Scheduled Events at Marillac Center

Marillac Center offers brief retreats as well as preached, guided and directed retreats of six-eight days. Individual retreats will be accommodated if requested; call for information.

Spiritual Direction
Spiritual direction provides an opportunity to nurture one’s relationship with God through individual guidance. Spiritual direction is a privileged time and place to reflect with another about one’s relationship with God. The focus of spiritual direction is one’s life with God as it is lived out in daily life experiences. Suggested offering is $35 per session. Sister Patricia Sullivan is a team member who is available for spiritual direction. Sister Karen Guth is also available and can be reached at (913) 680-0939.

(NOTE: The suggested donation for a preached, guided and directed retreat is $60/day which includes room, board and the retreat fee. A $50 non-refundable deposit will hold your reservation for a retreat)

The name, JOURNEY TO INNER FREEDOM, reflects the goal of writing from the quiet center: to uncover within ourselves an inner freedom which we did not know we possess. As we discover the hidden resources deep within us, we also find ways to free ourselves of the chains of past destructive behaviors and to learn from the “mistakes” of life. We begin to see that all the material of our life is a rich, exciting learning ground and fertile soil for new, creative works. As this occurs we find ourselves more and more inwardly free and truly ourselves. By writing from the Quiet Center we are able to follow our Inner Guidance and do the deep inner work our lives require.

The Retreat is divided into two parts:

1: Entering the Quiet: July 27-29
2: Deepening in the Quiet: 30-Aug. 1
Options for Participants
Participants may chose to take only Part 1. However, only those who take Part 1 may also take Part 2.
Schedule

Tuesday, July 29
Same as Monday
6 PM: End of Part I; participants enrolled for only this part leave.

Friday, August 1 9 AM-1 PM: Session
Optional evening sessions Monday through Thursday, 7:30-9 PM, will focus on Mandalas.

Retreat Fees: (does not include meals)
$600 Entire Retreat with overnight accommodations. (Sharing room:$550 each) $300 Part 1 only with overnight accommodations.(Sharing room: $280 each)
$400 Commuter’s fee for entire retreat.
$210 Commuter’s fee for Part 1.

Please send deposit of $150 by July 1 to:
Faye Schwelitz
3594 Sequoia Dr.
Beavercreek, OH 45431

Make checks payable to: Faye Schwelitz
For any questions or concerns call 937-431-8281 or e-mail FSchwelitz@aol.com

Living in Full Swing
August 5th and November 6th, 2008 - Maximize Your Mind/Body/Spirit Performance With Purposeful Risk Taking - Cathy Newton and Sister Noreen Walter
Synopsis: What if you could…welcome change?…positively influence other people?...create good health?...maintain your integrity?...and grow spiritually? Achievement of these competencies—Innovation, Influence, Immediacy, Integrity and Inspiration—requires some RISK. A negative view of risk can put blinders on your personal growth. Get a power charge to propel you “back in the swing” of purposeful risk taking to improve your MIND, BODY and SPIRIT. Learn practical strategies for maintaining habits that contribute to rather than compromise your performance and well being. Risk it!

Open a copy of the brochure for this day!

Target Audience: This seminar is open to anyone who is interested in self-improvement or development but is especially targeting RNs, other nursing and allied health staff and other persons in service-oriented professions.
Objectives:
Upon completion of this program, the participant will be able to:
1) Describe purposeful risk taking.

2) Identify meaningful strategies to develop the competencies of innovation, influence, immediacy, integrity and inspiration.

3) Examine the relationship between caring for self and maximizing mind, body, spirit performance as well as quality of service to others.

Cost: $40.00. Fee includes lunch and Cathy Newton’s book, Living in Full Swing (2007). Payment can be made at the door.

Registration Deadline: August 1 for August 5th day
November 1 for November 6th day
Kansas State Board of Nursing approves Providence Medical Center as a provider of continuing nursing education. This course offering is approved for 6 contact hour credits applicable for RN re-licensure. (Kansas State Board of Nursing Approved Provider #LT054-1127).

Joyce Rupp, OSM Becoming a Compassionate Presence
October 25, 2008 9:00 to 3:30
The compassionate heart is one that is in deep communion with all of creation. Compassion includes awareness, attitude, and action. This central quality of Christ weds us to each part of the cosmos and challenges us to enter deeply into the suffering of this realm. A deeper and clearer look at compassion teaches and inspires us in accompanying the hurting ones of our personal lives and of our world. Compassion also teaches us how to give ourselves understanding and kindness when we are in the midst of pain and struggle.

