-750-0875 September 7-9, 2012 Rachel’s Vineyard Retreat (Post-Abortion Healing), Call- Sister Patricia Thompson, 706-569-0614 September 14-16, 2012 Overeaters Anonymous, call- Mari Jacklich, 770-617-5341 October
26-28, 2012
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