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Your director for this retreat, Loving a Passionate God, was known in the Carmelite Monastery in Pewaukee, Wisconsin, as Sister Miriam of the Holy Spirit. The poetry she published under her baptismal name, Jessica Powers, reveals a woman who loved God, who hungered for holiness, who suffered under the shadow of the cross, who knew how to laugh and sigh and love. Her greatest desire was that her poetry would draw others into contemplating the mystery of a passionate God.

Your director for this retreat, Becoming Who We Are, is Trappist monk and writer Thomas Merton. The theme of this retreat is the spiritual journey of Thomas Merton and its relationship to our own era and our own lives. Merton's appeal to people derives from his ability to fuse his theology with his life and from his capacity to address the reader as if he were writing for no one else.

This retreat series offers you the opportunity to make a retreat with some great saint or holy person from history. Under the guidance of series editor Gloria Hutchinson, some favortie authors weave the mentor's own words into seven days of prayer.

Your directors for this retreat, Trusting That All Will Be Well, are the sufferer whose story is told in the biblical book that bears his name, Job, and the medieval mystic, Julian of Norwich. Complaining Job and serene Julian have something important in an abiding trust in God's willingness to hear human cries. In the course of this retreat, they will encourage you to acknowledge the depth of your pain, to test the reasons conventional wisdom offers for human suffering, to rethink your concepts of God and God's ways, to plumb the reality of human brokenness, and to let compassion grow from your scars.

Your directors for this retreat, Befriending Each Other in God, are Francis de Sales, charismatic bishop of Geneva and author of the popular devotional guide, Introduction to the Devout Life ; Jane de Chantal, wife, mother, widow and foundress of the religious community for women, the Visitation of Holy Mary; and Aelred of Rievaulx, twelfth-century prior of the Cistercian monastery of Rievaulx in England and author of On Spiritual Friendship . With Francis, Jane and Aelred, you will explore the dynamics and texture of the spiritual friendships so essential to becoming more open to God and helping you become who you want to be.

One book in a series designed to lead Catholics on retreat with some great saint or holy person from history. Among the directors of the retreat are: Ignatius of Loyola, Dominic, Jane de Chantal and Francis de Sales.

Your directors for this retreat, Following Our Pilgrim Hearts, are Francis and Clare of Assisi, contemporaries who were determined to follow the Christ who spoke to them from the cross of San Damiano and to rebuild the Church by living the gospel of Jesus. You will walk in the footsteps of Francis and Clare through Assisi and the Umbrian countryside, focusing on pilgrimage and retreat, the going forth and the going within of the soul's journey.

This retreat series offers you the opportunity to make a retreat with some great saint or holy person from history. Favorite authors weave the mentor's own words into seven days of prayer and deepening acquaintance.

Your directors for this retreat, Praying With Our Bodies, are Our Lady, Dominic and Ignatius. Our Lady - Mary of Nazareth, widowed woman, survivor, sojourner, seeker of sanctuary, marginalized woman, woman pregnant with hope - teaches us how to bring Christ to a broken world and to let the Spirit pray through us in word, in silence, in stillness and in movement. Our other two mentors, Dominic, founder of the Order of Preachers, and Ignatius, founder of the Society of Jesus, are well known for their steadfast devotion to Our Lady. They, too, have much to teach us about how to let the Holy Spirit pray in us through these "temples" of the Holy Spirit, our bodies.

