'LightWorks' Retreat Offers New Prayer Experience

This retreat will encompass three sessions over 14 weeks during the academic year. The first four-week session will begin Oct. 18. A second seven-week block begins Jan. 24. A final three-week block starts April 18. The retreat is structured to avoid gatherings during the holiday seasons of Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter. Retreatants are asked to commit to the entire 14-week program, and to a half-hour of daily prayer according to suggestions given.

Weekly gatherings will include input on spiritual experience and prayer in the Ignatian tradition, as well as large- and small-group sharing. These will be held on Wednesdays, 4-5:30 p.m. in the Knights Room of Pius XII Memorial Library. Retreat cost is $20.

The director of the program is Jack Callahan, SJ, assistant to the vice president for mission and ministry. The program is sponsored by the Division of Mission & Ministry and the St. Louis Center for Ignatian Spirituality.

St. Ignatius Loyola, the founder of the Jesuits and the author of the Spiritual Exercises, was aware that many people want and need spiritual help, but are not ready to make the whole of the Spiritual Exercises. LightWorks participants get a taste of what the full Ignatian exercises might offer them if they choose to do them with a spiritual director at a later time.

To register, email your name, department, building and room number, and work phone to terneusl@slu.edu. Please label the subject line: LightWorks Registration. Registrations are due by Oct. 6.

For more information on the program, contact Jack Callahan, S.J., at callahj2@slu.edu.

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