tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69048887832625731132024-02-22T13:32:59.252-05:00Jane RedmontUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger122125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904888783262573113.post-87788546621848437522023-02-17T23:30:00.008-05:002023-02-27T20:30:06.225-05:00LEARNING AND SPIRITUAL REFRESHMENT, FEBRUARY TO JUNE 2023, online<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Join us for one or more of these <b><i>online offerings</i></b> --some longer, some shorter-- for <i>spiritual reflection, deep learning, prayer, and daily practice</i>. </span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="background-color: #ffe599;">Click on the links at the titles below</span></b> (first line of each title) to learn more about each offering: three retreats, one course-retreat.</span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsejIuz2AgsUaFyYRQ5Pvcp5VWlLgPnRQOswf8uFXRhLM_XQz_T067NyLfD359A-WZ325Wrnn5XTCD3KPt0rSXoKmzPnTLXbSOdu6TpdrGDyNdiDXnOTys6wpq0gWm-R0Nwd461InggZYQ-M2tSQPvHGdXla_kjCz_SwiuEZp66X6YdKnLmrjeow/s640/crocuses%20snow%20NCR%202019%20-%20Pixabay%20Efraimstochter.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="426" data-original-width="640" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsejIuz2AgsUaFyYRQ5Pvcp5VWlLgPnRQOswf8uFXRhLM_XQz_T067NyLfD359A-WZ325Wrnn5XTCD3KPt0rSXoKmzPnTLXbSOdu6TpdrGDyNdiDXnOTys6wpq0gWm-R0Nwd461InggZYQ-M2tSQPvHGdXla_kjCz_SwiuEZp66X6YdKnLmrjeow/w640-h426/crocuses%20snow%20NCR%202019%20-%20Pixabay%20Efraimstochter.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span><p></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></span><p></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><strike><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><b>1. <span style="background-color: white;"><a href="https://janeredmont.blogspot.com/2023/02/re-membering-our-lives-healing-lent.html" target="_blank"><span>RE-MEMBERING OUR LIVES</span></a></span>: <br /></b></span></span></span></strike></p><p style="text-align: center;"><strike><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>A Healing Lent</span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></i></span></b></strike></p><p style="text-align: center;"><strike><span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>February 26-April 1 </b></span></i></span></strike></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="background-color: #fcff01; color: #b45f06;"><span style="color: red;">CANCELED DUE TO COVID -</span> </span></b></span></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fcff01; color: red; font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>but we're on for the other retreats, which begin</b></span></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="background-color: #fcff01;"> later in the season. See below!</span><br /></b></span></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjno66BdNeca2RAbDvMn--mxCLR-gKWQq4-AvrnTskQQvbeaBkenDRbCPwyUxMZYFcq81-GNBLCnfFN0tAtmagfnh6I09Zrmz8OWajXVNzs9OG4ZVvo_bf9O-ostQeIDVvtUPzJSHvn1yr7C9fbq-5gDX8VfFsh5H009ZWG98AErFOFYY5kFhGLLg/s432/hands%20in%20loam-lg.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="432" data-original-width="432" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjno66BdNeca2RAbDvMn--mxCLR-gKWQq4-AvrnTskQQvbeaBkenDRbCPwyUxMZYFcq81-GNBLCnfFN0tAtmagfnh6I09Zrmz8OWajXVNzs9OG4ZVvo_bf9O-ostQeIDVvtUPzJSHvn1yr7C9fbq-5gDX8VfFsh5H009ZWG98AErFOFYY5kFhGLLg/w400-h400/hands%20in%20loam-lg.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"> <b>2. <a href="https://janeredmont.blogspot.com/2023/02/a-gentle-lent-living-ancient-practices.html" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: white;">A GENTLE LENT</span></a>: </b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Living Ancient Practices Today</span><span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>March 8-25</b></span></i></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiB-9da5vOisX3KnPUwvASDHjrvNY0T-eyHL5Q_IDpKldqobwYo2zHabxdvL_jKT8jkueHKOkqJop5X748yyVb3hDNd4FyP2Wrz_8p-YTCglTsAvnmxHcykOnNQc4ytYGubfYONre0i80EPkQ_LDOsiyX2VKjMRN6BF3_P2FD5zgTSAA0E8Mtwecw/s1600/breathe-you-are-online.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1151" data-original-width="1600" height="288" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiB-9da5vOisX3KnPUwvASDHjrvNY0T-eyHL5Q_IDpKldqobwYo2zHabxdvL_jKT8jkueHKOkqJop5X748yyVb3hDNd4FyP2Wrz_8p-YTCglTsAvnmxHcykOnNQc4ytYGubfYONre0i80EPkQ_LDOsiyX2VKjMRN6BF3_P2FD5zgTSAA0E8Mtwecw/w400-h288/breathe-you-are-online.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">3. <span style="background-color: white;"><a href="https://janeredmont.blogspot.com/2023/02/nine-days-with-dorothee-soelle.html" target="_blank">NINE DAYS WITH DOROTHEE SOELL</a></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><a href="https://janeredmont.blogspot.com/2023/02/nine-days-with-dorothee-soelle.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: georgia;">E</span></a></span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">a retreat for </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">marginal, committed, radical, and/or curious Christians</span> </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><b>March 23-31</b></span></span></i></span></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKAQ4PPN5scI--fngGoaIKUiZNTLcUz3RT3na7x7O8YFZ9phdDdDy8u6Qrk6LjBVYW4W-OrIBd0OC1NRFcR0_403_qOi1VuPRmYTy6cSlnfLtshRyt6daKmAEmkyBETkIgd17nitEQIpt3EDnyt5k5Ew5aJ-xWXoMiRFFFwANhveOZ0-sw8ScPaA/s350/Soelle%20smiling%20younger%20midage.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="350" data-original-width="246" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKAQ4PPN5scI--fngGoaIKUiZNTLcUz3RT3na7x7O8YFZ9phdDdDy8u6Qrk6LjBVYW4W-OrIBd0OC1NRFcR0_403_qOi1VuPRmYTy6cSlnfLtshRyt6daKmAEmkyBETkIgd17nitEQIpt3EDnyt5k5Ew5aJ-xWXoMiRFFFwANhveOZ0-sw8ScPaA/s320/Soelle%20smiling%20younger%20midage.jpg" width="225" /></a><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="320" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqViss-8w-hYTBa9aiFZldYzGa0tZGsvuhiaWSJcjCR3b76AVGjs4uyVB_Llllhfe_wMolwT9KytCWVI1_BA8r8GXbLVNiKwe9Z_SyqCboA7ScZjvpn3iCX7UGpcgXLlxd_1JZEcn2Wx5p6bGSzRK4uH4B3NOn9IGn01tcCIaqe52IetOl1dndsQ/s320/Against%20the%20Wind%20cover.jpg" width="205" /></span></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><br /></span></span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">4. <a href="https://janeredmont.blogspot.com/2023/02/soelle-in-springtime-challenge-and.html" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: white;">SOELLE IN SPRINGTIME</span></a>: </span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Challenge and Wonder</span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #b45f06;"><b><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span> </span></span></i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">a course-retreat</span></b></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"> <span style="color: #b45f06;">*</span></span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span><b><i><span style="font-family: georgia;">April 19-June 23</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></i></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">*</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></b></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Less reading and more spiritual practice than a course (class), more reading and critical thinking than a retreat. Open to persons of any (or no) religious background.</span></span></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: right;"><i><b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Click on the titles above for details and registration.</span></span></span></b></i></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904888783262573113.post-38249713024797751622023-02-17T22:59:00.181-05:002023-02-27T20:07:26.090-05:00RE-MEMBERING OUR LIVES: A HEALING LENT - online retreat begins February 26<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><i><span style="color: #741b47;">For other offerings from Redmont Retreats this winter and spring, </span></i></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><i><span style="color: #741b47;">including some shorter, later-beginning Lenten retreats </span></i></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><i><span style="color: #741b47;">and one course-retreat, click <a href="https://janeredmont.blogspot.com/2023/02/upcoming-online-retreats-and-one-spring.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></i></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><i><span style="color: #741b47;"> </span></i></span></span></span></span></span></div><p style="text-align: center;"></p><p style="text-align: center;"><strike><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #38761d;">RE-MEMBERING OUR LIVES:</span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #38761d;"> </span></span></b></span></strike></p><p style="text-align: center;"><strike><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><span style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;">A HEALING LENT</span><br /></b></span></strike></p><div style="text-align: center;"><p><strike><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><b><i>Sunday, February 26 * </i></b></span></span></strike></p></div><div style="text-align: center;"><p><strike><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><b><i>to Saturday, April 1 </i></b></span></span></strike></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><span><b><i><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; color: #a64d79;">CANCELED DUE TO COVID. </span></i></b></span></span><strike><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><b><i><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;"><br /></span></i></b></span></span></strike><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><b><i>But click above (on the word "here")</i></b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><b><i>for the other retreats, </i></b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><b><i>which don't start till March 8 and March 23.</i></b></span></span><strike><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><b><i><br /></i></b></span></span></strike></p></div><p><br /></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZAbC-GlaGUh_GXOCQSfefQQaNaydyiHgYHc7wTRTFvcacdICTuof9KaXs9Je87wYeizkklonS2qslaKJFpKdt5u67Fyl2v8OJXR6ft4LSqGSB2E_60Jskx9mXBsgppX_AEZgc7S435ff88xX7Wli0Cisjpb0NBucMRlzBl4ceUvo_pfnm-vrs0w/s555/2016-03-17%2010.05.31.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="555" data-original-width="416" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZAbC-GlaGUh_GXOCQSfefQQaNaydyiHgYHc7wTRTFvcacdICTuof9KaXs9Je87wYeizkklonS2qslaKJFpKdt5u67Fyl2v8OJXR6ft4LSqGSB2E_60Jskx9mXBsgppX_AEZgc7S435ff88xX7Wli0Cisjpb0NBucMRlzBl4ceUvo_pfnm-vrs0w/w300-h400/2016-03-17%2010.05.31.jpg" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr align="right"><td class="tr-caption"><i><span style="font-size: xx-small;">(c) Jane Redmont 2016</span></i><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">OUR LIVES THESE DAYS</span><br /></b></span><p></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><i><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: medium;">Three years into the COVID pandemic...</span></i></span><br /><br /></span><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><i>"I'm still emerging and reorganizing and reinventing."</i></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><br /><i>"The pandemic for me was profoundly disorienting and dislocating -- and yet also profoundly orienting and locating."</i><br /><br /></span><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><i>"Everyone was isolated. My question became, how do we connect with other people when we can't connect physically?"</i></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><i><br /></i></span><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia;">"People are grieving their way out of that isolation."</span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></i></span></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia;">"I'm not in the same body I was three years ago.
How I am in community, what I see in community. How I see the world. All these things have
changed."</span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia;"> <br /></span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia;">"It's not just the COVID pandemic. There's been a racial reckoning. A sharper awareness of the climate crisis. And there's still an epidemic of gun violence."</span></i><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></i></span><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>"It was a kind of re-awakening for me."</i></span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><i> </i></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia;">"I want to go back to the way it was before."</span></i><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></i></span></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><i>"How can we find new ways of being church?"</i></span></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><i> <br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></i></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia;">"I
am looking for what attends to my soul. I have explored more. My life
has become hybrid in more than one way. Technologically, physically, and
spiritually, in my religious affiliation. I am involved in multiple
communities."<br /></span></i></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></i></span></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>"We're never going back to the way it was before."</i></span></span></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i> </i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><i> </i></span><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia;">"I've had to rearrange my life -- including my inner life and my spiritual practices."</span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><i>"It's been like one long Lent."</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><h1><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>Does any of this sound familiar?</b></span></h1></div><div style="text-align: center;"><h1><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>join us for<br /></i></span></h1></div><div style="text-align: left;"><h1></h1></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><h1><span style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><span><span>RE-MEMBERING OUR LIVES:</span></span></b></span></h1></div><div style="text-align: center;"><h1><span style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><span><span>A HEALING LENT</span></span></span></h1></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh701rpc2GyQ6DnFGnViDeTvcjRbKSu6R9fxIDbLCwS5Q0hjtHCKzFVo9OjWBsnihdlCRo-cOktX6SncJi1tpi9eZE-EHjkKlRmhX9T0uHCxryosbA0_iDx7CQfUjmuN0vppCYdyMkfzK-dnwXQUIL_Ol45eBTg4f8HlucdI1hdOUOI_dnDk1QyOA/s766/2019-04-11%2013.12.02.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="575" data-original-width="766" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh701rpc2GyQ6DnFGnViDeTvcjRbKSu6R9fxIDbLCwS5Q0hjtHCKzFVo9OjWBsnihdlCRo-cOktX6SncJi1tpi9eZE-EHjkKlRmhX9T0uHCxryosbA0_iDx7CQfUjmuN0vppCYdyMkfzK-dnwXQUIL_Ol45eBTg4f8HlucdI1hdOUOI_dnDk1QyOA/w640-h480/2019-04-11%2013.12.02.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr align="right"><td class="tr-caption"><i><span style="font-size: xx-small;">(c) Jane Redmont 2019</span><br /></i></td></tr></tbody></table></span></span></b></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="color: #38761d;"></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="color: #38761d;"></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div></div><p></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="color: #a64d79;">What and How</span></b></span></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><b>Body</b></span></span></span></p></div><div style="text-align: center;"><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><b><span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Earth</span></span></b></span></p></div><div style="text-align: center;"><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><b><span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Time*<br /></span></span></b></span></p></div><div style="text-align: center;"><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><b><span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Memory</span></span></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><b><span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Community</span></span></b></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">These are basic realities in our lives. Whether or not we observe Lent, we live in our bodies, on this earth, in time, with memory, and in some form, in community.<br /></span></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #a64d79;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b>This online Lenten retreat</b> --<i>not just for those who observe the season of Lent</i></span>-</span>- will go through the season of Lent with <span style="color: #38761d;"><b>five themes </b>or lenses</span>, one for each week. After a welcome and introduction to our time together, we will journey with one theme every week. We will stay together </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">sixth week of Lent, Holy Week, when the realities of suffering, injustice, death, trauma and transformation are so present, and where the path still unseen leads to an entire season of Easter. Resurrection.<br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Every
Sunday, especially for those who observe Lent, I will offer a (written) biblical reflection inspired by the
Sunday readings in the Revised Common Lectionary. For everybody on the retreat, at the beginning of the week, we will also have a simple mindfulness exercise related to our theme of the week.<br /><br />During the week, the retreat will invite us, on the retreat blog, to ponder the week's theme --in the form of a journal, through a creative activity, in gazing at an image or two or listening to a piece of music,
in silent meditation, in prayer; there will be options from which you can choose. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Every week, we will notice the present, but also re-member, becoming more deeply aware of how the five realities of body, earth, time (especially Sabbath), memory, and community have changed --or not-- in our lives. We will recall and see connections, and make connections we may not have before. Some of us will see that we are reweaving the frayed parts of our lives, but often with a new thread, a new color, a new piece of cloth --or, if you prefer another metaphor, repairing or sanding or shaping or rebuilding something made of wood or stone or clay.</span></span><br /></div></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span>Where and how<br /></span></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b> </b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b><i><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: medium;">Online </span></i></b><i><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: medium;">(resources, conversation) </span></i></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><i><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: medium;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: medium;">and in your daily life </span></i></b><i><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: medium;">(anywhere - home, work, outdoors, indoors).</span></i><b><i><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: medium;"> <br /></span></i></b></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><span>Online:</span></i></b></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><b><span><span> </span></span></b></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><b><span><span> <span style="color: #741b47;">1) On t</span></span><span style="color: #741b47;">he retreat blog.</span> </span></b><i><span style="background-color: #ead1dc;">All retreat materials</span> </i>(readings, meditations, spiritual exercises or invitations to practice, music, visual art)<i> <span style="background-color: #ead1dc;">will be posted on the retreat blog</span> </i>as
the retreat proceeds.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span> At
least three times a week, there will be words of wisdom, music, images,
and spiritual exercises for you. </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span> </span></span></span></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><i>There is a comments space on every post
of the blog</i> for you --if you wish-- to share reactions to the offerings
of the week or experiences you have had with the theme of the week in
your own life</span></span></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><i>The initial, one-time-only sign-on</i> 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. <span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Only retreatants with
have access to the blog, which is private and not searchable on the
internet.</span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span> <br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><b><span style="color: #741b47;">2) In live Zoom conversations.</span></b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span><b> </b></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">This
retreat also offers <i>a weekly 60-90 minute opportunity to talk with other
retreat participants</i> and with me (Jane, your retreat facilitator) about
your experience with the week's theme and with the resources and
spiritual practices of each week in Lent. Your registration on PayPal includes options from which you can choose:
A morning session, an evening session (both on weekdays), and, for any
who really cannot make it on a weekday, a possible Sunday session. </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><b><span> </span></b><span> </span></span></span></span></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span><span>For both of these online experiences, y</span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span><span>ou will need a computer or tablet and a working internet connection. The</span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"> bigger</span></i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span><i> the screen, the better: while technically speaking you can view the retreat blog and use Zoom on your
smartphone, I don't recommend it.</i><br /></span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i> </i></span></span></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span><span>*</span></span></span><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span><span>
Need
technical help? Neither the retreat blog nor Zoom is complicated once
you've done it once, and even the first time it's not hard. I send out
detailed directions on how to sign on to the retreat blog and a link to
hop onto Zoom. But if you need extra help and support, I'll be glad to
walk
you through your first time or to trouble-shoot with you should you run
into a snag. </span></span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span> </span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span><i><b>In daily
life:</b></i></span></span></span> </span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span><span style="color: #741b47;"><b><i>Your life, your location, your schedule</i>:</b></span>
You can read --and gaze
at, and listen to-- the retreat materials at any time of day or night,
and you can pray and practice according to your schedule and lifestyle. </span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span> </span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span>It will be good for you to devote a little time every day to the
retreat, but three days a week can also work. </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span>When and where you practice and pray is up to you</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span>. Experiment and see what works. The Zoom conversations will also provide support and ideas. Listen to others And don't hesitate
to ask for help.</span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span> </span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><b>Registration and Cost</b></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><b> </b></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span style="font-size: medium;">Registration and payment take place via PayPal secure link (below), which takes credit and debit cards in addition to PayPal.<br /></span><br /></span></span></span><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>--You don't have to have your own PayPal account to use this online payment method.</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>--If you prefer making a donation via Venmo, please <a href="mailto:readwithredmont@earthlink.net" target="_blank">write me</a>.</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>--A discount rate is available for those in financial hardship.</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>--Likewise, the benefactor rate, for those who have the means, helps offset costs and makes scholarship aid possible.</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>--If even the discount fee is too high for you, please <a href="mailto:readwithredmont@earthlink.net" target="_blank">write me</a> and ask about the possibility of a scholarship.</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>--Payment is non-refundable and due upon registration.</span></span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span> </span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span> </span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span> </span></span></span></span></div><form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post" target="_top">
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<br /><br /><br /><form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post" style="text-align: left;" target="_top"><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><i><span style="color: #a64d79;">Questions?</span></i></span></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span> </span></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>Write me at <a href="mailto:readwithredmont@earthlink.net">readwithredmont@earthlink.net</a></span></span></span><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>.<br /></span></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span> </span></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span> </span></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><i><span style="color: #741b47;"><b>For other offerings from Redmont Retreats</b></span></i></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><i><span style="color: #741b47;"><b> this winter and spring, </b></span></i></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><i><span style="color: #741b47;"><b>including some shorter Lenten retreats</b></span></i></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><i><span style="color: #741b47;"><b>and one course-retreat,</b></span></i></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><i><span style="color: #741b47;"><b>click <a href="https://janeredmont.blogspot.com/2023/02/upcoming-online-retreats-and-one-spring.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</b></span></i></span></span></span><i><b><span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><br /></span></span></span></b></i></span></span></div></form>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904888783262573113.post-29737531768600691102023-02-17T22:30:00.011-05:002023-03-05T22:07:09.958-05:00A GENTLE LENT: Living Ancient Practices Today (an 18-day retreat, online)<div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><span><span><span>Do you want to observe Lent in some form, but can't make a five or six week commitment to a Lenten retreat, even an online one?</span></span></span></i></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span><span><i>Did you get a late start on Lent?</i></span></span></span></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span></span></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span><span><i>Do you need a protected space with support and resources for observing Lent?</i></span></span></span></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span></span></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span><span><i>Not sure you know what Lent is about any more?</i></span></span></span></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span></span></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span><span><i>Wondering whether and how those three ancient Lenten practices of "prayer, fasting, and almsgiving" can have meaning in your life?</i></span></span></span></span></p></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><i><b>Join us for </b></i></span></span></span></span></span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b><span><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></span></span></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b><span><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></span></span></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b><span><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">A Gentle Lent: </span></span></span></span></b></span></span></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span><b><span style="font-size: large;">Living Ancient Practices Today</span></b><br /></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><i>Wednesday, March 8 </i></span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><i>to Saturday, March 25</i></span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="426" data-original-width="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj71vvtkTxaLwGpMm5SWwDsnjHz4ZxHJcDAoRkWe7Z4NKXpxPxddMbHluLY6CYf5CFD-VU-Z3-L4SF4eAOP6ipMkEIB-giXiwvKpmUpSUj0cChDFachddVn4XZCfL7ykg4HV_Rcz9mKVtCIiLx2OVdqoTr4MRw9b6mZ8DxG-BvarRQw5Qa1yojRkA/s16000/crocuses%20snow%20NCR%202019%20-%20Pixabay%20Efraimstochter.jpg" /></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><span><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></span><p></p><p></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><span><span><span><b>WHAT</b></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><b> </b></span></span></span><form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post" target="_top"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span>A two and a half week online retreat for those who would like a shorter