Joyce will offer a view of compassion from Christianity and other spiritual and literary sources, as well as her own lived experience. This day will provide inspiration and encouragement. It will offer hope and comfort to those who are hurting. The retreat will also seek to spiritually re-energize those who accompany others who experience life’s difficulties. This day will also nudge all participants to be active sparks of compassion.

             9:00         Registration and coffee
             9:30         Opening prayer and morning session
            12:00         Lunch
              1:00         Afternoon session
              3:30       Closing
                            The day will end by 4:00 p.m.

Cost of the day is $40 and includes lunch. Please pre-pay for this event. Scholarships are available. Contact Marillac Center for more information.

Register early as space is limited. Register by October 15th, after October 15th, cost is $50. We are asking participants to pay prior to the event.

2008 Preached Retreats
June 3-12, 2008 - Father Jim Barnett, OP
Encountering the Word, Doing Social Ministry
The readings of the Eucharist are sometimes the only contact we have with the Scriptures day by day, week by week. They contain riches that are crucial to our lives of peace and justice, compassion, relationships and service. The retreat will focus on the daily Word and how it pertains to the social concerns in our world.

Jim Barnett, OP, is presently campus minister and associate pastor at St. Thomas Aquinas Parish at Purdue University in West Lafayette, IN. Ordained in 1965 he has been greatly influenced by the Church’s strong teaching on justice and peace and by the fourteen years he was a missionary in El Salvador and Honduras. His ministries include preaching retreats and parish missions, serving as Master of Novices, as a jail chaplain, ministering with Marriage Encounter. A cancer survivor, he co-founded and lived for four years at a Dominican ashram to recapture the charism of contemplation. Presently he lives part-time there.

July 6-13, 2008 - Father Harry Cain, SJ
Reclaiming our Hope in God
“We, the Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth, who love the poor, hear a cry and feel an urgency in these times to unite our voices and to speak out, to live and move as women of HOPE.” The emphases in the conferences will be on the growth of hope in our hearts as we reflect on the encounter of Jesus with a number of persons in the Sacred Scripture. Wit, wisdom and a laugh or two are all promised .

Harry Cain, SJ, resides at Campion Renewal Center in Weston, MA and since his ordination in 1963 has been active in retreats, Renewal programs and spiritual direction for priests, sisters, and laity in the United States, Canada and other countries. He also gives parish missions and renewal programs in conjunction with the staff at Concordia in New Hampshire. He has served on the staff of St. Joseph Center in Charleston, Campion Renewal Center in Weston, and with the Movement for a Better World and has given several preached and directed retreats here. His preaching style is noted for wit, wisdom, and a dash of humor

2008 Guided Retreats
June 19-26, 2008 Sister Carol Marozzi, SSJ
Listening to the Music of Creation: Learning the Dance of the Universe
Through prose, poetry and scripture, as well as through the wonders of creation, retreatants will be encouraged to experience a sense of unity with all of life and be challenged to take greater responsibility to care for the earth and all that inhabits our planet. In being drawn to the Divine, we are drawn to the One who is the source of all that is and we are brought into greater enjoyment and appreciation of life and its goodness. Please bring a bible, journal and writings that speak of global spirituality. Please come with a heart open to the possibility to falling in love again with creation and the Creator. Retreat will include input, prayer and sharing of insights.

This retreat will emphasize the need for a contemplative spirituality that includes how all of one's life and prayer is mystical. Daily input on the mystical aspects of life and daily periods of experiencing the mysticism of the breath, the mysticism of walking, and the mystical aspect of simply resting in God will afford retreatants ample opportunity to deepen their relationship with God. The wishes of those participating will help determine the number of periods of sitting and walking, privately or as a group.

Retreatants will be invited to share with the director their vision for this special time. Begin now praying for the graces that all in the group will need to be blessed beyond what they can dream or imagine.

