Silent Retreat on July 13

Come join us in a time of silence and meditation on Saturday, July 13 from 9 am to 3 pm.

If you have wondered what it would be like to bring a bit of the monastic environment to the parish, and to your daily life, this is your chance to explore meditation and guided journaling!

If you have craved a peaceful time of reflection and guidance, stepping aside from the busyness of your life, this is your chance to come soak in a time of reflection and focus.


We will gather at 9 am, an then we will spend 6 entire hours in silence together.

Contact Fr. Stuart for more details and to RSVP: Stuart@MySaintB.org

Explore our recent Lenten Retreat online now!

If you were unable to attend the recent Lenten Retreat at the parish, fear not! We are including these photos on the spiritual formation blog, so you can go online and explore the discernment of the 31 people who gathered that day at St. Benedict's. Simply scroll down and spend time with each of the photos...

With the yellow, our guiding question centered on the stories in our lives: "Why you love what you love, why you do what you do..." How can we look at our own individual lives and notice?

With the blue, we moved into a group discernment focusing on collected images and words from throughout the day. What images or words or thoughts stood out to you from our conversations? We gathered these words into a "word cloud" that helped us imagine future areas of growth and exploration within the parish community...

With the images, we moved into a time of visual representation of one word or image that seemed to summarize or epitomize the entire day's experience. These images are powerful and symbolic!

So, I invite you to explore online...and share in future conversations at the parish as we continue to discern how God is guiding us as a parish community...

Blessings,
Stuart+

Let's keep the conversation going with the Sunday Forum!!

Join the great conversation on Sunday mornings at 9:30 am in the Parish Hall as we continue to explore various videos and reflections.

We are currently using the DuBose Lectures given by Barbara Brown Taylor at the University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee ("Yeah, Sewanee's Right...") Her reflections focus on "Learning to Walk in the Dark," and our conversation delves into the symbolic aspects of light and darkness within the practice of our faith.

Also, we will soon be rotating in various other videos and TED talk series. So, if you know of a topic you would like to explore, please let me know. I can add it to the rotation list!

Come grab breakfast at 9 am and join the conversation at 9:30!

Blessings,
Stuart+

Come explore Hell during Lent...

This year during Lent, we will be "Exploring Hell." Not literally, but spiritually and metaphorically...
We will draw upon the history of how we have understood hell, looking at how there has been a development of tought around hell and humans connect to God in the sense of Divine "punishment" and "merit"--or lack thereof.

We will also explore images from art and literature, personal dimensions with poetry and reflection, and how there are aspects of our life here and now that are "hellish," with war, poverty, oppression, injustice...

So, come "Explore Hell" on Sunday mornings, at 9:30 in the Parish Hall, downstairs (of course) when you come in the building.
Breakfast is there, as well!