retreat time than the entire season of Lent or who just weren't able to "get started on
Lent" at the beginning of the season.</span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span><b><br /></b></span></span></span></form></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span>The traditional practices of Lent are known as prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. What form can they take, and what sense do they make, in our 21st century lives?</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span style="font-size: small;">How are they related to leading our lives with simplicity, mindfulness, and compassion?</span></span></span><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>In this season, can we learn anew to be gentle with ourselves as we discover --or remember-- that God is tender and merciful toward us?</span></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><span><b><span><span>WHEN </span></span></b></span></span></span></div></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span> </span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span><span><span>Wednesday, March 8 to to Saturday, March 25</span></span></span></i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span> </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span><span style="color: #0b5394;">March 8</span> is the middle of the second full week in Lent. It is <i>two weeks after Ash Wednesday</i>, the beginning of Lent.</span></span></span></span></div><div style="margin-left: 160px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span> </span></span></span></span></div><div style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span><span style="color: #0b5394;">March 25</span> is <i>the Feast of the Annunciation</i>, a day honoring invitation, surprise, and affirmation in the life of Mary the mother of Jesus, and inviting us to ponder where God is calling us.</span></span></span></span></div><div style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0UAkUTPLoD1nt9krRvaU-p1Fg6xOxg_DlJYgkWjM9lf-fN3AQLGud0mtxCUmAk5Rr9BZajQ3xEkOT0ov7Cz_zpJckDRxsOoaJw0VVrVhGDEZrfp5r3VMrcRjfa3OC9d9gvWDI1npNjdEChldN89JNFU8BbnYYJ-w79_XtSdbVQNp0cBYxwlNiRw/s571/Annunciation%20Chinese%20Asian%20Am%20Theol.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="571" data-original-width="445" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0UAkUTPLoD1nt9krRvaU-p1Fg6xOxg_DlJYgkWjM9lf-fN3AQLGud0mtxCUmAk5Rr9BZajQ3xEkOT0ov7Cz_zpJckDRxsOoaJw0VVrVhGDEZrfp5r3VMrcRjfa3OC9d9gvWDI1npNjdEChldN89JNFU8BbnYYJ-w79_XtSdbVQNp0cBYxwlNiRw/w311-h400/Annunciation%20Chinese%20Asian%20Am%20Theol.jpg" width="311" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;"><i><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Aloysius Hsu, SJ, “Annunciation"<br />Journal of the Asian American Theological Forum (2019)</span><br /></i></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span><span><span><b><span style="font-size: large;">WHERE and HOW</span><br /></b></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><b> </b></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: medium;"><i><b>Online</b></i> (resources, conversation) and <i><b>in your daily life</b> </i>(anywhere - home, work, outdoors, indoors). </span><br /><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: georgia;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span><b><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: black;">Online:</span><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"> </span><span> </span></span></i></b></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><b><span> </span></b></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><b><span><span> 1) On t</span>he <span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">retreat blog</span>. <i>This is the primary resource for the retreat</i></span></b><span>.</span><b><span> </span></b><i><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">All retreat materials</span> </i>(readings, meditations, spiritual exercises or invitations to practice, music, visual art)<i> <span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">will be posted on this blog</span> </i>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.<br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span> </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span> </span><b>2) In live <span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">Zoom conversations</span>.</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span><b> </b> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span style="font-size: small;">You
will also have <i>three opportunities to meet</i> in "real time" with other retreatants and
with me on Zoom, for 90 minutes on a Thursday evening, with some quiet time, musical offering, and sharing about your
Lenten journey and daily practice. (Note: it's not a competition! Come
as you are, not as you think you "ought to be.")</span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>Your registration on PayPal includes options of meeting times from which you can choose.<br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><b><span> </span></b><span> </span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span><span>For both of these online experiences, y</span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span><span>ou will need a computer or tablet and a working internet connection. The</span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"> bigger</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span> the screen, the better: while technically speaking you can view the retreat blog and use Zoom on your
smartphone, I don't recommend it because you won't
see as well as you would on a larger screen. <br /></span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i> </i></span></span></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span><span>*</span></span></span><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span><span> Need
technical help? Neither the retreat blog nor Zoom is complicated once
you've done it once, and even the first time it's not hard. I send out
detailed directions on how to sign on to the retreat blog and a link to hop onto Zoom. But if you need extra help and support, I'll be glad to walk
you through your first time or to trouble-shoot with you should you run
into a snag. </span></span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span> </span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span><span><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><b>In daily
life:</b></i></span></span></span> </span></span></span></span><br /></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span><br /><b><i><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">Your life, your location, your schedule</span></i>:</b> You can read --and gaze
at, and listen to-- the retreat materials at any time of day or night, and you can pray and practice according to your schedule and lifestyle. It will be good for you to devote a little time every day to the retreat, but when and where you practice and pray is up to you. A regular time to check in to the retreat blog every day or two is best, even if it is short. Experiment and see what works, be gentle in setting the schedule that works for you, and don't hesitate to ask for help.<br /></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span> </span></span></span></span><br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="212" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiS0Ne9_fF01w6WT8UfufAM-nTg9jBadfFUsxE97PmRNIU5f8q_4YuuFXymQZQtSE3veesfgUx8ZyZZp6Y6i8iyedworyaGvT_PzjFTrAc2P0cofkoFK9BtqsBr3kxf1EsgB8YQ_Qex0PrWrU1B-gttIMtvr8AZLSeAxyfrmACl68tmhTxwff-SAw/w170-h320/celtic%20cross%20by%20Merton.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="170" /></td></tr><tr align="right"><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>brush art by Thomas Merton</i></span><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span> </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><span><span><b><span><span style="color: #0b5394;">REGISTRATION AND COST</span></span><br /></b></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><br />Registration and payment take place via PayPal secure link (below), which takes credit and debit cards in addition to PayPal.<br /><br /></span></span></span><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>--You don't have to have your own PayPal account to use this online payment method.</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>--If you prefer making a donation via Venmo, please <a href="mailto:readwithredmont@earthlink.net" target="_blank">write me</a>.</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>--A discount rate is available for those in financial hardship.</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>--Likewise, the benefactor rate, for those who have the means, helps offset costs and makes scholarship aid possible.</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>--If the discount fee is too high for you, please <a href="mailto:readwithredmont@earthlink.net" target="_blank">write me</a> and ask about the possibility of a scholarship.</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>--Payment is non-refundable and due upon registration.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span><span><span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span><span><span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></div> <br />
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<br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #990000;"><span><span><i><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>Do you need spiritual support and enrichment</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia;"> <span>It's not too late!</span></span></i></span></span></span></div><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><i><b>Join us for a time of reflection, practice, and prayer.</b></i></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #990000;">Nine Days with Dorothee Soelle</span></b></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><b>Dorothee Soelle </b>(also spelled <b>Sölle</b>)
(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 <i>The Silent Cry: Mysticism and Resistance</i>; <i>Against the Wind: Memoir of a Radical Christian</i>; <i>Revolutionary Patience</i>; <i>Theology for Skeptics</i>; and other books.</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><b>Soelle</b>
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.</span><br />
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</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">This retreat will be especially helpful if you </span></i></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><i><span>--are struggling with the challenge of staying hopeful in hard times </span></i><br /></span></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><i>
<span>--want to explore connections between Christian spirituality and social justice</span></i></span></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><i>
<span>--are busy and yearn for some quiet and inspiration</span></i></span></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><i>
<span>--are honest about your struggles in faith</span></i></span></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><i>
<span>--want to rekindle your relationship with God</span></i></span></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><i>
<span>--got a late start on Lent</span></i></span></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><i><span>--are serious about Christian discipleship</span></i></span></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><i><span>--are not really sure about your relationship with the church</span></i></span></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><i><span>--are thinking of taking <a href="https://janeredmont.blogspot.com/2023/02/soelle-in-springtime-challenge-and.html" target="_blank">the online class (course/retreat) on Dorothee Soelle in the spring</a> and want a taste of Soelle's writings before you make that commitment <br /></span></i></span></div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;"><span><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">What, when, where, how</span></b></i></span></span></p>
<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><b>*</b> </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;">An <b>online nine-day spiritual retreat</b>, beginning <b><span style="background-color: white; color: #990000;">Thursday, March 23, 2023</span>.</b><br />
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<b>*</b> </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;">The life and writings of<span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span><b><span style="background-color: white;"><span>Dorothee Soelle</span></span> </b></span>serve as a focus and inspiration.<br />
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<b>*</b> Simple and accessible resources and practices:</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"> <i>one quotation or short excerpt from DS's writings per day</i></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><i> one spiritual exercise per day</i></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><i> one prayer per day</i></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><i> <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>on nine consecutive days</i></span></blockquote>
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<b>*</b> 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.<br />
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<b>* </b>Spiritual refreshment, nurture, and challenge. <br />
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<b>*</b> You'll need 20 minutes a day of focused time (<i>any time, night or day</i>) and a computer or tablet with internet access. (Smart phone works too but the larger the screen, the better.)<br />
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<b>* </b></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span><b>Easy registration</b></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><b> and payment</b> via PayPal secure link, which takes credit and debit cards in addition to PayPal.<b> </b></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span>
</div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;">--You don't have to have your own PayPal account to use this online payment method.</span></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;">--If you prefer making a donation via Venmo, please <a href="mailto:readwithredmont@earthlink.net" target="_blank">write me</a>. <br /></span></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span>--A discount rate is available for those in financial hardship. <br /></span></span></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span>
--Likewise, the benefactor rate, for those who have the means, helps offset costs and makes scholarship aid possible.</span></span></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span>-If the discount fee is too high for you, please <a href="mailto:readwithredmont@earthlink.net" target="_blank">write me</a> and ask about the possibility of a scholarship.<br /></span></span></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;">--Payment is non-refundable and due upon registration.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"></span></div><p style="text-align: left;">
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<b><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></b><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"> <b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">An online retreat? How does that work?</span></i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"> </div><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>* </b><span style="font-size: small;">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 <b>on a blog</b>. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span><span><span><i>This is the primary resource for the retreat</i></span><span>.</span><span> </span><i>All retreat materials </i><i> will be posted on this blog </i>as
the retreat proceeds. </span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span><span><b><span style="font-size: medium;">*</span></b> 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.</span></span> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">*</span> </b>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.</span><br /></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><span><span><i><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span><span>Privacy and community </span></span></span></span></b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #990000;"><br /></span><br />
During the retreat, <i>you can remain anonymous, invisible, and silent</i> 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.<br />
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If you are more extroverted and communal or in need of companions on your retreat, you can <i>share your thoughts, experiences, and questions </i>via
the comments function on the blog and engage in (written) conversation with
other retreatants and with me (the retreat facilitator). </span></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Please do not hesitate to <a href="mailto:readwithredmont@earthlink.net" target="_blank">write me</a> with questions or concerns.</span></p><div><div style="text-align: left;">
<i><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #e06666; font-size: large;">Reminder:</span></span></b></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></b></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;">The full list of our February to May online offerings, including longer Lenten retreats and a seven-week course/retreat on Dorothee Soelle, is <a href="https://janeredmont.blogspot.com/2023/02/upcoming-online-retreats-and-one-spring.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></span></b></i><br /> <br /> </div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="850" data-original-width="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDaPDNpu65eWfuUtCnTAde6nQrgO3y9oBmHZAi1XD6xOSraRf3bV-EXlj68PiqR2CbmX_b0RSHKBIV1K4LfFLiI551TDKaqb1uTpaXfrryLxHzjl0RDqqPeTCYHK04TpNUUTccXhzfC1XxvruflciRZNZJBBIS4nutQ_J88OFqwy-wuBY_4jq6kg/s16000/2016-05-10%2013.53.07.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr><tr align="right"><td class="tr-caption"><i><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Jane Redmont (c) May 2016</span><br /></i></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904888783262573113.post-15216558380437611532023-02-17T14:00:00.000-05:002023-02-20T21:00:45.629-05:00SOELLE IN SPRINGTIME: Challenge and Wonder - a course-retreat<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><i><span><span><span style="font-size: large;">Yes, <b>a course-retreat</b>.</span></span></span></i></span></span></p><div style="text-align: right;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span>Less reading and more spiritual practice than a course (class), </span></span></span></p></div><div style="text-align: right;"><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: georgia;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-size: medium;">more reading
and exercising the mind than a retreat.</span> </span></span></span></p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><p>
<span style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span><span><b><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span>Soelle in Springtime:</span></span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><p><span style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span><span><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span>Challenge and Wonder</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span><span><b><span style="color: #0b5394;">April 19-June 3, 2023</span><br /></b></span></span></span> <br /> <i><span><b>online</b></span></i></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQTEXmtpuK0cbHQ1DNWDM3wK60ZufdDzpLKTK59KAsXAUabCp4hf5BW1X7dcRd4mLsfhU1d1jNY-URqJjH7ZIKz5soOWEtZtlT-m2KHKUwfD-Dq2Ofk4CosrhawXcpx016imYdEt94cg/s1600/dorothee-soelle+small+color.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQTEXmtpuK0cbHQ1DNWDM3wK60ZufdDzpLKTK59KAsXAUabCp4hf5BW1X7dcRd4mLsfhU1d1jNY-URqJjH7ZIKz5soOWEtZtlT-m2KHKUwfD-Dq2Ofk4CosrhawXcpx016imYdEt94cg/s1600/dorothee-soelle+small+color.jpg" /></a>R<span><span>ead and reflect in community on the work, thought, and spirituality of <span><b>Dorothee Soelle</b></span> (also spelled <span><b>Sölle</b></span>). </span></span><br /></span></span></span>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span><b><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Dorothee Soelle</span></b>
(1928-2003) was a German theologian, poet, peace activist, and
Protestant Christian with Catholic, secular, humanist, and Jewish
companions and allies; she was also a friend, teacher, spouse, mother,
socialist, and from mid-life on, feminist. </span></span><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Soelle wrote in an accessible manner --mostly in prose, sometimes in poems-- and not in the form of long academic treatises. <br /> </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Her chosen topics, though, were challenging. We will visit a number of them:<br /><br /> - history, evil, and Christian political engagement<br /> - silence, language, and poetry in the struggle to name God<br /> - suffering and the vulnerability of God<br /> - Jesus the risk-taker and the community of the friends of Jesus<br /> - church as community of memory, resistance, and hope<br /> - feminism, disobedience, and human wholeness<br /></span></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">She was one of the first Christian theologians (and first German theologians) to address the reality of the Shoah (Holocaust) and how Christian thought and practice must change in a post-Shoah era and world.</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span></span></div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
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<span><span><span><b>*<i> </i></b></span><span>A seven-week online course-retreat <b>from April 19 to June 3, 2023</b></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span><span><span><b>* </b></span>Reading, personal reflection, group conversation. </span></span></span><br /></span></span></span>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span><span><b><span>*</span> </b></span>At home, in your daily life: read and reflect in a way that suits your schedule.</span></span><br /></span></span></span>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span><b><span>*</span> </b>Two brief (1 or 2 paragraphs)<i> online check-ins</i><b> </b>(in writing) per week. </span></span></span></span></span></div><span style="background-color: white; font-size: small;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia;">
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Not for academic credit -- but a solid contribution to your spiritual,
intellectual, and community life and civic engagement, and to your work
in the arts, community organizations, religion, activism, and/or
academia.</span><br /></span></span></span>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span><span>* </span>Readings
are not lengthy (one and a half paperback books over seven weeks, plus
short excerpts from Soelle's work on the course blog) but topics in
Soelle's work are of the "oh, that's deep" sort. Expect gentle and
friendly guidance and space for questioning and wonder, but also
challenge and seriousness.</span></span></span></span></span><br /><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span><span><span>Soelle is the author of <i>Political Theology</i>; <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Revolutionary-Patience-Dorothee-Soelle/dp/1592442013" target="_blank"><i>Revolutionary Patience</i></a>; <a href="http://store.fortresspress.com/store/product/1693/Suffering" target="_blank"><i>Suffering</i></a>; <a href="http://store.fortresspress.com/store/product/2101/Theology-for-Skeptics-Reflections-on-God" target="_blank"><i>Theology for Skeptics</i></a>;<i> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Creative-Disobedience-Dorothee-Soelle/dp/1556356404/ref=pd_sim_b_1" target="_blank">Creative Disobedience</a></i>; </span></span></span></span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><a href="http://store.fortresspress.com/store/product/2395/The-Silent-Cry-Mysticism-and-Resistance" target="_blank"><i>The Silent Cry: Mysticism and Resistance</i></a>; <a href="http://store.fortresspress.com/store/product/2252/Against-the-Wind-Memoir-of-a-Radical-Christian" target="_blank"><i>Against the Wind: Memoir of a Radical Christian</i></a>;</span></span></span></span>
and many other works including books, essays, and poems. She also
co-authored several books with friends such as her husband Fulbert
Steffensky, her friend biblical scholar Luise Schottroff, and others.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span><span><b>* </b></span><i>Soelle in Springtime</i> is <b>part course, part retreat</b>. </span></span><br /></span></span></span>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span><span><b>*</b></span> As such it will <i>examine</i> some of Soelle's writings with the intention of <i>understanding</i> them and her and the historical, social, political, and economic <i>context</i> in which Soelle lived and wrote. </span></span><br /></span></span></span>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span><span><b>*</b></span> It will also invite us to <i>reflect</i> on some of the themes Soelle raises in our own contexts and lives, to <i>ponder</i> some of the questions she raises, <i>slowly and prayerfully or meditatively</i>, and to<i> share</i> some of the fruit of our reflection and prayer with other participants. </span></span></span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span><span><b>*</b></span> There will be required <b>readings</b> every week, not too long, some from the two paperback required books<b><span>**</span></b> and some shorter ones posted on the course blog.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span><span></span> </span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span><b><span>** </span></b></span></span></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: small;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span>Dorothee Soelle, <a href="http://store.fortresspress.com/store/product/2252/Against-the-Wind-Memoir-of-a-Radical-Christian" target="_blank"><i>Against the Wind: Memoir of a Radical Christian</i></a> (Fortress, 1999)<span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: small;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span>Dorothee Soelle, <a href="http://www.orbisbooks.com/dorothee-soelle.html" target="_blank"><i>Essential Writings</i></a>, ed. Dianne Oliver (Orbis, 2006)</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span><span><b>* </b></span><i>I will post</i> short readings, meditations, and questions for you to the course blog <i>twice a week</i>, usually on Wednesday and Saturday.</span></span><br /></span></span></span>
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</span></span></span></span></span> <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span><span><b>*</b></span> <i>You will take up to three or four days </i>to read and ponder and <i>write brief responses</i> (can be just a paragraph or two) on the course blog, any time. </span></span></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span>(That's it. No papers, no exams, no presentations.)</span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span> </span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span><b>*</b> <b><i>While <span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">the main platform for the course will be our course blog</span></i></b>, I will also offer <b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">a once a week live Zoom session</span></b> for us to talk about our readings, reactions, and discoveries (spiritual, intellectual, and/or practical). This is <span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">optional</span> but highly recommended. These weekly sessions, if you can make time for them, can keep you engaged and encouraged. </span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span> <br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="color: #0b5394;">Online? How does that happen?</span></b></span><span><span><br />
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<span><b>*</b></span> As you saw above, two books are required. Otherwise, I offer further <b>resources </b>(quotations, images, reflection questions, guidelines for spiritual exercises, explanations and clarifications) <b>online on a blog</b>. The retreat blog will be open only to those </span></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>whom the blog owner-administrator (<span><span>that's me</span></span>)
