This retreat explores our capacity to adapt gracefully to change. Any living thing that stops changing has died. But our God, we believe, is with us in each moment as we navigate both the difficult and even the welcomed changes which bring new life into our hearts and souls. The retreat will provide opportunity for rest, reflection, interactive workshops, inspiring music, home-cooked meals, and free time. A buffet dinner is available on Friday night from 6:00-8:00 p.m. The retreat concludes with Sunday brunch at noon.

This retreat provides quiet space for couples to deepen their spiritual lives together. This retreat explores our capacity to adapt gracefully to change. Any living thing that stops changing has died. But our God, we believe, is with us in each moment as we navigate both the difficult and even the welcomed changes which bring new life into our hearts and souls. The retreat will provide opportunity for renewal of vows, rest, reflection, interactive workshops, inspiring music, home-cooked meals, and free time. A buffet dinner is available on Friday night from 6:00-8:00 p.m. The retreat concludes with Sunday brunch at noon.

This retreat explores our capacity to adapt gracefully to change. Any living thing that stops changing has died. But our God, we believe, is with us in each moment as we navigate both the difficult and even the welcomed changes which bring new life into our hearts and souls. The retreat will provide opportunity for rest, reflection, interactive workshops, inspiring music, home-cooked meals, and free time. A buffet dinner is available on Friday night from 6:00-8:00 p.m. The retreat concludes with Sunday brunch at noon.

During this 4 day retreat, participants will follow step by step instructions and complete an icon from start to finish. Over the past few years, thousands of people from a wide variety of spiritual traditions have found themselves drawn to the mysterious and prayerful images found in the icons of Eastern Christianity. We will discuss the development of iconography, the spirituality of creating an icon, and praying with icons along with a number of related issues. Aside from the materials provided for use during the retreat or workshop, additional materials and texts will be made available to further the participants’ pursuit of iconography. Each workshop session includes time for prayer and a blessing of the icons created during our time together. No prior experience is required, all skill levels are welcome.

Rev. Peter Pearson has been a student of iconography for over forty years. He studied under Russian iconographer Dr. Nina Bouroff in Bethesda, Maryland and studied with Philip Zimmerman at the Saint John of Damascus Academy of Sacred Arts. Peter has created hundreds of icons for private collectors, churches and other institutions throughout the world. He is the author of “A Brush with God” and “Another Brush with God.” His passion for this art is obvious and highly infectious.

This retreat explores our capacity to adapt gracefully to change. Any living thing that stops changing has died. But our God, we believe, is with us in each moment as we navigate both the difficult and even the welcomed changes which bring new life into our hearts and souls. The retreat will provide opportunity for rest, reflection, interactive workshops, inspiring music, home-cooked meals, and free time. A buffet dinner is available on Friday night from 6:00-8:00 p.m. The retreat concludes with Sunday brunch at noon.

This program introduces a more enlightened way to approach exercise; expanding beyond the physical to include spiritual, environmental, emotional, intellectual, and social aspects. In addition, the seven attitudes of mindfulness as they relate to movement will be explored. Participants will be guided through a carefully sequenced skill building process which will empower them to take charge of their health, their bodies, and their lives. Drawing on over 20 years of experience as a personal fitness trainer and wellness coach, Cheryl Jones-Reardon will introduce the practices and techniques from her book/CD Mindful Exercise. The learning environment will be compassionate, relaxed, and friendly. Participants will learn through an elegant balance of lecture, facilitated group discussion, movement, and meditation. In addition, participants will do in class assignments related to Cheryl’s Mindful Living & Mastering Self-Care Workbook.

Cheryl Jones-Reardon holds a Master’s Degree in Exercise Science from the University of Connecticut and a Certificate in Spirituality from Saint Joseph College. She has completed extensive training in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Cheryl is a lecturer in the Department of Mathematics, Science, and Health Careers at Manchester Community College. She is the author of Mindful Exercise and is the owner/director of The Mindful Path. Visit her at www.themindfulpath.com.

