SUMMER RETREAT – Become Hope! Become All Flame!

This retreat focuses on the time we are in—in our life and in our world—that is dismantling all the structures that have protected the values we hold dear in our democracy. Hope is hard to find. We ask ourselves, what is ours to do? Our time together offers a response: Become Hope! Become All Flame!

S. Nancy Sylvester, IHM, will walk with us July 16–23, inviting us to ‘take a long loving look at the real’ deepening in us the transformative power of contemplation. She will draw on the insights of the mystics, especially Teilhard de Chardin, SJ, as well as science and the development of consciousness to complement the Gospel message. Through a process of presentation, reflection, dialogue, and prayer she invites us to give ourselves wholly to Divine Love so as to respond to these times of impasse from our Christ Consciousness.

Dates and Times: Thursday, July 16, through Thursday, July 23 | Arrival between 3 and 5 p.m., Departure at 11 a.m.
Presenter: S. Nancy Sylvester, IHM
Location: St. Joseph Villa Retreat Center
Cost Details: CSJ/CIJ – $680
Other Religious – $700
Non Religious – $720
Deposit – $150  ($75 nonrefundable deposit)
Registrants can either pay their deposit first and balance within two weeks of the start of the retreat, or they can pay in full.  

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Nancy Sylvester, IHM, is president of the Institute for Communal Contemplation and Dialogue, which she founded in 2002. Prior to that, she served in elected leadership positions both within her religious congregation, the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (IHM) of Monroe, MI, and in the Presidency of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR). She served on the staff of Network, a D.C.-based Catholic Social Justice Lobby, for fifteen years, ten years as executive director. Nancy is a well-known speaker, writer and process facilitator. She has written “Journey-Faith in an Entangled World” and co-authored two books: “Trouble and Beauty: Women Encounter Catholic Social Justice Teaching,” and “Crucible for Change.” Her articles have appeared in a variety of publications. She has an undergraduate degree in philosophy and political science from St. Louis University and a master’s in human development from St. Mary’s University in Winona, MN.