2. BE NOT AFRAID: LIVING THE RESURRECTION NOW Jesuit Retreat House March 19-22, 2015 Lynn Ann Reesman lareesman@gmail.com

3. GETTING TO KNOW YOU How many of you are making your first retreat here? How many of you consider yourselves retreat veterans? Welcome! How many of you come energized? How many of you come tired? How many of you have enjoy Candy Crush Saga? How many of you prefer cooking to baking? How many of you prefer the season of Lent to the season of Easter? How many of you would feel comfortable proclaiming a Scripture passage during the weekend? How many of you would feel comfortable singing?

4. Be still and know that I am God. Be still and know that I am. Be still and know. Be still. Be.

5. THE TRUTH ABOUT RETREAT God initiates. Director holds open a space and invites. Retreatant prays, listens, shares, receives. Hopes: Consider: How are you and God these days? Deepen! Pray with your body Try a new way or two to pray: Ignatian “desires” Build a community of prayer and ritual Rest, refresh, renew body, mind, spirit Prepare your heart for the celebration of the Paschal Mystery.

6. BE NOT AFRAID: LIVING THE RESURRECTION NOW Grace: To Know God’s Love for Me More Deeply John 1: 1-18

7. PASCHAL CANDLE Wick Flame Alpha and Omega Five Wounds Chronos/ Kairos— Timelessness of the Christ

8. TO KNOW GOD’S DEEP LOVE FOR ME God loves me. God delights in me. God trusts me. God desires to be one with me in all aspects of my life. In God’s reign, God has a role for me.

9. God beyond our dreams

10. You have stirred in us a memory,

11. You have placed your powerful Spirit in the hearts of humankind.

12. All around us we have known You; all creation lives to hold you.

13. In our living and our dying we are bringing You to birth.

14. God beyond all names, You have made us in Your image.

15. We are like You, we reflect You…

16. We are woman, we are man.

17. All around us we have known You; all creation lives to hold you.

18. In our living and our dying we are bringing You to birth.

19. God beyond all words, all creation tells your story.

20. You have shaken with our laughter; you have trembled with our tears.

21. All around us we have known You; all creation lives to hold you.

22. In our living and our dying we are bringing You to birth.

23. God beyond all time, You are laboring within us.

24. We are moving, we are changing …

25. …in Your Spirit ever new.

26. All around us we have known You

27. All creation lives to hold You.

28. In our living and our dying we are bringing You to birth.

29. God of tender care, You have cradled us in goodness

30. You have mothered us in wholeness, You have loved us into birth.

31. All around us we have known You, all creation lives to hold You.

32. In our living and our dying we are bringing You to birth.

33. CHRIST THE LORD OF LIGHT The way Jesus cares for people is exactly the way God cares for people. Jesus didn’t die into emptiness and nothingness, but entered definitively into the life of God. God saved Him in death, not from death. The disciples experience of the Risen Lord led to the missionary activity of faithfulness to the reign of God.

34. LECTIO DIVINA Read: What does the text say that everyone should understand? Reread: What does the text say to me, today and to my life? (Reread): What can I say to the Lord in response to His word? (Reread): What conversion (turning) of mind and heart might the Lord be asking of me? What am I being called to be or do? Jared Dees, 31 Days to Becoming a Better Religious Educator Leader’s Guide, Ave Marie Press.

35. INVITATION Lectio Divina John 1: 1-18 Psalm 46 Error in booklet Awareness Survey

36. Be still and know that I am God. Be still and know that I am. Be still and know. Be still. Be.