allows in. In other words, it is not open to anybody wandering around
the internet. Random web surfers will not be able to view either the
blog or our conversations in the blog comments. <i> </i></span></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><i> </i></span></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><i>Once you register for the course, I will send instructions on the one-time sign-in mechanism for the blog.</i> After that, the blog will always recognize you.</span><br /></span></span></span>
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</span></span></span></span> <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span><b>*</b></span> We have <b>conversations online</b>
in the comments section of each post on the blog. These are written
conversations. I will post questions for your reflection and you will
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twice-weekly check-ins on the blog. You must <b>check in twice a week</b>, but y<i>our check-in may be as short as one or two thoughtful paragraphs</i>. You may write more if you wish, but that's the minimum: one or two paragraphs, twice a week. No papers, no exams, no required academic jargon. </span></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span> </span></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Registration and cost</span></b><span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904888783262573113.post-13848264697705977142022-11-29T01:38:00.026-05:002022-11-30T01:06:47.636-05:00ENTERING ADVENT: patience, impatience, and the present - a remote retreat<p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;">Here we are</span></span><br /></span></span><br /><span style="color: #674ea7; font-size: large;">Advent</span></b>, the beginning of the Christian year and the season leading up to Christmas, is full of paradoxes. It is a gentle season of waiting, but a season of prophetic warnings and invitations. It looks toward new beginnings and also toward the end of time. It is, as I have often said and as I <a href="https://actsofhope.blogspot.com/2022/11/awake-in-advent-living-gods-patience.html" target="_blank">preached on the first Sunday of Advent</a>, both <b>a time to enter God's patience and a time to enter God's impatience</b>. To put it more casually, it can really mess with our sense of time.<br /><br />Yet here we are, at the start of the season, with all this --and preparations for celebration of the birth of Jesus-- swirling around us and inside us, and in the readings appointed for the season, for those who use a lectionary. <br /><br />Perhaps the most important thing we can do as we step into Advent --or as we wonder whether and how to enter the season-- is to make space, and time, to do so mindfully. <i>To live Advent with care, in the present.</i><br /><br /></span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLgSu-HgeajaSqQhti7l115YvDoif7ES18MDctCxWrxwQFlbjxjuv2xyIyQU2AU3HAi5uDdX-stSOQMifJSEPkM7g8oRB-rNe4xzoCGFCs3hKXjtl49TLKRgybW0C2Nc9DF90gbwl7xeWFDgsPuZAxS2ihgyKbiqnVaIyzmUhRtjGZHJ17i8IwMA/s963/Advent%202016%20-%20Awake%20in%20Advent.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="826" data-original-width="963" height="343" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLgSu-HgeajaSqQhti7l115YvDoif7ES18MDctCxWrxwQFlbjxjuv2xyIyQU2AU3HAi5uDdX-stSOQMifJSEPkM7g8oRB-rNe4xzoCGFCs3hKXjtl49TLKRgybW0C2Nc9DF90gbwl7xeWFDgsPuZAxS2ihgyKbiqnVaIyzmUhRtjGZHJ17i8IwMA/w400-h343/Advent%202016%20-%20Awake%20in%20Advent.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr align="right"><td class="tr-caption"><i>(c) Jane Redmont 2016</i><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>The retreat</b></span></span></span><br /><br />Our "Entering Advent" retreat is a two-hour experience on Zoom, with time and space for quiet, music, gazing at visual art, and personal reflection and prayer.<br /><br />It can serve as an oasis in this already busy holiday season of the secular world, or as a beginning of your extended Advent practice with some resources, guideposts, and practices - or both. <br /><br /><b><i>I am offering the retreat twice</i> (with <i>a third time possible</i> upon request) to accommodate your varied schedules and time zones. </b></span></span></p><p style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><b>Wednesday evening, November 30, 2022</b> at<b> 7:00 pm </b>Eastern Time</span> <span style="color: #0b5394;">(4:00 pm Pacific Time)</span><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span> <span> </span></span><i>If there are sufficient requests,</i> <span style="color: #0b5394;"><b>Wednesday evening, November <span> </span><span> </span>30 </b>at <b>9:30 pm </b>Eastern (6:30 Pacific)</span><b> </b>for you night owls </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">of the
East <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>Coast, early evening for you folks of the Western time zones.<br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #0b5394;">Thursday morning, December 1, 2022 </span></b><span style="color: #0b5394;">at</span><b><span style="color: #0b5394;"> 10:30 am Eastern Time</span> </b>(7:30 am Pacific for you early birds out there).</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>The retreat lasts for two hours.</b></span></span></p><p><i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />At the end of the retreat, I'll also send you off with a few
suggestions of Advent practices, which I'll have on a page that
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</span></form><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><i><b> </b></i></span></span></span></p><p></p><form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post" target="_top"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Zoom and your favorite device</b></span></span></span><br /><br />Our retreat will be in real time, on Zoom, so you'll need a computer or tablet. <br /></span></span></form><form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post" style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;" target="_top"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>The larger the screen, the better: while you can use Zoom on your smartphone, technically speaking, I don't recommend it because you won't see the images (both other participants' faces and the visual art I will share) as well as you would on a larger screen, and also because your fellow participants run the risk of seeing your face bounce around if your phone is unstable, which can be a distraction on a retreat meant to offer some slowness and stability. </i><br /></span></span></form><form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post" target="_top"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I'll send out a Zoom link and instructions once you have registered. <i>If you haven't used Zoom before</i>, I'll be glad to help you ahead of time. <br /><br /><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">A Zoom retreat really can happen!</span> I've led many such retreats in a variety of formats.<br /><br /><span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Questions? Concerns?</b></span></span></span> <br /><br />Please feel welcome to e-mail me <a href="mailto:readwithredmont@earthlink.net" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></span></form><form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post" target="_top"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span style="color: #674ea7; font-size: small;"><i><b>Note:</b></i></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span></form><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: small;">Because I am going on an extended family visit during the winter holidays, there will be no long blog-based Advent retreat this year. </span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>I am, however, already planning a long retreat for Lent, "Re-membering Our Lives."</i> Publicity and registration for Lenten retreat offerings will be available by the end of January.</span><br /><br /><br /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyQet0bs77KWl6E27mZ1lxmppsM1wGQnLU3ccmqqMl8Tu0qMiazonkBkqLgbpNt8R0mguff5qm4OLpE9BAsr2UQQNxj_a6GDqwfU-SN8pH_8GIhieDzJp2KInQ5g3-NT-RB7AR3U3_1NStJxF6VPqYYqRewREBYDDQ6qhPPyvpTEvZjVOsO5D2tQ/s985/main_image_star-forming_region_carina_nircam_final-1280.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="570" data-original-width="985" height="370" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyQet0bs77KWl6E27mZ1lxmppsM1wGQnLU3ccmqqMl8Tu0qMiazonkBkqLgbpNt8R0mguff5qm4OLpE9BAsr2UQQNxj_a6GDqwfU-SN8pH_8GIhieDzJp2KInQ5g3-NT-RB7AR3U3_1NStJxF6VPqYYqRewREBYDDQ6qhPPyvpTEvZjVOsO5D2tQ/w640-h370/main_image_star-forming_region_carina_nircam_final-1280.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.nasa.gov/webbfirstimages" target="_blank">Carina Nebula via James Webb Telescope / NASA</a></span><br /></div><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904888783262573113.post-73232067082717917522022-11-27T21:40:00.001-05:002022-11-27T21:40:17.265-05:00We're working on an update.<p><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: large;">This blog-masquerading-as-a-website is a little behind the times. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: large;">Thanks for your patience as we update it.</span></span><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904888783262573113.post-67186284564599862192022-03-16T22:34:00.007-04:002022-03-16T23:00:06.940-04:00Meditations with Howard Thurman: an evening Zoom retreat - March 17, 2022 (9:30 p.m. Eastern / 6:30 p.m. Pacific)<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>Longing for some reflective time in your busy life?</span></span></span>
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</span></span> </span></span></span></span></span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span><span><span><span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> <span style="color: #990000;"> </span></span><span style="color: #990000;"><span> </span><span> <span> </span></span>Interested in (re-)discovering the work of a wise guide? </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span><span>Want a shorter Zoom retreat rather than a longer blog-based retreat?</span></span></span></span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #444444;"></span></span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span><span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span><span> <span style="color: #990000;"> </span></span><span style="color: #990000;"> </span></span><span style="color: #990000;"><span> </span>Needing and hoping for spiritual support in this season of Lent?</span></span></span></i></span><span style="color: #990000;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><p></p><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">Join us for an evening of </span></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-large;"><span><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Meditations with Howard Thurman</span></b></span></span><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><b>Note the change in date and time! <br /></b></i></span></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">For the convenience of people across time zones,</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">this two-hour evening retreat is now scheduled for</span></span></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> <b>Thursday, March 17, 2022</b></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #990000;">at <span style="color: #cc0000;">6:30 p.m. Pacific Time</span></span> / 7:30 Mountain Time / </span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">8:30 Central Time / <span style="color: #cc0000;"><span>9:30 p.m. Eastern Time </span></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">(hello, East Coast night owls!)</span></span></i></span><br /></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghdj8ugoi-gM5nm8KDjgLGOOzdh4O2fu4Zj-6vMMD2ngOHTD3eNMPIZVDFBGABthuMMvrsfKeZKyHwXF1PxwinZ2bClfpMGFdznxcW0jxS6vu9yWnCTY3APKVeucPP-lEbLwTtKydkLQ/s1600/Howard-Thurman-Photo.jpg" width="328" /> </span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span><b>Howard Thurman</b></span></span>
(1899-1981), a philosopher, educator, theologian, and pastor, was an
African American born in the segregated South during the Jim Crow era.
Nourished by the rich traditions of the Black Church and ordained as a
Baptist minister, he was deeply influenced by Quaker thought, especially
the mysticism and nonviolence of Rufus Jones. He was also a pioneer in
interreligious understanding. His writings --books, prayers,
meditations, and sermons-- are rooted in Christianity yet accessible and
pertinent to people whose wisdom path is "spiritual but not religious."
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</span> <span><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span><b>Howard Thurman</b></span></span>
exercised a deep influence on some of the Civil Rights Movement's
leaders, including Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. He traveled to India to
meet Gandhi in the 1930s with the first group of African Americans to do
so. Thurman served as the first Black Dean of Marsh Chapel, the
university chapel at Boston University, and founded <a href="http://www.fellowshipsf.org/">the Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples</a>, a multicultural, multiracial, and interfaith congregation in San Francisco which is still in existence today. Thurman's book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Jesus-Disinherited-Howard-Thurman/dp/0807010294">Jesus and the Disinherited</a> (1949) predated Black liberation theology by a generation.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>We will spend our two hours listening to selected reflections by Howard Thurman, pondering them in meditative silence, sharing some of our responses in conversation, and enjoying some related images and music.<br /></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span></span></span></span></p><p></p><p style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>There is a sliding scale for the retreat fee</b>,
as you will see below.</span> </span></span></i></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span style="color: #674ea7;"><i><span style="color: #444444;">If the "hardship rate" is too high for you,
<a href="mailto:readwithredmont@earthlink.net" target="_blank">please write me</a> and we will arrange for a partial or full scholarship. If you
can afford the "benefactor rate," your fees will help make scholarships
possible.</span></i></span></span></span></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><b>Register </b></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><b>here: <br /></b></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><b> </b></span></span></span></span></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span></span></span></span>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904888783262573113.post-91395128108533900072022-03-01T23:45:00.008-05:002022-03-07T16:08:44.619-05:00ONLINE RETREATS, LENT 2022: several formats, different lengths. Ponder and choose.<div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;"><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="639" data-original-width="960" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiZmvAj9uGJnJfYBK7EbuzIxW6wZBpQUw7jNLqpDgyiYHf-89rMifd-5sJIk4-6GZ3fYxBGdgzcHy1CEYtlxMV_nEMBmHrsMmywapmHHQVIq2BUAGAIPKd4MZp-ygmr7ZYGigwvUm62dRRUNKba5i89Sv5MRCAwt_J4VO2UZP_zzKgAHIcX_F5qZA=w640-h426" width="640" /></div></span></span></b></span></i><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;"><span> </span></span></b></span></i><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;"><span><br /></span></span></b></span></i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #38761d;">Welcome to Lent 2022. </span></b></span>We are offering several online retreats, some long, some short, in two different formats:<br /></span><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b> 1. on a blog </b>(as we have offered in the past)<b>:</b><br /></span></i></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">No
appointment needed: read, gaze, listen, and practice on your own time;
resources are posted regularly to mark a rhythm and offer progression
and order, but you may pick the hour of day or night and the pace at
which you participate; any conversation is in writing -- or you may
remain anonymous.</span></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: xx-small;"> </span><br /></div></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> 2. on Zoom </span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">(as we began offering last year)</span></i><b><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></i></b></div><div style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span> </span></span></i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Weekly
(or in some cases, one-time-only) gathering on Zoom, at an appointed
date and time; in real time; any conversation is in person and with your
face (or Zoom profile) showing.</span></div><div style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia;">Both formats share verbal, visual, and sometimes musical resources as well as prayer and invitations to spiritual practice. Both encourage us to take quiet time and time apart. </span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Each format has different advantages. One is not "better" than the other. It's more a question of what suits your temperament, your schedule, the type of help you need to keep commitments, and your way of receiving and integrating verbal and visual resources.</i></span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: #d9ead3;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: #d9ead3;"><b>Here's the list of retreat titles and dates.</b></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b> </b></span></span></span></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: #d9ead3;"><b>Click on each title </b></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: #d9ead3;"><b>for a detailed description and registration information.</b></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><b><i><u>Retreats lasting all of Lent</u>: </i></b></span> </span></span></div><div style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></div><div style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;"><a href="https://janeredmont.blogspot.com/2022/03/water-in-wilderness-longing-and-renewal.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">WATER IN THE WILDERNESS: Longing and Renewal in Lent</span></span></b></a></div><div style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><b>March 6*-April 16 </b><br /></span></span></div><div style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></span></div><div style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> <i> </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>Blog-based, continuous, on your own schedule.</i></span></span></span></div><div style="margin-left: 120px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></div><div style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;"><a href="https://janeredmont.blogspot.com/2022/03/desert-journey-daily-bread-perspectives.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">DESERT JOURNEY, DAILY BREAD: Perspectives on Food and Fasting in Lent</span></span></b></a></div><div style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></span></div><div style="margin-left: 120px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span> </span>March 6*-April 16 </span></span></b></span></div><div style="margin-left: 120px; text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span>Offered in <b>two formats</b> (pick one): 1) blog-based and continuous or </span></i></div><div style="margin-left: 120px; text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia;">2) Zoom-based, with six weekly 90-minute or two-hour sessions.</span></i><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></div> <span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i> </i></b></span></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: "georgia", "times new roman", serif;"><i><span><span style="font-size: medium;">*</span> You're welcome to start either retreat </span></i></span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: "georgia", "times new roman", serif;"><i><span>any time in the first week of Lent</span></i></span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: "georgia", "times new roman", serif;"><i><span>, March 6-12!</span></i></span></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: "georgia", "times new roman", serif;"><i><span> </span></i></span></span></span></b></div></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><u><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i>Nine-day ("novena") retreat</i>s</b><i> </i></span></u></span></span></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>focused on the life and work of one person (blog-based)</i>:</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><div style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://janeredmont.blogspot.com/2022/03/nine-days-with-howard-thurman-online.html" target="_blank">HOWARD THURMAN</a> </span></span></b></div><div style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">March 9-17</span></span></b></div></div><div style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /><a href="https://janeredmont.blogspot.com/2022/02/note-we-offer-two-kinds-of-online.html" target="_blank"><b>WILLIAM STRINGFELLOW</b></a></span></span></div><div style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>March 22-30</b><br /> </span></span></div><div style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;"><a href="https://janeredmont.blogspot.com/2022/03/nine-days-with-dorothy-day-online.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">DOROTHY DAY</span></span></b></a></div><div style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">April 1-9</span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Choose one, or attend two or all three of them.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div> <div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><u><b><i>One-evening retreats inspired by the same three people</i></b></u></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></span></span></span></div><div style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>on Zoom </i></span></span><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></span></div><div style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;"><a href="https://janeredmont.blogspot.com/2022/03/three-evening-retreats-in-lent-on-zoom.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">MEDITATIONS WITH HOWARD THURMAN</span></span></span></b></a></div><div style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Thursday, March 10</span></span></span></b></div><div style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> <br /></span></span></span></b></div><div style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;"><a href="https://janeredmont.blogspot.com/2022/03/three-evening-retreats-in-lent-on-zoom.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">ENCOUNTERING STRINGFELLOW</span></span></b></a></div><div style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Thursday, March 24 <br /></span></span></b></div><div style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></span></b></div><div style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;"><a href="https://janeredmont.blogspot.com/2022/03/three-evening-retreats-in-lent-on-zoom.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">WALKING WITH DOROTHY DAY</span></span></b></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Thursday, April 7</span><br /></span></b></div><div style="margin-left: 80px;"><b><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></span></b></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><u><i><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">One-evening retreats</span></span></b></i></u></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">(on Zoom)</span></i></span></span><br /></div><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;"><a href="https://janeredmont.blogspot.com/2022/03/water-in-wilderness-retreat-one-evening.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b>WATER IN THE WILDERNESS: LONGING AND RENEWAL IN LENT</b></span></span></a><br /></div><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><div style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #38761d;">Offered <b>twice</b>:</span> </span></div><div style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">1) <b><span style="color: #38761d;">Tuesday, March 15, early evening</span> </b>Eastern Time <span style="font-size: x-small;">(late afternoon Pacific Time)</span></span></div></div><div style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">2) <span style="color: #38761d;"><b>Tuesday, April 5, late evening</b></span> (hello, night owls!) Eastern Time <span style="font-size: x-small;">(early evening Pacific Time)</span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>Sliding scale fees offered for all retreats.</i></span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904888783262573113.post-11539731344640855542022-03-01T23:30:00.082-05:002022-03-07T16:10:39.955-05:00DESERT JOURNEY, DAILY BREAD: Perspectives on FOOD AND FASTING IN LENT. Offered in two formats: your choice, blog or Zoom.<div style="text-align: left;">
<div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="color: #990000;"><span><span>Note:</span></span></span> This Lent, we offer TWO kinds of online retreats:</b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b> </b></span><br /></span></i></div><div style="margin-left: 120px; text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> 1. on a blog </b>(as we have offered in the past)<b>:</b></span><br /></span></i></div><div style="margin-left: 120px; text-align: left;"><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">No
appointment needed: read, gaze, listen, and practice on your own time;
resources are posted regularly to mark a rhythm and offer progression
and order, but you may pick the hour of day or night and the pace at
which you participate; any conversation is in writing -- or you may
remain anonymous.</span></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: xx-small;"> </span><br /></div></div><div style="margin-left: 120px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> 2. on Zoom </span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">(as we began offering last year)</span></i></span><b><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">:</span><br /></span></i></b></div><div style="margin-left: 160px; text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span> </span></span></i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Weekly
(or in some cases, one-time-only) gathering on Zoom, at an appointed
date and time; in real time; any conversation is in person and with your
face (or Zoom profile) showing.</span></div><div style="margin-left: 160px; text-align: left;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></i></b></div><b><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span></span></i></b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><b>The full list of our Lent 2022 online retreats is <a href="https://janeredmont.blogspot.com/2022/03/online-retreats-lent-2022-several.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span><b> </b></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span><b>Desert Journey, Daily Bread:</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span> </span></span></span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Perspectives </span></span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ancient and New</span></span></span></i><i><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">on</span></span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> Food and Fasting</b></span></span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>in Lent </b></span></span></span></i><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">an online retreat</span></span></i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span></span></i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span><span style="background-color: white;">(<u>choose </u><i>either</i> blog-based <i>or</i> Zoom-based) </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><b>Lent and Holy Week</b></i></span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>March 6* to April 16, 2022 </b><span style="color: black;">(blog-based)</span></i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: "georgia", "times new roman", serif;"><i><span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></i></span></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span><span style="font-family: "georgia", "times new roman", serif;"><i><span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">*</span></span> You're welcome to start the retreat </span></i></span></span></span><u><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span><span style="font-family: "georgia", "times new roman", serif;"><i><span>any time in the first week of Lent</span></i></span></span></span></u><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span><span style="font-family: "georgia", "times new roman", serif;"><i><span>, March 6-12!</span></i></span></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span><span style="font-family: "georgia", "times new roman", serif;"><i><span> </span></i></span></span></span></b></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i> <span style="color: black;">or</span></i></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>Monday evenings March 7, 14, 21, 28 & April 4, 11</i></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>(Zoom-based) </i></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;"><span><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><i>The retreat</i></b></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"> <span style="color: #990000;"><b>Desert Journey, Daily Bread</b></span> is an online retreat to deepen Lenten prayer and practice in the areas of food and fasting.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">In the <b>Desert Journey, Daily Bread</b>
