April 24, 2021

9:30am - 3:30pm (with breaks)

Zoom Video Conference

$50 per person

"Have No Fear, Be Not Afraid: It is All About Love" presented by Nancy Hendricks

We will be discussing the approximately 350 times it says in Scripture to not be afraid. We will be walking through Scripture highlighting all the times that God assures us that we are always in God's care.

About the Presenter

Nancy’s career began in horticulture, raising berries and vegetables on the family farm.  With her husband, she slowed down when they sold their produce stand in 2016. She decided at that time to pursue her Master's Degree in Pastoral Ministry from the University of Portland, and graduated in May, 2020. Nancy has been attending retreats at Shalom since 1987. She has been an oblate with the Queen of Angels Monastery since 2012.  She looks forward to offering retreats at Shalom at the Monastery.

To register and/or more information, call 503 845-2556 or send a check payable to Benedictine Sisters, Attn. Sister Dorothy Jean Beyer, 840 S. Main St., Mount Angel, OR 97362, or email her here. Please register by Wednesday, April 21, 2021.

May 1, 2021

1:00pm

Outdoor Labyrinth, West End of Shalom Building

FREE

World Labyrinth Day: Take Steps Together for Peace

Come and celebrate World Labyrinth Day with the Benedictine Sisters at Mount Angel, Oregon. Let us take steps together for peace!  Please gather at the labyrinth at the west end of the Shalom building.

At 12:45 p.m., there will be a brief explanation of the Peace Walk on the labyrinth.  We will then walk the 20-minute Silent Peace Walk, using the format of Benedictines For Peace.

To register, call Sister Dorothy Jean Beyer, (503) 845-2556 or email here here.

May 5-6, 12-13, 19-20, 2021

9am - 5pm (with breaks)

Via Zoom Video Conference

$225 per session / $625 for full course

Progoff Intensive Journal Workshops presented by Evelyn Wemhoff

This ongoing program enables individuals, to draw their life into focus and enlarge their capacities. The process is non-judgmental and non-diagnostic.  It honors privacy as well as the dignity of each person. The Progoff Journal is more than a Journal. It is an Inner Workbook.
 
In a deep and quiet atmosphere, you will learn techniques to enable you to use the Intensive Journal workbook. The workbook is the active instrument of the program. Its structure makes it a dynamic vehicle for journal feedback techniques  The Journal clarifies and helps to self-adjust the needs and potentials of your life. There are Three Workshops:
 
Life Context provides the means of focusing our life and beginning to shape a perspective of our full life history. We learn basic techniques for using the Journal, focusing our life, and beginning to answer the question, “Where am I in the movement in my life?” This workshop is a prerequisite for any of the two workshops. May 5-6
 
Depth Context gives us opportunities to draw upon our unconscious depths of dreams and imagery for active feedback procedures   The focus is the more than personal and is grounded in process meditation. It can give energy for personal change and consideration of inner directions. May 12-13
 
Life Integration (Prerequisite: Depth Context) gives opportunity to use integrative techniques to build a momentum and energy to generate unpredictable insights. It promotes connection between the areas of your life. May 19-20

Program Presenter: Evelyn Wemhoff has a history of working with individuals and groups in a great many situations of teaching, leadership, spiritual direction, consultation and discernment. She has led Intensive Journal Programs for more than 30 years.

To register, contact Evelyn Wemhoff at (971) 273-0700 or by mail: PO Box 21083, Keizer, OR 97303.

August 5-8, 2021

Fri 3:30-5pm - Sun 1pm

Zoom Video Conference

$99

($25 non-refundable deposit)

Scholarships Available

"The Mystical Milieu of Teilhard de Chardin" presented by Stephen Coffey, OSB Cam

This retreat will consider the 5 “Circles of Mysticism” through which Teilhard de Chardin, French Jesuit and scientist, passed during his years as a stretcher bearer on the French-German front during the First World War.  We will consider a few mystical experiences that he encountered during this fruitful period of his life.  Then we will pay careful attention to how this spiritual journey later became evident in his classic work The Divine Milieu.  We will culminate with Teilhard’s Mass on the World. Pre-requisite: attendance at the February 2021 “Everything Ablaze” retreat.  

Stephen Coffey, OSB Cam, is an ordained monk of the Camaldolese community of California.  He is engaged in extensive retreat ministry as well as spiritual direction for priests, religious, and laity.  He formerly served on the staff of Shalom Prayer Center.

To register, call Benedictine Sisters, 503 845-2556 or send a check payable to Benedictine Sisters, Attention: Sister Dorothy Jean, 840 S. Main St., Mt. Angel, OR 97362, by August 2, 2021.

