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MYSTICISM FROM ACOSMIC PERSPECTIVE

Tuesday, June 21, 9:30am –Thursday, June 23, 7:00pm

• Member of the Sacred Heart Missionary Order in England• Social psychologist • Social ministry in London as counselor• Workshop leader and group facilitator• Ministered in Europe, USA, Canada, Australia, India, Africa• Author of 16 books

The rediscovery of the sacredness of creation, and how we encounter the sacred within God’s creation, requires a fresh look at the wisdom of mysticism, and the awakening of the mystic in the spiritual experience of many people today. Retreat closes with Eucharistic service.

Offering: Overnight: $250. Commuter: $175, includes 3 lunches & 3 dinners.

$10 early bird discount if registered by May 21.$50 DEPOSIT - nonrefundable.

Registration deadline: June 16.Additional overnight stay with breakfast: $42.

Fr. Diarmuid O’Murchu

Shalom offers private or directed retreats for individuals throughout the year. The length of the retreat is flexible. Spiritual direction can also be arranged.Suggested offering: $30 per session. The Francis Room is available on a first-come, first- reserved basis.* This quiet, corner room features a queen bed, air conditioner, refrigerator, cable TV, two seating areas, a desk, and free Wi-Fi access. The Francis Room is located next to a bathroom, and a kitchenette area with a microwave is located nearby. Offering: donation for daytime use, $37† for overnight. * Reservations for retreat directors to stay in the Francis Room supersede all others. † Meals may be available at an additional cost.

Private Retreats, Spiritual Direction and the Francis Room

DYING WITH CHRIST, RISING WITH CHRIST

OPTION 1 - One DayAsh Wednesday, Feb. 10, 9:00am – 4:00pmOPTION 2 - Three Days Ash Wednesday, Feb. 10, 9:00am – Friday, Feb. 12, 1:00pm

Fr. Goergen is a Dominican priest, teacher, lecturer, and author. He currently teaches at the Aquinas Institute in St. Louis, MO. He has given retreats in Asia, Africa, and throughout North America. Fr. Goergen has published many books and articles. His most recent will be “St. Dominic: The Story of a Preaching Friar,” to be published in 2016 by Paulist Press.Lent is an opportune time to deepen our relationship with

Jesus Christ. What does new life in Christ mean for us? Lent prepares the way. Easter celebrates the gift. If we do not die with him, we will not be raised with him. What Ash Wednesday begins, Pentecost brings to completion. Let us gather to contemplate the mystery together. Includes daily Eucharist.

OPTION 1 – Ash Wednesday Retreat Day | Offering: $50, includes lunch. No early bird discount available for one day retreats.

OPTION 2 – 3-Day Retreat | Offering: Overnight $140.Commuter $105, includes 3 lunches & 2 dinners.

$10 early bird discount if registered by Jan. 10.$50 DEPOSIT. Nonrefundable. Registration deadline: Feb. 5.

Additional overnight stay with breakfast: $42.

Fr. Don Goergen O.P.

Lisa Schmidt LMT andSharon Hoppenjan LMT

563/690-0506

Mary Benedict LMT 563/580-7024

Amber Sisler LMT 563/513-1389

Lower level of ShalomFour Licensed Massage Therapists

IMAGING GOD:DEEPENING OUR PRAYER

Friday, Sept. 16, 5:30pm –Sunday, Sept. 18, 11:00am

Carolyn is a Religious of the Sacred Heart (RSCJ) and Charles Fischer Catholic Professor of New Testament emerita at Brite Divinity School at Texas Christian University. She previously taught for twenty-six years at CTU in Chicago. She holds a doctorate in New Testament and Christian Origins from Harvard Univer-

sity, and is a former associate editor of The Bible Today and former New Testament Book Review Editor of the Catholic Biblical Quarterly. She is one of four editors of Silent Voices, Sacred Lives: Women’s Readings for the Liturgical Year (Pau-list Press, 1992) and author of many books on New Testament topics. Currently, she serves as the archivist for the Society of the Sacred Heart, United States-Canada Province and continues to lecture, give retreats, and lead pilgrimages in areas of biblical interest.How we imagine God influences how we relate to God and discover God in our lives. Explore some of the foundational ways in which the tradition has called on God and how to make them your own. Includes Sunday Eucharist.

Offering: Overnight: $160.Commuter: $140, includes 2 dinners & 1 lunch.

$10 discount if registered by Aug. 16.$50 DEPOSIT. Nonrefundable.

Registration deadline: Sept. 12.