retreat, we will journey through the Christian season of Lent, from Ash
Wednesday to Easter Sunday, with gentle guidance, wisdom from biblical,
historical, and contemporary sources, and opportunities for prayer and
practice.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"> <span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Our
purpose is not to make a fetish out of either food or fasting; they are
part of a larger life of faith and practice, of the full life of the
body, and of the Lenten journey. Fasting and food are a lens through
which we can live the season of Lent, which itself is a path to attune
us more closely to God, to God's world, to ourselves, and to our
neighbors --and to prepare to celebrate the Resurrection.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"> The retreat is a call to <span style="color: #990000;"><b>simplicity, mindfulness, and holiness</b>.<br /><br /><span style="color: black;">It is meant to be deeply personal, but also to invite us into environmental, contextual, and justice perspectives on food and fasting.</span></span><br />
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Like the season of Lent itself, it invites us to repentance and conversion, but also to joy.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #990000;"><b>Each week of <i>Desert Jou<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">rney, Daily Bread</span></i> will have a theme</b></span> related both to the topic of the retreat and to one or more of the biblical lectionary readings for the Sunday that begins the week.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"> <i>This is an <a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ecumenical">ecumenical </a>retreat
in the Western Christian tradition, though there will be some
references to Orthodox (a.k.a. Eastern) Christian Lenten practices. Though your friendly
retreat leader, an Episcopal/Anglican Christian, worships in <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">a </span>tradition using the Revised Common Lectionary, she will also take into account the Roman Catholic Sunday lectionary.<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
We also have much to learn from sister religious traditions (Judaism,
Islam) which have practices of fasting and an active spirituality of
food in many cultural settings.</span></i></span></blockquote>
<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><b>Each week of <i>Desert Journ</i></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ey</span>, Daily Bread</b></i> retreat </span>will feature:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"> <i>* short readings for our reflection; </i></span><span style="font-size: small;"><i><br />
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* spiritual exercises (which will involve the whole person, body,
mind, heart, and spirit, as do all Lenten practices) especially those
involving or related to eating, fasting, and food; </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> * prayers; </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> * images to contemplate; and </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
* reminders of the broader context of the Lenten journey in which we
practice our praying, eating, fasting, simple living, almsgiving, and
work toward the kin-dom of God. Participants can use all of these
according to their own context and daily life.</span></i></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>In the blog version of the retreat</b></span>, there will be <b>new material three times a week</b>:</span><br />
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<i>1. Saturday evening (in anticipation of Sunday):</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"> Reflection on the theme for the week in conjunction with one or more of the Sunday lectionary readings.</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"> <i>2. Tuesday noontime:</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"> The spirituality of food in Lent: wisdom, queries, and spiritual practices related to food, water, and eating.</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"> <i>3. Thursday evening (in anticipation of Friday):</i> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">
<span style="font-family: georgia;">Friday is traditionally a penitential day and some Christian
traditions focus their Lenten fasting in particular ways on Friday.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span> Accordingly, our Thursday night reflection will prepare us for the greater simplicity of Fridays in Lent.</span></span></span></blockquote>
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It will also offer us wisdom and support in whatever fasting
practices we have chosen, whether they involve fasting from food or
fasting in other ways (from television, from Twitter, from harmful
speech, from impulse buying, from online arguments).</span></blockquote><p>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>In the Zoom version of the retreat</b>,</span> there will be a weekly combination of these same themes and materials <span style="color: black;">--though adapted in quantity and form to fit the 90-minute weekly format.</span></span></span></span></span><br /></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Reminder: </span>We are offering two versions (formats) of this retreat:</b></span></span></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i></i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><u><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Pick one or the other; there is no hybrid option.</i></span></span></u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Each format has different advantages. </i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>One is not "better" than the other. </i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>It's more a question of </i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>what suits your temperament, your schedule, </i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>and your way of receiving and integrating verbal and visual resources.<br /></i></span></span></div><p style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> </i></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;"> </span></b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">A note on retreat fees:</span></b></span><br /></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Easy registration</b> <b>and payment</b> via PayPal secure link, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">which takes credit and debit cards in addition to </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">PayPal.</span><br /></div>
<div style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia", "times new roman", serif;"><i>You don't have to have your own PayPal account</i> to use this online payment method. (If you prefer to pay by Venmo or check, please <a href="mailto:readwithredmont@earthlink.net" target="_blank">e-mail me</a>.)</span></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div><div><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Discounts</b> are available for those in <b>financial hardship</b>. </span></i></blockquote><p></p><blockquote class="tr_bq"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">(If even the "hardship rate" is too high for you, please <a href="mailto:readwithredmont@earthlink.net" target="_blank">e-mail me</a> about scholarship need.)<br /></span></i></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
The <b>benefactor rate </b>helps offset costs and makes scholarship aid possible.</span></i></blockquote><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>Payment is non-refundable and due upon registration. </i></span></span><br /></p></div></div></div><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;"> </span></b></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: medium;"><i><b><span style="font-size: large;">An online retreat? How does that work?</span></b></i></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">1) Blog-based version:</span><br /></b></span>
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* 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.</span></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
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* Spiritual refreshment, nurture, and challenge. </span></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
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* You'll need 20 minutes a day of focused time and a computer or tablet with internet access.</span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">* The retreat offers resources (the quotes, spiritual exercises,
and prayers mentioned above, with some images as well to nourish you
visually) online on a blog. More specifically, a closed blog.<br />
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* What's a closed blog? It's a blog like <a href="http://actsofhope.blogspot.com/">this</a>,
but it is not public: it is open only to those whom the blog
owner-administrator (that's me) has signed in. In other words, it is not
open to anybody wandering around the internet. It is not "searchable":
random web surfers will not be able to view either the blog or our
conversations in the comments.<br /><br />* The blog-based retreat is more private and more leisurely, and in addition to receiving (on the blog) materials on three days of each week, you will have access to these materials throughout all of Lent and Holy Week; for instance, if you want or need to return to one of the first week's resources during the third week, you will be able to do so.<br />
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* Once you register for the retreat, I will send instructions for the
one-time-only sign-in mechanism. After that, the retreat blog will always
recognize you.</span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>For the blog-based retreat, please register here:</b></span></span></span></i><br /></div><br />
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<br /><br /> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>2) Zoom-based version:</b></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
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* Spiritual refreshment, nurture, and challenge at a specific time each week. </span></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
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<span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">* You'll need a computer or tablet with internet access. You do not have to to have a personal Zoom account.</span></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">* </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Every Monday evening (7:30-9:00 p.m. Eastern Time)</b> in Lent (March 7 through April 11) the 90-minute Zoom session me will offer an adapted, "live" version of the resources mentioned above: quotations, spiritual exercises,
and prayers, with some images as well to nourish you
visually, a bit of music, and times of shared silence. </span></span></div></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">* The six-week retreat will follow the one-theme-per-week design and the reference to the week's Sunday lectionary readings.</span></span></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">* This will be an opportunity to touch base with me, the retreat facilitator, and with your fellow retreats "in real time." On the other hand, if you miss a week, there will not be a way to catch up.<br /></span></span></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;"> </span></b></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">* Once you register for the retreat, I will send you the Zoom link, which will be valid for all six Mondays of the retreat. </span></span></div><br /><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>For the Zoom-based retreat, please register here:</i></span></span></b></span></div><br />
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ss<div style="text-align: right;"></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #990000;"><i><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Reminder: The full list of our Lent 2022 online offerings </span></b></i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #990000;"><i><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">(both blog-based and Zoom-based) is <a href="https://janeredmont.blogspot.com/2022/03/online-retreats-lent-2022-several.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></b></i></span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904888783262573113.post-50108347701418924362022-03-01T23:15:00.271-05:002022-03-07T16:26:47.882-05:00WATER IN THE WILDNERNESS: LONGING AND RENEWAL IN LENT - an online retreat<p style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="color: #38761d;"><span><span><span>Note:</span></span></span> </span>This Lent, we offer TWO kinds of online retreats:</b></span></i></p><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> 1. on a blog </b>(as we have offered in the past)<b>:</b></span><br /></span></i></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><div style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">No
appointment needed: read, gaze, listen, and practice on your own time;
resources are posted regularly to mark a rhythm and offer progression
and order, but you may pick the hour of day or night and the pace at
which you participate; any conversation is in writing -- or you may
remain anonymous.</span></div></div><div style="margin-left: 120px; text-align: left;"><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: xx-small;"> </span><br /></div></div><div style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> 2. on Zoom </span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">(as we began offering last year)</span></i></span><b><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">:</span><br /></span></i></b></div><div style="margin-left: 120px; text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span> </span></span></i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Weekly
(or in some cases, one-time-only) gathering on Zoom, at an appointed
date and time; in real time; any conversation is in person and with your
face (or Zoom profile) showing.</span></div><div style="margin-left: 160px; text-align: left;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></i></b></div><b><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span></span></i></b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><b>The full list of our Lent 2022 online retreats is <a href="https://janeredmont.blogspot.com/2022/03/online-retreats-lent-2022-several.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><b> </b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span> </span><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span><b><span>Water in the Wilderness:</span></b></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span><b><span>Longing and Renewal in Lent</span></b></span></span></i></span></span></p></div><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">an online (blog-based) retreat</span></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><i>March 5<span style="color: #6aa84f;">*</span>-April 16, 2022</i></span><br /></span></b></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"></span></span></span></i></span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span><span style="font-family: "georgia", "times new roman", serif;"><i><span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"></span></span></span></i></span></span></span><br /></b></span></div><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><i><span style="color: #6aa84f;">* </span></i></span></span></b></span>You're welcome to start the retreat <span style="color: #38761d;">any time in the first week of Lent</span>, March 6-12!</span></span></span></i></span></span></div> <br /> <div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEijrEZqUYYm_6KYqzxUyByVt4oQ81pv--VjRb2cBw7rnkSH5wnc1AtewP7cHSnYD6tenSS9EmMtIcYnsae7J_xY9PimAZ8JTCNJcOvQ2OiPv245utx4GYWrFrK-QFv7WSxj2MDLYsb04KPxt3stmzaqqoKfKbEzPY91AVRRwm4TeIKs-nUz0vU3Ow=s1012" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="569" data-original-width="1012" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEijrEZqUYYm_6KYqzxUyByVt4oQ81pv--VjRb2cBw7rnkSH5wnc1AtewP7cHSnYD6tenSS9EmMtIcYnsae7J_xY9PimAZ8JTCNJcOvQ2OiPv245utx4GYWrFrK-QFv7WSxj2MDLYsb04KPxt3stmzaqqoKfKbEzPY91AVRRwm4TeIKs-nUz0vU3Ow=w640-h360" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr align="right"><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>Mission Farm, Killington, VT (c) Jane Redmont 2013</i></span><br /></td></tr></tbody></table></span></b></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></b></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></b></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;"><span><span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><i>The retreat</i></b></span></span></span></span></span><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Lenten retreats often invite us to withdraw into the wilderness.
But two years into the COVID pandemic, we may feel that we have
already been in a kind of wilderness! </span></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Still, it is helpful to take some mindful, protected time apart in this season, especially when we are in need of refreshment and renewal. </span></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">This retreat will name and
ponder our personal and communal experiences of wilderness and
remember some of the wanderings and of our spiritual ancestors. (Forty
years in the desert, anyone?) <br /><br />The retreat will also --especially-- reflect on and pray with biblical
and other images of water in the wilderness --verbal and visual. Lent and its practices, even those involving repentance, is for the sake of life. It prepares us to live as Resurrection people. <br /><br />Come to this retreat as a time of refreshment to remember with your retreat companions God's nourishing
power, the enlivening presence of the Holy Spirit, and Jesus
Christ, who speaks of himself in the Gospel of John as the
living water. Bring your wanderings and wonderings. </span></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Lent sometimes feels like a lesson in longing. It it also a time of kindling memory. But it is, perhaps even more, a time to root ourselves in the present moment. It is a time to deepen our compassion for the world and its creatures, but also our compassion for ourselves. <br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span><b>Each week of </b><span> retreat </span>will feature:</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"> <i>* short readings for our reflection, including but not limited to biblical reflections; </i></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> * prayers; </span></i></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> * images to contemplate;</span></i></span></div></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">* a little music;</span></i></span></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">* spiritual exercises (which will involve the whole person, body,
mind, heart, and spirit, as do all Lenten practices) </span></i></span><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
* reminders of the broader context of the Lenten journey </span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Participants can use these
resources according to their own context and daily life.<br /></span></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span><span>I will post new material to the retreat blog three</span> times a week: </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
<i>1. Saturday evening, in anticipation of each Sunday in Lent.</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"> <i>2. Wednesday</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"> <i>3. Friday</i> </span><br /></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><b><span>A note on retreat fees:</span></b></span></span></span><br /></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Easy registration</b> <b>and payment</b> via PayPal secure link, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">which takes credit and debit cards in addition to </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">PayPal.</span><br /></div>
<div style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia", "times new roman", serif;"><i>You don't have to have your own PayPal account</i> to use this online payment method. (If you prefer to pay by Venmo or check, please <a href="mailto:readwithredmont@earthlink.net" target="_blank">e-mail me</a>.)</span></span><br /></div><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Discounts</b> are available for those in <b>financial hardship</b>. </span></i></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">(If even the "hardship rate" is too high for you, please <a href="mailto:readwithredmont@earthlink.net" target="_blank">e-mail me</a> about scholarship need.)<br /></span></i></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
The <b>benefactor rate </b>helps offset costs and makes scholarship aid possible.</span></i></blockquote><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>Payment is non-refundable and due upon registration. </i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i> </i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;"> </span></b></span></span></span><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><b><span style="font-size: large;">An online retreat? How does that work?</span></b></i></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b></b></span>
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* 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.</span></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
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* You'll need 20 minutes a day of focused time and a computer or tablet with internet access.</span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">* The retreat offers resources (the quotes, spiritual exercises,
and prayers mentioned above, with some images as well to nourish you
visually and some melodies to speak to your heart and soul) online on a blog. More specifically, a closed blog.<br />
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* What's a closed blog? It's a blog like <a href="http://actsofhope.blogspot.com/">this</a>,
but it is not public: it is open only to those whom the blog
owner-administrator (that's me) has signed in. In other words, it is not
open to anybody wandering around the internet. It is not "searchable":
random web surfers will not be able to view either the blog or our
conversations in the comments.<br /><br />* In addition to receiving materials on (at least) three days of each week on the retreat blog, you will have access to these
materials throughout all of Lent and Holy Week; for instance, if you
want or need to return to one of the first week's resources during the
third or fourth week, you will be able to do so. There is a structure to offer you a steady rhythm, but you can also make the retreat your own. That's the beauty of a blog-based retreat. </span></span></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">* You can also choose whether to converse with your companions on the retreat (and with your friendly retreat leader) via the comments section of individual blogposts or whether to remain silent and anonymous. Again, do what works for your temperament and your needs.<br />
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one-time-only sign-in mechanism. After that, the retreat blog will always
recognize you.</span></span><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b> </b></span></span></span></i></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><span><span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Register here:</b></span></span></span></i></span></span></p><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /> </span><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Note: </b></span></span></span></i><span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>I am also offering <span style="background-color: #d9ead3;">a simpler, abridged one-evening Zoom version of this retreat</span> </b>on two separate evenings, <b>March 15</b> and <b>April 5</b>. Details and registration for those are here.</span></span></span><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b> </b></span></span></span></i><br /></p></div></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh a8c37x1j fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" dir="auto"> </span><i><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Reminder: The full list of our Lent 2022 online offerings </span></b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><i><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">(both blog-based and Zoom-based) is <a href="https://janeredmont.blogspot.com/2022/03/online-retreats-lent-2022-several.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></b></i></span></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904888783262573113.post-24240837113245701352022-03-01T23:00:00.076-05:002022-03-03T00:10:55.811-05:00"WATER IN THE WILDERNESS" retreat: the one-evening Zoom version, offered twice<p style="text-align: left;"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh a8c37x1j fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" dir="auto"> </span><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="color: #38761d;"><span><span><span>Note:</span></span></span> </span>This Lent, we offer TWO kinds of online retreats:</b></span></i></p><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> 1. on a blog </b>(as we have offered in the past)<b>:</b></span><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">No
appointment needed: read, gaze, listen, and practice on your own time;
resources are posted regularly to mark a rhythm and offer progression
and order, but you may pick the hour of day or night and the pace at
which you participate; any conversation is in writing -- or you may
remain anonymous.</span></div></div><div style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;"><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: xx-small;"> </span><br /></div></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> 2. on Zoom </span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">(as we began offering last year)</span></i></span><b><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">:</span><br /></span></i></b></div><div style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span> </span></span></i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Weekly
(or in some cases, one-time-only) gathering on Zoom, at an appointed
date and time; in real time; any conversation is in person and with your
face (or Zoom profile) showing.</span></div><div style="margin-left: 160px; text-align: left;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></i></b></div><b><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span></span></i></b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><b>The full list of our Lent 2022 online retreats is <a href="https://janeredmont.blogspot.com/2022/03/online-retreats-lent-2022-several.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><b> </b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span><b><span>Water in the Wilderness:</span></b></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span><b><span>Longing and Renewal in Lent</span></b></span></span></i></span></span></p></div><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">an evening Zoom retreat, offered twice:</span></b></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Tuesday, March 15, 8:30-10:30 </span></b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Eastern Time</span></span></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #38761d;">Tuesday, April 5, 7:00-9:00 p.m. </span></span></b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #38761d;">Eastern Time </span></span><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></b></span></i></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><b> <br /></b></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh a8c37x1j fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" dir="auto"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiB3_LtpOd-6uSgww70idwG-AR6mAdLjT6wrJpg-tcFQhxYtH4ZQgK7RwqDRc6j5hKTY3zJp4yEwCspAPNvIwH5dADB70X6mtyq_QH-ce1a5H1b5ulOAbuEuRjo9Iuyswv7DvGsUF5CmSRn9CXwER96nZEDSJ81V_cx96rPzwXhnBGWDbhYmmqfEA=s1012" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="569" data-original-width="1012" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiB3_LtpOd-6uSgww70idwG-AR6mAdLjT6wrJpg-tcFQhxYtH4ZQgK7RwqDRc6j5hKTY3zJp4yEwCspAPNvIwH5dADB70X6mtyq_QH-ce1a5H1b5ulOAbuEuRjo9Iuyswv7DvGsUF5CmSRn9CXwER96nZEDSJ81V_cx96rPzwXhnBGWDbhYmmqfEA=w640-h360" width="640" /></a></div></span><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>Mission Farm, Killington, VT (c) Jane Redmont 2013</i></span></span></span></div></div><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Lenten retreats often invite us to withdraw into the wilderness.
