Advent Twilight Retreat Slated for December 8
11/21/2022
The Division of Mission and Identity will hold an Advent retreat for faculty and staff on Thursday, Dec. 8, in Boileau Hall.
The retreat, "Expecting Hope: Meaning in the Waiting," will be led by Carol Atwell Ackels, J.D., the director of the Ignatian Spirituality Institute.
Ackels serves as a retreat director of the Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius in various formats. She offers weekend retreats, the Exercises in Everyday Life, and one-to-one directed retreats at Jesuit retreat houses across the United States. She launched and continues to give workshops to shape persons, Jesuits and lay, who are moving into retreat ministry and spiritual companioning in the Ignatian tradition.
Ackels co-authored with Joe Tetlow, S.J. the Ignatian retreat Finding Christ in the World, and worked with Anthony Borrow, S.J. developing the Toward Greater Freedom retreat for parents at Jesuit College Prep of Dallas. She holds a J.D. from SMU Dedman School of Law, Dallas and a Master of Art in Theology and Leadership from Gonzaga University.
The retreat will be held from 4:30 to 8 p.m. The evening begins with an optional Mass at 4:30 p.m. Dinner begins at 5 p.m. and retreat starts at 5:30 p.m.
Saint Louis University’s Office of Mission and Identity ensures that the principles and traditions of Catholic, Jesuit higher education, and the mission and core values of SLU are integrated into operations, structures, programs and practices, and the formation of its students, faculty, staff, administration and board members.