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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.
It is with great joy and excitement that we announce: Bishop Clark has agreed to lead us in the annual retreat for Deacons and Wives. Please make plans and reservations early! Bishop Matthew will be spending these days and evenings with us one last time as the Ordinary. Bishop Matthew has ordained all of the currently serving deacons in the diocese and this will be a time to share memories of thirty years of ministry, grow in our spiritual journeys and begin to prayerful anticipate the future.
Registration is easy, follow the directions below.
Register! We must have your reservation absolutely no later than October 15th!
The retreat is October 28, 29, 30, 2011 - 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 $5 offering for lunch which includes the activities planned for Friday afternoon or just spend the afternoon after lunch enjoying the grounds, Skaneateles 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 can leave 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 28, 2011
- 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 29, 2011
- 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)
- Quiet time and Reflection
- Rosary 2:30 PM
- Talk #4 - 3:30 PM (Conference Room)
- Quiet time and Reflection 3:00 PM
- Dinner 5 PM
- Evening Prayer 7 PM (Chapel)
- Annual Meeting SSDCA 7 PM Conference Room)
- Social time to follow meeting (Conference Room)
Sunday, October 30, 2011
- Early coffee 6 AM
- Morning Prayer 7:30 AM (Chapel)
- Breakfast 8 AM
- Talk #4 - 9:00 AM (Conference Room)
- Mass 9:30 AM (Chapel)
NOTE: We do not yet have Bishop's Clark's planned presentation -
Talks may be part of liturgy (ies) or separated as indicated.
Watch for scheduled updates which will be posted as soon as
they become available.
- Farewell 11:00AM
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.)
A note about the future retreats:
We have received a commitment from Dr. Michael Higgins to be our retreat director for 2013! Those of you who were able to attend this year’s Region II convocation in Kingston will appreciate his style and knowledge. We now have directors for the next 3 retreats and Carole and I are breathing much more easily. (Dcn. John Tomandl)
