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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.

February 14, 2020, Adrian, Michigan – Adrian Dominican Sister Maribeth Howell, OP, offers a workshop to help people to relate to those most in need of compassion. “The Poor, the Widow, the Orphan, and the Stranger in your Land” is offered from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Saturday, March 21, 2020, at Weber Retreat and Conference Center.

Sister Maribeth draws from Church teachings and Scripture – especially Exodus, Deuteronomy, several prophetic books, and New Testament writings – to explain how we are called to relate to people who have a special need for our compassion. 

An Adjunct Professor of Biblical Studies at Aquinas Institute of Theology in St. Louis, Missouri, Sister Maribeth has also taught at Kenrick Seminary in St. Louis and St. Mary Seminary in Wickliffe, Ohio. She earned a Licentiate of Sacred Theology from St. Paul University in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, and a Doctor of Sacred Theology degree in Hebrew Scriptures at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium.

The cost, including lunch, is $60. 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. Limited scholarships are available.

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.