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take a brief look at
our ongoing series



Before you look at our retreat offerings below, perhaps you

want to take a brief look at our ongoing series offerings



OASIS DAYS 2022




The Oasis Days in 2022 will be a sacred journeying with saints and mystics: known and lesser known, historical and modern-day.


These days will be facilitated by experienced retreat leaders.


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PATHWAYS




Facilitator: Deacon Charles "Red" Cheever


Exploring the Transformative

Spiritual Journeys Across

Ages and Cultures


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OPENING THE HEART
SOULCOLLAGE 2023




Facilitator: Joan Stockbridge


This monthly online gathering

will use sacred texts, poems, Soulcollage® and other creative processes for reflection, renewal and restoration.


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VIRTUAL
DREAM SHARING




Facilitator: Diana Francis Metzler, RSM MSG


2022 Open Dream Sharing


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2022 retreats



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2022 retreats



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2022 retreats



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Year-End Silent Retreat


December 28 - January 1, 2023



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Facilitated by John Bruna


The doors that open and close for us in our lives are not nearly

as important as the person we are when we walk through them. Each year, as the door of the past closes, we have an opportunity to transform, nurture, and grow the qualities of the person we

are becoming as we enter the door of a new year filled with potential and opportunity. Join us for 5 days of silent reflection, prayer, meditation, and mindfulness to deepen and embrace

your personal spiritual journey and path of a new year that

awaits you.

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2023 retreats



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2022 retreats



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2022 retreats



Mercy Center Auburn



New Year Silent Retreat
A Mindful Beginning to the New Year

January 1-4, 2023


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Facilitated by John Bruna and Laura Bartels


John Bruna and Laura Bartels will return to Mercy Center

Auburn to guide this meditation retreat. This silent retreat is dedicated to establishing and cultivating the foundational meditation practice of shamatha (calm abiding) meditation.


This retreat is beginner friendly and also deepens the practice

for seasoned meditators. Our focus will be on developing the foundational methods and practices to sustain a meditation practice that is right for you. The days will include multiple short meditation sessions, quiet reflection time, guidance, and

discussion in the group teachings.

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JOIN US FOR BOTH THE
YEAR-END AND THE
NEW YEAR RETREAT!



End 2022 and begin 2023 with a 7-day silent retreat by combining our Year-End and New Year retreats.


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Restorative Sleep Workshop

January 6-8, 2023


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Facilitated by Jessica Del Pozo


Our relationship with sleep can be transformed from a struggle

of deprivation to a nurturing and sacred practice. Learn intimate details about sleep architecture, how to navigate challenging

sleep terrain and align our daily patterns into rhythms of restoration. We can sleep better and bring ourselves fully, creatively, and wholly to each new dawn.

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Spiritual Direction and the Shadow

January 14, 2023


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Facilitated by Don Bisson, FMS


Spiritual direction awakens our incompleteness and need for God. This workshop will discuss the encounter with the personal shadow, its integration, conversion and awakening. Also, the collective shadow and the mystery of evil will be introduced through Christian and Jungian lenses

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Women Who Walked with Jesus
A Day of Prayer

January 21, 2023


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Facilitated by Katherine Doyle, RSM


Throughout the Christian scriptures are found women who

followed Jesus and the ways in which he affirmed their dignity,

their longings and most of all, drew them into relationship with himself. This same pattern of transforming love is found

throughout the centuries. Participants are invited to reflect upon their own experience of God’s transforming love in their lives through the stories of those who have walked with Jesus.

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Advanced Enneagram
Living in Healthy Relationships

January 20-22, 2023


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Facilitated by Colleen Gregg


One indication that we are moving towards a holistic or

integrated spirituality...that we are living in healthy

relationship with God...is to consider how we are living in

relationship with others.

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Mindful Courage: Men's Retreat

March 2-5, 2023


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Facilitated by Ed Brantmeier, PhD


This retreat explores what it means to be mindfully and

emotionally courageous on the path of connection with yourself and others. Participants will be invited to practice risk-taking, vulnerability, and connection in a community of men through a variety of contemplative, creative, and collaborative practices.

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Lenten Series
A Lenten Journey with Jesus

March 8, 15 & 22, 2023 (via Zoom)


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Facilitated by Sr. Katherine Doyle, RSM


The Lenten Journey invites participates to join with Jesus during three moments of his life, The encounter with the Samaritan Woman, the Healing of the man born blind and the raising of Lazarus. Virtually joining together through Zoom, participants

with reflect on the significance of these moment past and

present. Each session includes presentation, prayer and sharing.

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Courage for the Call

March 10-12, 2023 or
March 11, 2023 (Saturday Only)


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Facilitated by Christine Jurisich


This retreat invites you to see that within every call is the grace to respond when you allow yourself to surrender into the merciful arms of God. We will talk about the struggle to surrender, the difference between worries and concerns, and the path towards opening your heart to a place of inner freedom.

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Centering Prayer 9-Day Silent
Intensive I & Post Intensive Retreat**

March 15 - 23, 2023


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Facilitated by Contemplative Outreach (Susan Turpin,

Fr. Bill Sheehan, OMI and Marty Badgett)


Come rest in the stillness of prayer with other contemplative companions, away from the busyness of daily life, and allow the mind, body, and spirit to surrender to God's presence and action within.​

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**Pre-requisite: A daily practice of Centering Prayer for six

months or longer.


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Watch with Me
Lenten Day of Prayer


Saturday, April 1, 2023



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Facilitated by Katherine Doyle, RSM


When Jesus asks his dearest friends and apostles to stay with

him, he is voicing the desire of God for us to be with him, to stay

in communion as he faces the Passion. This day will be marked

by ritual experience, periods of contemplation and faith sharing.

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Women's Spiritual Spa Retreat


Weekend Retreat - April 21-23, 2022



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Facilitated by Mercy Center Retreat Team


Come and receive refreshment of spirit, mind and body by

surrendering the total self unto God, the source and ground of our being. This retreat will provide sacred time and space for prayer, solitude, healing touch, creative expression, and nourishment for both body and soul.

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Introduction to Enneagram


June 2-4, 2023



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Facilitated by Colleen Gregg


Cultivating the spiritual life will always draw one deeper into

the meaning and mysteries of life, of self, of God. This

workshop will be introduction to the Enneagram Defense System

that is identified with our personality types.

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Women's Summer Spiritual Spa

August 16-20, 2023


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Facilitated by Mercy Center Retreat Team


These retreat days offer sacred time for rest and renewal for

mind, body and spirit. With a dynamic team of facilitators, participants will be tended in a special way with prayer, healing touch, creative expression, meaningful and life-giving spiritual practices.

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Advanced Enneagram
Living in Healthy Relationships

September 8-10, 2023


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Facilitated by Colleen Gregg


One indication that we are moving towards a holistic or

integrated spirituality...that we are living in healthy

relationship with God...is to consider how we are living in

relationship with others.

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Centering Prayer
9-Day Silent Intensive I, Intensive II &
Post Intensive Retreat



November 29 - December 7, 2023



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Facilitated by Contemplative Outreach Staff


Come rest in the stillness of prayer with other contemplative companions, away from the busyness of daily life, and allow the mind, body, and spirit to surrender to God’s presence and action within.


This retreat offers three tracks simultaneously: Intensive I,

Intensive II and Post Intensive. ​Please choose your track when registering.

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Pre-requisite: A daily practice of centering prayer for 6 months or longer.


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