2010 Schedule

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Attn.: Guest Master
Pecos Monastery
P.O. Box 1080
Pecos, NM 87552-1080

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Dear Friend of Pecos Benedictine Monastery, We are delighted to announce our upcoming retreats. For 2010, the School of Iconography has been expanded to offer depth studies, classes for building skills in particular areas of iconography writing. A Stained-Glass Icon class has also been added to the offerings. A change for 2010 is the emphasis on private retreats providing you the opportunity to experience Benedictine monasticism, recognizing ultimately it is the "experience of" -- perhaps even more so than the talking about -- by which we are changed.

July 30-August 1, 2010.
The Fire of Prayer: An Immersion Retreat Masters from the Christian East and West: Clyde Glandon

This Two-Day Retreat brings the participant
into familiarity with the teachings on prayer of :

Macarius in The 50 Spiritual Homilies (4th C. Desert Father)
Richard Rolle in The Fire of Love (14th C. English Mystic)
John of the Cross in The Living Flame of Love (16th C. Spanish Mystic)
Theophan the Recluse in The Art of Prayer
(19th C. Russian Spiritual Director)

Christians in every generation and in every part of the world have discovered the flame of the Holy Spirit kindling in their hearts. The Fire of God, experienced as the flame of the Holy Spirit, is to be found upon the altar of our hearts, already burn- ing there, from our baptisms, before we may ever have known.It is the Divine Fire of purgation, illumination, and union. These Christian masters teach us how to seek this fire of Love.

The Lord will look mercifully on you and kindle a flame in your heart ~ Theophan

And this longing, was all the more urgent because of the delightful effect and the interior sweetness which this spiritual flame fed into my soul. ~ Richard Rolle

Clyde Glandon is an Episcopal clergyman and a Diplomate in the American Association of Pastoral Counselors. He is a graduate of the 1981-82 School for Spiritual Directors of the Pecos Benedictine monastery. He is the Sr. Therapist at the Center for Counseling & Education in Tulsa Oklahoma, where he and his wife make their home. He is an Associate of the Order of Julian of Norwich. He is a national speaker on religious experience in emotional healing, and leads retreats and workshops on The Jesus Prayer, Desert Spirituality, and personal transformation in Ignatian Prayer.

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Price: $180 single. $320 double.


August 15-22, 2010
Stained-Glass Icon Class

The School of Iconography at the Pecos Benedictine Monastery is offering a Stained-Glass Class for beginning students. The class will involve the methods and materials for learning basic techniques in copper foiling. One week-long project wil be completed, with instruction and guidance from tutors who have done stained glass projects for the past twenty-five years.

Price: $700, including room and board, tuition and all materials.


September 10-12, 2010
Henri Nouwen: The Wounded Healer

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Henri Nouwen has been popularly associated with the image of a “wounded healer”: a memorable phrase that has become the virtual cornerstone of his spirituality. This retreat/workshop focuses on Nouwen’s spirituality of brokenness and weakness; and how he turned it into a compelling avenue for ministry. Like Nouwen, we too can learn to connect more deeply with others through, and despite, our own imperfections.


Retreat Facilitator: Wil Hernandez, Ph.D., is a trained counselor and certified spiritual director in private practice in Pasadena, California. He also regularly teaches on the spirituality of Henri Nouwen in various seminaries and universities, and conducts retreats the whole year round all across the country. Wil is the author of Henri Nouwen: A Spirituality of Imperfection (Paulist Press, 2006) and Henri Nouwen and Soul Care: A Ministry of Integration (Paulist Press, 2008).


Price: $180 single. $320 double.


September 24- 26, 2010
Oblate Retreat

Come to worship, pray, reflect, talk with other oblates, discuss, renew acquaintances! This retreat will be presented by Mother Catarina Boyer, a Benedictine sister from Our Lady of the Rock Monastery in Shaw Island, WA. She is a long time visitor to Pecos and lived in the community in 1995. Her insightful presentations will focus on how Oblates can appreciate who they are, reflect on their gifts to the world and seek to grow spiritually. The Oblate links the monastery to the world and the world to the monastery. It is through the Oblates that monasticism opens its heart to the world; and the gift that monasticism offers through Oblates is “hospitality”, a reaching out to embrace the whole universe and to accept all others “as Christ” – it is in this spirit that we will explore together the gift that it is to be an Oblate.


Oblates and friends of Oblates and the monastery are invited to attend.

