Bethlehem Retreat Centre

In this busy world we need to take time to sound our depths and tend the soul. This day will combine SoulCollage®, which works with our intuition and imagination to draw forth deeper aspects of our being with Lectio Divina, an ancient way of praying with scripture.

Seating is limited to 10 participants

The day will include time for prayer, reflection, SoulCollage® and sharing.

Barbara Rinehart O.S.B. is a Benedictine Sister, an experienced presenter and a trained SoulCollage® facilitator.

Patricia Morton is a former teacher and a Benedictine Associate

Suggested donation: $65.00 (includes lunch, morning and afternoon refreshments).

Registration deadline is August 28, 2010

Work and Leisure

Engaging With Spirit; A Journey with St. Benedict

October 3, 2010

Sunday 8:45 am to 3:30 pm

In Benedict’s time, like ours, there was plenty of work to be done, but what of leisure?

Our times understand leisure as a time to “kick back and relax”. But it is not the understanding of leisure Benedict had. Benedict’s understanding of leisure is closer to the understanding of the philosopher, Josef Pieper:

“Leisure is an attitude of mind and a condition of the soul that fosters a capacity to perceive the reality of the world. Unless we regain the art of silence and insight, the ability for nonactivity, unless we substitute true leisure for our hectic amusements, we will destroy our culture and ourselves.”

Retreats organized by Benedictine Oblate Team.

Be still and know that I am God Psalm 46:10

“Have leisure and know that I am God”

Suggested donation: $35.00 (includes lunch, morning and afternoon refreshments).

Registration deadline is one week prior to retreat day.

Deep The Love That Calls Us On

Carolyn McDade

October 1 to October 4, 2010

Friday 7pm tp Monday 12pm (after lunch)

I often wonder what it would be like

if we dared to love this life

~ the fragile and the vulnerable,

the endangered ~ daring to be humble

before the magnitude of our beginnings,

daring to lean our species

into a stubborn and pliant wonder.

Slowly we are opening to what earlier people intuited

~ we are an intimate part of the universe ~

not just beings on the Earth, but dimensions of the Earth

not simply in a vast universe, but of the vast universe.

Amidst life which has come a long way slowly ~ leaf and water, forest and stone,

we open to the ways life tugs, calling us to deeper attentiveness, resonance and awe, a widening embrace.

We sing to blow upon the embers of a vast and emerging creation within and around us, stirring the powers of imagination and courage, essential to recreating ourselves

as a new and wiser humanity in the interdependence of planet and cosmic community.

As we gather in the promise of circle,

opening ourselves into singing, simple ritual, reflection, sound and silence ~

we move into a more intimate knowing of the love that moves within all

~ love daring us to deepen.

Carolyn McDade has just completed her latest of thirteen music reording projects. Almost 300 women meeting in local communities in Canada and U.S were the heart and soul of My Heart Is Moved, a project of song, study, and action into the call of The Earth Charter with its vision of a sustainable, just and peaceful global society within the well being of the

whole commuity of life.

Suggested donation:
Live-in weekend $400.00

Seating is Limited for this retreat

Registration deadline: September 1, 2010

Come and Find a Quiet Place

October 22, 2010 – October 24, 2010

Friday 7:30pm to Sunday

Donna Currie

Familiar words of invitation are offered once again.

Come discover grounds for gratitude that are within and around.

Come rest awhile as sung Prayer, time in Nature and reflection on Scripture are used as vehicle to a deepening relationship with God.

Facilitator: Donna Currie is a Spiritual Director and Retreat Leader, married, mother of grown children, and grandmother of three, who for over twenty years has found Prayer and Silence foundational for living well and living deeply “in the midst”.

