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.   Sisters Susan Chase (currently finishing her certification as a spiritual director) and Kathleen Wood are team members at Marillac who are available as spiritual directors.  Sister Karen Guth is available and can be reached at (913) 680-0939.

Lenten Day of Prayer for Women
 March 13, 2010  9:30 - 4:00 
Sisters Noreen Walter and Kathleen Wood will offer this day of prayer for the Season of Lent.  This day will allow time for input, discussion and silence as you share and reflect on the journey of Lent into Easter.

Schedule of the day
9:30     Arrival and coffee
9:45     Opening Prayer and Conference
12:00   Lunch - included in registration
1:00     Afternoon conference
3:00     Closing Prayer
3:45     Celebration of the Eucharist - Fr. Owen Purcell  (for those who wish to stay)
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Living in Full Swing  
April 27, 2010- 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!

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Target Audience:  This seminar is open to anyone who is interested in self-improvement or development but is especially targeting RNs, (you can receive 5 CNEs for the workshop!) other nursing and allied health staff and other persons in service-oriented professions.  This is also an excellent workshop for parish staffs, administrative assistants and office staff persons who work together.   

Note:  If you wish to receive CNEs for this day, you must sign up on the Providence Medical Center web site at:
     http://www.peopleware.net/index.cfm?siteCode=0131&

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:   $50.00.  Fee includes lunch and Cathy Newton’s book, Living in Full Swing (2007).  Payment can be made at the door. 

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(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)
2010 Preached Retreat
June 15-22, 2010 - Fr. Don Goergen, OP
THE HOLY SPIRIT:  DOOR TO THE FUTURE
The Holy Spirit is the Risen Christ's Gift. We will look at the Holy Spirit as the soul of our soul, the source of contemplative life; as the soul of the Church and source of its ministry; as the soul of our evolving creation and the agent of transforming consciousness, our guide into the future.

Fr. Donald Goergen is a Dominican priest, theologian, preacher, teacher, author and lecturer.  He has taught theology for many years, primarily in areas of Christology and spirituality.  He has given retreats internationally.  Formerly provincial for the Central Province of Dominican friars, Don co-founded and lived in a contemplative Dominican house for nine years. Currently living in St. Louis, Missouri, he is prior of the formation house and teaches at Aquinas Institute of Theology. He has published many books and articles, his most recent book being "Fire of Love, Encountering the Holy Spirit."
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July 30--Aug. 8, 2010- Fr. Jack Farley, SVD
JOURNEY INTO PRAYER   Spend eight days in the spirit of prayer, listening to the call to a deeper intimacy with God.  This retreat will explore aspect of prayer including the foundations and constants of prayer, prayer as an essential part of our everyday life, listening in prayer, as well as prayer within the consecrated life.

Fr. Jack Farley, SVD.  In addition to administrative and formation assignments, Jack spent eight years as a staff member at RENEW International, plus another eight years in retreat ministry at Miramar in Massachusetts.  His formal retreat training was at Ministry Training Services, Denver.  On several occasions he teamed up with SCL Sisters for directing 30 day retreats in Spokane. He preached a Holy Week Retreat in Leavenworth back in the '90s.
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 2010 Guided Retreats
August 1-8, 2010 - Sr. Mary Pat Johnson, SCL
LIVING, PRAYING AND SERVING FROM A CONTEMPLATIVE STANCE
This retreat will focus on God’s continuous invitation to all people to contemplation.  We will explore the nature of contemplation, how we become contemplatives, and the ways our yes to this contemplative call shape our living, praying and ministry.

Sr. Mary Pat Johnson, SCL, who has been involved in spiritual direction and retreat ministry since 1983, is presently on the staff of SoulJourners, a three year ecumenical formation program of Sophia Center in Atchison, Kansas offering certification for spiritual directors. She is also the Director of Mission at Cristo Rey, KC, a college prep high school for culturally diverse students with economic needs.  Mary Pat has a Master’s degree in Christian Spirituality from Creighton University, a BA in Theology from the University of Saint Mary and an MA in Theology from Gonzaga University in Spokane.
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 2010 Directed Retreats 
January 13-21                                               Sr. Marilyn Peot, CSJ
January 13-21                                               Sr. Karen Guth, SCL
January 13-21                                               Sr. Kathleen Wood, SCL         

June 15-22                                                    Sr. Marilyn Peot, CSJ
June 15-22                                                    Sr. Karen Guth, SCL

July 30-Aug. 8                                               Sr. Karen Guth, SCL
July 30-Aug. 8                                               Sr. Kathleen Wood, SCL

Oct. 5-14                                                      Fr. Tom Nelson, CM
Oct. 5-14                                                      Sr. Marilyn Peot, CSJ
Oct. 5-14 or Oct. 5-12                                   Sr. Margaret Hogan, SCL

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

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DIRECTED RETREAT DIRECTORS

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

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.

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.

Kathleen Wood, SCL teaches Theology at the University of Saint Mary 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.

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Can’t find a retreat to fit your schedule? Check out these other opportunities and retreat centers in the Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas:

Savior Pastoral Center
www.archkck.org

Sophia Spirituality and Retreat Center
www.mountosb.org/sophia.html

World Retreats Guide
www.worldretreatguide.com