This weekend retreat is for those who live with a form of depression and/or any emotion mood disorder, who’ve fallen out of love with themselves into the darkness of loneliness, fear, guilt, and anger beyond measure, and for those who care about someone who has. This is a retreat for those who know what it is to be pushed down by depression and, hopefully, lifted up again by God’s Amazing, Attentive, Accepting, Assuring, and Amusing Grace. A buffet dinner is available on Friday night from 6:00-8:00 p.m. The retreat concludes with Sunday brunch at noon.

Fr. John Powers, C.P. is a Passionist Pilgrim Preacher and spiritual storyteller. He lives every day with the physical, emotional and spiritual illness of depression. Through the Twelve Steps of “Depression Anonymous,” Fr. John has found a way to recover and has discovered a new way of living. Ordained in 1977, he is the author of six books for adults and two for children. He has served as a co-director, producer and host of the Passionist Radio & TV Ministry in Springfield, Massachusetts, Director of Calvary Spiritual Center and Rector of Passionist Communities in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts and Bronx, New York.

James Carroll will discuss his latest book, Practicing Catholic and re-examine what it means to be Catholic in the world today. He will explore the necessity for the Church’s ongoing reform in light of the sexual abuse crisis.

James Carroll is a Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence at Suffolk University, a columnist for the Boston Globe, and a regular contributor to The Daily Beast. In 1974 Carroll was Playwright-in-Residence at the Berkshire Theater Festival in Stockbridge, MA. In 1976 he published his first novel, Madonna Red, which was translated into seven languages. Since then he has published nine additional novels, including the New York Times bestsellers Mortal Friends (1978), Family Trade (1982), and Prince of Peace (1984). His novels The City Below (1994) and Secret Father (2003) were named Notable Books of the Year by the New York Times. Carroll’s essays and articles have appeared in The New Yorker, Daedalus, and other publications. His op-ed page column has run weekly in the Boston Globe since 1992. Carroll’s memoir, An American Requiem: God, My Father, and the War that Came Between Us, received the 1996 National Book Award in nonfiction and other awards. His book Constantine’s Sword: The Church and the Jews: A History, published in 2001, was a New York Times bestseller and was honored as one of the Best Books of 2001 by the Los Angeles Times, the Christian Science Monitor, and others.

James Carroll will discuss his latest book, Practicing Catholic and re-examine what it means to be Catholic in the world today. He will explore the necessity for the Church’s ongoing reform in light of the sexual abuse crisis.

James Carroll is a Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence at Suffolk University, a columnist for the Boston Globe, and a regular contributor to The Daily Beast. In 1974 Carroll was Playwright-in-Residence at the Berkshire Theater Festival in Stockbridge, MA. In 1976 he published his first novel, Madonna Red, which was translated into seven languages. Since then he has published nine additional novels, including the New York Times bestsellers Mortal Friends (1978), Family Trade (1982), and Prince of Peace (1984). His novels The City Below (1994) and Secret Father (2003) were named Notable Books of the Year by the New York Times. Carroll’s essays and articles have appeared in The New Yorker, Daedalus, and other publications. His op-ed page column has run weekly in the Boston Globe since 1992. Carroll’s memoir, An American Requiem: God, My Father, and the War that Came Between Us, received the 1996 National Book Award in nonfiction and other awards. His book Constantine’s Sword: The Church and the Jews: A History, published in 2001, was a New York Times bestseller and was honored as one of the Best Books of 2001 by the Los Angeles Times, the Christian Science Monitor, and others.

This retreat explores our capacity to adapt gracefully to change. Any living thing that stops changing has died. But our God, we believe, is with us in each moment as we navigate both the difficult and even the welcomed changes which bring new life into our hearts and souls. The retreat will provide opportunity for rest, reflection, interactive workshops, inspiring music, home-cooked meals, and free time. A buffet dinner is available on Friday night from 6:00-8:00 p.m. The retreat concludes with Sunday brunch at noon.

