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Spiritual Formation
3 Year Holiness Program
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"The Call to Holiness" is a 3 year program offered by God's Embrace Renewal Centers. The program will incorporate a unique balance between input sessions and a rigorous practice of prayer.
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Formation input sessions will be offered on two weekday evenings each month between September and May to integrate God's Living Word in Scripture with the celebration of God's Life in Liturgy, allowing us to live out our lives with God in daily circumstances. 4 weekend retreats will be offered each year to provide the opportunity for meaningful prayer experience, learn and grow in the intimacy with the trinity, and to be mentored by the Holy Spirit. Essentially the program offers the opportunity to submit to the Holy Spirit's advocacy to live our lives in God's Embrace.
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The God's Embrace Call to Holiness formation program will be an intense experience of prayer, retreat, formation, and mentoring designed to bring each of its participants more fully into the embrace of God.
The program will be limited in enrollment so that small intimate communities can be built with the shared purpose of seeking a deeper communion with God.
We ask that you commit yourself to the program 1 year at a time. Through this fashion each participant will be able to focus only on the calling that is in front of them, being able to respond to God personally.
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Group 1 = Continuing formation - Discipleship
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INPUT SESSIONS 2009-2010 RETREAT SCHEDULE
Group 1 Tuesday, September 8, 2009 Group 1: Sept 25-27, 09
Group 1 Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Group 1 Tuesday, October 13, 2009 Group 1: Nov 13-15, 09
Group 1 Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Group 1 Tuesday, November 10, 2009 Group 1: Jan 29-31, 10
Group 1 Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Group 1 Tuesday, December 8, 2009 Group 1: Mar 12-14, 10
Group 1 Tuesday, January 12, 2010 Christmas Party:
Group 1 Tuesday, January 26, 2010 December 5 or 19, 2009
Group 1 Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Group 1 Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Group 1 Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Group 1 Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Group 1 Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Group 1 Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Group 1 Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Group 1 Tuesday, May 25, 2010
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All retreats are held at Maranatha Center in Muskegon, beginning Friday at 7pm through Sunday 2pm.
The weeknight formation sessions will be held at Our Lady of the Lake in Holland.
The recommended year 1 donational support is $2,250 per person and may be tax deductible. Retreats include meals & accommodations.
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| God’s Embrace Renewal Centers has been granted “Recognized and Endorsed” affiliation with the Graduate Theological Foundation. This affiliation allows for students who complete (or who have completed) the 3-year program through God’s Embrace to receive 4 Units of Study (12 graduate credits) toward the Doctor of Ministry degree program of the Foundation. Students must then complete the doctoral project or Non-Project Option through the Foundation. Students completing only part of the entire 3 year God’s Embrace program will receive partial credit toward the D.Min. (4 credits per year completed). As a P.R.I.M.E (Partnering Resources in Ministry Education) affiiate, GTF has reconginized the importance of the formation work done by God's Embrace Renewal Centers.
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Facilitation Team:
Our Facilitation Team will work together with the communities of prayer and study:
Dr. MICHAEL FONSECA is the Director of God's Embrace Renewal Centers; he also serves as Director of Spiritual Formation for the Diocese of Gaylord. As a licensed counselor, spiritual director and retreat leader, Michael has given retreats throughout the United States and abroad. Much of Michael's spiritual wisdom was learned from study and practice of Ignatian spirituality, as well as Christian mystics like St. Teresa of Avilla and St. John of the Cross. His books, Living in God's Embrace and Loving in the Master's Footsteps are published by Ave Maria Press. Michael and his wife, Cherrie, direct a small retreat center from their home in Ravenna, Michigan.
Dr. PHIL KRILL holds a BA in Theology from the University of Notre Dame, and an MA in Divinity from Yale University, and a Doctorate In Liturgy from the Graduate Theological Foundation. He has 27 years of teaching experience at the college level and has worked for 22 years as a counselor and supervisor for addiction recovery services. Phil's academic interests include the ressourcement spirituality of Von Balthasar, de Lubac, and Ratzinger, and the Personalist philosophy and Theology of the Body of Pope John Paul II. He has a special love of the Divine Liturgy and the Christian East, and teaches courses in Liturgy, Sacraments, and Contemplative Prayer.
Dr. Jeffrey Wincel is a candidate in the Permanent Deacon Program in the Diocese of Grand Rapids. He is active in many ministries including religious education, marriage preparation, lay leader of prayer and communion, and adult formation. Jeff is also president of LSC Consulting Group and an adjunct professor for Grand Valley State University's MBA and undergraduate programs. Jeff holds a Doctorate of Ministry (D.Min) from the Graduate Theological Foundation in South Bend Indiana, an MBA and B.S. from Michigan State University, and a Master's of Arts in Pastoral Studies at Loyola University in Chicago.
For additional information or to register, contact Jeff Wincel
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Formation Series -
An Introduction to Holiness
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Series Logistics
With the guidance of our facilitation team, two "communities of prayer and study" will be formed. This will permit us to serve more people, and offer you the choice of evenings.
Community A -- Tuesday Evenings, 7:00 to 10:00 p.m.:
Next Series Dates Pending.
LOCATION: To Be Announced
Community B -- Wednesday Evenings, 7:00 to 10:00 p.m.:
Next Series Dates Pending
LOCATION: To be announced
Series Theme: "Quest for Holiness"
The aim of God in history is the creation of an all-inclusive community of loving persons with God Himself at the very center of this community as its prime Sustainer and most glorious Inhabitant. Through Jesus Christ our membership in this community has been made possible. We can now claim Jesus as our brother, and his Father, as our Father. Through Jesus Christ we have been called to be holy, without blemish, and full of love. Our destiny is a glorious one as it has been designed and ordained by God.
During this program you will explore God's most intimate designs for you in this community of loving persons through input, prayer exercises and spiritual practices that will lead to a transformed lifestyle.
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