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Retreat for One

You need not be part of a group to experience a retreat at Bon Secours Spiritual Center. Whether you want to come for a weekend, a day, or an afternoon, the Center welcomes individuals who wish to experience a personal retreatt or simply want to spend a day or afternoon with us. Spiritual direction is available on request. To make arrangements, contact the Center at (410) 442-1320.

Programs, Retreats & Events:

Programs, Retreats & Events Descriptions

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Date:	Thur., July 1st - Fri., July 30, 2010
Guided By:	Fr. Joe Lacey, S.J. & Fr. Frank O'Conner S.J.
Arrival:	Check-In 5:00 pm, July 1st
Begins:	5:00 pm, Thursday, July 1st
Departure:	1:00 pm, Friday, July 30th
Cost:	$3,000
Deposit	$150
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30 Day Spiritual Exercises
of St Ignatius Loyola, Directed Retreat

An Ignatian Retreat is an intense, structured program based on The Spiritual Exercises of the great saint of the Church, St. Ignatius of Loyola. During these past 400 years, hundreds of thousands of retreatants have been richly blessed by following what the Lord showed to St. Ignatius in prayer. The retreatant meets daily with a director who suggests particular Scriptures relating to themes, such as God's love, mercy, call to serve. The retreatant spends three to four prayer sessions each day meditating on these Scriptures and praying for the related graces.

Bon Secours Spiritual Center Announces a 30-Day Ignatian Retreat in July 2010

In military parlance, a "retreat" signifies the decision to withdraw from an engagement to regroup and prepare to re-engage the foe. This theme repeats in the spiritual realm as well, where we use "retreat" to mean a time of removing yourself from daily concerns and questions and giving yourself the time and permission to go deeper, focusing more clearly on the divine agenda in your life. (read full article)

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Date:	Mon, July 5th -  Sun, July 11, 2010
Guided By:	Fr. Phil Cover, Sr. Martha Starrett & Ginny Niemeyer
Arrival:	5:00 pm, Monay July 5th
Departure:	1:00 pm, Sunday, July 11th
Cost:	$575
Deposit	$150
Or call the Center at (410) 442-1320

Directed Week Retreat

A summer Directed Retreat at Bon Secours Spiritual Center consists of six days during which a person meets with a spiritual director daily (or less if the person wishes) to reflect on God’s presence and movement in one's life as revealed in prayer, the events and relationships in one's life, and the response to God that is being made by the retreatant. The director may make suggestions (prayer forms, Scripture, or reading materials) to support and deepen the person’s awareness of and response to God. This is a silent retreat.

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Dates:	Wednesdays: July 7th or July 9th
Guided By:	Sr. Sara Dwyer
Time:	6:00 pm  - 8:30 pm
Cost:	$30
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Quest for the Living God

We are living in a time of amazing personal, spiritual and theological development. In this evening program, we will follow the path set out in "Quest for the Living God: Mapping Frontiers in the Theology of God", by Elizabeth Johnson, CSJ, ask, "Who is God?" and "How does God relate to us and to our world?" We often ask the same questions ourselves, and often don't come to the clarity of insight and understanding we desire. These sessions will provide an opportunity to explore together the journey we share in our "quest for the living God."

Our sessions will use content from Quest for the Living God as a framework to contemplate the meaning and truths unfolding in our lives. There will be a blend of presentation; personal prayer and communal reflection; the option for small group faith-sharing and creative activities as well as journal sheets to guide individual reflection.

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Date:	Fri., July 9th - Sun., July 11, 2010
Guided By:	Robert Hitz
Arrival:	July 9th Check-In: 5:00 pm Program Begins: 7:30 pm
Departure:	1:00 pm, Sunday, July 11th
Cost:	$225
Deposit	$50
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Compassion and Grace through G.R.A.C.E.notz

G.R.A.C.E.notz fosters a deep sense of compassion, empathy and connection. 
Participants share their life experiences in a healing, creative and supportive atmosphere with music, journaling, meditation and time with nature creating a network of support. The G.R.A.C.E.notz retreat offers a space for self healing and discovery through a series of mindful explorations of Gratitude, Reverence, Awe, Connection and Enthusiasm.

