Graduate Programs in Christian Spirituality
"What new life are we beginning now"? St. Ignatius of Loyola, Reminiscences
The Christian Spirituality Program at Creighton University is conducting three, eight day, silent, directed Ignatian Retreats at the Creighton University Retreat Center near Griswold, Iowa. Please join us!
Creighton University?s Christian Spirituality Program invites you to contemplate, relax, revel, and enjoy God?s working in your life and to participate in a silent, eight day, individually directed, Ignatian Retreat at a lovely quiet setting in western Iowa on the banks of the East Nishnabotna River at the Creighton University Retreat Center near Griswold, Iowa. We have three retreats to fit your schedule.
Directors will be Christian Spirituality graduate students trained in the evocative-contemplative approach of spiritual direction.
Transportation to and from the retreat house is available from the Creighton campus for anyone who does not want to drive. Contact Colleen Hastings csp@creighton.edu or call 402 280-2303 for more information and to register.
The retreat is open to everyone, non-students and students alike.
Cost for 2019 Retreat: $700.00 includes all fees, room and board, transportation from to and from Creighton's campus to the Creighton University Retreat Center in Griswold, Iowa. Send your completed registration and payment to the address on the form.
Retreat Registration Form - click here to print
The nature of this retreat is such that there is minimal scheduled time together for the retreatants. There are no group presentations or conferences. Our daily rhythm will consist of three meals taken together in the silent atmosphere of the retreat as well as daily liturgy, the Mass, in which persons of all faith traditions are invited to participate. Each retreatant will be matched with a spiritual director based on the information provided in the application process. The focus of the daily spiritual direction sessions will be the retreatant?s prayer experience, their experience of God in the stuff of their daily life, what they are noticing about how God is present and so forth.?
Basically, the retreat is a time of being (rather that doing), a time of entering more deeply into one's relationship with God. The spiritual director might suggest some particular Scripture passages to assist retreatants in staying grounded in their own experience of life, what they might sense that God is calling them to focus on at this point in their lives.?
You may wonder why Ignatian is in the title. Briefly, this implies a kind of underlying theme of the Spiritual Exercises, namely, that because we are loved by God unconditionally, we are invited to enter more fully - with our whole selves - into a relationship with Christ that results in our coming to view ourselves more consciously as participating in Christ's mission, in the Kingdom of God where the tire hits the road in our lives.
by Sr. Janice Bachman, O.P., Director of Practica, Graduate Program in Christian Spirituality, Creighton University
Location: The Creighton University Retreat Center, Griswold, Iowa
CONTACT: Colleen Hastings for reservation information. CSP@CREIGHTON.EDU
