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2013 RETREATS AT A GLANCE

(Note: Day retreats in red; Spanish retreats in italics)

 

JANUARY

Dec 31-2         Mary as Mother of the Church and Model of Discipleship

4-6                   Spiritual Passages, the Seasons of Life, and the Celebration of Light

12                     Scarf without Beginning and without End

18-21               Mid-Winter Dance Workshop


25-27               Spirituality and Contemporary Cinema

28-Feb 1         Priests’ Retreat

 

 

FEBRUARY


12-15               Learn from the Desert Silence and Solitude

15-17               Lenten Retreat

18-20               Praying the Hours: Liturgical Prayer as an Individual Spiritual Discipline

25-Mar 1        Priests’ Retreat

 

 

MARCH

4-8                   Lenten Light from the East

28-31               Sacred Triduum

 

 

APRIL

5-7                    Leadership and the Rule of Benedict

22-24               Dreams and Spiritual Growth

26-28               My Life—Riddle or Parable?  A Mystery to be Unfolded

 

 

MAY

4                      Pentecost Dance Workshop

6-9                   Spring Landscape Painting

13-17               Priests’ Retreat

17-19               Pentecost Retreat

25                    The Faithful Dove Flies against the Wind: A Visit with Br. Peter

29-31               Conversatio Morum:  For Monks Only?

31-Jun 2         Translucent Matter: Praying Sacramentally

 

 

JUNE

1                       Spinning a Yarn

7-9                   Catholic Bioethics I: Christ at the Beginning of Life

19-21               Discernment in Daily Life

21-23               Spirituality and Contemporary Cinema

22                    Solamente la Jornada está Escrita no el Destino

28-30               Eastern Saints Every Westerner Should Know

 

 

JULY

5-7                   Catholic Bioethics II: Christ at the End of Life

8-12                 Benedictine Spirituality for the Laity: St. Benedict’s Teaching on Humility

12-14               Only Say the Word…

15-17               Sacred Heart of Transformation: A Practicum for Healing

26-28               A Power Greater Than Ourselves: Reflections on Twelve-Step Spirituality

31-Aug 2         Innerwork: Transformation of the Self in God

 

 

AUGUST      

2-4                   Praying in the Circle of St. John

5-7                   Prayer as Poetry

9-11                  Matrimonios Conforme al Corazon de Dios

16-18               All Generations Shall Call Me Blessed

20-23               The Word as Friend of the Soul: The Spirituality of Reading as the Pursuit of Wisdom and as an Act of Prayer

23-25               Marriage: A Means to Achieving Intimacy and Wholeness

24                     Listen…and Incline the Ear of Your Heart I

 

 

SEPTEMBER

13-15               Lectio Divina: The Monastic Art of Praying the Scriptures

20-22               Celtic Spirituality: A Journey into Sacred Living

21                    Analizando las Pérdidas de Nuestra Vida

27-29               And Death Put Down His Book:  A Weekend with the Poetry of W.H. Auden

 

 

OCTOBER

4-6                   Nouwen and the Integrated Journey

12                     Listen…and Incline the Ear of Your Heart II

14-18               Feasting and Fasting: A Hands-On Cooking Workshop/Retreat

30-Nov 1         The Cloud of Witnesses: The Communion of Saints and Life in the Body of Christ

 

 

NOVEMBER

Nov 4-7           Autumn Landscape Painting

15-17               Christianity and Culture:  An Uneasy Dynamism

18-22               Priests’ Retreat

22-24               Psalmody and Contemplation

27-29               Thanksgiving at Valyermo

29-Dec 1         Advent Retreat

 

 

DECEMBER

14                    Advent/Christmas Dance Workshop

20-22              Veni, Veni, Emmanuel: Silent Retreat

24-26                   Christmas at Valyermo

27-29              The Natures are Renewed