Submitted by Sr. Lany Jo Smith ASCJ
(January 6, 2024) — The following programs and events will take place during the month of January 2024 at Sacred Heart on the Lake Retreat Center, 194 Candlewood Hill Road in Higganum.
YOUR SORROW IS MY SORROW (Spiritual Book Study) Eight Wednesdays from January 10, 2024 to February 28, 2024 from 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.mm
Author Joyce Rupp’s powerful book “Your Sorrow Is My Sorrow” is about our life. She relates the Seven Sorrows of Mary to our own sufferings, and opens for us a reservoir of courage, strength and wisdom. It also offers us healing, compassion and comfort. Join us in sharing Mary’s pain as it touches into our own experience and helps us to face life’s difficulties with faith and trust. To register by email: cigrandpatricia@gmail.com or call Sr. Patricia at 203-606-4830.
NEW DAY SEMINAR FOR THE BEREAVED: Nine Thursdays from January 18, 2024 to March 14, 2024 from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.
The New Day Seminar is a nine-week series that helps those who have lost a loved one with the tasks of grieving. Each session provides a place and time for individuals to share their grief story and to learn about the grieving process and its tasks for healing. The cost of the book that is used is $10.00.
For further information or to register please contact Sr. Patricia Cigrand, ASCJ at 203-606-4830 or email: cigrandpatricia@gmail.com.
RETREAT DAY/EXPERIENCES IN PRAYER: January 27, 2024, 9:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
How to open our hearts and minds to a growing personal relationship with God. Retreat Presenter: Sr. Lany Jo Smith, ASCJ. Donation asked: $35, includes a Continental Breakfast and Full Lunch.
Reservations are necessary. Call Sr. Lany Jo 203-606-9102 or email ljsmith@ascjus.org or info@sacredheartonthelake.org or visit www.sacredheartonthelake.org
This retreat is open to all men and women of faith. Because Christianity holds the mystery of the Incarnation of total importance, it is a faith based on a personal and communal relationship with The Father, The Son, Jesus Christ, and God’s Holy Spirit. During this day of retreat we will explore some of the ways we can recognize and hear God’s voice speaking to us through God’s WORD in Scripture; The WORD made Flesh in the person of Jesus and from God’s Holy Spirit living within us and through the Sacraments of The Church, The Body of Christ.
RETREAT DAY/EUCHARISTIC REVIVAL: February 3, 2024 from 9:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Realizing Jesus’s Presence through the Eucharist on our “life road” with Him. Retreat Presenter: Sr. Lany Jo Smith, ASCJ. Donation asked: $35, includes a Continental Breakfast and Full Lunch. Reservations are necessary. Call Sr. Lany Jo 203-606-9102 or email ljsmith@ascjus.org or info@sacredheartonthelake.org or visit www.sacredheartonthelake.org
This retreat is open to all men and women of faith. The Eucharist is the very sacrifice of the Body and Blood of the Lord Jesus which He instituted to perpetuate the sacrifice of the cross throughout the ages until His return in glory. Thus, He entrusted to His Church this memorial of His Death and Resurrection. The Eucharist has always been one of the most important aspects of Christianity. The Catechism of the Catholic Church strongly asserts the “Real Presence” of Jesus’s body in the Eucharist; this is to say that the sacrament is not symbolic of the body and blood of Jesus, but rather that it is his body and blood.
