New Creation-Renewed Creation: Living into the Promise of Advent
December 5-7 2008, Friday 6 p.m. until Sunday 11:00 a.m.This Advent retreat will offer participants ample space and time to honor this sacred season of waiting. Escape from the mall and the office parties, the busyness and the rush, to delight instead in becoming attentive to the new life stirring within you.
Presenter:
Wendy M. Wright ,
Professor of Theology at Creighton University, author and frequent contributor to the journals Weavings and Family and Community Ministries. Wendy co-hosts the Creighton University podcast “Catholic Comments” with Dr. J. O’Keefe. Her expertise falls in the areas of history of spirituality, family spirituality, spiritual direction and the Catholic devotional tradition. She also teaches graduate ministerial programs including Creighton's Christian Spirituality Master's program and the National Methodist Academy for Spiritual Formation.
Her books include: Sacred Heart: Gateway to God, Sacred Dwelling: A Spirituality of Family Life, Seasons of a Family’s Life: Cultivating the Contemplative Spirit at Home, Heart Speaks to Heart: the Salesian Spiritual Tradition, Caryll Houselander: Essential Writings, The Time Between : Cycles and Rhythms in Ordinary Time, The Vigil: Keeping Watch in the Season of Christ’s Coming, and The Rising Time: Living the Mysteries of Easter, Lent and Pentecost.
Wendy’s academic work has focused on the Salesian spiritual tradition founded by Francis de Sales and Jane de Chantal. Her books on the Salesian tradition include: The Bond of Perfection: Jeanne de Chantal and Francois de Sales, Francis de Sales and Jane de Chantal: Letters of Spiritual Direction, Francis de Sales: Introduction to the Devout Life and Treatise on the Love of God.
Residential Fee: $220 Commuter Fee: $130 Deposit: $50