Join us for a day of quiet preparation for Lent.
Morning Prayer at 8:00. Retreat begins at 9:00 and ends at 3:00
The retreat will be led by Naomi Wenger on the topic: “Light for the Blind.” Using the text of John 9 as the backdrop for our meditations, we will probe the condition of “blindness” – spiritual, social, and emotional. Various types of blindness are treated in this story of the healing of the man born blind. There will be significant time for journaling your discoveries, so bring yours along.
Suggested donation for the day retreat with lunch: $50.
Take a day for quiet meditation with others during Lent. This retreat will focus on several practices that can foster simplicity and eliminate anxiety in our lives. Jesus’ gentle command, “Do not be anxious,” will form the background for releasing complexities that can make our lives seem frantic.
The retreat is from 9:00 – 3:00 and includes lunch.
Leader: Naomi Wenger
Take a day for quiet meditation with others during Lent. This retreat will focus on several practices that can foster simplicity and eliminate anxiety in our lives. Jesus’ gentle command, “Do not be anxious,” will form the background for releasing complexities that can make our lives seem frantic.
The retreat is from 9:00 – 3:00 and includes lunch.
Leader: Naomi Wenger
Vera Smucker Shenk will led this retreat looking at The Transfiguration story.
This retreat has been re-scheduled from 2015.
The spiritual practice of “sacred reading” (Lectio Divina) enables us to continually turn our minds to God, paying attention to God’s presence in our daily lives. This retreat will explore, through teaching and practice, how we can turn our hearts and minds to God using our different faculties to “read” the world and our selves. We will practice Lectio Divina (Friday evening), Hearing Divina (Saturday morning), and Visio Divina (Saturday afternoon).
This retreat will be led by Kevin Driedger and June Mears Driedger.
Please register by May 20, 2016.
We cultivate an expectancy during Advent. We await the coming of the Christ, both in our memories, as a baby, and in our hopes, as the one who will make the world whole. The psalmist writes, “for you I wait all the day long” (Psalm 25:5b). Come wait with us as we move through four stages of watchfulness: resting, remembering, restoring, and realizing.
There is time for both personal reflection and group connection in the retreat schedule.
Retreat Leader: Naomi Wenger
We cultivate an expectancy during Advent. We await the coming of the Christ, both in our memories, as a baby, and in our hopes, as the one who will make the world whole. The psalmist writes, “for you I wait all the day long” (Psalm 25:5b). Come wait with us as we move through four stages of watchfulness: resting, remembering, restoring, and realizing.
There is time for both personal reflection and group connection in the retreat schedule.
Retreat Leader: Naomi Wenger
Ignatius of Loyola gave us a tremendous resource in the Spiritual Exercises. We will explore together some of the riches that come to us from this practice.
Leader: Naomi Wenger
Time: 5 pm, Friday, November 6 – 4 pm, Saturday, November 7.
Register by: October 15
This retreat is part of a series for those interested in pursuing “The Hermitage Way.” One of the practices of The Way is to “Pursue simple living: a lifestyle that includes an effort to live with only what is needed and sharing what one has with others as an act of generosity or hospitality.”
Biff Weidman and Margie Pfeil will lead this retreat.
This retreat is given without cost to followers of The Hermitage Way. Other interested persons should consider a donation of $50 for the retreat.
Register by: September 15
