Come to the Well

An Online Retreat or In-Person Retreat

Thirsting for New Life

 

With the Gospel story of the “Woman at the Well” as our guide, we will reflect on how we can nurture our spiritual thirst during this Lenten season. This will be a prayerful, quiet time to rest, renew, and reflect on how you want to spend your Lenten season.

You can expect:

  • Woman at the Well Meditation

  • Reflective time to journal

  • Personal time with an experiential activity

  • Ideas for Lenten “fasting and feasting”

I had never participated in a retreat before, so I thought an online retreat would be a good way to start a personal spiritual journey in a very non-threatening way. I loved it as it has opened my heart to new beginnings of courage and trust in God’s strength for me.

— Diana S., Sacramento, CA

Blessing of the Well

by Jan Richardson, The Painted Prayer Book  

If you stand at the edge of this blessing and call down into it,

you will hear your words return to you.

If you lean in and listen close, you will hear this blessing give the story of your life back to you.

Quiet your voice quiet your judgment quiet the way you always tell

your story to yourself.

Quiet all these and you will hear the whole of it and the hollows of it:

the spaces in the telling, the gaps where you hesitate to go.

Sit at the rim of this blessing. Press your ear to its lip, its sides,

its curves that were carved out long ago by those whose thirst

drove them deep, those who dug into the layers with only their hands

and hope.

Rest yourself beside this blessing and you will begin to hear

the sound of water entering the gaps.

Still yourself and you will feel it rising up within you, filling every hollow,springing forth anew.

Choose Your Experience

 

Online Retreat (On Zoom)

This retreat is offered as an online retreat on Zoom for three hours.

Learn more about what you can expect from this online retreat on Zoom with our FAQ page.

In-Person Retreat (Three or Six Hours)

This retreat is also offered as an in-person retreat.

Learn more about what you can expect from an in-person retreat with our FAQ page.

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