Spiritual Journaling: Open the Heart with Sacred Art

Beautiful images have a unique ability to incite our imaginations and open our hearts to the wonder of God’s creative glory. Sacred art, especially, has the power to draw us closer to God. Join us at this five-day retreat and writing class to learn an approach to spiritual journaling centered on the contemplation of sacred art. Inspired by the time-honored practices of Ignatian spirituality, we will build bridges through our own writing to the Holy Trinity and the saints. Our class resources will be images of sacred art, individual prayer time, written examples from saints and other Catholic writers, and thoughtful conversation about examples of the rich devotional literature of Catholicism. I encourage you to plan a day with about 3 1/2 hrs. class time, then unstructured time to pray, nap, write, stroll the beautiful grounds.

Check in for this week-long workshop begins Sunday night at 4:30 pm. Dinner for students and  the instructor is at 5:30,  followed by a workshop introduction and conference, which ends at 9:00 pm. Hands-on instruction begins  Monday morning after mass. The entire workshop ends Friday at 1 PM.

 Private Room: Workshop + Daily Meal Package* : $1485.00

 Shared Room: Workshop + Daily Meal Package* + : $1335.00

 Commuter: Workshop + Daily Lunch and Dinner: $1010.00

*Hot Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, and snacks.

All materials used in this workshop will be pre-ordered and made available to students in the classroom by the instructor.

Please call the office for more information: (860) 536-0565