Effective July 1, 2008 the Suggested Offering of $125.00 per person and a non-refundable deposit of $30.00 per person for the following retreats: Silent Men’s, Silent Women’s, Catholic Singles, Separated or Divorced, and Serenity retreats, and a Suggested Offering of $250.00 per couple and a non-refundable deposit of $60.00 per couple for married couples retreats that are preached by the King’s House Team.
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Jesus embodied and lived compassion each day of his life. But what does compassion mean and involve for us? As followers of Jesus, how do we live out the call to compassion in the world today?
With Jesus as our model, we will explore the many ways he lived a compassionate life, so that we can share the gifts of forgiveness and gentleness with our sisters and brothers. Join us for a deepening understanding and experience of the compassion of Jesus. It can change our hearts and the world!
Group: Men & Women
Presenters: King's House Team
Location: King's House Chapel
"Let the word of God dwell in you richly, singing psalms, hymns and inspired songs with gratitude in your hearts to God."
Beautiful music, silence, and Scripture are the sustaining elements of this unique, peaceful, and inviting style of praying. If you've never experienced this way of praying before, or even if you have, you're in for a special experience using the songs and prayers from the Taizé ecumenical monastery at Taizé, France
DIRECTED RETREAT
Presented by: Fr. Jim Deegan; Fr. Lon Konold; Sr. Brenda Rose Szegedy, OSF;
Sr. Joanne Dehmer, SSND; Fr. Lou Studer, OMI;
Fr. Roger Lamoureux, OMI
June 30 – July 7
King’s House will again offer a 6-day directed retreat. Each day, besides the celebration of the Eucharist, the retreatant meets with a director to talk about his or her personal journey and experience of God. The rest of the time is spent in solitude and silence relaxing, praying, reading and reflecting. In the extended time of quiet, one often moves into a deeper listening to God and awareness of God’s presence and action in life. The experience can clarify your dreams, purify your ambitions, expose your foolishness and refresh your life.
A directed retreat enables people to spend uninterrupted hours exploring the movement of God in their lives. The spiritual directors are companions, helping retreatants enter into this spiritual journey and listen to their hearts with new openness to God’s will. It calls for receptivity to the movements of God and God’s Spirit, and the capacity and willingness to discuss one’s prayer with the director. The director gives guidance for prayer in response to your individual needs, making suggestions from scripture or other resources that may be helpful.
Registration: Tuesday, June 30 at 3:00pm
Concludes: Tuesday, July 7 at 10:00am
Suggested Offering: $400.00 per person
A non-refundable deposit of $50.00 per person is required by June 2, 2009 to reserve a space.
Married Couples
Presented by: Dick & Rosemarie Rice
July 10 – 12, 2009
Blessed Are We: The Beatitudes in our Marriage
Jesus inaugurates his public life in Matthew's Gospel with the Sermon on the Mount. He begins that sermon by turning cultural curses into spiritual blessings--what we have come to call "The Beatitudes." This retreat will explore the Beatitudes as they apply to the Sacrament of our Marriages. There will be presentations, time for Eucharist and silent prayer, and the opportunity for conversation as a couple.
Rosemarie Whitehead and Dick Rice are a young at heart couple. Both were religious who were laicized and are now married. Rosemarie is Director of Liturgy, Adult Education and RCIA at St. Thomas Aquinas Parish in St. Paul Park. Dick is Director of Spiritual Development at the Retreat, a twelve-step recovery center in Wayzata.
Registration: Friday, July 10 at 7:00pm
Concludes: Sunday, July 12 at 12:45pm
Suggested Offering: $270.00 per couple
A non-refundable deposit of $60.00 per couple is required.
HEALING RETREAT
Presented by: Fr. Matt Linn, SJ
July 24 – 26, 2009
Make Me An Instrument of Your Peace
The Prayer of St. Francis was
discovered right before the First World War and became a powerful prayer for
peace. As we live in a post 9/11 world permeated by panic, polarization, and
prozac, the quest for inner peace becomes all the more a hunger for many.
