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.   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.

(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
 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.

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.

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.

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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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.

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