But two years into the COVID pandemic, we may feel that we have
already been in a kind of wilderness! </span></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">This retreat will name and
ponder our personal and communal experiences of wilderness and
remember some of the wanderings and of our spiritual ancestors. (Forty
years in the desert, anyone?) <br /><br />The retreat will also
--especially-- reflect on and pray with biblical
and other images of water in the wilderness --verbal and visual.
Lent and its practices, even those involving repentance, is for the
sake of life. It prepares us to live as Resurrection people. <br /><br />Come to this retreat as a time of refreshment to remember with your retreat companions God's nourishing
power, the enlivening presence of the Holy Spirit, and Jesus
Christ, who speaks of himself in the Gospel of John as the
living water. Bring your wanderings and wonderings. <br /></span></p><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh a8c37x1j fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" dir="auto"></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: Georgia;"> <br /></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Tuesday, March 15, 2022, 8:30-10:30 p.m. Eastern Time</span></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia;">(hello, East Coast night owls and Midwest, Mountain, and West Coast earlier birds) </span></i></div><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Register here for March 15:</span></i></b></span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904888783262573113.post-5189816102223109102022-03-01T22:45:00.028-05:002022-03-02T20:51:16.621-05:00NINE DAYS with HOWARD THURMAN: an online retreat<div style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Note:</span> We offer TWO kinds of online retreats:</b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b> </b><br /></span></i></div><div style="margin-left: 120px; text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b> 1. on a blog </b>(as we have offered in the past)<b>:</b><br /></span></i></div><div style="margin-left: 120px; text-align: left;"><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">No appointment needed: read, gaze, listen, and practice on your own time; resources are posted regularly to mark a rhythm and offer progression and order, but you may pick the hour of day or night and the pace at which you participate; any conversation is in writing -- or you may remain anonymous.</span></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: xx-small;"> </span><br /></div></div><div style="margin-left: 120px; text-align: left;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> 2. on Zoom </span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">(as we began offering last year)</span></i><b><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></i></b></div><div style="margin-left: 160px; text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span> </span></span></i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Weekly (or in some cases, one-time-only) gathering on Zoom, at an appointed date and time; in real time; any conversation is in person and with your face (or Zoom profile) showing.</span></div><div style="margin-left: 160px; text-align: left;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></i></b></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span><span style="background-color: #d9ead3;"><span>The full list of our Lent 2022 online offerings is <a href="https://janeredmont.blogspot.com/2022/03/online-retreats-lent-2022-several.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></span></span></span></i></b></div></div><div style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: right;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #b45f06;"><span><span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span><span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Longing for some prayerful and reflective time in your busy life?</span></span></span>
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</span></span> </span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span><span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Interested in (re-)discovering the work of a wise guide? </span></span><span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #b45f06;"><span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Want a short and more intense retreat rather than a longer retreat?</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span><span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Need spiritual support?</span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #bf9000;"><span><span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Not a Zoom person?</span></span></span></span><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></i></span></span><br /></div></div></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>please join us</span></span></i></span><br /></div><div style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;">
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<span style="color: #b45f06;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Wednesday, March 9 - Thursday, March 17, 2022<br /></span></i></span></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;"><b><span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Howard Thurman:</span></span></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Nine Days in Lent</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">an online blog-based retreat</span></i></span></div>
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</span> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b>Howard Thurman</b></span>
(1899-1981), a philosopher, educator, theologian, and pastor, was an
African American born in the segregated South during the Jim Crow era.
Nourished by the rich traditions of the Black Church and ordained as a
Baptist minister, he was deeply influenced by Quaker thought, especially
the mysticism and nonviolence of Rufus Jones. He was also a pioneer in
interreligious understanding. His writings --books, prayers,
meditations, and sermons-- are rooted in Christianity yet accessible and
pertinent to people whose wisdom path is "spiritual but not religious."
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</span> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #b45f06;"><b>Howard Thurman</b></span>
exercised a deep influence on some of the Civil Rights Movement's
leaders, including Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. He traveled to India to
meet Gandhi in the 1930s with the first group of African Americans to do
so. Thurman served as the first Black Dean of Marsh Chapel, the
university chapel at Boston University, and founded <a href="http://www.fellowshipsf.org/">the Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples</a>, a multicultural, multiracial, and interfaith congregation in San Francisco which is still in existence today. Thurman's book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Jesus-Disinherited-Howard-Thurman/dp/0807010294">Jesus and the Disinherited</a> (1949) predated Black liberation theology by a generation.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><i><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">What, when, where, how</span></span></b></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><b><span style="color: #674ea7;"> </span></b></i></span><br />
* An <span style="color: #351c75;"><b><span style="color: #b45f06;">online nine-day spiritual retreat</span></b></span>, beginning <span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><span><span><span><b>Wednesday, March 9, 2022</b></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">.<br />
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* The life and writings of <span style="color: #38761d;"><b>Howard Thurman</b></span> serve as a focus and inspiration.<br />
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* Simple and accessible:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <i>one quote or short excerpt per day</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> one spiritual exercise per day</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> one prayer per day</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>on nine consecutive days</i></span></blockquote>
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* 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.<br />
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* Spiritual refreshment, nurture, and challenge. <br />
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* You'll need 20 minutes a day of focused time (<i>any time, night or day</i>) and a computer or tablet with internet access.<br />
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* <b>Easy registration</b> via PayPal secure link, which takes credit and debit cards in addition to PayPal.</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><b><i> </i></b></span></div><div style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><b><i> </i></b></span></div><div style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><b><i>--You don't have to have your own PayPal account</i></b> to use this online payment method. (If you prefer to pay by Venmo or check, please <a href="mailto:readwithredmont@earthlink.net" target="_blank">e-mail me</a>.)</span><br /></div><div><div><div><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
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</div><div style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>--Discounts</b> are available for those in <b>financial hardship</b>. (If even the "hardship rate" is too high for you, please <a href="mailto:readwithredmont@earthlink.net" target="_blank">e-mail me</a> about scholarship need.)</span></i><br /></div><div><p></p><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
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</div><br /> <br /><div><span style="color: #38761d;"><i><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">An online blog-based retreat? How does that work?</span></span></b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">* The retreat offers <b>daily resources</b> (the<span style="color: #351c75;"><i> </i>quotes, spiritual exercises, and prayers</span>
mentioned above, with some images as well to nourish you visually, and
sometimes a piece of music too) online on a blog. More specifically, <i>a
closed blog</i>. <br />
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* What's <b>a closed blog</b>? It's a blog like <a href="http://actsofhope.blogspot.com/">this</a>,
but it is not public: it has restricted access and is open only to those whom the blog
owner-administrator (that's me, Jane) has signed in. In other words, it is not
open to anybody wandering around the internet. It is not searchable:
random web surfers will not be able to view either the blog or our
conversations in the comments.<br />
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* <b>Once you register</b> for the retreat, I will send instructions on
the one-time sign-in mechanism. After you first sign in to the retreat
blog, the blog will always recognize you.<br />
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</span><span style="color: #38761d;"><i><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Privacy and community </span></span></b></i></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><b><br />
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During the retreat, <i>you can remain anonymous, invisible, and silent</i> and just read the blog and use the quotes, images, music, spiritual exercises, and prayers on your own.<br />
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If you are more extroverted and communal or in need of companions on your retreat, you can <i>share your thoughts, experiences, and questions </i>via
the comments function on the blog and engage in conversation with
other retreatants and with the retreat facilitator. (More about your
friendly retreat designer and facilitator, Jane Redmont, <a href="http://janeredmont.blogspot.com/p/about-jane-redmont_5.html">here</a>. Please do not hesitate to write me with questions or concerns.)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #d9ead3;"><i><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Reminder: The full list of our Lent 2022 online offerings </span></b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="background-color: #d9ead3;"><i><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">(both blog-based offerings and Zoom offerings) is <a href="https://janeredmont.blogspot.com/2022/03/online-retreats-lent-2022-several.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></b></i></span><i><span style="background-color: #d9ead3;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span></span></span></span></i><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="background-color: #d9ead3;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">All
of the blog-based retreats have a structure and a schedule, but they are flexible
enough to integrate into your daily life: you are the one who decides
when and where to read and pray with the materials in the retreat (day
or night, at home or elsewhere) and how to apply the invitations to
practice.</span></span></span></span></span></i></div></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904888783262573113.post-91266312663237029252022-03-01T22:30:00.035-05:002022-03-21T16:48:11.251-04:00NINE DAYS with WILLIAM STRINGFELLOW: a Lenten online retreat<div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="color: #990000;"><span><span>Note:</span></span></span> We offer TWO kinds of online retreats:</b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b> </b></span><br /></span></i></div><div style="margin-left: 120px; text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> 1. on a blog </b>(as we have offered in the past)<b>:</b></span><br /></span></i></div><div style="margin-left: 120px; text-align: left;"><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">No
appointment needed: read, gaze, listen, and practice on your own time;
resources are posted regularly to mark a rhythm and offer progression
and order, but you may pick the hour of day or night and the pace at
which you participate; any conversation is in writing -- or you may
remain anonymous.</span></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: xx-small;"> </span><br /></div></div><div style="margin-left: 120px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> 2. on Zoom </span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">(as we began offering last year)</span></i></span><b><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">:</span><br /></span></i></b></div><div style="margin-left: 160px; text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span> </span></span></i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Weekly
(or in some cases, one-time-only) gathering on Zoom, at an appointed
date and time; in real time; any conversation is in person and with your
face (or Zoom profile) showing.</span></div><div style="margin-left: 160px; text-align: left;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span></span></i></b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><b>The full list of our Lent 2022 online retreats is <a href="https://janeredmont.blogspot.com/2022/03/online-retreats-lent-2022-several.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</b></i></span><br /></div><p></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #134f5c;"><i>Longing for some prayerful and reflective time in your busy life? </i></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span><i>Interested in a new perspective on the Bible in these United States?</i></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #134f5c;"><i> </i></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #134f5c;"><i>Pondering the relationship between Christian faith and </i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #134f5c;"><i>social realities?</i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">
<b><i> </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i> </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i>Join us for</i></b></span></div><p>
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<span style="color: #134f5c;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="background-color: #d0e0e3; font-size: x-large;"><span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Nine Days with William Stringfellow </b></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><i> </i></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #134f5c; font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><i>an online blog-based retreat</i></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #134f5c;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> </i></span></span></span></span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <i><b>Tuesday, March 22 - Wednesday, March 30, 2022</b></i></span></span></span></span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrQouVF-PJ06-UISHil4kKU0joNWlJ97URMxPeLsbDRWKAXvZFf7YI_Ba59bOt5F6Xkt2ibBbxnFTgyQ2X_iTsLJi548QcwPofZlv8xFVqnzpg4xSX3dwe6PsnVDIIJfx1JgjDNPXl-w/s1600/Stringfellow+bw+hat+lg.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="309" kasperskylab_antibanner="on" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrQouVF-PJ06-UISHil4kKU0joNWlJ97URMxPeLsbDRWKAXvZFf7YI_Ba59bOt5F6Xkt2ibBbxnFTgyQ2X_iTsLJi548QcwPofZlv8xFVqnzpg4xSX3dwe6PsnVDIIJfx1JgjDNPXl-w/w320-h309/Stringfellow+bw+hat+lg.jpg" width="320" /></a><b> <span style="font-family: georgia;">William Stringfellow</span></b><span style="font-family: georgia;">
(1928-1985), was a lawyer by training and trade, not a professional
theologian, though he wrote a dozen books and was one of most astute and
insightful Christian thinkers of the 20th century. An Episcopal layman
who understood himself very much as "Protestant" and engaged in open
criticism of his own beloved church, he was grounded in the prayerful
study of scripture. Stringfellow was also a radical social critic
preoccupied with the powers of sin and death in the world and in the
cosmos.<br />
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<span style="background-color: #d0e0e3;">"My
concern," Stringfellow wrote, "is to understand America biblically --
in contrast to the more common tendency, to understand the Bible
'Americanly.'"</span> One of the published summaries of his work notes
that his great theme "was the Constantinian compromise, the
accommodation of Christianity to the values of the empire and the
preservation of status quo."<br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>Click <a href="http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/sexandgender/124/the_biblical_circus_of_william_stringfellow">here</a> for an informative essay on William Stringfellow.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: #d0e0e3;"><span style="color: #134f5c;"><i><span style="color: #0c343d; font-size: large;"><i><b>What, when, where, how</b></i></span></i></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;">
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<span style="font-size: small;">* An online nine-day spiritual retreat, beginning<span style="color: #073763;"><i><b> </b></i></span><span style="background-color: #d0e0e3;"><span style="color: #073763;"><b><i>Tuesday, March 22</i></b></span></span>, 2022.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;">
* The life and writings of William Stringfellow serve as a focus and inspiration.</span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;">
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* Simple and accessible:</span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;">
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</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><span style="font-size: small;">one quote or short excerpt per day</span> </i><span style="font-size: x-small;">(Note: The excerpts in this Stringfellow retreat are <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>somewhat longer than the quotations in other online retreats.)</span><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><i>one spiritual exercise per day</i><br /></span><span style="font-size: small;">
<span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>one prayer per day</i><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>on nine consecutive days</i></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: small;">* 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.</span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;">
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* Spiritual refreshment, nurture, and challenge. </span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;">
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* You'll need 20 minutes a day of focused time and a computer or tablet with internet access.</span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;">
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</span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">* <b>Easy registration</b> via PayPal secure link, which takes credit and debit cards in addition to PayPal.</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><b> </b></span></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><b>--</b><b><i>You don't have to have your own PayPal account</i></b> to use this online payment method. (If you prefer to pay by Venmo or check, please <a href="mailto:readwithredmont@earthlink.net" target="_blank">e-mail me</a>.)</span><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div><div><div><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>--Discounts</b> are available for those in <b>financial hardship</b>. (If even the "hardship rate" is too high for you, please <a href="mailto:readwithredmont@earthlink.net" target="_blank">e-mail me</a> about scholarship need.)<br /></span></i></span></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
<b>--</b>The <b>benefactor rate </b>helps offset costs and makes scholarship aid possible. </span></i></span></blockquote></div></div></div><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>--</b><i>Payment is non-refundable and due upon registration.</i></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"></p><p><span style="color: #45818e;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></b></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #134f5c;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>Register here!</b></i></span></span></span></span></p><p></p><div style="text-align: left;">
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</span></span></span> <span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span style="font-size: small;">*
The retreat offers daily resources (the quotes, 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. More
specifically, a closed blog. </span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;">
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<span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></span></span> <span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span style="font-size: small;">* What's a closed blog? It's a blog like <a href="http://actsofhope.blogspot.com/">this</a>,
but it is not public: it is open only to those whom the blog
owner-administrator (that's me) has signed in. In other words, it is not
open to anybody wandering around the internet. It is not searchable:
random web surfers will not be able to view either the blog or our
conversations in the comments.</span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;">
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</span></span></span> <span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span style="font-size: small;">*
Once you register for the retreat, I will send instructions on the
one-time sign-in mechanism. After you first sign on to the retreat blog,
the blog will always recognize you.</span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;">
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #134f5c;"><span style="color: #073763;"><i><b>Privacy and community </b></i></span></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;">
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During the retreat, you can remain anonymous, invisible, and silent
and just read the blog and use the quotes, spiritual exercises, and
prayers on your own.</span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;">
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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 conversation with
other retreatants and with the retreat facilitator. (More about your
friendly retreat designer and facilitator, Jane Redmont, <a href="http://janeredmont.blogspot.com/p/about-jane-redmont_5.html" target="_blank">here</a>. Please do not hesitate to <a href="mailto:readwithredmont@earthlink.net" target="_blank">write me</a> with questions or concerns.)<br />
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<span style="background-color: #d0e0e3;"><i><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Reminder: The full list of our Lent 2022 online offerings </span></b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="background-color: #d0e0e3;"><i><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">(both blog-based offerings and Zoom offerings) is <a href="https://janeredmont.blogspot.com/2022/03/online-retreats-lent-2022-several.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></b></i></span><br /></div><p>
<i><b><span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></span></b></i> <span style="background-color: white;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">All
of the blog-based retreats have a structure and a schedule, but they are flexible
enough to integrate into your daily life: you are the one who decides
when and where to read and pray with the materials in the retreat (day
or night, at home or elsewhere) and how to apply the invitations to practice.</span></span></span></i></span></i></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"></span></span></span></span></i></span></i></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVcJcU_ivpnUlCVUTQzYz4vLLCuxMD9iVWTbln1SV9xg3xhZCGHLcayKZ2jsYTO9O5Qad_yGCwPG6hkujMm5Yn-0LjI5qXAXO2OoMM2eOOv4bZWZQMVM120qCHNb07BxHMSB8xoo5O4A/s1600/The-Bluffs+Block+Island.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="668" data-original-width="1024" height="417" kasperskylab_antibanner="on" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVcJcU_ivpnUlCVUTQzYz4vLLCuxMD9iVWTbln1SV9xg3xhZCGHLcayKZ2jsYTO9O5Qad_yGCwPG6hkujMm5Yn-0LjI5qXAXO2OoMM2eOOv4bZWZQMVM120qCHNb07BxHMSB8xoo5O4A/s640/The-Bluffs+Block+Island.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></td></tr><tr align="right"><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-small;"><span><i>Block Island, R.I., where Stringfellow shared a home with the poet Anthony Towne. </i></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904888783262573113.post-57037377690219860642022-03-01T22:15:00.047-05:002022-03-29T22:04:39.981-04:00NINE DAYS with DOROTHY DAY: an online Lenten retreat<p style="text-align: right;"></p><p>
