during the fourth and fifth week of Lent?
It's not too late!
Join us for a time of reflection, practice, and prayer.
Nine Days with Dorothee Soelle
Dorothee Soelle (also spelled Sölle)
(1928-2003) was a German theologian, poet, peace activist, Protestant
and ecumenical Christian, spouse and mother, teacher, socialist, and
from mid-life on, feminist. She is the author of The Silent Cry: Mysticism and Resistance; Against the Wind: Memoir of a Radical Christian; Revolutionary Patience; Theology for Skeptics; and other books.
Soelle
wrote in an accessible manner (mostly in prose, sometimes in poems) and
not in the form of long academic treatises. Her chosen topics, though,
were often challenging: silence and language in the struggle to name
God; suffering and the vulnerability of God; Jesus the risk-taker and
the community of the friends of Jesus; history, evil, and Christian
political engagement; Christians and the Shoah (Holocaust); the church as community of memory, resistance, and
hope.
This retreat will be especially helpful if you
What, when, where, how
* An online nine-day spiritual retreat, beginning Thursday, March 23, 2023.* The life and writings of Dorothee Soelle serve as a focus and inspiration.
* Simple and accessible resources and practices:
one quotation or short excerpt from DS's writings per day* At home, on a break at work, in a coffee shop, on vacation, in your daily life: read, reflect, meditate, and pray with the retreat materials in a way that suits your schedule.
one spiritual exercise per day
one prayer per day
on nine consecutive days
* Spiritual refreshment, nurture, and challenge.
* You'll need 20 minutes a day of focused time (any time, night or day) and a computer or tablet with internet access. (Smart phone works too but the larger the screen, the better.)
* Easy registration and payment via PayPal secure link, which takes credit and debit cards in addition to PayPal.
Register here
An online retreat? How does that work?
* The retreat offers daily resources (the quotations, spiritual exercises, and prayers mentioned above, with some images as well to nourish you visually, and sometimes a piece of music too) online on a blog. This is the primary resource for the retreat. All retreat materials will be posted on this blog as the retreat proceeds.
* The initial, one-time-only sign-on to the retreat blog is easy. Once you have signed up a first time, the retreat blog will recognize you and you can check in any time. Only retreatants with have access to the blog, which is private and not searchable on the internet.
* Once you register for the retreat, I will send instructions for
the one-time sign-on mechanism. After you first sign on to the retreat
blog, the blog will always recognize you.
Privacy and community
During the retreat, you can remain anonymous, invisible, and silent and just read the blog and use the quotations, spiritual exercises, images, music, and prayers on your own, without writing any comments about them or sharing your experiences or reactions.
OR
If you are more extroverted and communal or in need of companions on your retreat, you can share your thoughts, experiences, and questions via
the comments function on the blog and engage in (written) conversation with
other retreatants and with me (the retreat facilitator).
Please do not hesitate to write me with questions or concerns.
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| Jane Redmont (c) May 2016 |
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