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. 119When: 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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