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<span style="color: #674ea7;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Longing for reflective and prayerful time in your busy life?</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #a64d79;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span> </span>Need some support and inspiration?</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Hungry for justice and mercy?</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #a64d79;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span> </span>Wondering about models of Christian commitment</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #a64d79;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span> </span>other than the ones making the most noise these days?</span></i></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #674ea7;">Hoping for a life-giving Lent?</span></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Join us (late in Lent) for</i></span> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #741b47;"><b><span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Nine Days with Dorothy Day</span></span></b></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span><br /></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">an online retreat</span></span></i></span><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span><br /> </div>
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<i><span style="color: #741b47;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Friday, April 1 - Saturday, April 9, 2022</span></span></b></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <b>Dorothy Day</b> (1897-1980) is best known as the co-founder of <b>the Catholic Worker</b>,
an anarchist, pacifist, lay Catholic Christian movement, and founder
and editor of the newspaper by the same name. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Journalist, activist,
mother, speaker, she was also a person of prayer whose Roman Catholic
religious observance cannot be separated from her work for social and
economic justice and peace or from what Christian tradition calls “the
works of mercy.”<br />
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Click <a href="http://www.catholicworker.org/dorothyday/servant-of-god.html">here</a> for an informative essay on Dorothy Day if you want to know more.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><b><span style="color: #674ea7;"> </span></b></i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><i><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">What, when, where, how</span></b></i></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><b><span style="color: #674ea7;"> </span></b></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;">* An <span style="color: #351c75;"><b>online nine-day spiritual retreat</b></span>, beginning <span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>April 1, 2022</b></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;">.<br />
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* The life and writings of <span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Dorothy Day</b></span> serve as a focus and inspiration.<br />
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* Simple and accessible:</span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <i>one quote or short excerpt per day</i></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> one spiritual exercise per day</i></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> one prayer per day</i></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>on nine consecutive days</i></span></span></blockquote><p>
<span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;">
* 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.<br />
<br />
* Spiritual refreshment, nurture, and challenge. <br />
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* You'll need 20 minutes a day of focused time (<i>any time, day or night</i>) and a computer or tablet with internet access.<br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #741b47; font-size: small;"><b><span><span> </span></span></b></span><span style="font-size: small;">* <b>Easy registration</b> via PayPal secure link, which takes credit and debit cards in addition to PayPal.</span><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span>
</p><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;">--<b><i>You don't have to have your own PayPal account</i></b> to use this online payment method. (If you prefer to pay by Venmo or check, please <a href="mailto:readwithredmont@earthlink.net" target="_blank">e-mail me</a>.)</span><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;">
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</span></span><blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span>--<b>Discounts</b> are available for those in <b>financial hardship</b>. (If even the "hardship rate" is too high for you, please <a href="mailto:readwithredmont@earthlink.net" target="_blank">e-mail me</a> about scholarship need.)<br /></span></i></span></span></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span>
--The <b>benefactor rate </b>helps offset costs and makes scholarship aid possible. </span></i></span></span></blockquote><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;">
<i><span><span><span><span><span>--Payment is non-refundable and due upon registration. </span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span><br /></div></div></div></div><p><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></span> <span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><span><i><b>Register here!</b></i></span></span></span></span><br /></p><p></p>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><span><i><b> <br /></b></i></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>An online blog-based retreat? How does that work?</b></i></span></span></span><br />
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> * The retreat offers <b>daily resources</b> (the<span style="color: #351c75;"><i> </i>quotes, spiritual exercises, and prayers</span>
mentioned above, with some images as well to nourish you visually, and
sometimes a piece of music too) online on a blog. More specifically, a
closed blog. <br />
<br />
* What's <b>a closed blog</b>? It's a blog like <a href="http://actsofhope.blogspot.com/">this</a>,
but it is not public: it is open only to those whom the blog
owner-administrator (that's me) has signed in. In other words, it is not
open to anybody wandering around the internet. It is not searchable:
random web surfers will not be able to view either the blog or our
conversations in the comments.<br />
<br />
* <b>Once you register</b> for the retreat, I will send instructions on
the one-time sign-in mechanism. After you first sign on to the retreat
blog, the blog will always recognize you.<br />
<br />
<span style="color: #674ea7;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Privacy and community </span><br />
</b></i></span></span><br />
During the retreat, <i>you can remain anonymous, invisible, and silent</i> and just read the blog and use the quotes, spiritual exercises, and prayers on your own.<br />
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<b>OR<br />
</b><br />
If you are more extroverted and communal or in need of companions on your retreat, you can <i>share your thoughts, experiences, and questions </i>via
the comments function on the blog and engage in conversation with other
retreatants and with the retreat facilitator. (More about your friendly
retreat designer and facilitator, Jane Redmont, <a href="http://janeredmont.blogspot.com/p/about-jane-redmont_5.html">here</a>. Please do not hesitate to write me with questions or concerns.)</span><br /></p><p style="text-align: right;"><i><b><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The full list of our Lent 2022 online offerings is <a href="https://janeredmont.blogspot.com/2022/03/online-retreats-lent-2022-several.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></span></b></i>
</p><span style="color: #990000;"><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Blo</i></span></b><span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>g-based retreats like this one</b> have a structure and a schedule, but they are flexible
enough to integrate into your daily life: you are the one who decides
when and where to read and pray with the materials in the retreat (day
or night, at home or elsewhere) and how to apply the invitations to practice.</span></span></span></span></i></span></i></span><br /></span><div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;"><span>Note:</span></span> We offer TWO kinds of online retreats:</b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b> </b><br /></span></i></div><div style="margin-left: 120px; text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b> 1. on a blog </b>(as we have offered in the past)<b>:</b><br /></span></i></div><div style="margin-left: 120px; text-align: left;"><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">No
appointment needed: read, gaze, listen, and practice on your own time;
resources are posted regularly to mark a rhythm and offer progression
and order, but you may pick the hour of day or night and the pace at
which you participate; any conversation is in writing -- or you may
remain anonymous.</span></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: xx-small;"> </span><br /></div></div><div style="margin-left: 120px; text-align: left;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> 2. on Zoom </span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">(as we began offering last year)</span></i><b><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></i></b></div><div style="margin-left: 160px; text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span> </span></span></i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Weekly
(or in some cases, one-time-only) gathering on Zoom, at an appointed
date and time; in real time; any conversation is in person and with your
face (or Zoom profile) showing.</span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><i><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="background-color: #d9ead3;"><i><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Reminder: The full list of our Lent 2022 online offerings </span></b></i></span></div><div style="margin-left: 160px; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="background-color: #d9ead3;"><i><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">(both blog-based offerings and Zoom offerings) is <a href="https://janeredmont.blogspot.com/2022/03/online-retreats-lent-2022-several.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></b></i></span><br /></div>
<span style="background-color: white;"><i><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /> </span></b></i></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"></span></span></span></span></i></span></i></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904888783262573113.post-53874554071460702132022-03-01T22:00:00.076-05:002022-03-09T16:11:34.510-05:00Three EVENING RETREATS in Lent, on ZOOM, inspired by 1) Howard THURMAN; 2) William STRINGFELLLOW; 3) Dorothy DAY<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>This Lent, we're offering <span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>three short Zoom-based retreats. </b></span><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>inspired by three faithful, radical, wise Christians.<br /><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><i>(Also <b>several other retreats</b> on other topics in various formats. See <a href="https://janeredmont.blogspot.com/2022/03/online-retreats-lent-2022-several.html" target="_blank">here</a>.)</i><br /></span></span></div><p><span style="background-color: #d9d2e9; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><b><i>Pick one retreat, or two of them, or all three.</i></b><br /><br /><i>You may register until the day before each retreat. </i></span></span></span></span></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>Each retreat will be <b> </b></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><b>on a Thursday evening</b> in Lent, </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>beginning at <b>7:30 p.m. Eastern Time </b></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><b> </b> <br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>Each will last for at least <b>9</b></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><b>0 minutes</b>, </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>up to a maximum of 120 minutes (<b>two hours</b>) long.</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span> </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>Each retreat is <b>a shorter, in-real-time version </b></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><b>of the nine-day ("novena") retreats</b> </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>inspired by the same three people.</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEijQdBtmZr7h57rlBhl0932chVsXHjN779GQRaqtWJiCqisRMvg5msbRR8lLlBqqUorhurDgsUHtvSUP-q1eRw5WKuo7HJy7mRmM_DH2g0c7TogjmodLxIqOVq0U6Lgqd3miB12mY9Kut216jKglDHu-rHsLznypzxwcZz-ogwSKAy_w7CIbo26NA=s442" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="442" data-original-width="364" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEijQdBtmZr7h57rlBhl0932chVsXHjN779GQRaqtWJiCqisRMvg5msbRR8lLlBqqUorhurDgsUHtvSUP-q1eRw5WKuo7HJy7mRmM_DH2g0c7TogjmodLxIqOVq0U6Lgqd3miB12mY9Kut216jKglDHu-rHsLznypzxwcZz-ogwSKAy_w7CIbo26NA=w165-h200" width="165" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj7C1N3J0j0XYN2OEpKs4TyUwQ9CPIsp92A5r179EImFyEqtIVU6RjVy8KwBGVz2PtB1yam2egU8rbfwTF5jYRnkyPFWSGFdNxW2-1T5Zd3Y1RLWsGWobAvyWxfOR2aGRaldIjv8v_1Qjr0hETUHEd7EEX_9Mi4ynhQzLX44a-unVTvOsg880QPJA=s250" style="margin-left: 1em; 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If the "hardship rate" is too high for you, write me and we will arrange for a partial or full scholarship. If you can afford the "benefactor rate," your fees will help make scholarships possible.<br /></i></span><br /></span></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><b>Register for the March 10 Howard Thurman retreat</b> </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>(by the morning of March 9) <b> </b></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><b>here: <br /></b><i><span style="font-size: small;">(And please note that we may offer it again on <b>March 17 </b></span></i></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span style="font-size: small;">if there is interest, so let me know if you prefer that date.)</span></span></span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></span></i><br /> </div>
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<p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904888783262573113.post-11089649433382090172021-12-16T01:13:00.031-05:002021-12-22T23:16:04.148-05:00Twilight Retreat Thurs. 12/23: VISIO DIVINA: IMAGES OF ADVENT <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #d0e0e3;"><span style="color: #0c343d;"><span><b><i><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="840" data-original-width="560" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi5m0W4HLxezU-VO03Nfm5xkKGMdwO2y-Epy6qUjhTBu5INobyYctKY8eDxc_3KpW7NPNVamDamipw8LKjU61jHK1F3c9a60FgzUbY107Gx4P0r2TzeI5egBpFYY94C02MngwEk_hBluTKu29e4BMYnuXiIacfHzczPF__f2PJO-yj4RhqT5_cxtQ=w427-h640" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="427" /></td></tr><tr align="right"><td class="tr-caption"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Sadao Watanabe, "The Visitation"</span></i><br /></td></tr></tbody></table></i></b></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #d0e0e3;"><span style="color: #0c343d;"><span><b><i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /> Visio Divina</span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">: Images of Advent <br /></span></b></span></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #d0e0e3;"><span style="color: #0c343d;"><span><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A </span></b></span><span><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Twilight Retreat</span></b></span></span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0.5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="background-color: #ffe599;"><span style="color: #134f5c;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span>Thursday, December 23</span>,
<span style="font-size: large;">7:00-</span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><strike>9:30</strike></span><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <span style="font-size: large;">8:30</span> p.m. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><i>Eastern Time</i></span></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0.5in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> <span> </span><span> <span> </span><span> </span> </span><span> </span></span>4:00-5:30 p.m. Pacific Time<br /></span></i></div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">You know about <i>lectio
divina</i> (the ancient method of “holy reading,” see above) but there is also
such a thing as <i>visio divina</i> -- holy gazing or sacred gazing. <b><i>We will
view, learn about, and meditate on selected Advent images</i></b> -- from images of
Mary and Elizabeth to visions of the messianic era from a variety of cultural contexts.
<span style="color: #7f6000;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #7f6000;"><span style="color: black;">Take
a break from the pre-Christmas rush to linger in Advent with these
visual reminders of creation, incarnation, and salvation.<br /></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #7f6000;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #7f6000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><i>For registration and payment</i>, click the button below. You don't have to have a PayPal account: you
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December 16</span>, 7:00-9:30 p.m. </span></span></b><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="background-color: white;">Eastern</span> Time</span></i></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span> </span></span></i></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk89114379;"><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: georgia;">4:00-6:30 p.m.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><i><b>Joseph</b></i>, Mary’s partner,
rarely gets much consideration. He doesn't appear at all in this year's Advent Sunday
lectionary (Year C), which has readings from the Gospels of Luke and John, but
he's there in the Gospel of Matthew and we hear about him in Year A. He is thus
among what I call “the people of Advent,” and it's not just Mary who says
"yes" in the stories of Jesus's beginnings: Joseph has his own
encounter with an angel. We will read from the first and second chapters of the
<b><i>Gospel of Matthew </i></b>using <b><i>lectio divina</i></b> (slow, meditative reading that moves us into prayer and silence) but also explore <b><i>some images of
and devotions to St. Joseph</i></b>.<br /></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><i>For registration and payment</i>,
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Weary: A Restorative Advent</span></span></b></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span>A three-week retreat,
December 4-24</span></span></i></b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-size: medium;">,</span></span><i> from Saturday in the first
week of Advent to Thursday in the fourth week of Advent</i>. <br /><br /><span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"> Feeling weary and dry in this second pandemic winter?</span> This gentle
retreat will offer written meditations, visual art, links to music, and
guidance in spiritual practice, including prayer. <span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"><b>Details and
registration </b><a href="https://janeredmont.blogspot.com/2021/12/strength-for-weary-restorative-advent.html" target="_blank"><b>here</b></a></span>. <b><i>Late starters welcome! </i></b></span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This retreat will
take place, as our online retreats have done in the past, <b>on a blog</b>. (Only
retreatants will have access to that blog.) You can check in with the regularly
posted retreat resources privately, at any time that is convenient for you</span></span></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /><span style="background-color: #ead1dc;">The Joyful
Revolution: Mary's Magnificat in Advent<br /></span></span></b></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"></span></span></b></span></span></span></span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCoC3SAIVvIkci7hKYA492gv5Hzp0N5QPmnqgdVjXMfCu52eYkO_VukyoXnGu5wDNlobLOReChRxHSaQwYxfQpgrR-f_UyOb2q-WgUpua5MM5iXxrwJUDVE1qLYPsoTkPNIzQ-N670KA/s840/Sadao+Watanabe+ma-6319-WEB.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="840" data-original-width="560" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCoC3SAIVvIkci7hKYA492gv5Hzp0N5QPmnqgdVjXMfCu52eYkO_VukyoXnGu5wDNlobLOReChRxHSaQwYxfQpgrR-f_UyOb2q-WgUpua5MM5iXxrwJUDVE1qLYPsoTkPNIzQ-N670KA/s320/Sadao+Watanabe+ma-6319-WEB.jpg" width="213" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Sadao Watanabe, "The Visitation"<br /></i></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"></span></span></b></span></span></span></span><p></p><span style="color: #20124d;"><span>
</span></span><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A two-week</span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">retreat, December 8-24</span></i></b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, <b>on a blog</b> (accessible only to retreatants), with regular
postings you can tap into <i>privately, at any time of the day or night.</i><br /></span></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The song of Mary,
also known as the <i>Magnificat</i>, is a song of remembrance and gratitude, but
also an invitation into the future, a vision of the world turned upside down:
the hungry fed, the powerful gone from their thrones, the lowly lifted up –by the
power of God. We will take some time to reflect on the Magnificat (Luke 1:46-55)
and on its predecessor in the First Testament, the Song of Hannah 1 Samuel
2:1-10) and on their meanings for us today. <b>For details and registration, <span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;">click</span></b><span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"> <a href="https://janeredmont.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-joyful-revolution-marys-magnificat.html" target="_blank"><b>here</b></a></span>.<br /></span></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: left;"></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /><br /> </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Annunciations in
Advent</span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">: A Twilight Retreat</span></b></span></span></span></span></p><span style="color: #20124d;"><span>
</span></span><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span> <span> </span> <span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"><span> </span></span></span></span><a name="_Hlk89113402"><b><i><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span><span style="font-size: medium;">Thursday, December 9</span></span>,</span> 7:00-9:30 p.m. Eastern</span> </i></b><i>(4-6:30
Pacific) </i><b>on Zoom</b><i><br /></i></a></span></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk89113402;"></span>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
This meditative retreat will involve a period of <i>lectio divina</i> (a form of the ancient method of meditative "holy reading") using selected readings from the Rev. Dr. Wilda C. Gafney’s
<i>A Women's Lectionary for the Whole Church</i>. (Note: all genders are
welcome to this retreat!) It will also include some text study and some
time for silence and prayer. Dr. Gafney, scholar, teacher, and priest,
reconfigures Advent as a season of
Annunciations (in the plural). <b>For details and registration,</b><span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"> click <b><a href="https://janeredmont.blogspot.com/2021/12/three-twilight-retreats-on-three.html" target="_blank">here</a></b></span>. <br /></span><br /></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", serif;"><span>What about Joseph? </span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", serif;"><span><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A Twilight Retreat</span></b></span></span></b></span></span></span></span></p><span style="color: #20124d;"><span>
</span></span><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"><a name="_Hlk89114379"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span><span style="font-size: medium;">Thursday,
December 16</span></span>, 7:00-9:30 p.m. Eastern</span> </span></i></b></a></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk89114379;"><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(4-6:30
Pacific) </span></i><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">on Zoom</span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></i></span></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk89114379;"></span>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Joseph, Mary’s partner,
rarely gets much consideration. He doesn't appear at all in this year's Advent Sunday
lectionary (Year C), which has readings from the Gospels of Luke and John, but
he's there in the Gospel of Matthew and we hear about him in Year A. He is thus
among what I call “the people of Advent,” and it's not just Mary who says
"yes" in the stories of Jesus's beginnings: Joseph has his own
encounter with an angel. We will read from the first and second chapters of the
Gospel of Matthew using <i>lectio divina</i>, but also explore some images of
and devotions to St. Joseph. <b>For details and registration, <span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;">click </span></b><span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"><a href="https://janeredmont.blogspot.com/2021/12/three-twilight-retreats-on-three.html" target="_blank"><b>here</b></a></span>.<br /><br /></span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAzJ9e0buBPNz4NjDPznS-mY15ytQZ-5VCt-ARKwwnlCoxq6380Zh62wZlA2Jyzhr4d0dD8aHM-werNtMZxGh6qILalHtMfmV7EhOLD7LN2anVli3zqZqtEHK3L0fkv34IOV7_mAn7Yg/s640/2014-12-29+15.37.32+bare+tree+sky.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAzJ9e0buBPNz4NjDPznS-mY15ytQZ-5VCt-ARKwwnlCoxq6380Zh62wZlA2Jyzhr4d0dD8aHM-werNtMZxGh6qILalHtMfmV7EhOLD7LN2anVli3zqZqtEHK3L0fkv34IOV7_mAn7Yg/s320/2014-12-29+15.37.32+bare+tree+sky.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr align="right"><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>(c) Jane Redmont</i></span><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Visio Divina</span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">: Images of Advent - A </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Twilight Retreat</span></b></span></span></span></span></p><span style="color: #20124d;"></span><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span><span style="font-size: medium;">Thursday, December 23</span></span>,
7:00-9:30 p.m. Eastern </span></i></b></span></span><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(4-6:30 Pacific) </span></i><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">on Zoom</span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></i><span style="color: #20124d;"></span><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">You know about <i>lectio
divina</i> (the ancient method of “holy reading,” see above) but there is also
such a thing as <i>visio divina</i> -- holy gazing or sacred gazing. We will
view, learn about, and meditate on selected Advent images -- from images of
Mary and Elizabeth to visions of the messianic era from a variety of cultural contexts.
