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EVERY DEACON IS REQUIRED TO GO ON AN ANNUAL RETREAT
Your association offers the Annual Retreat as a service to you making that mandate easier to meet!!!
The retreat can begin at lunch on Friday (optional, you can come Friday evening as without missing the actual retreat) and continuing that afternoon with your choice of silent reflection, guided meditation or other options available.
This year, Father David Knight will be our retreat director. For over thirty years, David has been a prolific spirituality author and has put together a number of scripture based spirituality workshop programs. In 1977, St. Anthony Messenger Press published Fr. David Knight’s first book addressed to the laity. His Way: An Everyday Plan for Following Jesus was one of the first books to answer Vatican II’s call to the laity to strive for perfection and renew society. The laity’s response to this book spawned discussion groups, parish missions, retreats and more books including To Follow His Way : A Renewal Program For Parishes, Small Groups, Individuals (St. Anthony Messenger Press 1980). Dimension Books and Our Sunday Visitor Press Have also published his books. Fr. Knight has written articles for U.S. Catholic, Marian Helper, The Sign, America, and Common Sense.
Fr. Knight has given talks, missions, retreats and workshops in Australia, Canada, England, Ecuador, Germany, Guam, Guatemala, Haiti, Ireland, Japan, Korea, Spain and throughout the United States. His book, Reaching Jesus: 5 Steps to a Fuller Life (1998) was written in response to requests to update His Way based on 20 years of teaching it and talking to people. This has now become Immersed in Christ: A Journey in Five Steps; a course in spiritual formation for the laity. Also see our website www.immersedinchrist.org.
Fr. Knight taught in High Schools in Florida and Louisiana and at Catholic University, Loyola University, Christian Brothers College (University), and Memphis Theological Seminary (Cumberland Presbyterian).
When Fr. Knight is not presiding at Mass, anointing the sick, visiting the imprisoned, burying the dead, writing, praying or teaching he enjoys reading, sleeping, eating and driving his tractor.
Registration is easy, follow the directions below.
Register! We must have your reservation absolutely no later than October 15th!
The retreat is October 22, 23, 24, 2010 - Stella Maris, Skaneateles.
$90.00 PP per night (Friday dinner through Sunday breakfast) - so if coming only one day and night $90.00 - if staying whole retreat $180.00 PP. $60.00 commuter PP per day
For early arrivals(OPTIONAL FOR THOSE WHO WISH, BUT PLEASE INDICATE IF COMING) Friday Afternoon Activities - guided meditations, quiet reflection (on your own), other options which may be offered. There is $15 offering for lunch which includes the activities planned for Friday afternoon or just spend the afternoon after lunch enjoying the grounds, Skaneatles Lake or reading, meditating or in prayer. This is YOUR time! You participate in what you wish to, opt-out of what you do not want to partake in.
Early arrivals, know that your rooms will not be ready until after 3:00 PM. You will be able bring your things in a leave them in the retreat house office area, or you certainly leve things in your car until the room (s) are ready.
If they are done sooner the retreat staff will certainly let you know.
Enjoy the retreat!
Friday evening begins with a casual supper with old friends and a chance to make new friends. What unfolds will be 2 evenings and 2 days of spiritual reflection and renewal in a wonderfully pleasant setting on the grounds of Stella Maris on the shore of Lake Skaneateles in the heart of the Finger Lakes region of our beautiful Upstate New York.
Tentative Schedule
Friday, October 22, 2010
- Early Arrival - 11 AM - Noon
- Early Arrival Activities - 1 PM - 5 PM [these will include guided meditation, personal quiet time and/or other options that may be scheduled]
- Regular Arrival and check-in 11AM - 6 PM
- Dinner 6 PM
- Evening Prayer 7:00 PM (Chapel)
- Orientation 7:30 PM (Conference Room)
- Talk # 1 - 7:45 PM (Conference Room)
- Rosary with Benediction 8:45 PM (Chapel)
Saturday, October 23, 2010
- Early coffee at 6 AM
- Morning Prayer 7:30 AM (Chapel)
- Breakfast 8 AM
- Talk # 2 - 9 AM (Conference Room)
- Quiet time and Reflection 10 AM
- Mass 11 AM (Chapel)
- Lunch 12 PM
- Talk # 3 – 1 PM (Conference Room)
- Queit time and Reflection
- Rosary 2:30 PM
- Quiet time and Reflection 3:00 PM
- Dinner 5 PM
- Evening Prayer 7 PM (Chapel)
- Talk # 4 - 7:30 PM (Conference Room)
- Social time to follow meeting (Conference Room)
Sunday, October 24, 2010
- Early coffee 6 AM
- Morning Prayer 7:30 AM (Chapel)
- Breakfast 8 AM
- Annual Meeting SSDCA 9:00 AM (Conference Room)
- Mass 10:30 AM (Chapel)
- Farewell 12 Noon
Registration
For more information: contact Deacon John or Carole Tomandl - (315)729-4668 -or- Email at prisondeacon@gmail.com or caroletomandl@gmail.com
- To register: St. Bernard's link.
- To register (PDF Form): PDF form click here.
Driving Directions
DIRECTIONS: Stella Maris is located at 130 East Genesee Street in the village of Skaneateles. It is just east of the downtown area on the south (lake) side of the street after going up a hill. If you are coming from the east, or from the south up Route 41, it is just down the hill from the intersection of Route 41 and Route 20; it will be on your left just before going downhill into the center of the village. Parking is in the visitor's parking area located just on the grounds at the west drive (the east drive is generally "Out" only and for staff parking). Walk to the front entrance, located under the portico. (Handicapped? Please drive up to the front door if discharging a handicapped passenger before parking. Driver handicapped? Please feel free to park along the fence next to the front entrance [if we know you have a special need, we will happily arrange for assistance in entering the Retreat Center]. Inside of Stella Maris an elevator connects all floors and every area within is accessible to wheel chair use.)
- From Rochester: Thruway to exit 40, Route 34 to Route 20 east to Skaneateles.
- From Syracuse: Route 81 to Lafayette, Route 20 west to Skaneateles.
- From the North: Route 34 to Route 20 east to Skaneateles.
- From the West: Route 20 east to Skaneateles.
- From the East: Route 20 west to Skaneateles.
- From the South: Route 34 to Route 20 east to Skaneateles. (Route 41 to Route 20 west to Skaneateles.)
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