GREAT LESSONS FROM THE JOURNEY

Friday, Aug. 12, 5:30pm –Sunday, Aug. 14, 1:00pm

Paula D’Arcy is a writer, playwright, retreat leader, and conference & seminar speaker. In 2001 she established Red Bird Foundation, which supports the growth and spiritual development of those in need throughout the world, including men and women in prison.

The foundation has sponsored two international gatherings of women known as WOMENSPEAK, conferences which honor the woman’s voice as a force of peace and healing for the world. A former psychotherapist, Paula survived the loss of her husband and young daughter in an accident in 1975. She was three months pregnant at the time. Among her best-selling books are Gift of the Red Bird, Waking Up to This Day, and When People Grieve.Paula will reflect about how we each must “find our way,” including the lessons that have mattered during her own journey and the great challenge in these times for all of us to deepen and begin to live every moment of life with awareness of life’s sacredness and preciousness. The journey brings to mind the lines from a poem by Mark Nepo: “The secret of life, somehow/ always has to do with the awakening / and freeing of what has been asleep.” Sunday Eucharistic liturgy.

Offering: Overnight: $175. Commuter: $115, includes 2 dinners & 2 lunches.

$10 early bird discount if registered by Aug. 16.$50 DEPOSIT. Nonrefundable.Registration deadline: Aug. 7.

CONTEMPLATIVE EXPLORATION INTO EVOLUTIONARY

CHRISTIANITYSunday, July 17, 5:30 pm –

Friday, July 22, 9:00amNancy is the founder and president of the Institute for Communal Contemplation and Dialogue. She is past LCWR President; past vice-president of her congregation, the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Monroe, Michigan; and a former researcher, lobbyist and national coordinator of

NETWORK, a national Catholic social justice lobby. She is an author and known speaker having addressed diocesan conferences, university institutes, assemblies of women religious and major national and international conferences. For more information visit www.iccdinstitute.orgOne’s cosmology shapes one’s theology. Many of us, having embraced an evolutionary cosmology, still stumble in terms of how it shapes our theology. Come and be part of this retreat rooted in communal contemplation and dialogue to explore our experience of being evolutionary Christians and the theology that is taking shape within us.

Offering: Overnight: $450.Commuter: $425, includes 4 lunches & 5 dinners.

$25 early bird discount if registered by June 17.$75 DEPOSIT. Nonrefundable.

Registration deadline: June 17.

PERFORMING ORDINARY THINGS IN EXTRAORDINARY WAYS

Monday, June 27, 5:30pm –Saturday, July 2, 9:00am

Fr. Joe is a Franciscan friar of the province of Saint Barbara. He is currently President of the Franciscan School of Theology, Oceanside, California, in affiliation with the University of San Diego. He has written extensively on the Franciscan Intellectual Tradition and the evangelical life in the contemporary

world. A specialist in the history of Catholicism in the United States, he tries to be, first of all, a human being. This retreat will explore in a reflective mode the theological foundations and daily practice of the Gospel way of life in the footprints of Francis and Clare of Assisi. Building on the Joy of the Gospel, conferences will touch such themes as the centrality of the humanity of Christ, the economics of the gift, practice of the virtues, the daily bread of the Lord’s presence, the hope of life eternal, and the Franciscan proclamation in the contemporary world. Daily Eucharist.

Offering: Overnight: $450.Commuter: $425, includes 4 lunches & 5 dinners.

$25 early bird discount if registered by May 27.$75 DEPOSIT. Nonrefundable.

Registration deadline: June 22.

SPECIAL THANKSto the

LORAS COLLEGEARCHBISHOP KUCERA CENTER

Thanks to a $1,500 grant from the Loras College Archbishop Kucera Center for

Catholic Intellectual and Spiritual Life, we are blessed to bring Paula D’Arcy to our

community while keeping prices affordable.

Fr. Joe Chinnici OFM

Spirituality Center Features• Air-conditioning throughout most of the building• Meditation garden and numerous paved and well-groomed walking paths• Updated spiritual resource library • Delicious meals• Adjacent to 81-acre prairie• Indoor Labyrinth• Free Wi-Fi, hearing assistance devices• Accessible to all• Smoke-free building

Nancy Sylvester IHM

Paula D’Arcy CarolynOsiek RSC

How to RegisteRSend the registration form and

nonrefundable deposit to:

Shalom Spirituality Center, 1001 Davis St., Dubuque, IA 52001

The deposit secures your reservation and is credited to the offering for the retreat.

ouR MissionFounded in the Franciscan tradition,

Shalom Spirituality Centeris a sacred space in a peaceful environment,calling people to God and to fullness of life.

563-582-3592 • info@shalomretreats.orgwww.shalomretreats.org