RETREATS

National Catholic Reporter, April 21, 2000

PLACE: Moye Spiritual Life Center, Melbourne, KY

TIME: June 25-July 1, 2000

DESCRIPTION: "The Jubilee Year: From Oppression to Liberation," June 25-July 1. The Jubilee Year, rich in biblical tradition and imagery, provides the focus for this retreat. The presenter is Robert Judge, SJ. Drawing from Jubilee themes and in the spirit of Luke's Gospel, Fr. Judge will focus on "letting the land lie fallow" and forgiveness. Contact: Moye Spiritual Life Center, 1000 St. Anne Drive, Melbourne, KY 41059.

Maine

PLACE: Living Water Spiritual Center, Winslow, ME

TIME: May-August 2000

DESCRIPTION: The Sisters of St. Joseph invite you to their lovely facility situated on 61 acres overlooking the Sebasticook River. May 14-19, six-day guided retreat, "The Mystery of Being With," Janet Blakeley presenter. This retreat will explore the mystery one encounters when being intentionally present to all. June 15-23, eight-day directed retreat -- Janet Blakeley; Bill Clark, SJ; Virginia Sheehan, SND, directors. Aug. 20-26, six-day guided retreat, "Circle of Life, Barbara Becnel, OSU," and Andre Feulner, SSJ, presenters. This retreat will focus on creation and Native American spirituality. For more information phone: (207) 872-2370; fax: (207) 873-1976. Cheek our Web site: www.e-livingwater.org

PLACE: Living Water Spiritual Center, Winslow, ME

TIME: Sept. 13-18, 2000

DESCRIPTION: Teilhardian spirituality and the life of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, SJ, will be the focus of this retreat/workshop. Kay Gill and James Skehan, SJ, will lead participants to explore the tremendous insights of this geologist and mystic whose wide-ranging ideas help to illuminate the magnificent mystery of the universe and it meaning in Christ. Retreatants will be encouraged to contemplate "the sense of earth opening and flowering upward in the sense of God and the sense of God routed and nourished from below in the sense of earth." For more information phone: (207) 872-2370; fax: (207) 873-1976. Check our Web site: www.e-livingwater.org

Maryland

PLACE: Bon Secours Spiritual Center, Marriottsville, MD

TIME: Summer 2000

DESCRIPTION: "The God of Hospitality," June 11-17, Harry Cain, SJ; "The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius," 30-day retreat, June 17-July 21, Francis Vanderwall, MDiv, PhD; "Come and Follow Me," June 18-24, Sam Vaccarella, TOR; "A Sadhana Retreat," June 25-July 1, Joseph Currie, SJ; "The Poet Within: Contemplative Seeing," July 2-8, Marcina Wiedekehr, OSB; "Walking the Path, Living the Questions: Tending the Holy in the Labyrinth," July 16-22, Gloria Carpeneto, PhD; "In Jesus We Live and Move and Have Our Being," July 30-Aug. 5, Raphael Amrhein, CP; "Sought by God in Unknowing and Forgetting," Aug. 6-12, Michael Fonseca; "The Parables of Jesus," Aug. 12-19, Francis Vanderwall, MDiv, PhD. Directed retreats: June 10-17, July 1-8, July 29-Aug. 5, Aug. 12-19. Contact: Bon Secours Spiritual Center, 1525 Marriottsville Road, Marriottsville, MD 21104. Phone: (410) 442-1320; fax: (410) 442-8219. Visit us on the Web: www.bonsecours.org/bssc