Heartland Center for Spirituality

Program Offerings: December 2011 and Beyond


Private and Directed Retreats

Workshops and Series
SpiritLife

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PRIVATE AND DIRECTED RETREATS

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. See Body and Soul retreat offering below for package options.

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.
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.
Ann Axman invites you to explore the daily moments as sacred and gifts from God. .
Marcia Berchek offers a time to be fully present to God in the midst of ordinary concerns.

WORKSHOPS AND SERIES


Ongoing: SpiritLife
Two-year spiritual formation process.
Spiritual Director training.
Click here for more information about classes at Heartland Center.
Now available online for non-credit option.

Book Study 2011 - 2012
"Neglected Voices: Peace in the Old Testament"
2011: Sept. 13, Oct. 4, Nov. 1 and Dec. 6
2012: Jan. 10, Feb. 14, Mar. 13, Apr. 10
Noon - 1 p.m.
Fee: $5.00 per session plus price of book ($15.00). $7.00 for lunch (optional).
The Bible has a reputation for being about violence in the Old Testament and about peace in the New Testament. David A. Leiter deconstructs that oversimplified notion as he explores passages in which God calls for the making of peace. By identifying key typologies, Leiter shows the Old Testament’s relevance to today’s struggle for peace.

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Peer Supervision for Spiritual Directors
Dates: (Friday 7:30 p.m. - Saturday 3:30 p.m.):
- February 17-18, 2012
- August 3-4, 2012
- October 26-27, 2012
- March 8-9, 2013
- August 2-3, 2013
Fees per gathering (includes Saturday breakfast and lunch):
Commuters - $35.00
Staying overnight - $60.00
. . . In order to provide for the continuing growth and formation of spiritual directors trained in our SpiritLife program, we will provide several get-togethers at Heartland Center for Spirituality during the coming months.
- We are opening this opportunity for anyone who has completed a spiritual director formation program and is currently seeing directees.
. . . During this time, we will provide opportunities for fellowship, support, sharing resources, and peer supervision (contemplative observer approach taught by Jane Vennard). The team at Heartland Center will provide hospitality and direction for this process.
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2012 Diocesan RCIA Retreats
"Journey to Conversion" theme
February 11, Great Bend, KS, Heartland Center for Spirituality
February 18, Dodge City, KS, Our Lady of Guadalupe Cathedral
Registration: $55 per parish plus $15 per person, or $20 per person (includes lunch; ask about family rates)
To register, contact Brenda by email or phone (620-792-1232) or FAX (620-792-1746).

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Theology Institute 2012
by Carla Mae Streeter OP
"Dominican Spirituality Today"
June 15-19, 2012
$175 commuter fee (includes lunch Saturday - Tuesday)
$295.00 (includes room and board)
- free room June 19 and 20 for those who also come to the "Listening to God" retreat June 21-25 (see below)

Who are we as Dominicans in the Church and world today? How is our charism distinctive? How do we word it today? If Dominic were here today, what would he wrestle with? How would he approach questions involving ecology, evolution, the new atheists? What light would he bring to doctrinal questions such as original sin and the role of the Church among other faith traditions? We are men and women of the Word. What word do folks need to hear from us at this time, in this age? These days we will explore these questions and more. Together we will explore who we are...for TODAY.

Carla Mae Streeter, OP is a Dominican of the Congregation of Catherine of Siena in Racine, Wisconsin. She is presently a professor of Systematic theology and Spirituality at Aquinas Institute of Theology, a graduate school of Theology and Ministry sponsored by the Dominicans of the Central Province adjoined to St. Louis University in St. Louis.

Using the resources of the Lonergan Research Institute in Toronto, Canada, she completed doctoral studies with the Canadian Jesuits at Regis College of the Toronto School of Theology in Toronto in 1986. She was co-recipient of the first Jean-Marc Laporte Scholarship Award for academic excellence, and the first woman to complete a theological doctorate at Regis College. Her specialty is the thought of the Canadian Aquinas scholar, Bernard Lonergan, as that thought provides a framework for the dialogue of theology with other disciplines, and with other religious traditions.