September 10-11, 2021

Fri 7-8:30pm, Sat 9:30am - 3:30pm

Zoom Video Conference

$70

($25 non-refundable deposit)

"Pain, Suffering and Saying Yes to Life" presented by Dean Schlecht

Physical or emotional pain can often be a powerful driver of sadness, fear and anger, deadening our spirit and disconnecting us.  However, it can be a catalyst for spiritual and emotional growth.  Through lectures, Active Imagination and personal sharing, we will explore how to transcend our pain and live joyfully in the midst of it.

Dean Schlecht, M.Div. is the retired manager of a 19-bed psychiatric crisis respite facility.  He also was an LMFT with practices in Oklahoma and Texas.  He currently maintains a private practice offering spiritual direction.  Dean has offered numerous retreats and workshops at Shalom and elsewhere.

To register, call Benedictine Sisters, 503 845-2556 or send a check payable to Benedictine Sisters, attn.: Sister Dorothy Jean Beyer, 840 S. Main St., Mt. Angel, OR 97362, by September 3, 2021.

October 1-2, 2021

Fri 3:30-4:30pm, Sat 8:30am - 4:45pm

Zoom or In Person (TBD)

$85 via Zoom / In Person TBD

($25 non-refundable deposit)

"Our Pilgrim Search for God"

presented by Sister Gertrude Feick

We are all pilgrims in search of God. In fact, in the words of Cardinal Basil Hume, “life is a pilgrimage. We are on a march, and sooner or later we shall reach our destination. That destination we call heaven.” With the voice of Cardinal Basil Hume (1923-1999), from her book Cardinal Basil Hume: A Pilgrim’s Search for God (Gracewing, 2019), Sr Gertrude Feick presents Basil Hume, Benedictine monk, Archbishop of Westminster, pastor, preacher and resounding voice of Benedictine spirituality. Basil Hume continues to offer support and encouragement in our lives as pilgrims, and during difficult times. As Cardinal Hume aptly put it: “This pilgrim way is not easy … it can be pretty rough and uphill business as I try to make my way along it”, for the pilgrim “wanders through life, often limping, sometimes bewildered, at times quite lost; and the pilgrim is searching, often quite unconsciously, for something or someone to make sense of life, and certainly to make sense of death.”  Please join us for this time of prayerful reflection.

Sister Gertrude Feick, a Benedictine Sister of Mount Angel, Oregon, is a member of the Cistercian Monastery of Our Lady of the Redwoods Abbey, Whitethorn, California. In addition to the daily life of prayer, manual labor, and study, she publishes a “Daily Lectio” reflection on the Redwoods Abbey website, and writes book reviews for Cistercian Studies Quarterly and The American Benedictine Review. Sr. Gertrude holds a Doctorate in Sacred Theology from the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Rome.

To register, call Benedictine Sisters, 503 845-2556 or send a check payable to Benedictine Sisters, Attention: Sister Dorothy Jean 840 S. Main St., Mt. Angel, OR 97362, by September 27, 2021.

 

November 5-7, 2021

Fri 3:30-5pm - Sun 1:00pm

Zoom Video Conference

$99

"Ammas, Monks, Archetypes" presented by Father Stephen Harding Coffey, OSB Cam

This retreat will take a look at 4 monastic figures: Amma Syncletica, St. Benedict, St. Hildegard, and Thomas Merton and their corresponding archetypes: the warrior, the sage, the visionary, and the inner monk.  It will include an introduction to the figure, lectio divina on the theme, visio divina of an icon of the figure, and personal reflection on the archetype and its shadow through mandala making. Let figures from our sacred tradition become relevant to our lives as they help us to illuminate parts of ourselves that need further development to grow in wholeness and in our relationship to God

Postponed

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"The Spirituality of Pope Francis and Its Implication on Our Lives" presented by Owen Cummings

This retreat will focus on the spirituality of Pope Francis, and especially his understanding of “accompaniment.” To achieve this purpose, we will present a biographical context for the Pope, and some understanding of his key encyclical letters. The Catholic blogosphere shows some criticism of the Holy Father and even at times some outright hostility. The retreat will attempt in charity to understand such positions also. By the end of the retreat day the hope is that all participants will embrace Pope Francis as the Catholic leader needed for our times.

Presenter: Deacon Owen Cummings, the Regent's Chair of Theology at Mount Angel Seminary in Saint Benedict, Oregon, is a native of Glasgow, Scotland.  Author of numerous spirituality/theology books, he received a doctor of divinity degree during the course of his studies in theology in Dublin, Ireland.

Postponed

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Seeing the Environment Through the Lens of Spirituality

​The Benedictine Sisters are pleased to announce an upcoming all day symposium on the environment and spirituality to be held in Agatha Hall.  Starting at 9:15 a.m., staff members from Shalom at the Monastery will present their appreciation of nature’s ability to enrich and empower their spirituality.  In the afternoon, responders working within the environmental resources will discuss the bountiful gifts that their work safeguards.  Participants will be invited to dialogue within the topic.