One Day Retreat

Dusting Off Our Prayers

     Does your prayer life need to be re-energized or re-vitalized? Are you looking for some new forms or ways to enter into relationship with the Divine? Joyce Rupp will offer insights about the theory and expression of prayer, as well as suggest creative approaches for individual and communal ritual. Besides describing creative ways to pray, she will lead the group through some of her suggestions. Come prepared to enter into experiences of prayer such as chant, body movement and guided visualization. This evening is based on her new resource book Out of the Ordinary, a collection of poems, prayers, and reflections.

Evening Conference

Skin-Shedding and Cave Dwelling  (The Process of Spiritual Transformation)

     We are always in the process of transformation. Like snakes shedding their skins, we are continually being asked to shed another layer of our security so that we can grow. Loss and good-byes have a way of demanding skin-shedding of us. Like good red wine, we also need some cave time so that our life experiences, especially our struggles and discontent, can age and mature in the wisdom of stillness and solitude. Joyce Rupp invites participants to look at life with new, hopeful eyes and to share a vision of spiritual energy that revitalizes and offers healing and wholeness by pondering the cycle of spiritual transformation.

(Recommended reading: Dear Heart, Come Home)

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Weekend Retreat

Come a Little Further, Come a Little Deeper

      This retreat is a time of deepening and strengthening one's relationship with the Holy One. It is a creative venture, an invitation to stretch and grow. It is a time to become clearer about one's purpose in life and to gain greater inner freedom to be one's true self. It is a call to increased awareness of our compassionate presence in the world. Each one's spiritual journey will be tended with respect and acceptance. All persons are welcome.

     Silence is a vital component of this retreat. The approach is holistic and will include creative rituals, conferences by Joyce Rupp, solitude, small group dialogue, song and dance. Come with an open mind and heart and enter into a beautiful opportunity for spiritual growth.

 

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