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UPDATE: This event has been converted to a free live stream. Registration required.

February 24, 2020, Adrian, Michigan – Holy Week is the ideal time to retreat from one’s ordinary concerns and contemplate the powerful mystery of Jesus’ passion, death, and resurrection. Sister Kathie Budesky, IHM, leads participants in just such a retreat during the Holy Week Retreat: Entering the Passion of Jesus. The retreat begins at 7:00 p.m. Sunday, April 5, 2020 and runs through 11:30 a.m. Thursday, April 9, 2020 at Weber Retreat and Conference Center.

This retreat is being offered FREE to all who register. It consists of two one-hour-long talks each day, according to this schedule:

Monday, April 6, 2020:     9:15-10:15 a.m. (ET) and 1:30-2:30 p.m. (ET)
Tuesday, April 7, 2020:     9:15-10:15 a.m. (ET) and 1:30-2:30 p.m. (ET)
Wednesday, April 8, 2020:     9:15-10:15 a.m. (ET) and 1:30-2:30 p.m. (ET)
Thursday, April 9, 2020:     9:15-10:15 a.m. (ET)

Participants cal also view Mass each day at 10:30 a.m. (ET).

Sister Kathie, a Sister, Servant of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, is the director of her congregation’s Visitation Spirituality Center. She studied in Israel in 1987 as a Fulbright Scholar and graduated from the Institute in Creation-Centered Spirituality. Sister Kathie also ministered as a staff associate in the Ignatian Program in Spiritual Direction at the Ignatius Jesuit Centre in Guelph, Ontario, Canada.

The cost for the Holy Week Retreat is $140 for commuters, $425 for single occupancy, and $325 per person for double-occupancy. A limited number of scholarships are available. Registration is required and is available at www.webercenter.org; click on “programs.” Registration is also available by calling 517-266-4000 or emailing webercenter@adriandominicans.org. We will send you a link to view the livestream (a high-speed internet connection is required; please note we cannot provide technical support).

Weber Center is on the campus of the Adrian Dominican Sisters’ Motherhouse, 1257 E. Siena Heights Drive, Adrian. Enter the Eastern-most driveway of the complex and follow the signs to Weber Center. For information, call the Weber Center at 517-266-4000.

March 18, 2019, Adrian, Michigan – Sister Patricia Walter, OP, and Father R.B. Williams, OP, will lead participants in a special retreat, “Beginning the Holy Week Journey Together.” The retreat is held at Weber Retreat and Conference Center from 6:30 p.m. Sunday, April 14, 2019 through 11:00 a.m. Thursday, April 18, 2019.

The retreat offers participants ample free time to contemplate Jesus’ last days in the context of his life and of our own. Participants also gather twice a day for common prayer, preaching, and reflection.

Sister Patricia, former Prioress of the Adrian Dominican Congregation, has given retreats around the world. She has ministered at Siena Heights University in Adrian; Aquinas Institute, a Dominican graduate school in St. Louis, Missouri; the Angelicum in Rome; and St. Mary Seminary in Cleveland, Ohio.

Father R.B. is a missioner for the Dominican community in Lubbock, Texas. He has ministered in education and campus ministry and, more recently, has preached parish missions and retreats. 

The cost, including meals and snacks, is $130 for commuters, $325 per person for double occupancy; and $425 for single occupancy. Registration is required and is available at www.webercenter.org; click on “programs.” Registrations may also be made by contacting Weber Center at 517-266-4000 or webercenter@adriandominicans.org.

Weber Center is on the campus of the Adrian Dominican Sisters’ Motherhouse, 1257 E. Siena Heights Drive, Adrian. Enter the Eastern-most driveway of the complex and follow the signs to Weber Center. For information, call 517-266-4000.