This healing retreat helps us experience the Prayer of St. Francis to heal
our wounds and transform us into peacemakers.
Lord, make me an instrument
of Your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is
injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy.
O, Divine
Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to
be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love; for it is in giving
that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; it is in dying
that we are born again to eternal life.
Registration: Friday, July 24 at 7:00pm
Concludes: Sunday, July 26 at 12:45pm
Suggested Offering: $135.00 per person
A non-refundable deposit of $30.00 per person is required.
CENTERING PRAYER AND LECTIO DIVINA
Presented by: Sr. Brenda Rose Szegedy. OSF & Fr. Jim Deegan, OMI
August 7-9, 2009
This SILENT weekend retreat presumes that those attending have some knowledge and experience in the practice of Centering Prayer.
Centering prayer is a method of prayer which comes to us from the prayer practices of the Desert Fathers and Mothers of the 4th century. Since then it has been the mainstay of monastic prayer throughout the centuries. Centering prayer is a method that helps us to develop the “contemplative” dimension of our prayer life.
Lectio Divina is a method of listening to Scripture at a deeper level. It is a traditional way of cultivating contemplative prayer.
This contemplative retreat consists in:
Registration: Friday, August 7 at 7:00pm
Concludes: Sunday, August 9 at 12:45pm
Suggested Offering: $125.00 per person
A non-refundable deposit of $30.00 per person is required.
CHARISMATIC RETREAT
Presented by: Fr. Dick McAlear, OMI
August 28-30, 2009
Forgiveness and Healing
This retreat will relate healing to forgiveness and mercy. As a first step in this process, emphasis will be given to the forgiveness of sin (healing from guilt). Then Fr. McAlear will concentrate on forgiving others as a healing from anger. Finally, he will preach on forgiveness received from God and show how that same kind of forgiveness can be given to others that have been hurt and offended.
There will be a healing service (Healing Mass) and prayers for healing as part of the retreat.
Fr. McAlear studied in Rome, and has been preaching retreats over 30 years. He has traveled extensively in the ministry of healing. Each year he presents the retreat to the American Psychiatric Association, a group of professionals who specialize in the art of healing.
Registration: Friday, August 28 at 7:00pm
Concludes: Sunday, August 30 at 12:45pm
Suggested Offering: $135.00 per person
A non-refundable deposit of $30.00 per person is required.
OPENING TO GOD PRAYERFUL MEDITATION & HOLISTIC HEALING
Presented by: Arlis, Freser; Fr. John Mark Ettensohn,
OMI
August 28-30, 2009
Does the term "holistic" seem synonymous with "new age stuff" that feels uncomfortable with your beliefs? Or does "meditation" conjure up thoughts of bald men in bed sheets sitting on top of a mountain chanting "Ohmmmmm?" Actually, holistic means to encompass the entire being--body, mind, and spirit. A true healing cannot occur without involving all three, just as our Christian faith is not complete without involving all three.
This retreat will focus on healing through prayerful meditation along with the Eastern practice of energy medicine, based on Biblical theory and principles. But BE INFORMED! Joining us on this retreat may just cause you to move beyond your walls of perception of what's known and unknown! As St. Paul reminded the Corinthians in his second letter, "We do not fix our gaze on what is seen but on what is unseen. What is seen is transitory; what is unseen lasts forever" (2 Cor. 4:18). That which is unseen (at first) is God's presence, which this retreat will guide us to be aware of and open to.
Registration: Friday, August 28 at 7:00pm
Concludes: Sunday, August 30 at 12:45pm
Suggested Offering: $150.00 per person
A non-refundable deposit of $30.00 per person is required.
