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SUMMARY:Palm Sunday Women’s Weekend: Walking the Journey with Jesus
DESCRIPTION:Master\, where do you live? Come and see… \nCome spend a weekend with other women and with Jesus\, finding out where he lives and listening to what he says. We will walk with him and watch him as he goes around teaching\, comforting\, loving\, forgiving\, challenging…so that we may get to know him more clearly\, love him more deeply\, and follow him more closely! There will be moments for quiet prayer and small group sharing\, as well as an opportunity for the Sacrament of Reconciliation. The weekend will conclude with a Palm Sunday Mass and brunch. Join us for a sacred entry into Holy Week with a beautiful community of women! \nFriday\, March 27 at 4:00pm to Sunday\, March 29 at 12pm. \nREGISTER by March 20
URL:https://www.straphaelacenter.org/event/palm-sunday-womens-weekend-walking-the-journey-with-jesus/
CATEGORIES:Women's Weekend
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SUMMARY:Women's Weekend: Wise Women Journey in Hope
DESCRIPTION:Before the magi arrived\, wise women were already present\, traveling to tend to a laboring mother and then to her newborn son. Their gifts were simple yet practical- water\, blankets\, nourishment. The magi\, under the guidance of a star\, arrived after the birth\, bringing gifts intended for a royal ruler. All journeyed in hope- for the life of a new son of Israel and for a future king. \nEven in today’s troubled world\, wise women journey in hope. \nJoin us for a weekend of prayer\, reflection\, celebration and creative expressions as we journey into our hearts to encounter the Source of our hope. \nREGISTER
URL:https://www.straphaelacenter.org/event/womens-weekend-wise-women-journey-in-hope/
CATEGORIES:Women's Weekend
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SUMMARY:Women's Weekend: Palm Sunday 2025
DESCRIPTION:Take a weekend away with other women to nurture your relationship with God. Enjoy this privileged time and space to grow in your spiritual journey. Sr. Kathy will provide you with food for your prayer\, guiding you as you retreat with our God of abundant love. This is a wonderful opportunity to prepare to enter fully into the sacred time of Holy Week. \nREGISTER by April 6
URL:https://www.straphaelacenter.org/event/womens-weekend-palm-sunday-2025/
CATEGORIES:Women's Weekend
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SUMMARY:Awaken to Your Spiritual Story: Women's Weekend
DESCRIPTION:Awaken to Your Spiritual Story is a reflective and nurturing retreat for women of all ages to engage with their creativity\, self-expression\, and intuition to discover greater spiritual meaning in their life stories.    \nEach life story has times of ease and love\, mystery and drama\, and challenge and sorrow. Exploring these experiences through contemplative\, creative activities helps us experience the many ways God leads and accompanies us through all types of life experiences. When we delve into our ordinary lives to reveal our sacred stories\, we find surprising new perspectives and insights that knit our experiences into a whole. This helps us to trust more deeply in the movement of God and the Holy Spirit and to open to new practices for going forward and discerning our path. \nDuring the weekend\, we will explore several creative\, contemplative practices to discover the storylines of our path.  You will learn to do SoulCollage®\, a surprising collage process that sparks intuition and reveals unexpected insights about you. You will be introduced to simple creative processes for journal reflections\, playful movement\, contemplative nature walks\, and a collaborative art activity.  These experiences will guide each woman toward discovering new meaning\, depth\, and sacred essence in the stories of her life. \nFacilitators will guide the weekend. Each brings experience in creative spiritual methods and a heart-centered approach to group spiritual facilitation.   \nThese supportive facilitators will guide small group sharing and storytelling for the sacred work of discovering and telling our stories.  \nYou will leave with a deeper connection to yourself and your sacred path\, as well as a deep appreciation for the journeys of other women.  You will have a personal  expression of your story\, which might be a collage\, a story or a poem\, a symbol\, or a piece of art. Importantly\,  you will have new creative practices to continue on your spiritual path. \n  \nRegister Here\n  \nFacilitator Bios:  \nKathy Garrett\, Ph.D.\, is a SoulCollage@ facilitator\, retreat guide\, team and leadership coach\, consultant\, and professor.  In each of her roles and in her own life\, she is drawn to the path of wholeness\, which calls for inner exploration\, discovery\, and ongoing release of outmoded stories and beliefs. She approaches this work with a light-hearted spirit and delight in the path of discovery. Her prayer practices are at the center of her work\, supporting her connection with the Divine Spirit and connecting with others from a heart space.  She is a devoted practitioner of Centering Prayer\, SoulCollage®\, journaling\, wide and deep reading\, sitting in a sacred circle for storytelling\, and wandering in nature for inspiration. Kathy also works with the Handmaids of the Sacred Heart of Jesus on Mission Advancement.  She is drawn to their welcoming charism and the experience of being met with their deep\, unconditional love and acceptance.   \nAndria Seneviratne (she/her) is a seeker whose mission is to open hearts and heal the fragmented relationships between ourselves\, God\, and each other. She is a sacred space holder with experience as a facilitator\, spiritual companion\, and strategy consultant. Andria's work centers around tapping into our divine essence and returning to our compassionate\, loving God by living into our full humanity in body\, mind\, and spirit. Andrea serves as a catalyst for deep change in each of her different roles.  In her practice\, she embraces her lived experience as an immigrant\, woman\, Asian American\, athlete\, and fellow traveler to support others in being their true selves.  \nBecky McIntyre (she/her) is a community artist\, muralist\, and linocut printmaker in Philadelphia. Through her work\, often collective in nature\, she hopes to bring awareness to sociopolitical issues and the transformative and healing nature of art and to activate and inspire new ways of being. She collaborates regularly with St. Raphaela Center\, recently as artist-in-residence. She works with local and national collectives of educators and young people in higher education around the Global Synod and facilitates collective synodal art and synodal listening\, through the process of Conversations in the Spirit. 
