Plan now for an insightful, meaningful retreat featuring Fr. Tom Hartle’s engaging style as he helps retreatants advance on their own spiritual journeys. This retreat will include daily morning and afternoon conferences, private reflection and contemplation, Eucharistic Liturgy, and more. Consider Fr. Tom’s own words on this unique and timely retreat theme: “We are living in a time and place alien and strange to us. We are ‘immigrants’! We are living permanently in a ‘foreign country’. Our birth country is not the country we find ourselves living in today. Acknowledging this truth, this reality, may empower us to move forward with our lives.”

Additional words from retreat presenter, Fr. Tom Hartle, OFM: “I am a friar of Holy Name Province, soon to be Our Lady of Guadeloupe Province. Like you, I too am an immigrant. I speak from my personal experience as I try to inculturate myself into these new and often confusing times. As Dorothy said to Toto, “Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.” We have stepped outside of what is considered normal; we have entered a place or circumstance that is unfamiliar and uncomfortable; we find ourselves in a strange situation. Welcome to the new millennium.”
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To pre-register, just call the Center of Renewal (716-754-7376, Ext. 2 or 1)