Price: Single $144, Double $256

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October 8 – October 10, 2010
I Have Called You By Name, and You Are Mine

I Have Called You By Name, and You Are Mine is a weekend retreat inviting you to come to a renewed appreciation of Jesus’ presence in your life. Through the medium of “story telling” the retreat leader encourages you to enter into familiar Gospel stories such as the story of Zacchaeus …as well as unfamiliar stories such as Joanna’s story. You are invited to discover in perhaps new ways how Jesus in these Gospel stories demonstrates his love that heals, forgives and sets us on the road to our continuing conversions. Jesus invited them then and invites you now on an adventure. Would you like to join the Adventure to discover afresh Christ’s compassion, forgiveness, healing and love?

Ample time will be available during the weekend for reflection, conversation and the building of friendships. As Philip said to Nathanael, “Come and see.” (John 1:46)

The Retreat Leader and Story Teller

Roger Williams, Obl. OSB

Roger is an Oblate to the Pecos Abbey. He served forty some years as a priest and pastor in the Episcopal Church in Washington, Oregon, Japan and Alaska. He and his wife Jane (also an Oblate) operated Shepherd House, a rural retreat house, near the Blue Mountains of Washington. They now live in the Walla Walla Valley. They were received into full communion in the Catholic Church in 2008. Roger and Jane are Lectors and Eucharistic Ministers at Assumption Parish in Walla Walla. Jane will also be attending “I Have Called You By Name, and You Are Mine” Retreat.

Price: $180 single. $320 double.


October 29-31, 2010
Living Amidst a Cloud of Witnesses 

Let us learn from the Celts to Celebrate the Companionship
of the Saints in our Day-to-Day Lives
 
In this time of fractured politics and painful confessions in the church, let us learn about saintly companionship from the simple men and women of the Celtic islands.  They asked the saints to join them on journeys, in the fields, in the kitchen, and in their bedroom.  They asked them to accompany their children, their spouses and their animals.  They felt themselves to be surrounded by the protective saints of heaven.
 
We will use the prayers collected from the remote islands and villages of Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England, the wise writings of Esther de Waal, Mary Earle,
J. Philip Newell, and Kathy Galloway, and the music of Bernadette Farrell and countless Celtic musicians to find the saints of our kitchens, and offices and walks in the park.
 
This weekend pilgrimage will be led by Patrick Cleary-Burns, a spiritual director, retreat leader and practitioner of Celtic spirituality from Cleveland, Ohio.  He is the Executive Director of Itinerant Retreat Leaders, Inc.  Pat is leading Celtic spirituality retreats in Indiana, Ohio, Connecticut and North Carolina.  He and his wife Jeannie are members of St. Malachi Parish and the Magis Christian Life Community. You can learn more about Pat’s ministry by visiting www.patclearyburns.net.
 
Pat is happy to be returning to Pecos.  Last year he taught “The Art of Spiritual Direction” in the Monastery’s School of Spiritual Direction.



Price: $180 single. $320 double.

June 19-July 17, 2011
With Follow-up in August, 2012

THE 2011 PECOS BENEDICTINE
50th SCHOOL FOR SPIRITUAL DIRECTION

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PRIVATE AND DIRECTED RETREATS

Pecos Benedictine Monastery is a monastery with retreat facilities. Our emphasis is on sharing our monastic life of Benedictine PEACE and PRAYER with all who come.

Our retreat facilities include:

• comfortable rooms, each with its own bath;
• our monastic chapel, always open to retreatants;
• 1000 acres of mountain property with lawns, pasture land, a pond and, of course, the Pecos River running through it;
• a well-stocked library with a conference room;
• a large dining area, where retreatants can dine with the monks and nuns;
• two coffee rooms for privacy and quiet reflection;
• and a lobby for relaxation and visiting.

In the monastic silence and solitude:
SEEK THE LORD WHILE HE MAY BE FOUND
CALL UPON HIM WHILE HE IS NEAR.

CHRIST IAN GROUPS ARE WELCOME TO PLAN THEIR OWN RETREATS.

CALL US to plan your group’s stay. We can house around 50 retreatants. Groups can ask for special services, such as: the Sacrament of Reconciliation, Healing services, and Special instruction on monastic and spiritual topics. Groups can also bring their own Pastors and Instructors. Call or email our Guestmaster at 505-757-6600 ext. 266 or Guestmaster@pecosmonastery.org