Hello, I’m Vinita Wright. On behalf of Loyola Press and the Days of Deepening Friendship Web site, I welcome you to our Lenten retreat of 2011. We had great response to the retreats of the past two years, and we hope you will be encouraged and spiritually strengthened by the material we’re offering this Lenten season.
View the video below for an overview of what you can expect. Having difficulties viewing? Click here.
Our featured book throughout the retreat will be Here’s My Heart, Here’s My Hand: Living Fully in Friendship with God. The author is Father Bill Barry, a Jesuit writer and a spiritual director for many years.
In the weeks ahead, we’ll offer many opportunities for you to engage with God’s movement in your life.
Mondays: An article based on a chapter of Here’s My Heart, Here’s My Hand, and I’ll suggest a spiritual exercise for the week.
Wednesdays: A short piece on a saint or an important event in history that relates to the themes of our retreat.
Fridays: A reflection of words and images to help you focus and rest.
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Looking forward to receiving updates from the Days of Deepening Web site. However, I am not sure that I was able to sign up for the Lenten Retreat 2011 via this on-line site. Please let me know if there is anything further I need to do. Thank you! God’s Blessings, Dorothy Hilton
Thank you for this opportunity to get closer to God this Lent.
I’m looking forward to this Lenten Journey. Blessings, Barbara
I feel like I have to thank you, Vinita, for once again is been helping us with your work. I was looking forward for this year Lenten retreat and I’m so glad that you’re doing it again! It’s like e present, sent by God, that I’m anxious like a child to open it. And I will do it, day by day, with you and all our brothers and sisters that are in the same journey!
Thank you and God bless you!
From Argentina,
Maria Teresa Moreira
Maria, I’m so happy that you’re joining us–welcome!–Vinita
I’m grateful to be able to journey with all fellow Christians,I’m always blessed deeply by this interaction in faith. Thanks be to God!
I have been waiting with hunger and thirst for our Lenten retreat. It is so helpful to be fed by you, Vinita, and the community we become even though we are living in different towns or cities. Thank you and all who share this experience.
Thank you, Helen. Your words encourage us as we prepare and write the retreat. Peace to you–Vinita
Helen, many blessings on your Lenten journey this year. Peace–Vinita
Thank you Helen for providing this guidance so we may make the most of the lenten season. Peace
Thank you Vanita, For words of hope. When I heard your voice on Saturday
I just could nor believe some else could feel like me thousands of miles away,
tired of winter, tired of life, tired of everything, that’s is me.
I hope we can walk and grow together in this retreat like the last couple years.
I love the book, but more inportant is your reflections each week and the input
of our on – line community.
I wish you God’s strength to keep going.
Welcome to the journey. Each day we walk with Jesus is a new day, no matter how we feel. Peace–Vinita
I am unable to move beyond the first image..hope that the Monday message/image will be porsted later in the day.
I am looking forward to participating with this Lenton Retreat and dusting off the Ignatius’s Spiritual Exersizes each week.
A M D G!
Larry M.
Kennesaw, GA