DAY & WEEKEND RETREATS




 To register, click "Register NOW" next to the retreat you'd like to attend OR call Shalom at 563.582.3592.
Then, mail your deposit (amount is listed in each retreat description) to:
Shalom Retreat Center, 1001 Davis St., Dubuque, IA 52001.
This will secure your reservation and be credited to the offering for the retreat.

 

FINDING GOD'S LIGHT IN NATURE:

Praying Through a Camera Lens
Saturday, May 22, 10:00am – 3:00pm [Register Now]
Presenters: Janet Haverkamp OSF, Phyllis Manternach OSF, and Eileen Miller OSF, Shalom Program Coordinator
Come away for a day of seeing and being present to the manifestation of God in nature! Let your eyes and your camera lens reverence the beauty God has created all around us. The day will include reflective input, examples of photography as prayer, time for taking photos on the luscious grounds surrounding Shalom, quiet time, and sharing your experience and photos. Bring your camera (and digital download cable if you have one), and some of your favorite photos. Wear comfortable clothes and walking shoes.
Offering: $30, includes lunch. Register/prepay by Wednesday, May 19.

 

THE CHRIST OF THE MIRACLE STORIES:
Discovering Jesus Downtown Retreat Day [Register Now]

Sunday, June 13, 2010, 9:00am - 3:00pm
Director: Dr. Wendy Cotter, CSJ

• Sister of St. Joseph, London, Ontario
• Tenured Professor of Scripture, Loyola University of Chicago
• Specialist in the synoptic Gospels & earliest sources of the Gospels
• Served 4 years in Peru missions
• PhD New Testament & MA Theology, University of St. Michael’s College,
Toronto; BA, Religious Studies, The University of Windsor, Ontario
• Author: The Christ of the Miracles Stories: Portrait Through Encounter
Many commentaries on Jesus miss the outrageous characters who ask for miracles, and what Jesus’ personal response to them was meant to teach the disciples about our attitudes to others. In this day of prayer, we will get up close to those encounters between Jesus and certain of those petitioners, and meet a new Jesus, one who has so much to say about living “downtown.”
Offering: $50. Includes 8:30am continental breakfast & lunch.

Registration deadline: June 10.

 

God, Jesus & Prayer in Today's Universe Story

RETREAT WEEKEND [Register Now]

Friday, November 19, 2010, 7:00pm – Sunday, November 21, 2010, 1:00pm

Director: Michael Morwood

- An engaging and challenging speaker on the need to reshape Christian imagination and thinking and the need to articulate and proclaim a spirituality that is inclusive of all people.
• Background in education, spirituality & adult faith education processes
• An Australian, presently living in South Bend, IN
• Author of several international best- selling & award-winning books:
God Is Near; Tomorrow’s Catholic; Praying a New Story; Is Jesus God? Finding Our Faith; From Sand to Solid Ground; and Children Praying a New Story

Christian tradition has always carried two “stories” about God. One story has told of human isolation from God because of a “Fall,” the “theological story” of Jesus who won access to God in heaven. The other story has been carried by the mystics and pointed to by theologians reminding us that “God” is an everywhere reality beyond all human concepts and images. Jesus is revealer of this Presence in which we live and move and have our being.

The goal of prayer is to deepen our awareness of this Presence and to challenges us to give the best possible human expression to it. We will use the contemporary “story” about our universe and our place in it to deepen awareness and appreciation of God’s universal presence, to reflect on the role of Jesus as revealer of this Presence always with us, and to examine the implications for prayer and liturgy.

COMMUTER: Offering: $115 (includes 2 lunches)

EARLY BIRD: $100, if registered by Oct. 19, 2010.
OVERNIGHT: Offering: $130 (includes 5 meals & overnight stay)

EARLY BIRD: $115, if registered by Oct. 19, 2010.

A $40 nonrefundable deposit secures your reservation and is credited to the offering for the retreat.




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