This workshop is open to all and is especially effective for caregivers and healthcare practitioners. Please bring comfortable clothes, journal/sketchpad, and musical instruments (not necessary but encouraged!).

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2010 Schedule:
	Friday	July 9th	9:00 AM to 3:15pm
	Friday	August 13th	9:00 AM to 3:15pm
	Friday	September 10th	9:00 AM to 3:15pm
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No Charge - Free Will Offering Welcome Seating is Limited - Reservations Requested To register, please contact the Bon Secours Spiritual Center, (410) 442-1320

Keep the Spirit Up: A Day for Job Seekers and Career Changers

Bon Secours Spiritual Center offers a day of spiritual refreshment and support
workshops to assist job seekers and those in the midst of career change on the
Second Friday of each month at the Marriottsville Campus in Howard County.
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"We want to help people keep their spirit high as they seek new opportunities,"
says Dr. Little." They need to know that God and we care about them."

Care for the Care Giver: Join us for a Time of Respite

Come away awhile, let us care for you! If you are a caregiver, often you are considered the pillar of strength in your particular situation. We understand the cost of that strength and the burdens of putting yourself at the service of another: the lack of personal time, and the lost energy for other roles.

To register, please contact the Bon Secours Spiritual Center, (410) 442-1320
Saturday	July 10th	9:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Wednesday	July 21st	6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
Saturday	August 7th	9:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Wednesday	August 18th	6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
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We want you to be well and invite you to spend a “low key” morning or evening of personal sharing, answer seeking, being cared for and comforted. We will explore emotions and issues about grief and guilt and the joys and satisfactions connected with personal care giving. We will pray for you and your loved ones, and offer spiritual support to help you in your care efforts.  Please come and be with us.

Suggested Donation: $15 per session
(or free will offering for anyone whose personal situation does not permit the amount)

To register, please contact the Bon Secours Spiritual Center, (410) 442-1320.

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Date:	Sun., July 11th - Sat., July 17, 2010
Guided By:	Michael Fonseca
Arrival:	Check- In: 5:00 pm
Departure:	1:00 pm Saturday
Cost:	$575
Deposit:	$150
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Contemplative Prayer - Going Deeper

In Christian contemplative tradition, the process of spiritual deepening - growth in love - happens through grace. This deepening comes as a gift and it happens in often hidden ways that are uniquely fitted for each person. The first and most important way of exploring your spiritual life is to sincerely attend to your own prayer. Although each person will follow her or his own unique path of practice, all contemplative journeys are likely to include some aspects of silence, solitude, and community. Silence implies freedom from all noise, not only the noise of speaking but also that of thinking, worrying and busy, driven activity. Solitude, like silence, is the freedom from the host of habitual restraints and compulsions of social interaction that burden us. We need community to support and encourage us in our spiritual practices, to receive their perspective, wisdom, and sometimes, their challenges to recognize and deepen God's presence in and around us. This retreat will make use of the wisdom of our saints and mystics to give us this support and perspective that we so urgently need in our lives, saints like Teresa of Avila, John of the Cross, the English mystics, Brother Lawrence, de Caussade, etc. Hopefully, a profound union with God, desired by God for you, will become a powerful and ever-present longing in your life.