Contact: Donna Currie in Sechelt 1-604-984-0831

Retreat Space limited to 20 participants

Diminishment Men's Retreat

October 29 to October 31, 2010

Friday 7 pm to Sunday 2 pm

John Haley

In a world that prizes what is bigger, stronger, better, faster, etc., etc., the very human experience of diminishment becomes a spiritual challenge. Whether we compare ourselves with others or simply compete with ourselves, the experiences of encountering someone who is “better” than we are, or the realization that we aren’t as strong or alert as we once were, become increasingly a part of our horizon. All the great spiritual traditions have responded to these challenges, but throughout human history these insights and images have usually been counter-cultural. And often enough our own way of dealing with these experiences has been to avoid them – the ostrich response: if I don’t let myself see it, it won’t be real. In this weekend we will explore the reality of these diminishments and, together as a group of men who are seekers, try to find meaning and value in them. Perhaps, too, almost incidentally, we will find ourselves challenging some of the “self-evident truths” put forward by our own culture.

John Haley worked for many years at the Guelph Centre of Spirituality in Guelph, Ontario. As well as leading and directing retreats John has extensive experience in individual counseling and spiritual direction.

Suggested donation:
Live-in weekend $290.00

Commuter $175.00

Registration deadline: October 19, 2010

Teilhard de Chardin, with Bill Wilson, SJ PhD

Saturday, October 30, 2010

9:30 to 3:30

“I am a pilgrim of the future on my way back from a journey made entirely in the past”.(Teilhard)

Suggested donation: $65.00 includes lunch

Teilhard wrote that there is a need for a new humanity, a new spirituality and a new mysticism. He felt that if there was to be any hope for our world both science and religion needed to transform their vision. We will explore this challenge through Louis Savary’s The Divine Milleu Explained.

Transitions:

Your Journey Through Grief and Loss Retreat

November 1, 2010 – November 4, 2010

Monday supper to Thursday lunch

Sarah Donnelly

A retreat for those who are experiencing a variety of losses including the loss or anticipated loss of a spouse or loved one, loss of good health, employment, retirement, and the ending of a marriage.

For more information or to register for this program please call Sarah at 1 250 710-7675.

Invisible Excursions:

Moments of Grace and Times of Transformation

November 5, 2010 – November 7, 2010

Friday 7 pm to Sunday 1 pm

Jim Conlon DMin

Live in $340.00

Commuter $220.00 (includes lunch and dinner)

In this moment of history, humankind’s urgent task is to live out of a unitive consciousness that honours the connectedness of all life – to become “cosmological persons.” Living from such a transpersonal orientation requires that we avail ourselves to spirit. Conlon invites us to the practice of “engaged cosmology,” a space in which cosmology, tradition and personal story bring us to the brink of Mystery.

Fill My Cup, Lord – A Weekend Retreat for Women

November 12, 2010 – November 14, 2010

Friday supper Sunday lunch

Sarah Donnelly

In this reflective retreat we look at a cup as a symbol of our lives and our spiritual journey – lives that are ordinary, spiritually thirsty at times, both empty and full, sometimes wounded or “chipped,” with the contents of our lives often given and shared in generous gestures of compassion.

For more information or to register for this program please call Sarah at 1 250 710-7675.

“The Enneagram Breakthrough”

A Introduction to the Enneagram

Mary Ann Gisler, M.A., M.S.W.

A Hurley/Dobson Certified Enneagram Teacher

Saturday, November 13 & Sunday November 14, 2010

9 am to 4 pm each day

The Transformation of our World into a place of Peace for all people depends on how each of us is open to transformation, balance and healing in our own lives. This Seminar provides an opportunity to join with others who are on this journey of growth.

How Can I Be My Best Self?

Balance, healing, growth, and transformation are the yearnings within each person wishing to be part of building a peaceful world. The Intellectual, Relational and Creative Centres are capacities that allow us to develop our spirituality to live our daily lives with peace and meaningful relationships.

Suggested Donation: $250.00 for Live-in Weekend

$175.00 for Commuters

Registration deadline: November 3, 2010

Spirituality of Vatican II
Vatican II Opened New Vistas of Spirituality for Us

Bishop Remi DeRoo, S.T.D.