This retreat day deals with issues facing a person following the death of a loved one when that person feels ready to look at accepting loss, facing reality, anger, and acceptance. Input, quiet time and sharing with others going though similar experiences can put things in perspective and bring about healing and peace of mind and heart.

Sr. Cathleen Ryan, O.P. is a member of the Dominican Sisters of Peace. A New Yorker by birth, she has been involved in education, pastoral and bereavement ministries in Ohio, New York and Connecticut and currently serves at Siena Learning Center in New Britain where English is taught as a Second Language to Adults. These issues are adapted from her Bereavement Program called AS I LIVE.

This silent retreat for both men and women offers an opportunity to grow closer to God through a deeper contemplative prayer life, strengthened by the presence of others. The retreat is open to persons of all religious and non-religious affiliations; it includes zazen (seated meditation), kinhin (walking meditation), chanting, dharma talks and daisan (one on one interviews with the teachers) and beginners’ instruction. Easy on and off shoes are recommended. Dinner is on Friday evening from 6:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m. Mandatory beginners’ instruction at 7:00 p.m. on Friday evening.

Fr. Robert Kennedy, S.J., is a Jesuit priest and Zen teacher in the White Plum lineage. He studied with Yamada Roshi in Kamakura, Japan, with Maezumi Roshi in Los Angeles, and with Glassman Roshi in New York. Glassman Roshi installed Kennedy as sensei in 1991 and conferred Inka (his final seal of approval) in 1997, making him a roshi (master). Kennedy Roshi is the author of Zen Gifts to Christians and Zen Spirit, Christian Spirit.

At Holy Family, we invite people in recovery into a peaceful atmosphere where you can rest, renew your spiritual life, and deepen sobriety. Our Matt Talbot weekends are open to ALL people, from ALL backgrounds, regardless of whether or not you are a member of a church. The retreat begins on Friday with a buffet dinner from 6:00-8:00 p.m. and concludes on Sunday around 11 a.m.

Words are an artistic medium close at hand. They invite you and me to be co-creators. Many spiritual writers describe our soul as our essential wildness. This Wild With Words (WWW) writing retreat will explore spiritual practices in general through a particular writing practice. WWW taps creative expression, wholeness and wellbeing, community building, and intentional spiritual rhythms. WWW provides opportunities to surrender to the leading of your pen, to remain rooted in the present moment, to pay attention to God’s presence, and to entertain surprise and spontaneity. A buffet dinner is available on Friday night from 6:00-8:00 p.m. The retreat concludes with Sunday brunch at noon.

Rev. Martha Brunell has been a pastor, teacher, chaplain, and writer in the United Church of Christ for over 30 years. Her journey has wound its way into urban churches, interim ministry, non-profit administration, domestic violence, end of life care, community education, seminary classrooms, and spiritual formation. Wild With Words is one aspect of the ministry she calls Bricolage. Bricolage is a mosaic of spiritual programs, practices, rituals, and resources for piecing together beauty and meaning. Martha’s M.Div. is from Andover Newton (1978) and her D.Min. in preaching is from Aquinas Institute (2002). She loves to read, write, hike, cook, travel, and compose life with all sorts of people. And she finds great joy in her two young adult daughters. She is currently the pastor of Bethlehem United Church of Christ in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

At Holy Family, we invite people in recovery into a peaceful atmosphere where you can rest, renew your spiritual life, and deepen sobriety. Our Matt Talbot weekends are open to ALL people, from ALL backgrounds, regardless of whether or not you are a member of a church. The retreat begins on Friday with a buffet dinner from 6:00-8:00 p.m. and concludes on Sunday around 11 a.m.

How can we experience God in the midst of daily life with all its busyness, activity, and responsibility? This retreat will explore the practice of Centering Prayer as a contemplative practice of silence. While silence in community is observed a good portion of each day, there are opportunities for questions and discussion. The retreat will provide an opportunity for intensive Centering Prayer and Lectio Divina. Beginners welcome. A buffet dinner is available on Friday night from 6:00-8:00 p.m. The retreat concludes with Sunday brunch at noon.

