Pastors, Priest, and Guides Retreat
A Time for Christian Leaders Leading a Beautiful Church
Friends, the new website is up, for Pastors, Priest, and Guides. I'm so excited to be able to serve at the Houston event as one of the guides for the retreat.
Registration is open for the Houston retreat, and you are officially invited to join us at one (or all!) of three Pastors, Priests and Guides retreats in 2023.
The guides for this event will be ME, FR RONALD ROLHEISER, SHAUNA NIEQUIST, DREW JACKSON, AARON NIEQUIST, and LORI SHOULTS.
On Monday we will arrive from all over the country and begin a shared journey. We’ll meet each other, worship together, orient ourselves to the retreat, and begin to exhale and slow down. Drew Jackson will help us “Embrace the Mystery” and Fr Ronald Rolheiser, OMI, will give a significant teaching on “The Paschal Mystery”. We’ll end with Night Prayer and the opportunity for a great night of sleep.
Tuesday morning will be a 3 hour, guided personal retreat. Through spiritual practices, simple liturgies, and embodied prayer, we will be led into holy space in which God can do what only God can do. This will propel us into an afternoon of solitude, either on campus or in the neighborhood of the church, and then back together for an ecumenical, practice-based Eucharist service. And then by 4:30pm or so, we’ll be released into the beauty and energy and art of Houston. Eat great food…explore the arts…and soak up the goodness of the city.
Finally, Wednesday morning will focus on heading back into our actual home communities. How can we translate the practices and rhythms of the retreat into our real lives and churches? What are tools and resources that can support this good work? How can we become menders of the church cracked open? We’ll end the whole retreat with a time of prayer and sending.
Or said more simply: the three movements of the retreat are (1) Opening to the rhythms of Grace, (2) Swimming deep in the rhythms of Grace, and (3) Learning tools to invite others into the rhythms of Grace.
Can’t wait to dive into this with you.