| Retreats/Retreat Team |
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| "I liked being used by God and watching people grow as individuals and a community." - AQ Retreat Participant |
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| Campus Ministry offers AQ students with many opportunities to step back from their busy schedules to reflect on their personal journey with Christ. Retreat styles vary from camping to testimonial to personal silent retreats. This wide diversity allows students to meet God in a variety of ways, each according to their individual needs and spiritualities. |
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| Retreats allow AQ students to experience God’s work within them through prayer, reflection, and community. Amidst the chaos, retreats allow students to grow in their faith; to hand their worries over to God and to trust more fully in him. Many students also form close friendships through this shared faith experience, and become part of an important network of active students throughout Aquinas. Retreat applications are available at the Gatehouse or online. |
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| For more information on any of the retreats Aquinas College offers, please contact Mary Clark-Kaiser, Director of Campus Ministry, at (616) 632-2489 or clarkmar@aquinas.edu. |
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| AQ Retreats: South Manitou Backpacking |
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| Enjoy an extended retreat over Labor Day weekend on South Manitou Island in Lake Michigan. Join 20 other college students for an easy backpacking and camping experience. Grow in your relationship with God and others, while reflecting, praying, hiking, swimming and sharing around a campfire. |
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| Photos from the South Manitou Retreat |
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| AQ Retreats: CYBIAC |
| Apply in person at the Gatehouse beginning at 7 a.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2007. |
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| Sign up early for this very popular retreat which is held in early November at a wooded church camp. It is lead by a team of AQ students who begin meeting weekly in late August to prepare for this important weekend. Since 1993, alumni of CYBIAC testify as to how their hearts were touched by God. |
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| Photos from the CYBIAC Retreat |
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| AQ Retreats: Directed Silence |
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| Pray and reflect in the beautiful environment of the Hermitage near Three Rivers, Michigan. This retreat allows the participant the quiet and silence needed to spend time with God. The retreatant meets three times for a half an hour each time with a Spiritual Director. This is time to talk about one’s walk with God and one’s prayer life. The participants do have an opportunity to meet as a group two or three times during the weekend for faith sharing and lectio divina. |
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| AQ Retreats: Micah 6:8 |
| This retreat has been cancelled for the 2007-2008 academic year. |
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| AQ Retreats: On Campus Directed Retreats During Advent and Lent |
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| These retreats provide the college student an opportunity to experience spiritual direction over the course of three days without having to leave campus. The retreats are scheduled to take place during preparation seasons which anticipate Christmas and Easter. The participating student creates a retreat schedule to suite their regular class schedule. |
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What does it involve?
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- Meet with a Spiritual Director 30 minutes each day
- Make time for private prayer 30 minutes each day
- Participate in Vespers or Mass at 4:30 p.m. in the Bukowski Chapel
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| AQ Retreat Teams |
| AQ Retreat Team: AQ Light High School Retreat Team |
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| Please Note: Sign ups for the AQ Light Retreat Team take place by the end of the first week of September. Any applications submitted after the first week of September will be held until the following academic year. |
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| Join this amazing and committed group of students who plan and present retreats for High School students. They meet Sunday evenings after Mass to plan the retreats while at the same time becoming a community of friends. They present retreats for Catholic High School freshman as well as for parish confirmation groups. |
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| Photos from AQ Light Retreats |
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| “Whenever you think God has shown you other people’s faults, take care: your own judgment may well be at fault. Say nothing. And if you do attribute any vice to another person, immediately and humbly look for it in yourself also. Should the other person really possess that vice, he will correct himself so much the better when he sees how gently you understand him, and he will say to himself whatever you would have told him,” Saint Catherine of Siena. |
