SUMMER RETREAT – Put Out Into the Deep: Hearing the Invitation

No matter your stage or age, God always invites us a little further into the depths of transformation. The means of that invitation may come in unexpected ways over time — through deep gratification (a satisfying conversation or a brief but delicious nap), while musing or gazing over our own long story, amid loss, after assuming we are well settled and clear about what is to be, through whimsy or a lightness of spirit, etc. During this retreat, we will pause and be with our “nets” and little “boats,” as they are, and notice what particular invitation God might be extending at this time of our lives, both its costs and realities. We may come to find that the “deep” itself proves to be an unexpected revelation — an internal space unlike any other we’ve experienced of greater freedom, acceptance, and joy.

Dates and Times: Monday, July 6, through Sunday, July 12 | Arrival between 3 and 5 p.m., Departure at 11 a.m.
Presenter: Janet Corso
Location: St. Joseph Villa Retreat Center
Cost Details: CSJ/CIJ – $630
Other Religious – $650
Non Religious – $670
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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Janet Corso Bio:  Janet lives in the Mid-Hudson Valley. As an academic for 32 years, she taught philosophy at the Dominican Mt. St. Mary College in Newburgh, NY.  In 1995, she founded Sarabrae, a women’s spirituality center, which she oversaw for nine years until she served as the director of Mariandale Retreat and Conference Center, a ministry of the Dominican Sisters of Hope in Ossining, for 13 years. While there, she founded and was a team leader of the Contemplative Formation Program, forming both lay and religious in the contemplative Christian tradition. She currently has spiritual direction and supervision practices, and she trains both spiritual directors and supervisors. She also gives various retreats around the country and works with men’s and women’s religious congregations, specifically in the area of contemplative spirituality and aging.