Seeking God With All Your Heart: Exploring Different Forms of Prayer
For I know well the plans I have in mind for you—says the LORD—plans for your welfare and not for woe, so as to give you a future of hope. When you call me, and come and pray to me, I will listen to you. When you look for me, you will find me. Yes, when you seek me with all your heart, I will let you find me. (Jeremiah 29:11-14)
Come to explore and expand diverse ways to pray to God interiorly and with others.
- What does it mean to seek God, and to seek God with all your heart?
- Do you have the desire to enliven your relationship with God?
- Are you being invited to a new or old or different ways to pray?
Please feel warmly welcome to join us as we ponder these questions and experience various prayer forms, including Visio Divina (praying with a painting or image), Ignatian Contemplation (placing yourself in a Gospel passage), Centering Prayer (listening in silence), Video Divina (praying with a short film), and Art Journaling (praying with color).
Check-in begins at 4pm. There will be a brief welcome session at 5:30pm, followed by dinner at 6pm. The retreat begins after dinner at 7pm on Friday and concludes after lunch on Sunday. Mass will be celebrated in the Chapel on Sunday morning for those who would like to attend. Guided by Nancy Santamaria.
Nancy Santamaria ministers as a spiritual director on the clinical team at Saint John Vianney Center, a residential behavioral health center for religious men and women, and at Daylesford Abbey. She is a Norbertine Associate and Formation Director for the Associates. She holds a master’s degree in both Holistic Spirituality and Art, as well as certificates in bereavement, clinical pastoral education, and spiritual direction.