Click here to register online for any of the Guided Retreats

2008 Directed Retreats
Eight Day or Six Day directed retreats:
January 10-19 or 12-19           Sr. Karen Guth, SCL
January 10-19 or 12-19           Sr. Patricia Sullivan, SCL
June 3-12 or June 3-10           Sr. Karen Guth, SCL
June 3-12 or June 3-10           Sr. Patricia Sullivan, SCL
June 3-12                              Sr. Dominique Long, SCL    This retreat filled.
June 3-12                              Sr. Marilyn Peot, CSJ       This retreat filled.
June 17-26                            Fr. Jim Costello, SJ
June 17-26 or June 19-26      Sr. Karen Guth, SCL
June 17-26                            Sr. Dominique Long, SCL
July 6-13                              Sr. Karen Guth, SCL
July 6-13                              Sr. Patricia Sullivan, SCL
Oct. 12-21                              Fr. Tom Nelson, CM
Oct. 12-21                              Sr. Dominique Long, SCL
Oct. 12-21                              Sr. Marilyn Peot, CSJ
Oct. 12-21 or Oct. 12-19          Sr. Karen Guth, SCL

Sisters of Charity Nancy Bauman, Rosalie Curtin, Karen Guth, Patricia Sullivan and Kathleen Wood will direct individuals upon request as time allows, the year round.

DIRECTED RETREAT DIRECTORS

Nancy Bauman, SCL, presently serving as Community Councillor, has been involved in spiritual direction and retreats since 1990. After attending the Religious Institute of Formation in St. Louis, she served as Initial Formation director. Previously, she was teacher and administrator in elementary schools.

Jim Costello, SJ, is associate pastor at the College Church in St. Louis. For ten years he was engaged in full-time retreat work and spiritual direction at Sacred Heart Retreat House in Sedalia, CO. Ordained in 1966, he has also served as pastor, minister to priests in the diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph, hospital chaplain and campus minister.

Rosalie Curtin, SCL, teaches in the Pastoral Ministry Department at the University of Saint Mary after serving many years as a Pastoral Minister in various parishes around Kansas City. Her focus has been on the RCIA and adult education. Prior to that she served as Formation Director and as a Community Councilor. Her retreat ministry began following a year of study in the Institute of Religious Formation in the mid 1980s.

Karen Guth, SCL, is actively involved in spiritual direction and retreat ministry and has facilitated workshops with women’s groups. Karen has an M.A. in Theology with emphasis in spirituality. She completed the Vincentian Spiritual Directors Program in Denver in 1998. She previously taught in Catholic schools and coordinated Making Choices, a program which trained women volunteers to mentor incarcerated women.

Dominique Long, SCL, was on the staff of the Focus on Leadership Program for 25 years working in the areas of prayer, retreat direction, spiritual direction, liturgy, and charism. She has directed many different kinds of retreats varying in length up to 30 days.

Tom Nelson, CM, lives in Denver, Colorado where he is chaplain for the Colorado Vincentian Volunteers, co-ordinates the Catholic Worker Soup Kitchen, ministers to the Native American Community. He also serves as adjunct faculty at the Naropa University in Boulder, and directs 8 and 30-Day retreats nationally and internationally.

Marilyn Peot, CSJ, has been in full-time spiritual ministry since 1972. Trained in the art of listening, discernment and spiritual development, she has done extensive study in psychological and emotional development and in varied spiritualities, Scripture, and the Ignatian Exercises. In addition to retreat work and spiritual direction she has initiated ongoing groups for prayer, Scripture study and inner healing.

Patricia Sullivan, SCL, the Assistant Director of Marillac Center, has a Master’s Degree in Christian Spirituality from Creighton University. Since 1988 she has been active in giving retreats, ongoing spiritual direction, days of prayer, weekend retreats and presentations on various aspects of the spiritual life. She has also served as Spiritual Formation Director in the Permanent Deacon Formation Program in the Diocese of Helena, Spiritual Life Coordinator at St. Mary Parish there, and Pastoral Administrator of several parishes.

Kathleen Wood, SCL teaches Theology at St. Mary College and is the Director of the Pastoral Ministry program there. Since her training in spirituality and formation at St. Louis University she has served in SCL formation, taught spirituality courses and given retreats and spiritual direction. She received her Master's degree in theology with a concentration in Scripture at Boston College.

FEES FOR RETREATS: Retreat fee, room and board is $60 per day. $480 for an 8-day retreat; $360 for a 6-day retreat. Room and board for a private retreat or for private days of prayer is $55 per night. If individual brings her own food, it is $45 per night.. Please make checks payable to Sisters of Charity and give to the receptionist at Marillac Center. Scholarships are available for those who cannot afford the full amount.

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