<b>For details and registration, <span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;">click</span></b><span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"> <a href="https://janeredmont.blogspot.com/2021/12/three-twilight-retreats-on-three.html" target="_blank"><b>here</b></a></span>. </span><br /></p><p><br /><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p><p></p><br /><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904888783262573113.post-9924389033815841662021-12-02T17:40:00.006-05:002021-12-02T17:52:46.380-05:00The Joyful Revolution: Mary's Magnificat in Advent - online retreat, December 8-24<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia", serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><b>The Joyful Revolution:</b></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia", serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><b>Mary's <i>Magnificat</i> in Advent</b></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia", serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><b></b></span></span></i></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia", serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><b></b></span></span></i></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia", serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0W5tJ2Cub8UAJRqiDALP6putUyQdn0FA897Y-Uk54Dj9PT4bcaL_a6ohmhWPkSsAVJvhurnfqEHSozhzLSkYwzlQfEB23COE4RjOlM9nB8Q-Ml58Owk3KZLxdQuleLUGJhV89-LLROA/s400/Magnificat-Image.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"> </a><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia", serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><b>an online retreat</b></span></span></i></span></b></span></span></i></span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #990000;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>December 8-24, 2021</i></span><br /></b></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: small; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span></span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="400" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0W5tJ2Cub8UAJRqiDALP6putUyQdn0FA897Y-Uk54Dj9PT4bcaL_a6ohmhWPkSsAVJvhurnfqEHSozhzLSkYwzlQfEB23COE4RjOlM9nB8Q-Ml58Owk3KZLxdQuleLUGJhV89-LLROA/w400-h320/Magnificat-Image.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="400" /></td></tr><tr align="right"><td class="tr-caption"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">"<a href="https://enemylove.com/subversive-magnificat-mary-expected-messiah-to-be-like/" target="_blank">The Subversive Magnificat" on enemylove.com</a></span></i><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: small; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span><span style="color: #990000;"><b> </b></span></span></span><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: small; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span><span style="color: #990000;"><b>The song of Mary,
also known as the <i>Magnificat</i></b></span>, is a song of remembrance and gratitude, but
also an invitation into the future, <span style="color: #990000;"><b>a vision of the world turned upside down</b></span>:
the hungry fed, the powerful gone from their thrones, the lowly lifted up –by the
power of God</span>. </span></p><div style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #783f04;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia;">The
song of Mary is the oldest Advent hymn. It is at once the most
passionate, the wildest, one might even say the most revolutionary
Advent hymn ever sung. This is not the gentle,tender, dreamy Mary whom
we sometimes see in paintings; this is the passionate, surrendered,
proud, enthusiastic Mary who speaks out here. </span></i></span><br /></span></div><p style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #783f04;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia;">
This song has none of the sweet, nostalgic, or even playful tones of
some of our Christmas carols. It is instead a hard, strong, inexorable
song about collapsing thrones and humbled lords of this world, about
the power of God and the powerlessness of humankind. These are the tones
of the women prophets of the Old Testament that now come to life in
Mary’s mouth.</span></i></span></span></p><blockquote style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #783f04;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span></span></i><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span> </span>Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Advent sermon, 1933</span></span></span></blockquote><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: small; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">During this <span style="color: #990000;"><b>two-week retreat</b></span>, we will take some time to reflect on <span style="color: #990000;"><a href="http://www.satucket.com/lectionary/Canticle15.htm" target="_blank">the Magnificat</a> (Luke 1:46-55)</span>
and on its predecessor in the First Testament, <span style="color: #990000;"><a href="https://bible.usccb.org/bible/1samuel/2" target="_blank">the Song of Hannah</a> (1 Samuel2:1-10) </span>and on their meanings for us today. <br /><br />We will <span style="color: #990000;"><b>study the texts </b></span>(including <a href="https://actsofhope.blogspot.com/2009/03/annunciation.html" target="_blank">different translations</a> of the Magnificat). </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: small; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We will also (not at the same time) <span style="color: #990000;"><b>read scripture meditatively</b></span> with the ancient practice of <i><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>lectio divin</b></span>a</i>, which ponders words and leads into deep silence. We will view <span style="color: #990000;"><b>visual representations</b></span> of Mary --and of Mary and her kinswoman Elizabeth-- from diverse cultures and contexts. We will listen to <span style="color: #990000;"><b>musical settings</b></span> of the Magnificat.<br /></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: small; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Advent is a season of quiet waiting. It is also a season full of urgency, a time when we look to the future not just in the short term --here comes Christmas, welcome the child Jesus-- but in the long term. Advent speaks of change, not only in its visions of the end of time, but in Mary's song of a transformed society. <br /></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia", serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span><b>This retreat will
take place</b></span></span>, as other online retreats have done in the past, <span style="color: #990000;"><span><b>on a blog</b></span></span>. <i><span style="color: #990000;">Only
retreatants will have access to that blog</span>.</i> You can check in with the regularly
posted retreat resources<i> </i>privately, at any time that is convenient for you.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia", serif;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia", serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span><b>I will post resources </b></span></span><b><span style="color: #990000;"><span>every couple of days</span></span> </b>for the two weeks of the retreat. Some of them will be <span style="color: #351c75;"><b><span style="color: #990000;"><span>suggestions or guidance</span></span> </b></span>for reflection,</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
meditation, journal-keeping (verbal or visual), and prayer which
you can use and adapt to your daily life and to your own
spiritual practice.<br /></span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ_HWS3hMPJCGRLyP2Mle3zDsnWZfkGv-2B4nxYSOI8F93B_dM49Nqky8GkOB_HoJxU9QnN-ORkhhQEaxdmXPkVR_R6gFxflMyQQ5VzgCXkwiJnvfqB3mqcbVaDr_AZnqFxf3EMYCqIA/s640/Visitation+Romare+Bearden+1941+MOMA.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="418" data-original-width="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ_HWS3hMPJCGRLyP2Mle3zDsnWZfkGv-2B4nxYSOI8F93B_dM49Nqky8GkOB_HoJxU9QnN-ORkhhQEaxdmXPkVR_R6gFxflMyQQ5VzgCXkwiJnvfqB3mqcbVaDr_AZnqFxf3EMYCqIA/s16000/Visitation+Romare+Bearden+1941+MOMA.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr align="right"><td class="tr-caption"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Romare Bearden, "The Visitation" (1941)<br /><span>Gouache, ink, and pencil on colored paper<br />Museum of Modern Art, New York<br /></span></span></i></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><i><b>Solitude or conversation or both?</b></i></span></span></span></span><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">As
in our previous online-on-a-blog retreats, this one will include, but not require,
<span style="color: #990000;"><span><b>opportunities for (written) conversation</b></span></span>
with other participants. My hope is that participants will feel moved to enter into conversation, since the retreat will be all the richer if we share our perspectives and reactions. But the choice is yours. <br /><br />Those
conversations take place in the comments sections of the blogposts.
Again: these posts, with their resources and their opportunities for
comment and exchange, take place on<span style="color: #990000;"> </span><span style="color: #741b47;"><b><span style="color: #990000;"><span>a private blog open only to people who have registered for the retreat</span>.</span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"> </span></b><i><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: white;">Once you have registered for the retreat, you will receive instructions on getting onto the retreat blog.</span><br /></span></i></span><br />Try to log in to the retreat every day or two and to set aside time to
spend with the resources. These regular check-ins and dedicated times will help you to have a fruitful retreat.<span style="background-color: white;"><br /><br />T</span>his kind of retreat is suited for both morning persons and p.m.
persons! You can adapt reflection, prayer, and practice to your personal
and work schedule. I'll be there for support and information if you
need a consultation. </span></span></p><p style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span><span><i>Please <a href="mailto:readwithredmont@earthlink.net" target="_blank">write me</a> with any questions or concerns.</i></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span><span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span><span><span style="background-color: white;"><i><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><b>Registration and cost</b></span></span></span><b><br /></b></i></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>Registration and payment take place via <span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">PayPal secure link</span>, which takes credit and debit cards in addition to PayPal.</span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><b> </b><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">You do not </span></i><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"><i>have to have your own PayPal accoun</i><i>t</i></span> to use this online payment method. </span><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></i></span></div><blockquote style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">--The drop-down menu below shows the payment scale.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">--Discounts are available for those in <span style="color: #073763;"><b>financial hardship</b></span>. (If the discounted rate indicated is still too costly for you, please contact me.)</span><br /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">--At the other end of the spectrum, the <b><span style="color: #073763;">benefactor rate</span> </b>helps offset costs and makes discounted rates possible. </span></span></div></blockquote><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><i><b><span style="color: #666666;">Payment is non-refundable and due upon registration. <br /></span></b></i></span></span></span></p>
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<img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" /> </form><form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post" style="text-align: left;" target="_top"> </form><form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post" style="text-align: left;" target="_top"></form><div style="text-align: right;"><form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post" target="_top"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia", serif;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><span>This
is a different kind of online retreat from a Zoom retreat,</span></i></span></span></span></span></form><form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post" target="_top"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia", serif;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><span> where we are
all together at the same time </span></i></span></span></span></span></form><form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post" target="_top"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia", serif;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><span>for part of an afternoon or evening.</span></i></span></span></span></span></form><form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post" target="_top"></form><form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post" target="_top"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><span><span>If
you are interested in that kind of retreat, see <a href="https://janeredmont.blogspot.com/2021/11/an-early-in-advent-twilight-retreat.html" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="https://janeredmont.blogspot.com/2021/12/three-twilight-retreats-on-three.html" target="_blank">here</a>. </span> </span></i></span></span></span></span><br /></form></div><div style="text-align: right;"> <b><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #990000;"><b><span><i><span style="font-family: georgia;">For a full listing of this year's Advent retreats, see <a href="https://janeredmont.blogspot.com/2021/11/advent-retreats-in-various-online.html">here</a>.</span></i></span></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: right;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="465" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwwZEY5JNk3smb8HZE4HpyECLbIe0guO6h-74_4dxGjVBIAs1IH_N6NezBxj96mdILpMaL1bY6ObSVQywAOFrYPFQkBMjINjaFtGEZEf88AFJFKHlEh8-QVe6e4AhyphenhyphenJesYVlrJTvoVJw/w466-h640/BenWildflowerMagnificat+woodcut2016.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="466" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Ben Wildflower, "Magnificat" <br />(woodcut, 2016)</i></span><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">=<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div> </span></i></span></b></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904888783262573113.post-64333149536983270162021-12-01T22:40:00.003-05:002021-12-03T12:40:44.423-05:00Strength for the Weary: A Restorative Advent - online retreat, December 3-23 (latecomers welcome)<p></p><p><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Feeling weary, dry, disoriented in this second pandemic winter? <br /><br />Wondering whether and how to observe the season of Advent?</i></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy_eu-3KWWi7J6UST-QZK615RB1vJzHQtms6x71AgIXZgkLofOoJVYR5yL9W6fVTlPuynJ97nJi5xr6tHHTfhXVrCso83NzlUdK78W4nFTtnTd9G7EOifdHckGL-bZ5vO_cmYO_ZbxZQ/s1024/Waiting+for+Advent+6+darker+branches+Nov+29.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1024" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy_eu-3KWWi7J6UST-QZK615RB1vJzHQtms6x71AgIXZgkLofOoJVYR5yL9W6fVTlPuynJ97nJi5xr6tHHTfhXVrCso83NzlUdK78W4nFTtnTd9G7EOifdHckGL-bZ5vO_cmYO_ZbxZQ/w640-h480/Waiting+for+Advent+6+darker+branches+Nov+29.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><i>Here's an online retreat for you. </i></span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i></i></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></b></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", serif;"><span>Strength for the
Weary: A Restorative Advent</span></span></b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> <span style="color: #0b5394;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia", serif;"><span>a three-week retreat</span></span></i></b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #073763;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia", serif;"><span>December 3 to December 2</span>3, 2021</span></i></b></span><span style="font-family: "Georgia", serif;"><i> <br /></i></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><i>(from Friday in the first
week of Advent to Thursday in the fourth week of Advent)</i> </span><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #073763;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia;">Reading this after December 3? It's fine to register late.</span></i></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia", serif;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia", serif;">This gentle
retreat will offer written meditations, visual art, links to music, and
guidance in spiritual practice, including but not limited to prayer. </span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia", serif;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia", serif;">The major themes of Advent --a season of contradictions in which we encounter both God's invitation to patience and God's urgent call to be alert and awake-- will be present in this retreat, but adapted to a time in which many of us find ourselves weary, frightened, sorrowful, burdened, or distracted, or all of these. We will acknowledge all of these hard realities. We will also receive invitations to joy and reminders of God's faithfulness. </span></span><br /><span style="font-family: "Georgia", serif;"></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia", serif;"><span style="color: #073763;"><b>This retreat will
take place</b></span>, as other online retreats have done in the past, <span style="color: #073763;"><b>on a blog</b></span>. <i>Only
retreatants will have access to that blog.</i> You can check in with the regularly
posted retreat resources<i> </i>privately, at any time that is convenient for you.</span></span></p><p style="margin-left: 200px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia", serif;"><span></span><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">This is a different kind of online retreat from a Zoom retreat, where we are all together at the same time for part of an afternoon or evening. If you are interested in that kind of retreat, see <a href="https://janeredmont.blogspot.com/2021/11/an-early-in-advent-twilight-retreat.html" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="https://janeredmont.blogspot.com/2021/12/three-twilight-retreats-on-three.html" target="_blank">here</a>. </span></i><br /></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b><span style="color: #a64d79;"><span style="color: black;"></span></span></b></span></span><span style="font-family: "Georgia", serif;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia", serif;"><span style="color: #073763;"><b>I will post the resources mentioned above</b> </span><b><span style="color: #073763;">every couple of days</span> </b>for the three weeks of the retreat. Some of them will be <span style="color: #351c75;"><b><span style="color: #073763;">suggestions or guidance</span> </b></span>for reflection,</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
meditation, journal-keeping (verbal or visual), and prayer which
you can use and adapt to your daily life and to your own
spiritual practice.<br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #073763;"><i><b>Solitude or conversation or both?</b></i></span></span></span><br /></span><p>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">As
in our previous online-on-a-blog retreats, this one will include, but not require,
<span style="color: #073763;"><b>opportunities for (written) conversation</b></span> with other participants. Those
conversations take place in the comments sections of the blogposts. Again: these posts, with their resources and their opportunities for comment and exchange, take place on <span style="color: #741b47;"><b><span style="color: #073763;">a private blog open only to people who have registered for the retreat</span>.<span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"> </span></b><i><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">Once you have registered for the retreat, you will receive instructions on getting onto the retreat blog.</span><br /></span></i></span><br />It be helpful for you to check in by logging on to the retreat blog every couple of days, and to set aside time --try 20 minutes for starters-- to spend with the resources. <br /><br /><span style="background-color: white;">You will be integrating the insights and practices of the retreat into your daily life, but <i>how, when, and how much is completely up to you</i>.
<br /><br />T</span>his kind of retreat is suited for both morning persons and p.m.
persons! You can adapt reflection, prayer, and practice to your personal
and work schedule. I'll be there for support and information if you
need a consultation. <br /></span></span></p><p style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><i>Please <a href="mailto:readwithredmont@earthlink.net" target="_blank">write me</a> with any questions or concerns.</i></span></span><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span><span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span><span><span style="background-color: white;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #073763;"><b>Registration and cost</b></span></span><b><br /></b></i></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>Registration and payment take place via <span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">PayPal secure link</span>, which takes credit and debit cards in addition to PayPal.</span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><b> </b><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">You do not </span></i><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"><i>have to have your own PayPal accoun</i><i>t</i></span> to use this online payment method. </span><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span></i><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span></i></span></div><blockquote><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">--The drop-down menu below shows the payment scale.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">--Discounts are available for those in <span style="color: #073763;"><b>financial hardship</b></span>. (If the discounted rate indicated is still too costly for you, please contact me.)</span><br /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">--At the other end of the spectrum, the <b><span style="color: #073763;">benefactor rate</span> </b>helps offset costs and makes discounted rates possible. </span></span></div></blockquote><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span></i></span></div><span style="font-size: small;">
</span><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><i><b><span style="color: #666666;">Payment is non-refundable and due upon registration.</span></b></i></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><i><b><span style="color: #666666;"> <br /></span></b></i></span></span></span><form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post" target="_top"><table><tbody><tr><td><br /></td></tr></tbody></table></form></div>
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<img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" /> </form><form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post" target="_top"> </form><div style="text-align: right;"><form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post" target="_top"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #073763;"><b><i>For a full listing of this year's Advent retreats, see <a href="https://janeredmont.blogspot.com/2021/11/advent-retreats-in-various-online.html" target="_blank">here</a>. </i></b></span></span><br /></form></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904888783262573113.post-10877941348658837912021-12-01T15:46:00.003-05:002021-12-03T12:58:32.642-05:00Three Twilight Retreats on three Thursdays in Advent: "Annunciations," "What about Joseph?" and "Visio Divina: Images of Advent" (all on Zoom)<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>Interested in a couple of hours of reflective, prayerful time? </i></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>Join us for one or more of these<b> <span style="color: #134f5c;"><span>three Thursday Twilight Retreats</span></span></b></i></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>during Advent. All of these will be online, on Zoom.<br /></i></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i> </i></span></span></span><br /></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #d0e0e3; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0c343d;"><span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span><span><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Annunciations in
Advent</span></b></span></span><span><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">: A Twilight Retreat</span></b></span></span></span></span></p><span style="color: #0c343d;"><span>
</span></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #0c343d;"><span> <span> </span> </span></span><a name="_Hlk89113402"><span style="color: #0c343d;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span><span style="color: #134f5c;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span><span>Thursday, December 9</span>, </span><span><span>7:00-9:30 p.m.</span> </span></b><b>Eastern Time </b></span></span><i><br /></i></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><i><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>(4:00-6:30
Pacific Time) <br /></i></span></div>
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This meditative retreat will involve <i><b>a period of lectio divina</b></i> (a form of the ancient method of meditative "holy reading") using selected readings from <a href="https://www.ncronline.org/news/opinion/simply-spirit/paradigm-shifting-lectionary-whole-church" target="_blank">the Rev. Dr. Wilda C. Gafney’s
<i>A Women's Lectionary for the Whole Church</i></a>. (Note: all genders are
welcome to this retreat!) </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Dr. Gafney, scholar, professor, and priest,
reconfigures Advent as <i>a season of
Annunciations</i> (in the plural). <br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><i><b>It will also include some text study and some
time for silence and prayer.</b></i> <br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="background-color: #d0e0e3;"><i>For registration and payment</i></span>, click the button below. You don't have to have a PayPal account: you can pay with a card. Note the sliding scale. I will e-mail you the Zoom link once you have registered</span>.<span style="background-color: #d0e0e3;"><span></span></span><br /></p><div style="text-align: center;"><form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post" target="_top">
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December 16</span>, 7:00-9:30 p.m. </span></span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="background-color: white;">Eastern</span> Time</span></i></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0.5in;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span> </span></span></i></b><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk89114379;"><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">4:00-6:30 p.m.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><i><b>Joseph</b></i>, Mary’s partner,
rarely gets much consideration. He doesn't appear at all in this year's Advent Sunday
lectionary (Year C), which has readings from the Gospels of Luke and John, but
he's there in the Gospel of Matthew and we hear about him in Year A. He is thus
among what I call “the people of Advent,” and it's not just Mary who says
"yes" in the stories of Jesus's beginnings: Joseph has his own
encounter with an angel. We will read from the first and second chapters of the
<b><i>Gospel of Matthew </i></b>using <b><i>lectio divina</i></b> (slow, meditative reading that moves us into prayer and silence) but also explore <b><i>some images of
and devotions to St. Joseph</i></b>.<br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><i>For registration and payment</i>,
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7:00-9:30 p.m. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><i>Eastern Time</i></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0.5in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> <span> </span><span> <span> </span><span> </span> </span><span> </span></span>4:00-6:30 p.m. Pacific Time<br /></span></i></div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">You know about <i>lectio
divina</i> (the ancient method of “holy reading,” see above) but there is also
such a thing as <i>visio divina</i> -- holy gazing or sacred gazing. <b><i>We will
view, learn about, and meditate on selected Advent images</i></b> -- from images of
Mary and Elizabeth to visions of the messianic era from a variety of cultural contexts.
