Ignatian Advent Retreat in Daily Life
Virtual Program
Sunday, December 1 - Tuesday, December 24, 2024
Led by Dr. Kathy Coffey-Guenther, Arts '85, Grad '88, '98, Senior Advancement Officer for Alumni Spirituality, Marquette University
Join fellow Marquette alumni and friends by taking a pause while deepening your prayer life in the weeks before Christmas!
We are excited to offer our annual four-week Advent retreat rooted in the second week of the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius. This retreat will provide practical ways to observe the holiness of the season in our everyday life and prepare us for the celebration of the birth of Christ, with all its meaning.
The Ignatian Advent Retreat in Daily Life can be completed on your own time from your home or office and is flexible enough to work around any seeker’s schedule. This retreat will include daily readings, reflection questions and teachings from Ignatian spirituality that help us to slow down and reflect on the sacred gift of holy days before the birth of Jesus, when the world waited in anticipation for hope, love and true joy to appear.
Retreat materials are emailed to participants weekly during the four weeks of Advent and can help enrich our consciousness as to the purpose and love and invitation imbued in this season. We will also be hosting weekly faith sharing sessions virtually that can provide you the opportunity to reflect on your prayer, your retreat and to ask any questions you may have.
If you have always been curious about the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius or if you have felt a longing to slow down and attend deeper to your own heart, soul and spirit this season, consider joining us for these special weeks of retreat.
For this retreat you will need:
- a desire to know yourself and Jesus more deeply
- a willingness to set aside 15 minutes or more each day for prayer
- a willingness to read scripture and additional readings as assigned
- an openness to journaling about your prayer as you desire
- spiritual conversation with a spiritual director as you desire
Save the dates for our virtual faith sharing sessions:
WEEK 1
Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2024
Noon - 1:00 p.m. CST
Via Zoom*
WEEK 2
Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024
Noon - 1:00 p.m. CST
Via Zoom*
WEEK 3
Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2024
Noon - 1:00 p.m. CST
Via Zoom*
*A separate sign-up for the virtual sessions will be shared in the first weekly email.
This retreat is complimentary, but a gift of $40 is suggested. All tax-deductible gifts will benefit the Bridge to the Future Scholarship Fund, which provides financial aid assistance for students whose changing economic circumstances threaten their ability to continue their Marquette education.
Please direct any questions or special needs to Dr. Kathy Coffey-Guenther at kathleen.coffey-guenther@marquette.edu or (414) 288-6672.
Our retreat director is Dr. Kathy Coffey-Guenther, Arts '85, Grad '88, '98, senior mission and Ignatian leadership specialist in University Advancement. Kathy has a doctorate in counseling psychology from Marquette and a graduate certificate in spiritual direction from the Aquinas Institute for Theology with a specialty in Ignatian spirituality. In addition to working for years in clinical practice, Kathy has served Marquette in a number or roles including as the associate director of the Faber Center for Ignatian Spirituality, the director of Ignatian programs in the Office of Mission, and as the associate vice president of the Office of Mission and Ministry at Marquette. Additionally, Kathy serves as a spiritual director for the National Magis Retreat team for the AJCU and is a consultant to the Archdiocese of Milwaukee and several religious orders and congregations in the Midwest.
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