This volume invites you to make a retreat with Oscar Romero and Dorothy Day, Catholics who believed passionately in the dignity of every human being and who confronted the roots of injustice and violence in the worlds where God placed them. ————————————————————- This retreat series offers you the opportunity to make a retreat with some great saint or holy person from history. Among the retreat directors you will find such saints as Ignatius and Dominic, Francis and Clare of Assisi, and outstanding contemporary figures such as Thomas Merton and Jessica Powers. Under the guidance of series editor Gloria Hutchinson, some favorite authors weave the mentor's own words into seven days of prayer and deepening acquaintance. Each retreat closes with suggestions for continuing the relationship. Your directors for this retreat, Walking With the Poor, are Oscar Romero, archbishop of San Salvador in El Salvador, and Dorothy Day, founder of the Catholic Worker Movement. Both mentors believed passionately in the dignity of every human being. Both pursued the roots of injustice and violence and confronted the powerful in Church and state. Both opened their eyes to see the reality of poverty and allowed that sight to change their lives. Both experienced the importance of community in support of the discipleship journey. Their journeys suggest to us that when life is seen through the eyes of poor people and lived in response to that vision, a deep, rich spirituality and serious engagement in social transformation result. By their efforts they became examples to all of us of gospel faithfulness in our times. Series editor GLORIA HUTCHINSON has written extensively on the spiritual life. Her books include Six Ways to Pray From Six Great Saints, Praying the Way: Reflections on the Stations of the Cross and Praying the Rosary: New Reflections on the Mysteries (St. Anthony Messenger Press). MARIE ADELE DENNIS works for the Maryknoll Society Justice and Peace Office as associate for Latin America. She has written extensively on social justice and peace, including Seeds of Life, Seeds of Death (Pax Christi USA). She contributed to Say to This Mountain and St. Francis and the Foolishness of God (Orbis Books).

This volume invites you to make a retreat with Mary of Magdala and St. Augustine, two magnetic personalities whose experiences and insights can help today's Christians reflect on love, sex, and marriage.

Continue the success of the "A Retreat With . . . " series. "Our Lady of Guadalupe and Juan Diego" reveals the dignity of the Latin American people. "An unusual and ambitious new series edited by Gloria Hutchinson enables readers to go on a virtual retreat with saints and holy ones in an effort to gain 'self-knowledge, discernment, and maturity in the Spirit.'"—"Publishers Weekly" .

Called a spiritual genius by many today, Nicholas Black Elk is credited with the reawakening and recovery of the pan-Native American ritual and spiritual tradition in America. His life reflected his conviction that his people could live again spiritually through the Catholic and Lakota traditions, both of which he embraced with dedication in his lifetime. Available now.

Benedict of Nursia hungered for a "better way" to God and lived that example with his Rule. Six hundred years later, Bernard of Clairvaux appeared on the scene to return Western monasticism to its roots. Both Benedict and Bernard challenge seekers to reduce the God-and-us relationship to its essence, just as Christ's gospel dictates, by way of love, pure and simple.

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In this seven-day retreat, That You May Have Life, your director is John the Evangelist, author of the fourth Gospel. Through his artful appearance in the role of “Translator” for John, Scripture scholar Raymond E. Brown weaves the evangelist's words into a week of prayer and deepening acquaintance, ending with a list of resources to help you continue this relationship. He brings immediacy to the “Gospel Message” allowing modern readers to understand and resolve difficulties in the text and its interpretation throughout the centuries. Transcending the political struggles and divisiveness of some modern Christians, this retreat will refresh for you what it means to be, first and foremost, a disciple of Jesus. Paper. 112 pages

In this seven-day retreat, Living the Truth in Love, your diector is Catherine of Siena, the fourteenth-century Italian laywoman with the strong will and staunch commitment to carry out what she thought God was directing her to do. Catherine, declared Doctor of the Church in 1970, clung to the truth, lived by the truth and sought after the truth throughout her life. With her we will meet the God whom she called "Gentle Truth," stuggle with the sin and glory of our own truth and ponder the fruits of truth-discernment, freedom and wisdom.

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In this seven-day retreat, Caring for Those Who Suffer, your directors are Mother Teresa of Calcutta and Father Damien of Molokai. Through their courageous ministry, they show us how to find God "in his most distressing disguise". Their witness challenges us to become aware of and respond to needs in our own communities.

Our worldly identities, characterized by criss-crossing ambitions, desires and jealousies, begin to peel away as the discipline of ceaseless prayer sinks ever deeper into our hearts. We shuck off the old self which previously demanded all our time and attention in order to make room for God.... —From Getting to Know Our Directors In this seven-day retreat, Praying Ceaselessly, your directors are Brother Lawrence and the Russian Pilgrim. Though from different centuries and different cultures, both learned the wisdom of constant prayer—what Brother Lawrence describes as practicing the presence of God. Their insights make it possible for us to transcend our everyday cares and focus on what really matters: God.