Gail Fitzpatrick-Hopler is a founding member and the current president of Contemplative Outreach, Ltd. Currently, she along with Fr. Carl Arico and others, comprise the Gift Committee, which is dedicated to ensuring the legacy of Fr. Thomas Keating. Gail is a mother, grandmother and had a private psychotherapy practice from 1982-1992, all at a time when she was engaging more deeply in the practice of Centering Prayer and laying the foundations for what would become the worldwide community of Contemplative Outreach. She understands the difficulties of balancing the activities of an ordinary life while taking the time each day to sit in Centering Prayer which has had amazing effects in her daily routines of life.

Most Catholics have been taught that if they keep the rules and precepts of the Church as they were taught in the Baltimore Catechism we could be pretty certain of getting into heaven. The criteria established by Jesus in the Gospels goes beyond rule following. What we are looking for is a Power greater from which we can live and draw strength.

Fr. Vincent Youngberg, C.P. attended a retreat at Holy Family in the late 1950’s and was inspired to become a Passionist. He was ordained in 1967 and holds a Master’s Degree in Human Development. After his tenure as retreat director at Holy Family, he went on to conduct missions and retreats in Europe, Africa, the Philippines, the West Indies and throughout the United States. His preaching ministry continues to touch countless hearts and minds.

Most Catholics have been taught that if they keep the rules and precepts of the Church as they were taught in the Baltimore Catechism we could be pretty certain of getting into heaven. The criteria established by Jesus in the Gospels goes beyond rule following. What we are looking for is a Power greater from which we can live and draw strength.

Fr. Vincent Youngberg, C.P. attended a retreat at Holy Family in the late 1950’s and was inspired to become a Passionist. He was ordained in 1967 and holds a Master’s Degree in Human Development. After his tenure as retreat director at Holy Family, he went on to conduct missions and retreats in Europe, Africa, the Philippines, the West Indies and throughout the United States. His preaching ministry continues to touch countless hearts and minds.

At Holy Family, we invite people in recovery into a peaceful atmosphere where you can rest, renew your spiritual life, and deepen sobriety. Our Matt Talbot weekends are open to ALL people, from ALL backgrounds, regardless of whether or not you are a member of a church. The retreat begins on Friday with a buffet dinner from 6:00-8:00 p.m. and concludes on Sunday around 11:00 a.m.

This retreat day will be an opportunity to take a break in our busy lives and slow down in Advent. The day will have a contemplative spirit, built around an icon of the Virgin and Child painted by Brother Michael. There will be a presentation on praying with and meditating with icons. There will be presentations, group discussion, free time, and periods of prayer before the icon.

Michael Moran, C.P. is a Passionist Brother of the Eastern Province of the Passionist Congregation. He professed his vows in 1974, and has done a wide variety of ministries, among them the preaching of retreats, hospital ministry and work as a visual artist. He currently resides at the Passionist Residence in Riverdale, New York, where he has his studio. His art can be seen on his website www.angelstudiostore.com.

Celebrate the joy and beauty of this sacred season at Holy Family. Our concert features choir, chamber choir, instrumentalists, handbell choir, soloists and children’s choir. Reception to follow.

Celebrate the joy and beauty of this sacred season at Holy Family. Our concert features choir, chamber choir, instrumentalists, handbell choir, soloists and children’s choir. Reception to follow.

This weekend is designed to empower high school students to become moral leaders, and at the same time deepen thier spirituality and connection to Jesus Christ. Workshops and presentations will nourish and strengthen teens to share their faith with others as they become Christian leaders in our world.

The retreat opens on Friday at 8 p.m. and concludes with Mass at 11:00 a.m. on Sunday.

Contact Theresa Wiss at 860.760.9712 or twiss@cpprov.org