Summer Directed Retreat I 2021
With Sister Karen Doyle, SSJ, Sister Lyan Tri, ACJ, Fr. Raymond Donaldson, SJ, Sister Cam Banh, ACJ, Sr. Julie Grey, OP and Sister Jean Marie Pisula, CSFN
July 2 - 9, 2021
A directed retreat at St. Raphaela Center is a time of quiet in order to enhance attentiveness to God’s voice within you and in your life. A reverent silence is maintained throughout the Retreat Center at all times including during meals. Each retreatant meets with his/her director daily for approximately 45 minutes. Our Spiritual Directors on staff will be conducting this 6-day retreat. Each one possesses the necessary skills to guide their directees compassionately and peacefully, allowing them to listen to God’s voice and to journey closely with their loving God, both within the retreat setting and going forth into their daily lives. The number, nature and length of periods of formal prayer each day will depend upon the ability and needs of the individual and will be determined in conversation with the director. Retreatants are provided suggested scripture passages tailored to their own prayer. Ideally retreatants will have some experience in meditative prayer, the desire to enter into prolonged silence, and sufficient self-awareness to recognize their own inward movements. All retreatants have the opportunity for daily liturgy and reconciliation.
Date: July 2 to July 9, 2021
Time: Starting at 4:00pm
Cost: $560 -$665 (depending on room choice)
About the Spiritual Directors
Sister Karen Doyle, SSJ
Karen M. Doyle SSJ, D. Min., a Sister of St. Joseph of Philadelphia enjoys the ministry of spiritual direction, supervision, formation of spiritual directors and Ignatian Spirituality for thirty years. She has ministered to spiritual directors in the United States, Canada, Philippines, Denmark and Taiwan.
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Sister Lyan Tri, ACJ
Sister Lyan, Business Manager and Spiritual Director at St. Raphaela Center, was assigned to the Center in 2015 and was its Director from 2018-22. She holds a Master’s degree in Spirituality and Retreat Directing from Loyola School of Theology, Ateneo De Manila, a Jesuit University in the Philippines. Sister Lyan has been doing retreat ministry […]
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Fr. Raymond Donaldson, SJ
Ray Donaldson, S.J., has been a member of the Society of Jesus for twenty-four years and a Jesuit priest for fourteen. He entered the Society after eleven years as a systems engineer working in telecommunications. As part of his Jesuit formation, he taught for two years in a public elementary school in a disadvantaged neighborhood […]
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Sister Cam Banh, ACJ
Sister Cam, who is of Chinese decent, was born and grew up in South Vietnam. She immigrated to the United States (Pennsylvania in 1982, and in 1989 entered the Handmaids of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in the USA Province. After finishing her religious formation, she studied and completed her Bachelor’s degree in Theology and […]
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Sister Jean Marie Pisula, CSFN
Sister Jean Marie Pisula is a Sister of the Holy Family Of Nazareth, who just recently returned from 26 years of missionary service in the Philippines. Her Masters degree in Spirituality at Creighton University and her studies and practicum at the Ignatian Spirituality Center in the Philippines have helped her to do ministries like Bible […]
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