I invite you in these seven days to step out on the word of God, walking the Way with Jesus, the human face of our faithful God. Begin by telling God your own story, placing whatever burdens you bring in God's gracious care. Ask God to open your eyes in the retelling of the Scriptures to the meaning they hold for your journey. Allow God's love in Jesus to surround you and set your heart on fire. Let God fill you with desire to share that word to bring hope to others.—From Day One In this seven-day retreat, Stepping Out on the Word of God, your director is Luke the Evangelist, author of the third Gospel. You are invited to step out on the Word of God, allowing the courage the Good News inspires to carry you throughout the tasks of your life. Leaning particularly on the experiences of the women of the Gospels (more prevalent in Luke than in any other), this retreat weaves their stories into a welcome for those who wish to find what Jesus offers.

"Matthew…was absolutely convinced that Jesus was the One sent by God to establish the Reign of God in the final days as promised by the prophets of ancient Israel. The Evangelist then presented Jesus as the fulfillment of his people's expectations.…But Matthew believed that Jesus was something more. He was also a reinterpreter of those traditions.…Matthew believed that Jesus was the fulfillment of ancient Israel's hopes, but he fulfilled those hopes in a way that went beyond all expectations."—From "Getting to Know Our Director" In this seven-day retreat, Going Beyond the Law, your director is Matthew the Evangelist, author of the first Gospel. His words will help you to understand how Jesus fulfilled his role as Messiah and brought about the age "foreseen by the prophets and longed for by the pious." Matthew does not disregard the traditions of ancient Israel, but casts them in a new light—the Light of the World.

In this seven-day retreat, the directors are the mothers and fathers of the desert, whose wisdom has come down to us through the ages. Jesus tells readers that to find their lives they must lose them; the Desert Mystics took up this exhortation and lived it out radically. What such Desert Mystics as Antony the Great, Abba Moses and Evagrius can teach readers is to confront God on a most intimate level by confronting themselves fiercely and fully.

In this seven-day retreat, Trusting God s Purpose, your director is Edith Stein, a woman of deep intellect and an intense commitment to the truth. Born into a Jewish family, Edith s search for truth led her first to agnosticism and eventually to Catholicism and life as a Carmelite nun. Both her heritage and her faith made her an enemy of the Third Reich and a victim of the holocaust. On this journey with Edith, you will confront the central issues of understanding the will of God, living in right relationship with others and finding fulfillment in self-donation. Her experience and witness can lead us to a profound and renewed respect for the human and religious rights of all. Edith s philosophy is Ultimately we all live at the hand of God, the wise among us will accept and cherish this fact and trust in God s purpose.

In this seven-day retreat, Be Not Afraid, your director is Karol Wojtyla—Pope John Paul II. He has inspired the world through the example of his lived faith and his faith-filled words and teachings. Follow his life’s journey and embrace the courage to open wide the door to Christ. "As one who has, in fact, been privileged to make retreats with the Holy Father, it was spiritually refreshing and inspiring for me to read and reflect on these pages…I recommend the book to all who wish to go beyond the headline coverage of the Holy Father to an encounter with Christ in the company of the greatest spiritual leader of our age." —Archbishop John P. Foley, President, Pontifical Council for Social Communications

In this seven-day retreat, Growing From Sinner to Saint, your director is Peter, fisherman of Galilee, follower of Jesus and keeper of the keys to the kingdom. Follow Peter’s amazing transformation through his own retelling of the Gospel stories. Share his growing insight into the human and divine person of Christ and learn from his experience how to be a follower, and friend, of Jesus.

This latest offering in the popular A Retreat With... series features the writings of Henri J.M. Nouwen. Priest, theologian, psychologist, and prolific writer, Nouwen brought a unique immediacy and transformative power to his subject matter. Durback has focused on the theme of "reclaiming your humanity" for this retreat, centering most especially on Nouwen's classic "book of spiritual imperatives" as Nouwen called them, The Inner Voice of Love . This seven-day retreat will help you move toward "reclaiming your humanity in a technological age," urging you to listen to the inner voice that affirms the love that God expressed through Jesus at his "This is my beloved." The retreat is introduced by a short summary of the life and work of Henri Nouwen, and concludes with a select bibliography to help you delve more deeply into his extensive writings.