Monday to Friday / 9:00am to 5:00pm $150*
One day: $40*
* lunch and healthy snack incuded
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Anderson Lake – Timelapse Video – Espanola, ON
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Retreat Season at Anishinabe Spiritual Centre – Espanola, Ontario
Relax and Rejuvenate
What is a Retreat?A time to move from the busyness of ordinary life to a journey in solitude and silence in order to deepen your relationship with God, creation, others and yourself. OptionsThere are a variety of retreat options offered at the Anishinabe Spiritual Centre. The two main factors that you need to consider:
What is a Directed Retreat?A Directed Retreat provides you with individual direction in an environment of silence and prayer. A spiritual director meets with you each day, listens as you share your prayer experiences, helps you reflect on them and to discover the path that God is revealing to you. This facilitates a deepening of your relationship with God. These retreats are usually based on Sacred Scripture. Mass is available several days each week. What is an Undirected Retreat?An Undirected Retreat offers you personal silent time to spend in prayer or reflection in our peaceful setting. You may set your own personal agenda for this retreat. Mass is available several days each week. New to a retreat?If you are new to the retreat experience, we recommend that you choose a retreat which offers individual spiritual direction and with a length of 3 days to 1 week.
When can I participate an Individual Directed Retreat?Contac us and let us know your dates for a Directed Retreat.
When can I participate in an Individual Undirected Retreat?An Individual Undirected Retreat can take place any time during the year. Acceptance is based on room availability
WASSEAN-DIMI-KANING (The Place of Enlightenment) www.AnishinabeSpiritualCentre.ca
Since 1981, ASC has welcomed many people, Native and non-Native, to deepen their spirituality, to become educated and trained in the leadership of their faith, and to make retreats and to relax. Many who come to our land, located on the west end of Anderson Lake, note how peaceful and naturally beautiful it is. Our timber frame and log buildings offer comfortable, rustic accommodations. Situated in the wilderness of Northern Ontario, in the Manitoulin Island-North Shore region, our cottages are nestled among the trees at the edge of scenic Anderson Lake.
To book a retreat call us: (705) 869 4994 or send us an e-mail: anishinabe.centre@gmail.com |
1091 Anderson Lake Rd
Espanola, ON, P5E 1T1
Canada
Espanola, ON, P5E 1T1
Canada
Why do we need a retreat? – Retreat Season – Anishinabe Spiritual Centre
In the following Video Iona Ferguson, Jason Burr and Br. Jim Deshaye share with us their insights about the benefits of participating in a retreat.
If you would like to participate in a retreat:
- Call us at (705) 869 4994 or
- Send us an e-mail: anishinabe.centre@gmail.com
Annual Advent Twilight Retreat 2013
National Day of Prayer in Solidarity with the Indigenous People
Homily from Fr. Teo Ugaban:
In this feast of St. Lucy, a martyr we are encouraged to examine the word “solidarity”. This month, we are also praying for communities of Native and Indigenous peoples. In these occasions, perhaps we can also take the time to ponder “solidarity” as part of our vocation, as part of Christian participation.
We hear too often the word solidarity, but have we spent the time in prayer and reflection on how we participate in the works and lives of others. Of course, I make the assumption that prayer and action must always work together.
To be in solidarity goes beyond the language of awareness, to be aware of something can set us up as visual spectators; we may hear and see the troubles that besiege a particular person or community, but do we dare take the next step > the one that leads us into action.
Christian participation is not about being a spectator, rather the events and situations that affect others must have an impact on how we relate to the marginalized, to victims of violence and to persons and communities that have been historically subjected to injustice and prejudice.
The readings for today, especially the Gospel, encourages us to become more attentive to the world around us, we are invited, especially in this Advent season, to witness how God, time and again breaks into the world.
To be in solidarity can also mean that in our awareness and attentiveness, we find the time to discern our place in a particular situation; discernment is not just about making a sound decision, rather it is about making a responsible series of choices that leads a person to grow in their relationship with others; discernment ultimately flows out from our “being” so that we can contribute to the flourishing of other persons and communities.
If we are to be in solidarity with others > prayer is important this is non-negotiable; we need to be attentive > we open ourselves to the act of listening; finally, to be in solidarity means that we exercise our sense of humility – knowing how we can make ourselves available to serving others and knowing the limits of our own generosity. Solidarity is not a performance, rather it is a response that comes from our experience of freedom.
Solidarity ultimately calls of us to respond out of a deeper sense of freedom, a freedom that is modeled upon the life of Jesus Christ. Amen.
Teo Ugaban, SJ
Anishinabe Spirituality Centre
Espanola, Ontario