Serenity Retreat (12 step Retreat)
Presented by: Very Rev. Jacob Yali
October 2-4, 2009
A Life of Serenity
The Serenity Retreat will be discussing the following topics:
Fr. Yali is originally from Nigeria and was ordained as a Catholic Priest in 1977. He has served in many parishes in Nigeria and was a Vicar General of the diocese of Kasanchan, Nigeria. In 1987, he became the founder of Our Lady of Victory Treatment Center. The center specializes in the treatment of Alcoholism and Drug addiction. It is the first of its kind in Nigeria. He worked there for ten years before coming here to the United States. He was incardinated into the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis in 2007. He became a U.S. citizen on September 9th, 2008. He is currently the pastor of the Church of St. Luke’s in Clearwater, Minnesota and also a chaplain at Recovery Plus that is affiliated with the St. Cloud Hospital. Recovery Plus also specializes in the treatment of alcoholism and drug addiction. Our fears can seem overwhelming and at times all consuming. They might not even make logical sense yet they are real. Fears are able to paralyze and they can prevent us from embracing a bright future
Registration: Friday, October 2 at 7:00pm
Concludes: Sunday, October 4 at 12:45pm
Suggested Offering: $125.00 per person
A non-refundable deposit of $30.00 per person is required.
Married Couples
Presented by: King’s House Preaching Team
October 16-18, 2009
Jesus Conquers Fear
Our fears can seem overwhelming and at times all consuming. They might not even make logical sense yet they are real. Fears are able to paralyze and they can prevent us from embracing a bright future
Jesus often tells the disciples, “Do not be afraid.” He understands well how deeply fears can trouble our hearts.
Registration: Friday, October 16 at 7:00pm
Concludes: Sunday, October 18 at 12:45pm
Suggested Offering: $250.00 per couple
A non-refundable deposit of $60.00 per person is required.
Give us the Spirit
Presented by: Fr. James Livingston
October 23-25, 2009
“Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, ‘If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as the scripture has said, streams of living water will flow from within him.’ By this he meant the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were later to receive” (John 7:37-39).
This “Give us the Spirit!” retreat is intended for those with a spiritual thirst, who want to believe in and come to Jesus in a more dynamic way. As Catholics we believe in the presence of Jesus in his living Word, in the spiritual life of prayer, in the visible sacramental and hierarchical Church and in the gathering of two or more in his name. The purpose of this retreat is to deepen our faith and to open our hearts to the presence of Jesus, so as to drink deeply of his Spirit and receive.
“If you who are wicked know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the Father in heaven give the holy Spirit to those who ask?” (Luke 11:13).
Fr. Jim Livingston is a priest of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis. Since his ordination in 1990 he has served in parish and health care settings and has been involved in a variety of apostolic initiatives. He is a frequent speaker at seminars, retreats and parish missions focusing on healing and spiritual renewal, and often presides at prayer services and masses for physical and inner healing.
Registration: Friday, October 23 at 7:00pm
Concludes: Sunday, October 25 at 12:45pm
Suggested Offering: $135.00 per person
A non-refundable deposit of $30.00 per person is required.
Hope Retreat Day - (Dealing with Loss) Finding a Reason to Hope
Presented by: Fr. Lon Konold, OMI and Sr. Brenda Rose
Szegedy, OSF
November 12, 2009 – 9am to 3pm
Change is the essence of life, and I am the learner. Loss interrupts the flow of my life… the death of a loved one, illness, life-changing disappointment such as economic change or job loss, rejection by a person or institution that means a great deal to me. How do I hope in the midst of life’s changes? What is God asking of me?
The day will include conferences, time for quiet reflection, optional sharing, opportunity for the Sacrament of Reconciliation, and Eucharist.
Serra International Retreat
Presented by: Archbishop Harry J. Flynn, D.D.
November 20-22, 2009
Registration: Friday, November 20 at 7:00pm
Concludes: Sunday, November 22 at 12:45pm
Suggested Offering: $135.00 per person
A non-refundable deposit of $30.00 per person is required.
Advent Retreat
Presented by: Fr. Joe Nassal, C.PP.S.
December 11-13, 2009
Registration: Friday, December 11 at 7:00pm
Concludes: Sunday, December 13 at 12:45pm
Suggested Offering: $135.00 per person
A non-refundable deposit of $30.00 per person is required.