Her experience includes eleven years of lay leadership training on the parish level, spiritual direction, and social advocacy. Carla Mae has been active as a facilitator for several religious congregations, and has served her own community in the renewal of its own constitution and in its theological renewal. She lives in St. Louis where she is active in Interfaith Partnership of Metropolitan St. Louis and other ecumenical and interfaith activities, and serves on the Board of ITEST, the Institute for the Theological Encounter with Science and Technology.
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RETREAT EXPERIENCES

Body and Soul: A Private Retreat Package.
. . . Heartland Center for Spirituality, located in the convent of the Dominican Sisters of Peace, invites you to relax and renew in one of our guest rooms and take advantage of one of our Body and Soul specials.
Included in the package are:
. . . * Room accommodations for two nights
. . . * 5 meals
. . . * 2-day pass to local health club.
. . . * The quiet and calm of the retreat center and grounds.
. . . * Access to a library of videos/DVDs on a variety of topics.
. . . * An opportunity to share prayer with the Sisters.
- - - Other options (by appointment only) - - -
. . . * Massage ($45)
. . . * Spiritual direction ($40)

To check for availability and make reservations, contact the Center: 620-792-1232 or send email to office@heartlandspirituality.org

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Chocolate Boutique Getaway (Women’s Retreat)
by Pastor Nancy Modin, Marcia Berchek and Cecilia Peltier
Saturday (9:00-3:30)
(Note: the retreat scheduled for January 28, 2012 has been postponed until further notice. We are leaving this listing posted to obtain names of those who will be interested in attending when it is offered. Please use the link below to reserve your place.)
$30 commuter fee (includes materials, lunch and snacks)
$50 (includes overnight lodging Jan.27, materials, breakfast, lunch and snacks)
Join us as we indulge ourselves at Chocolate Boutique (also something for those unable to eat chocolate). Together we’ll experience meaningful devotions, chocolaty activities, and lots of rejuvenating fun. Bring a friend or make new friends. It’s a time to relax, deepen your relationship with Jesus, and be pampered as well!

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Holy Week Retreat 2012: "Into Your hands, I commend my spirit."
by Rev. Paul H. Colloton, D. Min.
Option one: April 1 - 5 (Palm Sunday Liturgy - Holy Thursday Morning) $200
Option two: Triduum Retreat, April 5 - 8 (Holy Thursday Liturgy - Easter Morning Liturgy) $150
Option three: April 1 - 8 (Palm Sunday Liturgy - Easter morning Liturgy) $300
The practice of surrender is a form of detachment. A major obstacle to spiritual depth is attachment. Classical spiritual literature instructs us in the dangers of attachment. Sur- render is a remedy to that obsessive tendency. Jesus surrendered his very life to God, but not without pain and suffering. Let us walk with Jesus this Holy Week and learn from him what it means to surrender our lives, emptying ourselves with Him and giving our lives into God’s hands like Him, knowing that the promise of sharing in His Resurrection is His offer to us.

Paul H. Colloton, OP, D.Min. was ordained for the Order of Preachers (Dominicans), Province of St. Albert the Great.  The Director of Continuing Education for the National Association of Pastoral Musicians (NPM), Paul has over 40 years experience in pastoral ministry as a preacher, presider, musician, liturgist, music educator, spiritual companion, consultant, and HIV/AIDS ministry.  Paul is a liturgical consultant for Loyola Press, a board member of the Georgetown Center for Liturgy and coach for its Leading from the Heart program, and presider at St. Rose of Lima Parish, Gaithersburg, MD and Our Lady of Good Counsel Parish, Vienna, VA. He is currently in a three year period of discernment about transfer of vows to the Oblates of St. Francis de Sales, Wilmington-Philadelphia Province.
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Listening to God: A Contemplative Retreat
by Philip St. Romain, M.S., D. Min. (Heartland Center team)
Phil St. RomainJune 21 (7:00 p.m.) -25 (1:00 p.m.), 2012
$295.00 (includes room and board)
- free room June 19 and 20 for those who also come to our Theology Institute June 15-19 (see above)
"How does God speak to you, and what is God communicating these days?" will be the focus of this retreat. We will observe contemplative silence throughout except for times of group prayer and short teachings. Each day will include opportunities for praying the Liturgy of the Hours, Mass, group Lectio Divina, group contemplative sitting, and spiritual direction; there will be many hours of unstructured, open times for walks on our grounds, rest, or whatever one chooses. Come prepared to enter more deeply into the silence to become more aware of God's presence and action in your life.
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ENGAGED ENCOUNTERS

Heartland Center for Spirituality is pleased to host Engaged Encounter Weekends for the Diocese of Dodge City. Dates for 2011-12 are


2012
Jan. 13-15
Mar. 2-4
Apr 20-22
June 29-July 1
Sept. 14-16

For information contact Ronn and Annie Roehm at 620-728-0855.                                 
For reservations contact Mike and Lindsey Mazouch at 620-792-6290


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