<span style="color: #7f6000;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #7f6000;"><span style="color: black;">Take a break from the pre-Christmas rush to linger in Advent with these visual reminders of creation, incarnation, and salvation.<br /></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #7f6000;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #7f6000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><i>For registration and payment</i>, click the button below. You don't have to have a PayPal account: you
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">8:00-10:30 p.m.</span></span></span><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Eastern Time</span></i></span></span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><i><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>(5:00-7:30 p.m. Pacific Time) </i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><i> </i></span></div>
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<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This is <span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"><i>the same
retreat</i> <i>offered twice</i></span> for your convenience, on two different days at
different times.</span> <span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><i><span style="color: #7f6000;"><br /><br /></span></i></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZEqQeSqBOjj3DLvrV2y_PxMl4pRdJFDrEXDExaWScl_C0RmcJ5lHp0BAZ1RFojLKqDvojqu5kqK1WkIFQa9NJifysyMecp713UCpUevprgpedar5vzGu-PeSIXVmoxxIs3v05f_GXuw/s2048/2015-12-02+20.17.51.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZEqQeSqBOjj3DLvrV2y_PxMl4pRdJFDrEXDExaWScl_C0RmcJ5lHp0BAZ1RFojLKqDvojqu5kqK1WkIFQa9NJifysyMecp713UCpUevprgpedar5vzGu-PeSIXVmoxxIs3v05f_GXuw/w300-h400/2015-12-02+20.17.51.jpg" width="300" /></a></i></span></div><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><i><br /></i></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.0866in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #7f6000;"><span style="color: black;"><b><span style="color: #073763;">Advent</span></b>, the season before Christmas, looks toward both the first and the second comings of Jesus. It is a gentle, slow season --I like to speak of it as "the seasonal slowdown," a countercultural choice if there ever was one, amid the bright lights and the many "BUY ME!" messages. It is also a bracing, even startling season with Scripture readings announcing changes of cosmic proportions. It is thus a season of paradoxes and contradictions. It murmurs "Slow down..." and shouts "Wake up!" How will we observe it this year?<br /><br />It's wise, if you are able, to <span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">begin by clearing some space and slowing down</span>. Even that can be a challenge. Even during a pandemic. Or perhaps especially so: the experience of time, for many of us, has been strange. How many of us have asked "What day of the week is this?" over the past months. Add to this the fact that Advent is always a reexamination of time and of our rhythms of life and you have an additional challenge.<br /></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #7f6000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"><span>This retreat will offer a <i><b>“Welcome to Advent”</b></i> experience.</span></span>
It will even work for you if you’re muttering to yourself "I am SO not
ready for Advent" or are starting your observance of Advent a little late
this year. (In other words, you can think of it as a<span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"> <b><i>"Help! I'm not ready for Advent!"</i></b></span> retreat) </span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.0866in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #7f6000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">One retreat offering will be in the middle of this first week of Advent. The other (pick either one) will be in the afternoon of the second Sunday of Advent. </span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.0866in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #7f6000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It's never too late to get started. <br /></span><br /></span></span><i><span style="color: #7f6000;"> </span></i></span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><b>The retreat will offer</b></span> some shared quiet time, some reflection on the themes and practices of Advent, and a little music and visual art. While it will offer several threads or layers of this rich season, you can and may pick just one thread as you emerge from the retreat and live your own Advent.<i> Do what brings you life. </i>Listen for the promptings of the Holy Spirit.<br /><br />Advent challenges our impatience and invites us to enter God's patience. It is the season of taking the long view, beyond our own small range of vision. If the Good News is to take root in us, we need to enter God's time, God's timetable.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.0866in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Yet Advent is also a time to enter God's impatience, a time of righteous anger, a time when prophets challenge our apathy and paralysis and urge us forward into visions of a changed world. It is a season of yearning in which the stories and songs in the scriptures speak of a God who longs to transform our hearts, our society, and creation itself -- soon, now, urgently.<br /><br />One of the challenges of this season is to readjust our sense of time, to learn again (or for the first time) when it is appropriate to enter into God's patience and when it is time to entire into God's impatience.<br /><br /><span style="color: #0b5394;"><b>The retreat is on Zoom</b></span> and is two and a half hours long, with a little break in the middle. We'll take all the time we need to settle down, quiet our bodies, focus our hearts and minds, and listen for a word, an image, a story that speaks to our whole being. It will be good to do this in a community, however small, across the miles. Join us. <br /><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><b>For registration and payment</b></span>, click one of the two buttons below. Make sure to pick the day you plan to attend!<br /><br />Please note that there is a <span style="background-color: #9fc5e8;">sliding scale</span> so that this retreat can be accessible to as many people as possible. The PayPal link below offers options for payment besides a direct PayPal transfer. In other words, you don't need to have a PayPal account. Once you have registered, with your e-mail address, I will get in touch with you and send you the Zoom link.
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Do <a href="mailto:readwithredmont@earthlink.net" target="_blank">contact me</a> if you have any questions or concerns. <i>(Click on the underlined words "contact me" for e-mail.)</i> I'm looking forward to our time together. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #0c343d;"><span style="background-color: #d0e0e3;"><b>We are also offering several other Advent retreats</b></span></span>,</span> some short and some long, some "live" (on Zoom) and some on your own time. See <a href="https://janeredmont.blogspot.com/2021/11/advent-retreats-in-various-online.html" target="_blank"><b><i>here</i></b></a>. </span><br /><p></p><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div style="margin-left: 400px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Jane</span><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><p></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904888783262573113.post-54889350973713088652021-11-29T23:16:00.071-05:002021-12-03T12:56:30.681-05:00ADVENT 2021 RETREATS - various formats and lengths!<p></p><p></p><p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</p><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span>Dear all, </span></span></span></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span> </span></span></span></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span> Welcome to the season of Advent.</span></span></span></span></p></div><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9Gdhk_55fhrh245U7YW3N4amfMYUjektUsAfjz5EW0ldPbGesKtC4Z1jOLgFMXfc0VHz3S_1ZivDvkDmJmrkQnxtEqfid8yTd1ZbNvuyR0MEJ76GIiguratAVvGU4O1fdWyWj_crnNg/s626/Advent+wreath+%2523+5+-+one+single+candle.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="537" data-original-width="626" height="344" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9Gdhk_55fhrh245U7YW3N4amfMYUjektUsAfjz5EW0ldPbGesKtC4Z1jOLgFMXfc0VHz3S_1ZivDvkDmJmrkQnxtEqfid8yTd1ZbNvuyR0MEJ76GIiguratAVvGU4O1fdWyWj_crnNg/w400-h344/Advent+wreath+%2523+5+-+one+single+candle.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We're offering several kinds of
retreats this year, some shorter and on Zoom, others longer and on a blog
as we have done in years past, with more “on<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>your own time” opportunity.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Have a look at the retreat options
below. Which theme speaks to you? What do you need most in your life right now?
</span></b></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">If it is your custom
to observe the Christian season of Advent --or if you wish to begin observing
it-- what calls to you this year? </span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #741b47;"><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b>Scroll down </b>to the
end of this post if you like calendars and want a visual sense of the schedule
of retreat offerings. I've made a chart for you.</span></i></span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There's Always Time:
An Advent Twilight Retreat</span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></b></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Thursday, December 2,
8:00-10:30 p.m. Eastern Time</span></i></b></span></span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <i>(5:00-7:30 p.m. Pacific) </i><b>on Zoom</b><i> (with a little break in the middle)</i></span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b>Saturday, December 4, 3:00-5:30 p.m. Eastern
Time</b></span></i></span></span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
<i>(12:00-2:30 p.m. Pacific)</i></span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><i> </i><b>on Zoom</b><i> (with a little break in the middle)</i></span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This is <i>the same
retreat</i> <i>offered twice</i> for your convenience, on two different days at
different times. The retreat will offer some quiet time as well as a gateway into
the themes and practices of Advent, that season of contradictions that murmurs “Slow
down” and shouts “Wake up!” This retreat is a good “welcome to Advent” experience.
It will even work for you if you’re muttering to yourself "I am SO not
ready for Advent" or are starting your observance of Advent a little late
this year. </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For
details and registration, <b><a href="https://janeredmont.blogspot.com/2021/11/an-early-in-advent-twilight-retreat.html" target="_blank">click here</a></b>. <br /></span></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;">Strength for the
Weary: A Restorative Advent</span></span></b></span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;">A three-week retreat,
December 3 to December 2</span>3</span></i></b></span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">,<i> from Friday in the first
week of Advent to Thursday in the fourth week of Advent</i>. This retreat will
take place, as our online retreats have done in the past, <b>on a blog</b>. (Only
retreatants will have access to that blog.) You can check in with the regularly
posted retreat resources<i> privately, at any time that is convenient for you</i>. Feeling weary and dry in this second pandemic winter? This gentle retreat will offer written meditations, visual art, links to music, and guidance in spiritual practice, including prayer. <b>Details and
registration </b><a href="https://janeredmont.blogspot.com/2021/12/strength-for-weary-restorative-advent.html" target="_blank"><b>here</b></a>. <i>Late starters welcome!</i><br /></span></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Joyful
Revolution: Mary's Magnificat in Advent</span></b></span></span></p><span style="color: #990000;">
</span><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: medium;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A two-week</span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">retreat, December 8-24</span></i></b></span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, <b>on a blog</b> (accessible only to retreatants), with regular
postings you can tap into <i>privately, at any time of the day or night.</i><br /></span></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The song of Mary,
also known as the <i>Magnificat</i>, is a song of remembrance and gratitude, but
also an invitation into the future, a vision of the world turned upside down:
the hungry fed, the powerful gone from their thrones, the lowly lifted up –by the
power of God. We will take some time to reflect on the Magnificat (Luke 1:46-55)
and on its predecessor in the First Testament, the Song of Hannah 1 Samuel
2:1-10) and on their meanings for us today. <b>For details and registration, click</b> <a href="https://janeredmont.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-joyful-revolution-marys-magnificat.html" target="_blank"><b>here</b></a>.<br /></span><br /></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Annunciations in
Advent</span></b></span></span><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">: A Twilight Retreat</span></b></span></p><span style="color: #274e13;">
</span><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #274e13;"> <span> </span> </span><a name="_Hlk89113402"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: medium;"> </span><b><i><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: medium;">Thursday, December 9</span>, 7:00-9:30 p.m. Eastern </i></b><i>(4-6:30
Pacific) </i><b>on Zoom</b><i><br /></i></a></span></p>
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<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
This meditative retreat will involve a period of <i>lectio divina</i> (a form of the ancient method of meditative "holy reading") using selected readings from the Rev. Dr. Wilda C. Gafney’s
<i>A Women's Lectionary for the Whole Church</i>. (Note: all genders are
welcome to this retreat!) It will also include some text study and some time for silence and prayer. Dr. Gafney, scholar, teacher, and priest, reconfigures Advent as a season of
Annunciations (in the plural). <b>For details and registration,</b> click <b><a href="https://janeredmont.blogspot.com/2021/12/three-twilight-retreats-on-three.html" target="_blank">here</a></b>. <br /></span><br /></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;">What about Joseph? </span></span></b></span><span style="color: #274e13;"><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A Twilight Retreat</span></b></span></span></span></b></span></p><span style="color: #274e13;">
</span><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0.5in;"><a name="_Hlk89114379"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: medium;">Thursday,
December 16</span>, 7:00-9:30 p.m. Eastern </span></i></b></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk89114379;"><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(4-6:30
Pacific) </span></i><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">on Zoom</span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></i></span></p>
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<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Joseph, Mary’s partner,
rarely gets much consideration. He doesn't appear at all in this year's Advent Sunday
lectionary (Year C), which has readings from the Gospels of Luke and John, but
he's there in the Gospel of Matthew and we hear about him in Year A. He is thus
among what I call “the people of Advent,” and it's not just Mary who says
"yes" in the stories of Jesus's beginnings: Joseph has his own
encounter with an angel. We will read from the first and second chapters of the
Gospel of Matthew using <i>lectio divina</i>, but also explore some images of
and devotions to St. Joseph. <b>For details and registration, click </b><a href="https://janeredmont.blogspot.com/2021/12/three-twilight-retreats-on-three.html" target="_blank"><b>here</b></a>.</span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><b><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></b><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: medium;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Visio Divina</span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">: Images of Advent - A </span></b></span><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Twilight Retreat</span></b></span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0.5in;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: medium;">Thursday, December 23</span>,
7:00-9:30 p.m. Eastern </span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(4-6:30 Pacific) </span></i><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">on Zoom</span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></i></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> You know about <i>lectio
divina</i> (the ancient method of “holy reading,” see above) but there is also
such a thing as <i>visio divina</i> -- holy gazing or sacred gazing. We will
view, learn about, and meditate on selected Advent images -- from images of
Mary and Elizabeth to visions of the messianic era from a variety of cultural contexts.
<b>For details and registration, click</b> <a href="https://janeredmont.blogspot.com/2021/12/three-twilight-retreats-on-three.html" target="_blank"><b>here</b></a>. <br /></span><br /></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><i><span style="color: #7f6000;"><span style="color: #741b47;"><b>Here's a chart of the retreat schedule for you.</b> Click on the calendar below twice in order to enlarge it. You can see what fits with your life and schedule. <br /><br />Also, if you're thinking of taking more than one retreat, you can see what's realistic and workable for you.</span><br /></span></i></span></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><i><span style="color: #7f6000;"> </span></i></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0vj8q-uNdvAFQS8a7BkCRMgW0G-9cbABBBW2i4MpHi8LSCEc_vaxj0byz_usGUHtbql1AkJDBpmkgwM0tv4YqOw8xHmuxF5cltKA6rupxm0pbLo-nb-rb9dUlJlK9XSMSvhD2p0zAgQ/s2048/Advent+2021+retreat+sched.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1583" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0vj8q-uNdvAFQS8a7BkCRMgW0G-9cbABBBW2i4MpHi8LSCEc_vaxj0byz_usGUHtbql1AkJDBpmkgwM0tv4YqOw8xHmuxF5cltKA6rupxm0pbLo-nb-rb9dUlJlK9XSMSvhD2p0zAgQ/w495-h640/Advent+2021+retreat+sched.jpg" width="495" /></a></p> <p></p>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904888783262573113.post-56267292783009914092021-02-21T23:24:00.023-05:002021-02-23T00:20:51.776-05:00LENT 2021: three online retreats<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"></h3><div style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="678" data-original-width="361" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKijM_iqclTKMh4dm8PBFm3afLv08w4DPaefQ7kCVoM7FbXRHI5azHu06GznerD75lmq8Sn0CzP6xc56GyEHbe-9aEZZPU1PKQyEnMU01iH-CugwsAropCIqsY3PXtu0GHokr9ly_8ow/s400/celtic+cross0016.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="211" /></td></tr>
<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>art by Thomas Merton</i></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: #d9ead3;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;"><span style="background-color: white;">What, you say? A second pandemic Lent? </span></span><br /><br /></b><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: white;">Can Lent be life-giving, faith-deepening, full of meaning when, for many, the entire past year has felt like Lent? <br /></span></span></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: #d9ead3;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><i><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: #d9ead3;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: white;">How will we live Lent in 2021? </span></span></span></span></span><br /> </span></span></i><b><br /></b><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: white;">Ash Wednesday</span></span></span></span>, the first day of Lent in Christian churches of the Western traditions, was last week. Today is the first Sunday of Lent. Here we are.</span><br />
</p><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;">
<span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: #ffd966;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #38761d;">Lent</span>,</span><span style="background-color: white;"> the 40-day season preceding Easter,</span></span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span>is the Christian church's annual long retreat. <br />
<br />
We go on this retreat, not necessarily to a different geographical
place, especially this year, but to a zone of mindfulness and practice that reorients our hearts and helps us to reconnect, deeply,
with God, with Jesus Christ, with the Spirit at the heart of God's life and the life of the world.<br />
<br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><i>We clear some space and time</i> <span style="color: black;">--even a little bit of each--</span> <i>to to make room for the God of comfort and
surprises and to remember what is deepest and truest in our lives.</i><i> </i><b>Lent is for the sake of Easter.</b></span> It is a time of renewal. It is a sober time, but not a gloomy time. It is a time of self-examination, but not a time of cruelty. It is a time of attentiveness and a time of turning --of conversion. Transformation is not always easy, but it is possible. Grace is present. Always.<br /><br /></span></span></div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><i><b><span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Will you join us on one of </span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">three online retreats</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span> this Lent?</span></span></span></b></i></span><br /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span></div><br /></div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The
two longer retreats, which run for all six weeks of Lent, begin <u>this week</u>. The shorter one, which is three weeks long, begins i<u>n the middle of next week</u>. <br /><br /><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>THOMAS MERTON, COMPANION ON THE WAY</b></span></span><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;">This six-week online retreat <span>examines contemplation and struggle in the life,
writings, and prayer of Thomas Merton, with guidance and opportunity
for prayer and practice.</span> <span><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql rrkovp55 a8c37x1j keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" dir="auto">Merton, a 20th century Trappist monk,
was also a writer, poet, spiritual teacher, artist, social critic, and pioneer in
interreligious and intermonastic dialogue. I have offered versions of
this retreat before. </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql rrkovp55 a8c37x1j keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" dir="auto"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql rrkovp55 a8c37x1j keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>For more detailed information and to register, click <a href="https://janeredmont.blogspot.com/2021/02/thomas-merton-companion-on-way-online.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</i></span></span><br /></span><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql rrkovp55 a8c37x1j keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" dir="auto" style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>LENT
FOR LIFE: RENEWING BODY AND SPIRIT</b></span></span><br />A six-week retreat of prayer, practice, and reflection on the
life-giving dimensions of this second Lent of the coronavirus pandemic.
It will include a lot of focus on the body and bodies: our own bodies, Earth's body, our
neighbors' bodies, the body of Christ</span><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql rrkovp55 a8c37x1j keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" dir="auto" style="font-size: small;"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql rrkovp55 a8c37x1j keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" dir="auto">. For more detailed information and to register, click <a href="https://janeredmont.blogspot.com/2021/02/lent-for-life-renewing-body-and-spirit.html" target="_blank">here</a>.<br /></span></span><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql rrkovp55 a8c37x1j keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" dir="auto" style="font-size: small;"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql rrkovp55 a8c37x1j keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" dir="auto"><br /></span></span></span><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql rrkovp55 a8c37x1j keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>LENT
FOR LAGGARDS: (Re)DISCOVERING THE MERCY OF GOD</b></span></span></span></span></div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql rrkovp55 a8c37x1j keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;">This one's for you who
are struggling, or feeling overwhelmed, and who never quite got started on Lent on either Ash Wednesday or the First Sunday in Lent. Begins in the middle of next week, the second week of Lent. No guilt-trips, just reminders of grace abundant and of the Holy One's love for us as we amble or stumble along. For more detailed information and to register, click <a href="https://janeredmont.blogspot.com/2021/02/lent-for-laggards-rediscovering-mercy.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></span><br /></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">All
of the retreats have a structure and a schedule, but they are flexible
enough to integrate into your daily life: you are the one who decides
when and where to read and pray with the materials offered on the retreat and how to apply the invitations to
practice.</span></span></span><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /><br /></span></span></i></span><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql rrkovp55 a8c37x1j keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" dir="auto"><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>All three online retreats will be operate on a hybrid model</b>, by which I mean:<br /><br /></span></span></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: #d9d2e9; font-size: small;">1) As in the past, all the retreats will include online resources you can tap into at any time of the day or night,</span><span style="font-size: small;"> on a private blog to which you will have access once you are registered for the retreat. Among the resources will be readings, meditations, images, a little music, and spiritual exercises to practice in your own time and in the context of your life. <br /><br /></span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: #d9d2e9; font-size: small;">2) Since many of us now have experience with video conversations, each retreat will also include some live online conversation in one or two specific time slots each week -- </span><span style="font-size: small;">enough for you to touch base in person (with me and with your companions on the retreat) for some inspiration and support, but not so much that you will get "Zoom fatigue." </span></span><br /></div></div></span>
<span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><br />
</i></span></span></div><span style="background-color: #d9ead3;"></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">All of these online retreats call us to simplicity, mindfulness, and
holiness. Like the season of Lent itself, they invite us to
repentance and conversion, but also to joy.</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><br /><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;">
<span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
<span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b><span>Peace be with you.</span></b> </span></span></span>Please join us on the journey of Lent.</span></span></div>
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