Making Prayerful Choices

Lenten Quiet Day :

Saturday, February 9, 2008
10:00 am - 3:00 pm
in the Parish Hall and Common Room

The Quiet Day is a miniature retreat, compacted into a single day, but offering some of the features and taste of a retreat at a monastery. We gather for the Angelus and Morning Prayer, as monks and nuns have for centuries. There will be a couple of talks, and then another office of prayer at noon. We will have a nice lunch (provided by the parish at no cost) and then another couple of talks. The day will conclude with the Eucharist. There will be ample time for silence, prayer and meditation. There will be books available, a copy of the list of the names of those who have asked our prayers will be available, and people can trace the Stations of the Cross. When the notice is posted, please sign up for the Quiet Day so that those planning it will know how many people are welcome.

In all of life we are faced with making choices, decisions to be made, from small ones to life changing ones. Jesus was constantly faced with such choices. In this retreat we will look at some of the practices of discernment within the Christian tradition, practices that can help us on the journey to choose wisely.

Leader: Sister Cornelia Ransom, OSH
Sister Cornelia is a member of the Order of St. Helena. She resides in the Vails Gate convent. In 2005 she received the Wells College Alumnae Award for her outstanding achievements within her religious community and in the world outside. She is a leader, a mentor, a teacher, a staunch believer in the role of women in our society and a woman who can successfully stand with one foot in the spiritual world and the other in the secular. She is a spiritual director and actively participates in this role with guests t the convent and with seminarians at the General Theological Seminary in Manhattan. She is a wise and experienced guide along the Ignatian path of spirituality. She has many hobbies one of which is woodworking.