A Complete Listing of Bethany Spring Retreats Available Online

2010

Ongoing through June 2010 (second Monday each month)
Bridges to Contemplative Living Group
Presentation Prayer Center, Fargo, North Dakota
contact: Sr. Andrea Arendt at presprayerctr@cableone.net or 701.235.8246

September 4
Living as Listeners with Hearts Attending
Presenter: Bonnie Thurston 
St. Francis-in-the-Wood Anglican Church
Vancouver, British Columbia Canada
For more information: tmsc@telus.net

September 8, 15, 22, 29
Bridges to Contemplative Living: Seeing that Paradise Begins Now
The Benedict Inn, Beech Grove, Indiana
Contact: benedictinn@benedictinn.org or 317.788.7581

September 21
Centering Prayer Introduction
Transformations Spirituality Center, Kalamazoo, Michigan
Contact: info@transformationscenter.org 

September 4
Thomas Merton: Inward Odyssey, Outward Bound
Presenter: Judith Hardcastle
St. Francis-in-the-Wood Anglican Church
Vancouver, British Columbia Canada
For more information: tmsc@telus.net

October 1-2
Fulfillment through Interfaith Engagement
Keynote Speaker: Bonnie Thurston
Thomas Merton Society of Canada
Canadian Memorial Church & Centre for Peace, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
For more information: www.merton.ca or 604.669.2546

October 2
Living Contemplatively in the Modern World
featuring Board Members of The Merton Institute for Contemplative Living 
The IdeaFest
Louisville, Kentucky

October 16
Thomas Merton and Ecology
Bellarmine University, Louisville, Kentucky
For more information, contact the Thomas Merton Center: 502.452.8177 or pmpearson@bellarmine.edu 

October 22-23
Discovering God Anew
Transformations Spirituality Center, Kalamazoo, Michigan
Contact: info@transformationscenter.org 

November 6
Seeing God in Everyday Life: A Day of Mindfulness
Transformations Spirituality Center, Kalamazoo, Michigan
Contact: info@transformationscenter.org 

December 10
Thomas Merton: From Gregorian Chant to Jazz 
The Merton Institute for Contemplative Living, Louisville, Kentucky 
For More Information: 502.899.1991 or contactus@mertoninstitute.org 

December 11
Thomas Merton: Advent Retreat 
The Benedictine Inn, Beech Grove, Indiana
Contact: benedictinn@benedictinn.org or 317.788.7581

January 21-23
Contemplative in a Busy Life: Annual Beach Retreat (XIII) offer by The Anchorage  
The Anchorage, Greenville, South Carolina 
Contact: www.theanchorage.org or 864.232.5683

A complete listing Bethany Spring retreats available online.

 

 

 


 


What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it all the rest are not only usless but disastrous.

 

Thomas Merton, Dancing in the Water of Live

 

A complete listing Bethany Spring retreats available online. Bethany Spring, The Merton Institute Retreat Center, offers Bridges retreats, contemplative living retreats, and space for individuals and groups to come away and enjoy the quiet. A mile from Gethsemani, guests are invited to attend the prayer services with the monks.