Program Offerings

Individual retreats provide an atmosphere of silence and contemplative recollection for your daily discipline of personal prayer. Time spent in quiet reflection facilitates your spiritual journey. Access to video and book library is available.

A private retreat offers space, access to facilities and scheduling around Community liturgies and meals. The fee is $40 per day which includes room and meals.

A directed retreat offers the same as above plus an opportunity to meet with a Spiritual Director each day. The fee is $75 per day. This includes spiritual direction, an over-night stay and three meals.

Directors:

Jolene Geier OP: invites you to root your spiritual journey in the broader world view where issues of peace and justice affect your soul choices.
Louise Hageman OP: invites you to be attentive to the rhythm of daily life and to integrate the spiritual into all of life.
Philip St. Romain D. Min.: invites you as a Catholic layman, husband, father and author to see the possibilities for a contemplative life in the midst of busy-ness. (3 day retreats only)
Renee Dreiling OP: invites you to discover the surprises that God splashes in and among the pleasures and pains of life.
Connie Burkholder, M. Div. invites you to a deeper awareness of and attentiveness to God’s presence, love, and action in your life. She is available for individual direction and directed Ignatian Retreats.

WORKSHOPS AND SERIES

Praying with Scripture
Connie Burkholder will lead a prayer class using the book Moment By Moment: A Retreat in Everyday Life written by Carol Ann Smith and Eugene F. Merz. Instruction will be given about use of the book and a method of praying which encourages the participants to be attentive to the way that the scriptures speak to them personally, thus nurturing their relationship with God.
Though this is a continuation of the Lenten prayer class, new persons are welcome to come! Each person will pray through the Moment By Moment book at their own pace and will bring something from their prayer experience to class. All classes will be from 3:00 pm—4:30 pm in Room 114 at Heartland Center.
Dates for the class are:
Tuesday, May 6
Tuesday, June 3
Tuesday, July 1
Tuesday, July 29
Tuesday, August 26
Tuesday, September 23
Tuesday, October 14
Cost for the class is $10.00 per class session, payable at each class. Heartland Center can order you a book for $12.00. To register and order a book call (620-792-1232) or email brenda@heartlandspirituality.org

Written that You May Believe: a study of John's Gospel
Join us for the fall book study using the book, Written That You May Believe, by Sandra M. Schneiders. This book is a standard text for the study of the Gospel of John and will help us learn about and “dwell in” the liberating truth of Jesus. Many small faith groups have begun using this guide in their devotional reading.
Renee Dreiling, OP will lead the sessions and we will meet during the noon hour (12- 1) in the Convent dining room annex. The dates for this study are the following Thursdays: Aug. 28; Sept. 4 and 18; Oct.2 and 16; Nov. 6 and 13; Dec.4. Dates for 2009 will be announced later. Cost is $30 for the book and $40 for the 8 study sessions.

RETREAT EXPERIENCES

Summer Retreat 2008
"Contemplating the Person of Jesus"
Father John Burchill OP and Sister Barbara Metz
August 1-8, 2008

Jesus is the incarnation of the living God. What we see and experience in Jesus we know to be a pure reflection of the holiness and love of God. This guided retreat will explore various themes in the life of Jesus through reflective talks, suggested prayer materials and the opportunity for some personal direction. Some of the themes that will be explored are: Jesus the Just One, Jesus and Women, The Feeling Jesus, The Forgiving Jesus and Jesus the Prophet.

Sister Barbara Metz, SND de N, MS, MA has extensive experience in retreat ministry, spiritual direction formation and renewal work and parish missions in the US, Canada, Africa and Ireland.

Rev. John Burchill OP STD has ministered in retreat work, spiritual direction, renewal and formation work, and parish missions in the US, Canada, Africa and New Zealand.

Father John and Sister Barbara have teamed together for a number of years. They were co-founders of the Renewal Program held at St. Stephen Prior, Dover, MA. They were also members of the founding team of the Berakah Renewal Program in Pittsfield, NH.

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Summer Directed Retreat Opportunity
Monday, August 11 – Friday, August 15, 2007
Cost: $225 (includes room, meals, spiritual direction)
Directors: Connie Burkholder, M.Div.; Sr. Sue Selby
Register by July 15, 2008 to reserve your room.
Come and be drawn into a deeper relationship with Christ through this silent, directed retreat. Retreatants will be invited to pray with scripture based on the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius. Each day you will meet with a spiritual director to reflect on your times of prayer.
As a retreatant, expect to spend several hours through the day in prayer, eat in silence with other retreatants, and experience a renewed sense of God’s love for you. More information will be provided to retreatants upon registering.

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THEOLOGY INSTITUTE

Theology Institute 2009
Christianity in the 21st Century: Dynamics of Spiritual Transformation
June 12-16, 2009
Philip St. Romain, D. Min. and Kathryn Damiano, Ph.D.
$25 non-refundable registration fee (part of the total fee)
$165 - commuter registration (includes lunches)
$250 - registration, room and board
Christianity shapes and is shaped by the worldview of the various cultures in which it is to be found .It is good to understand these worldviews, and their formative influences. Nevertheless, the Gospel is not to be identified with any particular culture or system; it ultimately transcends these. Join us to explore how the Spirit is calling us forth as a people during these times of transition.

Kathryn Damiano is a Quaker and life long contemplative. As a teacher of in-depth spiritual life studies and retreat leader, she sees her ministry as working for peace and justice through spiritual formation. Kathryn has been a spiritual director for 25 years and has served in this capacity at Pendle Hill, a Quaker center for study and contemplation. She also co-founded The School of the Spirit a two year program forming spiritual nurturers as well as teaching in a similar program through the Academy for Spiritual Formation sponsored by the Upper Room. Her formal training consists of a Master of Divinity from United Theological Seminary (United Methodist), a Masters in counseling psychology, an internship in spiritual direction at the Jesuit Renewal Center, and a Ph.D. in spiritual theology. Kathryn moved from Philadelphia to Wichita 9 years ago to join the Friends of Jesus Community. Their ministry has been to live in a low-income area of the city to be a presence for interracial reconciliation. Presently she and her husband have built a solar home for which they did most of the construction and Xeriscaping (using drought resistant native plants)

Philip St. Romain is a member of the team at Heartland Center for Spirituality in Great Bend, KS. He is the author of 20 books on prayer, spirituality and theology, including Here Now in Love: the roots of contemplative spirituality, Critical Issues in Christian Contemplative Practice (with James Arraj), Kundalini Energy and Spirituality: a pathway for growth and healing, and Reflecting on the Serenity Prayer. He has a M.S. degree from University of Southwestern La. (now ULL) in Biology and a Doctor of Ministry degree in Spiritual Direction from the Graduate Theological Foundation. Married and the father of three grown children (and grandfather of two), Philip and his family reside in Wichita, KS.

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