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September 12, 2022, Adrian, Michigan – Step away from your busy life and retreat to Weber Retreat and Conference Center. The private, directed retreat is offered from 2:00 p.m. Monday, October 10, 2022, through 1:00 p.m. Friday, October 14, 2022.
This retreat offers time and space for prayer, quiet reflection, and participation in liturgies on the Motherhouse Campus if COVID-19 protocols allow. The retreat also offers opportunities to walk the labyrinth and outdoor garden, enjoy the quiet of the INAI gallery space, and explore the spiritual questions of your heart.
Each retreatant meets daily with the spiritual director of his or her choice (pictured from left to right):
Sister Joan Delaplane, OP, an Adrian Dominican Sister, has broad experience in preaching, directing retreats, and conducting workshops on preaching.
Joan Ebbitt, an Associate of the Adrian Dominican Sisters, specializes in ministering to religious, clergy, and others in their quest for experiencing the divine.
Sister Esther Kennedy, OP, an Adrian Dominican Sister, has been a spiritual director for many years, walking with directees as they engage their own spiritual experience of the Holy Mystery.
Trudy McSorley, an Adrian Dominican Associate, is committed to the Dominican Charism and, through her own prayer and contemplation, seeks to be a listener and supporter of others on their journey to the Holy.
Janene Ternes is a spiritual director, retreat director, and the founder of Prayer in Motion, LLC, a ministry that opens hearts to God through music, movement, and guided reflection.
The cost, including meals and snacks, is $260 for commuters, $325 per person for double occupancy, and $425 single occupancy. Overnight guests must be vaccinated.
Registration is required and is available at www.webercenter.org; click on “programs.” Registrations may also be made by calling 517-266-4000 or emailing webercenter@adriandominicans.org. Limited scholarships are available.
Weber Center is on the campus of the Adrian Dominican Sisters’ Motherhouse, 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.
September 9, 2022, Adrian, Michigan – The early months of the COVID-19 pandemic brought about death, sickness, isolation, grief – and a great deal of creativity. The creative aspect of the pandemic – as well as the mourning – were showcased by Art in the Time of COVID, an art exhibit at the INAI Gallery near Weber Retreat and Conference Center.
The exhibit featured works by a group of Adrian Dominican Sisters, Associates, and friends who met monthly via Zoom, shared progress on their artwork, and encouraged one another. The exhibit also included a memorial to the 14 Adrian Dominican Sisters who died of COVID-19. Guests were invited to write down the names of the people they had lost to the virus.
Featured in a Catholic News Service (CNS) article about the memorial were Sister Suzanne Schreiber, OP, an artist and coordinator of INAI, and Sister Nancyann Turner, OP, who created three quilts that were featured in the exhibit. The artwork “was an effort to both process the COVID reality and the pandemic and all that was going on and a lot of the loss that was happening, and the illness and death that was happening, plus to give expression to our own creative selves,” Sister Suzanne told Gabriella Patti of CNS.
Sister Nancyann described the artwork as “another example of feminine creativity” and noted the comfort she derived from her quilting. Working on the quilts helped her “to remember again my mom and my grandmother as I selected and stitched those different colors, which helped me lament but also helped me have hope and peace,” she said.
Read the entire CNS article, as printed in Catholic Review, newspaper of the Archdiocese of Baltimore.