Weekend with Year One Retreats
Join the regular students and staff of Kairos: School of Spiritual Formation for your own weekend retreat that offers a unique opportunity to participate in the life of the school, while nurturing your own spirit with personal time for reflection, journaling, and prayer.
On Saturday, you are invited to participate in a primary teaching session with the Year One students. Optional Group sessions offering a variety of prayer forms, such as Centering Prayer and Lectio Divina, and an opportunity to meet with a spiritual director round out the possibilities for your retreat. Retreats begin at 5:00 p.m. on Friday and conclude at 1:00 pm on Sunday.
Retreat Information/Registration
Details on the 2011- 2012 retreats including dates, retreat themes and registration information are listed below.
Location: Jesuit Center for Spiritual Growth, 501 N Church Rd., Wernersville PA
Cost
The full weekend retreat is $215/weekend room and board.
Saturday only is $65 for the day. Lunch is provided.
Inspiration: A Fresh Encounter with God's Word
September 30 - October 2, 2011
with Rev. Dr. Terry & Deb Brensinger
While many people enjoy reading the Bible and learn a great deal from doing so, others find it difficult, uphelpful or even offensive. During our time together, we will (1) discuss various reasons why people struggle reading the Bible; (2) explore what the Bible is and what function it plays in the spiritual life; and (3) consider selected biblical texts and ways to read them.
Register by September 23/later if space is available
Contemplative Life & Prayer: Through the Eyes of the Mystics
November 4 -6, 2011
with Sr. Marcy Springer
We all desire to live more contemplatively. God wants that for us too. How are we to follow this call in our distracted and overly busy lives? Is it even possible to "keep an eye" on God, as God "keeps an eye" on us? The mystics teach us and convience us that there is a mystic in each of us that is called and capable of a contemplative life even in this world. Growth in contemplation is more God's doing than ours. The God who called the mystics calls us too. This retreat will help us to respond to God's invitation, not to pray as the mystics pray, but as the mystic within each one of us prays.
Register by October 21
Noticing God's Nudges
January 6-8, 2012
with Nancy Bieber
Spiritual discernment is the practice of listening and responding to God as we find our way through life. During this day of retreat, we will reflect on how we can better notice and respond to God’s nudges as we make decisions for our lives. Drawing from Nancy Bieber’s book Decision Making & Spiritual Discernment The Sacred Art of Finding Our Way, we will consider ways of seeing ourselves and our choices more clearly, of knowing when to take the next steps and when to wait.The rhythm of the day includes individual retreat time as well as group discussion. We will learn practical exercises to aid our attentiveness to God and to take steps into decision making You do not need to be facing a major decision to participate: wise shaping of our lives constantly calls us to wise discernment.
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Register by December 23/later if space is available
How Do I Know It’s You Speaking God
February 3-5, 2012
with Barry Young
Is that you, God, or is it just me? How can I truly recognize God speaking? Does God really speak to me personally?
God longs to reveal God's hopes and desires for us. Our main task is to be as equally present to God as God is to us so that we can begin to recognize that voice we so long to hear and know as God. Participate in this primary teaching session with Kairos Spiritual Formation Year One students. Be a part of the optional sessions which include a variety of prayer forms, such as Centering Prayer and Lectio Divina, and an opportunity to meet with a spiritual director.
Participate in this primary teaching session with Kairos Spiritual
Formation Year One students. Be a part of the optional sessions which
include a variety of prayer forms, such as Centering Prayer and Lectio
Divina, and an opportunity to meet with a spiritual director.
Register by January 20, 2012/later if space is available
Guided Silent Retreat
March 2-4, 2012
Register by February 18, 2011/later if space is available
In the Image of God: Beauty & Creativity
March 30 - April 1, 2012
with Richard Weaver
Beauty and creativity (and, of course, love) mark us as God's own children. On this retreat day we will celebrate these gifts of God to us and to our world.
"No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty!" - John Muir
Register by March 16, 2012/later if space is available
A Contemplative Heart Engages the World
May 4-6, 2012
This day of reflection focuses contemplative of awareness on God’s presence in the context of our times. When we look deeply at the reality of both beauty and pain, we discover that God is inviting us to respond with gratitude and compassion. We will reflect on ways of responding that sustain us through the continuous process of receiving and giving.
with Susan Classen
Register by April 20, 2012/later if space is available