The Promise of Pentecost - Stand-alone Mini Course
Transcendent Spring is an immersive experience
that will connect your physical and spiritual senses. Come prepared to hear the babbling creek and birdsong, smell the flowers, and enjoy light refreshments throughout your retreat.
This year, our theme is
Pentecost’s Promise:
Our Advocate, Our Offering,
Our Mission
This mini-course is designed to accompany our in-person retreat experience hosted at Cedar Creek Sanctuary.
We contemplate the Truth, Goodness, and Beauty in God’s creation and in your own being. We learn to recognize His Divine gift of Love in our hearts and in the natural world.
If you’re taking this course as a stand-alone guide to your Pentecost,
we are so delighted to have you here.
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The Promise of Pentecost: Our Advocate, Our Offering, Our Mission
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The Promise of Pentecost
Join us in this mini-course, where we learn about the feast of Pentecost and the gift of the Holy Spirit!
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Our Advocate
Explore the life of poet and priest, Gerard Manly Hopkins, and contemplate his poem, As Kingfishers Catch Fire.
Read along with us from paragraphs 731 through 736 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
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Our Offering
Explore Gerard Manley Hopkins’ poem, The Grandeur of God, learn about “law of the gift,” and read along with us in paragraph 1076 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
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Our Mission
Read along with us in paragraphs 737 through 741 from the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
Contemplate the seeds the Holy Spirit is planting in you this Pentecost.
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Meet your instructors
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Meet your instructors ✳
KATIE JO LARIVIERE, PH.D
JESSICA BEDORTHA, CMC
Our Mission
Our mission is to provide peaceful, educational, and personal experiences that enable you to grow your faith and strengthen your relationships with God, self, and others in safety, joy, and love.
We meet you where you are and inspire you to become the imago dei God made YOU to be.
What you’ll experience in this mini-course:
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We provide beautiful and inspiring pdf guides and video accompaniment for your prayer life during this season dedicated to the Holy Spirit.
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We meet you where you are right now, and provide tools for contemplation on where you want to be in your spiritual life. Then, we walk with you as you discern your next steps with the Holy Spirit.
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Dr. Katie Jo makes Catholic teaching on the Holy Spirit accessible through engaging videos and Jessica coaches you through personalized applications to your own life.
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