Visitors Weekend Visitors Weekend: Exploring Mutual Ministry April 27, 27 & 29, 2012 LifeCycles Companion Training April 30 – May 1, 2012 Visitors Weekends are designed to offer an opportunity for persons to experience community life as lived from the baptismal covenant in the Diocese of Northern Michigan (also called Mutual Ministry, Total Ministry, Local …
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April 3-8, 2012 HOLY WEEK RETREAT Led by noted author, teacher and retreat leader, Cynthia Bourgeault, and Ward Bauman; co-authors of Holy Week Liturgies, based on the House of Prayer Holy Week retreat in 2010 This silent immersion retreat will open up the opportunity to experience Holy Week from the inside: as an imaginal reality …
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June 16-24, 2012 KENOSIS: THE PRAYER OF SELF-EMPTYING Led by Ward Bauman This silent meditation intensive represents our central ministry in spiritual formation and is particularly geared for House of Prayer alums or anyone who has already been grounded in Christian contemplative practices and feels called to take further steps into the fullness of God …
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July 22-28, 2012 JULY WISDOM SCHOOL: THE ART OF LEARNING Led by Lynn Bauman and Ward Bauman Our wisdom schools are offered as models, based upon more ancient traditions, meant to raise human consciousness, thereby ultimately raising the consciousness of society. From its beginnings, Christianity has expressed multiple streams of wisdom that coalesced around the …
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August 19-25, 2012 AUGUST WISDOM SCHOOL: BENEDICTINE WISDOM The August Wisdom School with Cynthia Bourgeault is filled. If you would like to be placed on the waiting list for this retreat, please contact us at [email protected]. Led by Cynthia Bourgeault, joined by Hillary Thimmesch, OSB, a former president of Saint John’s University and Director of …
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September 6-9, 2012 COOKING YOUR LIFE Led by Ward Bauman and friends Does cooking intimidate you? Do you wish to connect eating with your spiritual practice? Would you like to understand the basics of reading a recipe and the techniques required? Have you wondered why most great spiritual traditions view food and its preparation as …
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September 18-25, 2012 BENEDICTINE EXPERIENCE Join us for a six-day experience of the Rule of St. Benedict. We will explore the values, insights and wisdom of the Rule. Participants will join the monks of Saint John’s Abbey and the Sisters of Saint Benedict’s Monastery for the Liturgy of the Hours. Leaders include members from both …
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NEW DATE FOR “YOGA: A SPIRITUAL PRACTICE” OCTOBER 19-21, 2012 Due to a scheduling conflict, these retreat dates have changed. They do not match the 2012 program brochure. Led by Carole Baker (Practitioner and licensed teacher of Iyngar Yoga) and Ward Bauman This meditation intensive will offer the beginning techniques of Yoga combined with Christian …
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November 9-11, 2012 A SUNLIT ABSENCE: SILENCE, AWARENESS AND CONTEMPLATION Led by Martin Laird, OSA, and Ward Bauman “The practice of contemplation is one of the great spiritual arts,” writes Fr. Martin Laird in his latest book, A Sunlit Absence. “Not a technique but a skill, it harnesses the winds of grace that lead us …
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Healing Pathway: Practicum A 28 March 2012 – 1 April 2012 If you have completed Phase 3 of the Healing Pathway, and you want to deepen your healing work and move toward program completion, Practicum A is for you. You will have time in the retreat setting of Naramata Centre for enhanced healing practice, technique …
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