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Retreat Agenda
Friday Evening
6:00 Ministry Team gather for
prayer
6:15 Registration and informal
gathering of everyone – buffet meal, (team greets all)
7:00 Welcome, housekeeping
concerns, ground rules, and
Foundation of Retreat
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For God so loved the world…
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Is the parish our world or is the world our parish?
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Jesus, within his faith tradition, was a lay person.
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The church is fundamentally God's lay movement for
renewing the world.
7:15 Opening Exercise: creating
a presence
What is your name and
background? What do you hope to get from this retreat? How do
you feel about being here?
8:00 Opening Ritual -- "Come
and see" – in church around baptismal pool. Theme is baptism and
being called
8:15
Encountering Christ: The Human Heart of God—Teaching
talk, Reflection, & Sharing
8:50 Break
9:00
Growing in a Personal
Relationship with Jesus Christ—Witness
talk, Reflection, & Sharing
9:50 Closing Prayer -- Sending
Forth
Overnight reflection question:
What am I doing or not doing that prevents me from achieving the
personal relationship with Jesus I desire?
10:00 Leave for the Evening
Saturday Morning
7:15 Ministry Team gathering
for prayer in retreat center
7:30 Everyone gathers for
continental breakfast (team greets all)
8:00 Morning Ritual:
"Confirmed in faith" (gather in church) Theme is confirmation.
Give over to God that which prevents you from
achieving the relationship you want with Jesus as Lord
8:15
Spirituality of Daily Living—Teaching
talk, Reflection, & Sharing
8:55 Break
9:05
The Spiritual Path of Love—Witness
talk, Reflection, & Sharing
10:20 Break
10:30
A Christian Vision of Work—Teaching
talk, Reflection, & Sharing
11:15
The Spiritual Path of Work—Witness
talk, Reflection, & Sharing
12:00 Lunch
Saturday
Afternoon
12:30 Afternoon Ritual: "Bread
for the journey" (in church) Theme is Eucharist.
12:45 Liturgy and Life:
Being Centered and Sent—Teaching talk, Reflection, &
Sharing
1: 30 Break
1:40 Liturgy in Life:
Strengthening the Connections—Witness talk, Reflection,
& Sharing
3:00 In the Footsteps of
Jesus: Sent
to Serve and Do Justice—Teaching
talk, Reflection, & Sharing
3:45 Break
4:00 Conversation with another
on "my spiritual journey"
4:30 Resources for
Deepening in Faith—Teaching talk, Reflection, & Sharing
5:20 Personal Reflection Time
1. Identify one personal commitment to action
to take before future follow-up evening
2. Share commitment with one person -- offer
to pray for each other and hold each other accountable
5:45 Prepare for Parish Mass, includes
acknowledgment of retreat at Mass and possible comment by a team
member
6:00 Parish Mass
(Timeline can be adjusted to fit the time of the scheduled
parish Vigil Mass.)
(7:00 Optional Dinner
Celebration)
(7:00) or 8:30 Retreat
participants gather for ritual closing and sending forth: "Go in
peace to love and serve the Lord"
Follow-up Evening
7:00 Gathering
7:15 Ritual Opening
7:25 Oscar Romero reading and
dyad sharing of outcomes of individual commitments
7:35 On the Road to Emmaus:
Walkabout Review of Retreat
8:05
Being a Catholic Christian 24/7:
Possibilities and Practicalities
Teaching/witness talk and
demonstration
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model small group
dialogue for support and accountability
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offer guidelines
and starter reflection questions for conversations about living
faith in daily life and work
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provide
opportunity for small groups to form, plan, commit
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for people already
in groups -- a time to re-commit and reflect how to further
develop in existing groups)
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Consider this
possible option: periodic coming together of all who have made
Faith Alive retreats with a speaker/presentation, discussion,
and fellowship
8:35 Opportunity to express
interest in being on a future Faith Alive team
8:40 Evaluation of program
(written)
8:45 Ritual Closing: Sending
forth to the mission fields of daily life.
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