Directed Retreats:

A directed retreat is a prayer form in which the retreatant comes away for a period of quiet time with God. The retreatant is seen daily by a retreat director who listens attentively to the retreatant's experience of prayer and strives to facilitate a deepening of the retreatant's relationship with God.

A retreat of this kind is usually a week in length, though it may be longer, and the prayer material selected is ordinarily based upon scripture.

Persons having made retreats of this type often describe them as rich experiences of the generosity and love of God.

Advent Retreat

Dates: Nov. 30 - Dec. 5, 2008
Registration 2:00 p.m. Sunday,
retreat closes 11:00 a.m. Friday.
Location: DCRD at St. Paul of the Cross Retreat Center
23333 Schoolcraft, Detroit, MI 48223
Directors: Teresa Disch, OP; Charlotte Hoefer, OP; Carol Johannes, OP; Rosemarie Kieffer, OP; Nancy Mason Bordley
Fee for this retreat: $450.00
Deposit: $50.00 non-refundable
Please register before November 10, 2008
Balance: $400.00
Registration: Please register before November 10, 2007. To register print out and mail this form with your check.

Summer 2009
Directed Retreat

Dates: June 15-21, 2009
Registration 1:00 p.m. Monday
Retreat closes 11:00 a.m. Sunday.
Location: DCRD at St. Paul of the Cross Retreat Center
23333 Schoolcraft, Detroit, MI 48223
Fee for this retreat: $500.00
Deposit: $50.00 non-refundable
Balance: $450.00
Directors: Teresa Disch, OP;
Charlotte Hoefer, OP;
Rosemarie Kieffer, OP ;
Nancy Mason Bordley;
Joanne Podlucky, OP
Registration: To register print out and mail this form with your check.

Directed Retreat

Dates: July 13-19, 2009
Registration 1:00 p.m. Monday,
Retreat closes 1:00 p.m. Sunday.
Location: St. Francis Retreat Center
Dewitt, MI
Directors: Fr. Vic Clore
Suzanne Eichhorn, OP
Charlotte Hoefer, OP
Carol Johannes, OP
Rosemarie Kieffer, OP
Fee for this retreat: $475.00
Deposit: $50.00 non-refundable
(NOTE: Please mail registration and deposit to St. Francis Retreat Center.)
Balance: $425.00
Registration: To register print out and mail this form with your check.

Directed Retreat

Dates: July 22-28, 2009
Registration 1:00 p.m. Wednesday,
retreat closes 1:00 p.m. Tuesday.
Location: Capuchin Retreat Center
Washington, MI
Fee for this retreat: $500.00
Deposit: $50.00 non-refundable
Balance: $450.00
Directors: Gail Bacigal;
Teresa Disch, OP;
Charlotte Hoefer, OP;
Carol Johannes, OP;
Rosemarie Kieffer, OP
Registration: To register print out and mail this form with your check.

My Sister, My Friend:
A Retreat for Blood Sisters, "Like Sisters" and Soul Sisters

Dates: November 7 - 9, 2009
Participants are invited to spend the weekend remembering, reminiscing, and reconnecting with a sister, a female relative or a friend. Throughout the weekend, you will be invited to revisit your past, become current with your present, and imagine your future. The weekend will include prayer, alone and together times, activities and sharing.

The poet, Emily Dickenson, writes "...My sister, my friend, is my estate. My sister, my friend will be the treasure I accrue in life..." Come and celebrate with us the sacrament of Sisterhood, Friendship.
Presenters: Gail Bacigal has been a Spiritual Director at St. Blase Parish for the past 20 years. She has worked on numerous directed retreats with the staff of the DCRD and also led many preached retreats. Gail specializes in working with groups of women and designed and instituted the program "Circles of Women" where women minister to women. She has been married for 47 years and has three adult children and nine grandchildren.

Nancy Mason Bordley, MA, has worked in Religious Education, Adult Formation, Worship and Music for over 25 years. She is a spiritual director, facilitates retreats and is founder and owner of Parish Services, a company which offers contracted services to parishes in the Detroit Archdiocese. Currently, Nancy is a full time Pastoral Associate at St. John Fisher Chapel University Parish, in Auburn Hills. She is also an Adrian Dominican Associate and on the staff at the Dominican Center for Religious Development.

Ann Petrini Lindamood, an Adrian Dominican Associate, ministers as a spiritual director, retreat director, women's prayer group leader and is very active in Beatitudes Pax Christi group at her parish, St. Mary Magdalen's. Brighton, MI. Ann, the oldest of four sisters, grew up in an Irish-Italian family in western Pennsylvania. She retired from a career in psychiatric/mental health nursing and currently resides with her husband of 45 years. She is the mother of four daughters and grandmother to Riley and Zachary.
Location: Weber Center, Adrian, MI
Map and directions will be sent with confirmation of registration.
Registration: Friday, 6:00 p.m.;
Opening session at 7:00 p.m.;
Retreat closes after lunch Sunday
Retreat Fee: Resident:
Room, meals and retreat fee
- Single occupancy: $210.00
- Double occupancy: $180.00

Commuter fee: $125.00
Deposit: $50.00 (non-refundable deposit will be applied to fee).
To register print out and mail this form with your check.
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