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Reflection from Conamara
by
John O'Donohue

Humans have an uncanny ability to domesticate everything they touch.

Eventually, even the strangest things become absorbed into
the routine of the daily mind with its steady geographies 
of endurance, anxiety and contentment. Only seldom
does the haze lift, and we glimpse for a second, the amazing plenitude
of being here.

Sometimes, unfortunately, it is suffering or threat that awakens us. It could happen that one evening, you are busy with many things, netted into your role and the phone rings.

Someone you love is suddenly in the grip of an illness that could end their life within hours. It only takes a few seconds to receive that news. Yet, when you put the phone down, you are already
standing in a different world.

All you know has just been rendered unsure and dangerous. You realise that
 the ground has turned into quicksand. Now it seems to
you that even mountains
are suspended on strings.

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Beauty Cannot Be Forced


Beauty enjoys a profound and ancient autonomy. True beauty is from elsewhere, a pure gift.
It cannot be programmed
nor its arrival foreseen.

It never falls simply into the old patterns of what is already there nor is it frivolous or burdened with leaden solemnity.

Frequently, beauty is playful like dancing sunlight, it cannot be predicted, and in the most unlikely scene or situation
can suddenly emerge.

This spontaneity and playfulness often subverts
our self-importance and throws our plans and intentions
into disarray.

Without intending it, we find ourselves coming alive in a sense of celebration and delight.

The pedestrian sequence of
a working day breaks, a new door opens and the heart recognizes the silent
majesty of the ordinary.

The things we never notice, like health, friends and love, emerge from their subdued presence and stand out in their true radiance as gifts we could never have earned or achieved.''

- Beauty -
The Invisible Embrace
by
John O'Donohue

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CompanionedSpiritual Formation Annual.Retreat
@
Villa Madonna Retreat House,
Rothesay, NB 

More Details to Follow


The Right Reverend William Hockin

March 5th - 7th, 2010


Work & Creativity
as it relates to spirituality


The facilator this year will be Bishop William "Bill" Hockin


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Registration Fee


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$168 per single & $248 per couple


includes 2 nights - 6 meals - plus Retreat

Bursaries are available upon request

please note that the Retreat begins on Friday Evening
with a meal
which will be served beginning at 5:30pm

Registration Table will be open from 4:30pm

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Click here for March 5th - 7th Retreat Registration 2010

or to contact the Rev. Canon John Cathcart - 450-0013


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Click here for March 5-7
Retreat
Registration
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2010
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Register Early as Space is limited
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Registrants
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at this time  spaces have
been filled.


Bishop
William Hockin Retreat Facilator)

The Rev'd Canon
Neville Cheeseman
(Chair of CSF Team)

The Rev'd Deacon
Debbie Edmondson
(CSF Team Member)

Paul Kaye *
(CSF Team Member)

The Rev'd Canon
John Cathcart
(CSF Team Member)

The Rev'd Deacon
Joyce Perry
( CSF Team Member )

* Minnie Estabrooks

Suzanne  Mason

Hazel MacKenzie

Rod Langis *

Barb Langis *

Dot Moore

Alexa Kaye *

Bob Brittain

Cindy Derkson

Megan Carney

Darlene Adams*

Betty  Kennett

Eleanor Dryden

The Rev'd
Brent Ham

Norma Calhoun

Ivy Beal

Shirley Marshall

Mary Marshall

Donna Baker

Jan Metzler

Beth Cole

Carol Keith

Joan Hicks

Marge Milner

Annette  Harris

Catherine Campbell

Edythe Jardine

Agnes Scott

Coralie Losier

Ann Fairweather

Linda-Lou Carter

Nelida Lemon

Eric Bell

Loraaine Bell

Betty MacNamara

*Darlene Losier *

*Eleanor Hewey

Mary Lou Graves

Elsie Grey

Pearl Hazen


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Friday,
March 5th, 2010


Evening Meal
5:30pm

Registration:

4:30 - 7:00pm

Welcome & Introduction -
7:15 - 7:30pm

Ice Breaker
7:30 - 8:00pm

8:00 - 8:15pm
Introduction of Presenters

8:15 - 9:30pm
Social Evening

9:30pm
Friday Night Prayers




TENTATIVE SCHEDULE


Saturday,
March 6th, 2010

Breakfast - 8:00 - 9:00am 
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SaturdayMorning Prayers

- 9:00 - 9:30am -

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First Session
9:30 - 11:30am

Quiet Time
- 11:30-12:00pm

Lunch
- 12:00 - 1:00pm


Quiet Time
- 1:00 - 2:00pm


Second Session
2:00 - 4:00pm

Quiet Time
- 4:00 - 5:30pm


Supper
- 5:30 - 6:30pm


Quiet Time
6:30 - 7:00pm

7:00 - 10:00pm
- TBA -

BCP - Compline
- 10:00pm





Sunday,
March 7th, 2010


Breakfast
8:00 - 9:00am

Worship - Eucharist -
9:00 - 10:00am

Quiet Time

10:00 - 11:00am

Wrap up - small group evaluations
11:00 - 12:00am

Lunch -
12:00am

Departure


Please Note:

Tenative Schedule

times and format
subject to change.





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March 5th-7th, 2010
Retreat Registration


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