Dr. Patricia C. Brady, O.S.B.

December 3 to 5, 2010

Friday 7pm to Sunday 1pm

In its foundational document on the Church (Lumen Gentium), a whole chapter was devoted to the “call to holiness” of the whole Church. This call was spelled out further in the document of the Church in the Modern World.

In this document, we are understood as ecclesial (Church) persons whose spirituality is rooted in word and sacrament sensitive to peace, justice, human rights, and open to the needs of the poor and oppressed.

At the centre of this “call to holiness” is love: love of God, of neighbor and the creation. It is a unitive spirituality moving from communication to communion.

Come and renew and deepen your own spirituality, shedding light and life on your journey to fullness of life in God.

Bishop Remi J. De Roo, S.T.D., is Biship Emeritus of theDiocese of Victoria and one of the few remaining Council Fathers of Vatican II.

He will share insights gleaned from the Council itself and from other participants in Vatican II. This is a unique and rare opportunity to listen to a Council Father, one who made four interventions (speeches) at Vatican II and obtained a rescript (an official response) to a request that “hermits be permitted again in the western Church.”

Who better to speak on the Spirituality of Vatican II than Bishop Remi?

Dr. Patricia C. Brady, O.S.B., is a member of the Catholic Theological Society of America who wrote her dissertation on the implementation of Vatican II in the Diocese of Victoria.

She has worked throughout the Diocese for almost forty years.

Presently she is at the Bethlehem Retreat Centre engaged in teaching and spiritual direction.

Fee: $300.00 for Live –In weekend

$200.00 for Commuter weekend

Bursary may be available

To register call (250)754-3254

Registration deadline November 26, 2010

WRITE NOW ! Poetry Workshop

It is uplifting, inspirational and invigorating.

Poetry Workshop with

Leanne McIntosh & Wynna Jorgensen

Every Monday 2pm – 4pm

October 18, 2010 – November 22, 2010

In this moment

this poem

this moment of creation

we will set out an open space

to awaken, reveal and express

the surprise in us.

This Invitation is for you !

Cost: sliding scale

$30.00 - $60.00 (6 week course)

As a skills development support worker, I am gifted with the opportunity to work with courageous people disadvantaged by disabilities such as poverty, abuse, and brain injuries.

For many years, I have witnessed, with great awe, the personal strength that grows and builds upon itself, when the people I work with explore and celebrate their creative spirit.

Wynna Jorgensen

Facilitator—WRITE NOW !

Poetry allows imagination to move by its own nature. It is emotional—intellectual- physical and meant to touch the hearts of the poet, listener and reader. Poetry is simply speaking the truth. The poems I’ve written over the last twenty-five years have come from moments of meditation, introspection and ecstatic experience. Poems have awakened me to the natural world and seen me through periods of grief. I’ve stared at a blank page and I’ve followed a poem’s lead into my own silence. Writing poetry can be many things for different people but always it is a continuing engagement with being alive.

Leanne McIntosh

Facilitator—WRITE NOW !

2011 The Satir Transformational Systemic Therapy

10 Day Training Programme - Level I

Conducted by Anne Morrison, MSW, RSW, RMFT

Asst. Director of Training, Satir Institute of the Pacific

For more Information:

Contact Anne Morrison, Course Trainer

Phone 250 324-5521

email annemorrison@shaw.ca

ONGOING GROUPS

Mondays (except July & August)
7 to 8:30 p.m.
Scripture Study with Pat Brady, OSB

Tuesdays (2nd and 4th)
(except July & August) 7 to 8:30 p.m.
Benedictine Spirituality with Pat Brady, OSB

Tuesdays (3rd)
7 to 9 p.m.
Healing Touch Clinic
For an appointment call Fran (250)758-4704

Saturdays (In the Chapel)
4:30 p.m.
Liturgy for the Worshipping Community
Everyone is welcome

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