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Date:	Sun., July 11th - Sun., July 18, 2010
Guided By:	Frank O'Connor, SJ
Arrival:	Sunday July 11th, 5:00 pm
Departure:	Sunday July 18th 11:00 am
Cost:	$600
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Ignatian 8 Day Directed Retreat

Experiencing the call of God's love, St. Ignatius of Loyola was impassioned to live his life in radical conformity to the mind and heart of Christ. Led to guide others in responding to this same call, he left a written record, The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius, for those who would carry on this ministry. In an atmosphere of silence, and with the assistance of a director, this eight day retreat offers sacred space for an extended prayer experience based on The Spiritual Exercises. Prior experience with an extended period of silence and solitude is recommended. Bring a Bible and a notebook/journal

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Date:	Sat., July 17th - Sun., July 18 2010
Guided By:	Sr. Sara Dwyer, A.S.C.
Begins:	1:00 pm - Sat. July 17th
Ends:	1:00 pm - Sun. July 18th
Cost	$150
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Women Wonder Wisdom - You Come

WOMEN who WONDER have filled history with WISDOM by questioning and challenging the status quo and thinking outside the box. Women birth life relationally— physically and spiritually. YOU do the same by engaging the challenges and changes in your life withc ourage and humility.

COME ready to explore stories of women of our histories—biblically, historically and personally. Reflecting of the insights and meanings we can glean from Mary of Nazareth, Mary of Magadala, the Samaritan and Cannanite women, historic women opening us to the truths of our gifts for mysticism, ministry and mentoring--especially the women who have formed us—will be integrated into our prayer and sharing.

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Date:	Sat., July 17th - Sun., July 2010
Guided By:	Msgr. Nicholas Amato
Begins:	9:30 am
Ends:	1:00 pm
Cost	$150
Deposit	$50
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Opening Our Emotions to God
Through Contemplation

So often we find ourselves at the effect of our emotions. Jesus calls us to be transformed as whole persons, including our emotions, by being in God's presence. Through specific practices, we can open ourselves to the gift of contemplation wherein our emotions are accepted and integrated into our life in God rather denied or repressed. The energy of those emotions can then shift from a deficient/destructive self-image to an expansive one that exists in God

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Date:	Sun., July 18th - Thur., July 22, 2010
Guided By:	Eileen Quinn, OSF
Arrival:	Begins: 5:00 pm (Check In)
Departure:	Ends: 1:00 pm Thursday
Cost	$475
Deposit	$150
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Meeting with Jesus, the Psychotherapist

In this retreat, we welcome Jesus to be our therapist and healer, as we look at the messiness of our inner lives. Too often, our feelings of inadequacy, guilt, anger, and fear, as well as our incessant need to be perfect, sets us up for a life of harsh judgments, anxious control, and small minded thinking. Guided by our compassionate, wise therapist, Jesus, we will seek a spirit-filled gospel way to understand and embrace what is happening. Through Jesus’ healing love, we open to the gift of inner freedom that leads to a life of more authentic joy, amazing beauty and sacred self-esteem.

This retreat is guided by Eileen Quinn, a Sister of Saint Francis of Assisi. She has a rich educational background in spirituality and psychology and is currently Director of Aisling Retreat House in Manchester, Maryland.  Sister Eileen brings a joyous spirit and a contemplative heart in helping others integrate the human and divine within themselves. As a psychotherapist and spiritual director, she has been inspired by the teachings of the mystics and has a graced ability to call forth the mystic within each of us.

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Date:	Sun., July 18th - Fri., July 23, 2010
Guided By:	Rev. Dr. Margaret Guenther
Arrival:	5:00 pm, Sunday, July 18th
Departure:	1:00 pm, Friday, July 23rd
Cost:	$650
Deposit:	$150
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Mercy and Truth have Met Together:
Being the Compassion of God Today

Margaret Guenther will lead us for five days in an exploration of how God’s mercy changes us and our world.  Come be with this grand lady of God and learn how mercy changes hearts, heals minds and can reorder all of creation.

 

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Date:	Saturday, July 24, 2010
Guided By:	Sr. Patricia Kirk
Arrival:	9:30 am
Departure:	3:30 pm
Cost:	$55
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Compassion Series:
Compassion in the Benedictine Tradition

There is no gift in the Christian tradition more reflective of the presence and action of God in our world than the gift of compassion. During this installment of our series, our guide, Sr. Patricia Kirk, will lead us in prayer and reflection on the gift of compassion in the Benedictine Tradition.