Deepening Prayer a Retreat with Deborah Smith Douglas

All women of the diocese are invited to join the Daughters of the King for Deepening Prayer with Deborah Smith Douglas on August 4, starting at 10:30AM at the Bosque Center. Registration for non-Daughters is $15 to cover lunch.(Register below or download the registration form.) The event will end with Eucharist about 3PM. Douglas will be the preacher for the service. Copies of Douglas’s book, The Praying Life, are available from Dona Ace at St. Chad’s (acedona@gmail.com). Spaces are limited for this event.

If you are interested in learning more about The Order of the Daughters of the King ® speak to your parish priest, the president of your parish chapter, or contact Cindy Davis, diocesan president (cynthiadavisauthor@gmail.com). This international Order has 22 chapters in the diocese and includes women and girls from 7 to 107 who follow vows of Prayer, Service and Evangelism. You can find out more on the National website: doknational.org, or at drgdaughters.blogspot.com. 

Registration

Guest for Retreat $15.00 USD

We Are the Branches

Women of the Diocese met for the Crazy Quilt Conversations Retreat in November of 2012. At that time, it was determined that a mission statement and plan for going forward to empower, support, and grow women’s ministry in the Diocese was important. To further that goal, a focus group of interested women from across the Diocese met at the Cathedral on February 10 for discussion. We started by sharing whether we were a grape leaf, tendril, fruit, or branch based on John 15.

The most important item of the meeting was formulating a mission statement. This was distilled to read: “The mission of the Women of the Diocese of the Rio Grande is to empower all women in their diverse Christian ministries.” Implementing this mission will include communication of opportunities and ways to welcome women from all demographics. Several ideas for future retreats were considered, including online (watch for something after Easter) and leadership workshops. Bishop Barbara Harris will be here on Pentecost weekend (more info to follow). Mark your calendars for the Mind, Body, Spirit Retreat on June 21-22 in Taos and Abide, the second annual retreat at the Bosque Center on November 9-10. Plans for events in 2014 are already starting, too. Check the blog calendar and watch for info in e-newsletters. If you aren't receiving the info, it's because we don't have your email. Send that to Cindy to be added.

Already women across the diocese are coming together for exciting events like the many Lenten retreats offered around the diocese this year. One of these was organized by Dean Peggy Patterson at Holy Faith in Santa Fe. Over 80 Episcopal, Presbyterian, and Roman Catholic ladies gathered on February 9 to hear Deborah Smith Douglas and soak in a day of absolute quiet in the Lord during the Deep Peace and High Anxiety: Pray, Love, Remember day.

"Pray, Love, Remember" Retreat in Santa Fe

Take advantage of this opportunity to meet other women of the Diocese, pray together, and hear an acclaimed speaker and writer, Deborah Smith Douglas-all for FREE! 

Deep Peace and High Anxiety: “Pray, Love, Remember”

Women’s Spirituality  Retreat

February 9, 2013

 9:00-4:00 p.m.  Church of the Holy Faith

led by Deborah Smith Douglas

We all live in what the poet W. H. Auden called the “age of anxiety.”  But we are also invited into the peace of God, a peace so radical that it “passes all understanding.” 

How can we get from here to there?  Without denying the power of what we fear, how can we learn to live in trust and hope? 

This retreat will use Scripture and poetry, as well as insights from psychology and art and the lives of the saints, to explore ways we might loosen the grip of worry on our lives, and enlarge our faith that we might hold our anxieties both more lightly and from a deeper place. 

Deborah Smith Douglas has degrees in literature and law, and is a writer, spiritual director and retreat leader.  She is the author of The Praying Life: Seeking God in All Things and, with her husband David Douglas, of Pilgrims in the Kingdom: Travels in Christian Britain.  Her essays have been published in Weavings, Commonweal, Desert Call, Spiritual Life, Christian Century, and The American Benedictine Review.  She is a laywoman in the Episcopal Church, and a Camaldolese Benedictine oblate.

Saturday, February 9, 2012

Deep Peace and High Anxiety: “Pray, Love, Remember”

Where: Palen Hall at the Church of the Holy Faith - 311 E. Palace Avenue Santa Fe

Information: The Very Reverend Peggy Patterson @ 982 4447 Ext. 119
When: Saturday, Feb. 9 8:30 a.m. – Continental Breakfast; 9:00-4:45 p.m. Retreat (included closing Eucharist at 4:00 p.m.)
What: Bring a Brown Bag Lunch. Drinks will be provided
Cost: This Retreat is a Gift from Deborah Smith Douglas and Holy Faith
Who: All Women in the community are invited to come.
How: Please register by February 1 so adequate space can be provided. You may also call 982 4447, Ext. 119, and leave name and email and phone number.

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