Women’s Weekend Retreat – Make Ordinary Time an Extraordinary Time – CENTERING PRAYER RETREAT

Friday, February 11th - Sunday, February 13th, 2022

Retreat Director: Mrs. Anna Graziano

This retreat is ON-SITE with no social distancing, but will also be taking place VIRTUALLY, if there is enough interest, so please indicate on the registration form below whether you will be attending in-person or virtually.  

Click here to watch a video which speaks to the ending of our COVID restrictions.

Anna is a certified spiritual director, retreat director, supervisor of spiritual directors, director of the Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius and a bereavement facilitator. She helps men and women in their efforts to listen for the voice of God in Scripture, prayer, dreams, and in the ordinary events of life. Anna has served for over 40 years in the Newark Archdiocese, Paterson Diocese and Trenton Diocese offering adult spirituality in parishes and retreat centers.

Anna and Tom are married with 4 married children, eight grandchildren and a new great grandson. Their parish is St Thomas the Apostle in Bloomfield, NJ. where she has been offering adult spirituality for 40 yrs.

Make Ordinary Time an Extraordinary Time - CENTERING PRAYER RETREAT

The song begins like this: “I’ll be with you in apple blossom time…. what a wonderful time for you and me…”

Here we are beginning the first part of “Ordinary Time” which is far from dull or mundane but actually meant to be a “wonderful time for you and me” as the song says.  A time to celebrate our own journey and follow Jesus and walk with him just us as the disciples did in Luke 24:31-32 allowing Jesus to take us deeper into the mysteries of His life, His healings and teachings.  “Then their eyes were opened, and they recognized him… asking each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us while he talked with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?”

Through Contemplation and Centering Prayer this weekend offers you an opportunity to enter deeply into the quiet and experience that burning heart the disciples speak of. 

“This is the space in our lives where we practice being rather than doing; it is the space where we remain in Jesus as he remains in us.  There is no way to arrive at this place except through the gentle practice of romancing the Word of God.”

-- “Abide”  by Macrina Wiederkehr

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