URL:https://www.straphaelacenter.org/event/awaken-to-your-spiritual-story-womens-weekend/
CATEGORIES:Women's Weekend
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SUMMARY:Women's Weekend: Palm Sunday
DESCRIPTION:We are the Soil where God's Life Grows\nEvery spring\, the gardener begins the process of readying the soil for the new growing season.  The leftover leaves from last fall must be raked\, the perennials trimmed\, and the hard soil hoed and opened.  Without this hard work\, the soil will not be ready to receive the seeds or the spring rain that will allow the new plants to grow. \nLike a garden\, the soil of our hearts also needs careful preparation followed by regular work so that the seeds of God’s life may grow and flourish in us! \nThrough presentations\, guided meditations\, rituals and sharing\, participants will be invited to join the Divine Gardener in attending to the soil of their hearts\, keeping it open to receive God’s abundant life and blessings. \nThis year\, St. Raphaela Center joins the Handmaids throughout the world in commemorating the 100th anniversary of St. Raphaela’s death\, so it is a special time to celebrate the fruit that her life has produced and open ourselves to allow it to continue being fruitful in us. Raphaela’s total openness and surrender to God\, made her soil fertile and God’s seedbecame within her God’s own life for our world.  She allowed God to trim and prune…her YES\, always at the ready!  Now her seed continues to bear fruit all over the world!  Isn’t this what we want our soil to be?  So\, come and allow the Divine Gardener to do what the Gardener knows best to do with your soil! \n  \nRegister Here
URL:https://www.straphaelacenter.org/event/womens-weekend-palm-sunday/
CATEGORIES:Women's Weekend
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SUMMARY:Women's Weekend: Growing in Spiritual Freedom
DESCRIPTION:Tasting the Spiritual Exercises: Praying with Ignatius\nLonging to go deeper into your spiritual life? \nDesiring to remember your belovedness and lean into God’s presence? \nThe Spiritual Exercises given to us by St. Ignatius are a helpful path to deepening our relationship with God. We’ll explore facets of Ignatian Spirituality such as discernment and interior freedom. This weekend is designed for both women who are new to the Exercises and those who are familiar and longing to deepen their daily practice. \nThe weekend includes time for personal prayer\, group sharing\, liturgy and optional opportunities for spiritual direction and/or reconciliation. \nRegister Here
URL:https://www.straphaelacenter.org/event/womens-weekend-growing-in-spiritual-freedom/
CATEGORIES:Women's Weekend
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SUMMARY:Women's Weekend I 2023
DESCRIPTION:Our Vulnerability\, the Sacrament of God’s Abundance\nWhen we learn to live our lives mindfully\, knowing that each moment and each event is the HOLY GROUND of God’s GRACE\, life changes for us; it begins to open up\, helping us realize that we are always standing at the center of God’s Sacred Circle\, enveloped by God’s Abundant LOVE and GRACE. In this Sacred Space\, our brokenness\, emptiness\, and vulnerability become transformed by God’s graceful ABUNDANCE and we come to see ourselves as God sees us! For in in this Sacred Circle\, we are loved and graced\, and truly rich. \nRegister
URL:https://www.straphaelacenter.org/event/womens-weekend-i-2023/
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