A Renewal of Heart
A four week intensive and directed retreat
September 13 - October 21, 2010

• Are you competent and successful and yet feel there’s something more to be gained from your life?
• Has the work in which you have been engaged these last twenty or more years dampened the fire of your passion for God?             
• Are you stranded in the gap between the life you now know and that to which you feel allured?
• Is your identity and integrity challenged by the multiple injustices that surround us?
• Are you at an impasse in how to live your religious life?
• Does the mystery of suffering leave you feeling helpless or hopeless?
• Are you yearning for a deeper relationship with God?

This is a 30 day renewal experience, followed by a directed retreat, for women religious whose formation occurred before 1990, and who desire to enter more deeply into the reality of their vocation. These 30 days are about love, a lifetime of faithful love in response to the fire of Love that grasped one’s heart in her original consecration.

 This month is an opportunity for you to explore your personal call to a deeper relationship with God within the context of your religious life: a life that anticipates God’s immediate presence, one that recognizes it as it invites and unfolds, one characterized by a freedom to respond to that Presence.

 Presenters and Spiritual Directors
Marcia Allen, CSJ
Janet Lander, CSJ
Bette Moslander, CSJ
Mary Jo Nelson, OLVM
Liberata Pellerin, CSJ
Betty Suther, CSJ
Carolyn Teter, CSJ
Sylvia Winterscheidt, CSJ

The presenters and spiritual directors of this program are all members of the Manna House of Prayer Staff. They are experienced and highly qualified, holding graduate degrees in theology, spirituality, pastoral care and/or spiritual direction