“What does it mean to be following God’s path? How can we hear God’s voice even in times of “wilderness”: seasons of change, doubt, and uncertainty? Please join Summerlee Staten, Trinity’s Executive Director for Faith Formation and Education, and Dr. Kathy Bozzuti-Jones, Trinity’s Associate Director for Spiritual Practices, Retreats and Pilgrimage, January 7-9, 2022, for …
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Presidents Day Weekend Rest and Renewal Retreat
“Come away and rest awhile,” Jesus said to his disciples when they were exhausted and overwhelmed by the pace of work and ministry. This weekend offers a lightly structured time to retreat from daily obligations and engage a deepening awareness of our relationships—with ourselves, those around us, the divine, and all of creation. Finding peace …
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Transforming Community: Leading Contemplative Prayer Groups and Retreats Program
Join a free conference call to discern about the rightness of this program for you. Sign up for a call on Wednesday, October 20 at 4:00pm ET or on Tuesday, November 9 at 7:00pm ET. Apply Now! Overview Transforming Community: Leading Contemplative Prayer Groups & Retreats is designed to equip, encourage and support those called to …
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LIVING FULLY: BEFRIENDING YOUR SHADOW
A weekend retreat at Mount Carmel The shadow consists of everything (beliefs, attitudes, emotions and behaviours) which we drove back into our unconscious for fear of being rejected by those important to our safety and wellbeing when we were young. Using a gentle psychospiritual framework, Jungian psychology and gospel references, we will explore the hidden …
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Programs at Restoring Connections
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Entertaining Angels Unawares Retreat
The world turns on how we perceive one another. We can point to people, famous or not, who have made a difference in our lives. Sometimes, though, it is those who we would least expect, the ones who by their otherness become priceless blessings, who enable us to be our best selves. Dorothy Day, co-founder …
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Silent Virtually-Directed In-Home Retreat
After many months of social distancing, people might wonder what they could receive from engaging in an in-home silent retreat. But an intentional “date” to be together with God in seclusion and silence is different from COVID aloneness. god is always with and within us, beckoning, inviting. It is through an interlude of chosen silecne …
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Deepening Spirituality in Our Parishes
Discover varied methods for nurturing the spirituality of congregations. About this event This event is brought to you by the department of Lifelong Learning at Virginia Theological Seminary This online cohort will meet on four consecutive Thursday afternoons (Oct 7 – Oct 28) from 3 – 4:30 p.m. eastern. In 1971 Karl Rahner wrote, “The …
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Developing a Contemplative Prayer Life: A Twelve-Step Approach
The Reverend Canon Ian Mobsby One of the great challenges for all those involved in new forms of ministry, mission, fresh expressions of church, and forming missional communities is that it can be utterly exhausting. Missioners as activists are expected to make things happen often in very difficult contexts with scarce resources. Working in such …
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SEASONS OF GRIEF RETREAT – Surviving Loss
Are you in a Season of Grief? Grief moves and changes like the seasons. Come and explore grief through the seasons of loss, change, growth and renewal. This retreat is for people experiencing loss through death/separation/divorce/lost relationships and life changes. An opportunity to examine your loss by using the seasons as a metaphor to discover …
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