What are you listening to? When you listen are you hearing the fruits of the Holy Spirit - love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control?
Our Creator Lord is a self-communicating God - always desiring to give God’s self to the beloved. This retreat explores the gift of listening to, for, and with the Lord through the framework of the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius.
The retreat cultivates silence as a doorway to God. Such a door opens within allowing time and space to lift up your own self and hold it still in the presence of God in honesty and understanding and unconditional love.
What are you listening to? Come and train your ear and your heart to listen to the movement of our Creator Lord in your life.
Retreat is hosted at Montserrat Jesuit Retreat House, 600 North Shady Shores Road, Lake Dallas, TX 75065.
Register here or call (940) 321-6020
Presenter(s):
Carol Atwell Ackels
Carol is Director of the Ignatian Spirituality Institute. A spiritual director in the Ignatian tradition she serves as retreat director of the Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius in various formats. She offers weekend retreats, the Exercises in Everyday Life, and one-to-one directed retreats at Jesuit retreat houses across the United States. Carol regularly gives programs and days of reflection to parish and Church groups. She launched and continues to give workshops to shape persons, Jesuits and lay, who are moving into retreat ministry and spiritual companioning in the Ignatian tradition. Appointed by the Provincial, Carol served six years on the bi-province Commission on Ministry--the group that discerns long-range planning for apostolic work of the Jesuits and their colleagues. Carol co-authored with Joe Tetlow, S.J. the twelve week Ignatian retreat Finding Christ in the World, and worked with Anthony Borrow, S.J. developing the Toward Greater Freedom retreat for parents at Jesuit College Prep of Dallas. Carol holds a J.D. from SMU Dedman School of Law, Dallas and a Master of Art in Theology and Leadership from Gonzaga University, Spokane. She and her husband reside in Dallas and are the parents of five adult children.