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About Father Charlie Wehrley:
Apopular homilist, Fr. Wehrley has concentrated on using his homilies to bring the Word to the world of the average person. He believes strongly that God’s Word has to be applied to the joys and hardships of everyday life. His homilies serve as wake-up calls.
Through his homilies, people come to see how Jesus Christ is working in their lives today. They are challenged to move out of their comfort zones and to grow into utilizing their God-given gifts, as well as to have the courage to face the obstacles in their lives that may be keeping them from becoming better persons.
Serenity Retreat Topics:
Perfect Love Between Imperfect People (A Retreat for Couples)
Good communications and acceptance skills are essential to good relations between love partners. Perfect love exists (through God) but unfortunately no perfect person does. We all bring our character defects into our love relationships, and too often these lead to poor communications and lack of acceptance. Family upbringing, past hurts and grievances, self-loathing, emoti0nal shut-down, mistrust, jealousy and fear are among the many causes of communication gaps and a lack of acceptance that leads to eventual relationship breakdown. Love of another requires love of self and an ability to understand one's own behavior. If we don't love and understand ourselves, we will never love or understand a lover or spouse. This retreat provides spiritual insight to help transform human flaws that hinder love between couples.
Open Up Your Heart and Let Yourself Out!
O
pen hearts are happy hearts. Yet many of us learned in childhood to close down our hearts as a protection mechanism against chaos in our households. We feared not being "good enough" and we likewise feared abandonment by others. As we grew older, we became whomever others wanted us to be. The more we people-pleased, the more we lost touch with our true needs and desires. Now, when we look in a mirror, we aren't sure who we are. This retreat is for those who are ready to stop running from themselves, and to stop living by everyone else's expectations. Learn to peel away your false self, and honor your true self by taking back power over your life. Come know, be and love the true you God created!
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Embracing Forgiveness
Forgiveness is the entire story of Jesus Christ summed up in one word. Forgiveness and mercy are central to Jesus’ teaching of love your God, your neighbor and yourself. Yet, many of us hold ourselves in a lifetime bondage of misery by refusing to forgive ourselves and others who have hurt us. Our hearts rage with an on-going anger over a past betrayal and as a result, we are never fully free or happy. Nor are we fully in communion with God because we cannot expect God to forgive us our sins if we are not willing to forgive ourselves or others. Redemption requires forgiveness and reconciliation. If you are suffering from an unforgiving heart, this retreat is designed for you!
Invitation to Happiness
Seems we're all searching for happiness in all the wrong ways. We try endlessly to find it through people, places, material objects and events, only to come up empty, disappointed, frustrated and lonely. And although we fail to find lasting happiness, we keep trying the same old methods again. ..and again...and again. If you are tired of trying to find happiness through people, shopping, career changes, traveling or cross-country moves this retreat is for you! This is your invitation to lasting happiness. come learn to tap into the one true source of happiness and take responsibility for your own well-being.
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Dancing with God
Dancing with God is not your average two-step! It's a life-long lesson in learning to let go of our need to control life. It's learning to surrender our lives to God and allowing God to take the lead as we dance through this life and into the next. Letting go requires faith, and faith requires that we believe in the great intangibles of life. This means we must come to believe in the mystery of life, even when common sense tells us not to believe. It means we must also learn to trust ourselves and to believe in those people we love. Once we surrender and allow God to lead us through life's dance, we find we are no longer dancing with two left feet. Our mis-steps are fewer and so are our miseries. New found faith allows us to better dance through the hardships of life. We find peace in the dance of life, and greater happiness in each step.
Hasty Hearts
Hasty Hearts is a 12-Step retreat designed especially for those who suffer from codependency. Codependent hearts are lonely and are often hasty to find a fix for their emptiness. Shopping, eating, sex, TV, internet surfing, gambling or making another person into a power greater than one's self are among the methods used to gain a fix. God is the only true fix, however and the only true higher power. If happiness is eluding you like a butterfly that's always just out of your grasp, then come learn to change your way of thinking from co-dependent to God-dependent, and begin to enjoy the happiness you deserve!
12-Steppin' with the Holy Spirit
Successful recovery begins through reliance upon God, or a Higher Power of our own understanding, and the ability to face our own character defects and mistakes. Once we've faced them through working Step 4, we must take ownership of them through Step 5. This retreat is limited to five participants. It will give each participant the time and guidance to work Step 4 and to eventually be prepared to work Step 5. The only requirement for participation in this retreat is that you must be actively involved on a regular basis in a 12 Step group, such as A.A., Al-Anon, CODA, ACOA, or O.A.
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Serenity Retreats Schedule:
| Apr. 4-6, 2008 | Invitation to Happiness |
| Apr. 11-13, 2008 | Being Real |
| Apr. 18 - 20, 2007 | Come & I Will Give You Rest (Caregiver's Retreat) |
| May 2-4, 2008 | Perfect Love Between Imperfect People (A Couples Retreat) |
| May 23-25, 2008 | Mozart: The Joyful Spirit of God |
| June 6-8, 2008 | Hasty Hearts: Understanding Codependence |
| Aug. 15 - 17, 2008 | 12 Steppin' with the Holy Spirit (Steps 4 & 5) |
| Aug. 29 - 31, 2008 | Being Real |
| Sept. 12 - 14, 2008 | Perfect Love Between Imperfect People (A Couples Retreat) |
| Oct. 3 - 5, 2008 | Open Up Your Heart & Let Yourself Out! |
| Oct. 10 - 12, 2008 | Invitation to Happiness |
| Oct. 31 - Nov. 2, 2008 | Hasty Hearts: Understanding Codependence |
| Nov. 28 - 30, 2008 | 12 Steppin' with the Holy Spirit (Steps 4 & 5) |
| Dec. 5-7, 2008 | Dancing with God |
Fees & Reservations:
Cost: $170.00 includes the retreat, all materials, private room/private bath and six meals. $125.00 per person includes the retreat, all materials, shared room/bath and six meals. $90 commuter rate includes the retreat, all materials and six meals.
Advance registrations are required. A non-refundable deposit of $35.00 is requested to confirm your reservation. For more information, please contact us at 520.744-3400, Ext. 110, or by email. To request a registration, click the banner below:
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