2012 - 2013 Upcoming offerings to be held at Our lady of Guadalupe Mercy Center:

RETREATS

The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius in Everyday Life

For those eager for a deeper relationship with God and who wish to foster this relationship in the midst of everyday life, you may want to consider making this Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius Retreat. The essential components of the retreat, which spans a period of seven months, include a serious commitment to daily prayer, meeting with a spiritual director twice monthly and participating in faith group sharing.

Group Meetings:

DATES	TIME
Saturday October 20, 2012	9:00 am—4:00 pm
Thursday October 25, 2012	7:00 pm—9:15 pm
Thursday November 22, 2012	7:00 pm—9:15 pm
Thursday December 13, 2012	7:00 pm—9:15 pm
Thursday January 24, 2013	7:00 pm—9:15 pm
Thursday February 14, 2013	7:00 pm—9:15 pm
Thursday March 21, 2013	7:00 pm—9:15 pm
Thursday May 9 & 23, 2013	7:00 pm—9:15 pm

Place:Community Room 2nd Floor Our Lady of Guadalupe Mercy Center
Fee: $325.00 Registration Required

Path of Joy

“My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord, My Spirit rejoices in God my Savior”
(Luke 1: 46-47) (Canticle of Mary)

A joyful heart is a beautiful gift. There are so many things that threaten to steal a woman’s joy. During this day of reflection we will come in touch with what brings us hope, and what restores our joy in lasting ways, so as to keep our truest selves alive and vibrant.

Please join us and a group of single mothers for a healing and blessed day. We look forward to seeing you.

Date: November, 24, 2012—Time: 9:00 am—4:00 pm
Place: Our Lady of Guadalupe Conference Room
Fee: $50.00 Registration Required
Presenters: Celia Usher & Team of Single Mothers

Laugh Your Way to a Better Marriage

“Laugh Your Way to a Better Marriage” isn’t the typical marriage seminar. Thanks to Mark Gungor, creator of this Christian weekend seminar, through a DVD widescreen experience. You will laugh, learn and be able to make real positive changes to your marriage. Mark in his fun non-threatening way makes his teachings enjoyable, effective and memorable, helping husbands and wives remember these insight s and immediately put to work. Come and give your spouse a treat!

DATE: February 16 & 17, 2013
TIME: 8:00 am—8:00 pm (Saturday) & 8:00 am — 3:00 pm (Sunday)
PLACE: Our Lady of Guadalupe Conference Room
FEE: $150.00 per couple Registration Required

Reaching Out

Do you wish a specific program/retreat for your particular group/faculty or parish? Our Lady of Guadalupe Center wishes to be of service to you whether you are in Belize City or in the Districts. Make your request known to us by e-mail or phone 223-2275. To ensure our availability, please make an early contact.

The Center’s Team has already committed themselves to the following requests for 2012—2013:

• Prison Ministry—Wagner’s Youth Facility, Belize Central Prison—Wednesdays—9:00 a.m.—11:30 a.m.
• Holy Redeemer Faculty Retreat Day—August 27, 2012
• St. Catherine Academy—Students—17 Retreat days September 29, 2011 to April 24, 2012
• St. Catherine Academy Faculty — Faculty Retreat Day— February 2013.

The Power of Surrendering

“To surrender is a total acceptance of what isn’t” - (Eckhart Tolle)
"To accept the things I cannot change” - and to do this with serenity.
“Not my will, but thine be done.” - (Jesus Christ)

This day will offer the opportunity to reflect on that letting go of resistance which Life demands of us, and which brings us to freedom and to God.

Date: February 23, 2013
Time: 9:00 am—4:00 pm
Place: Our Lady of Guadalupe Conference Room
Fee: $50.00 Registration Required

Presenters: Sister Sarita Vasquez, RSM
Celia Usher & Anita Zetina

"The Gift Of Dwelling"

Who are you anyway? Where do you dwell? Who dwells with you/within you?

Spend a prayerful, quiet weekend present to the mystery of you and the mystery of the Holy One dwelling within you.

We give time to what we value.

Date: March 15—17, 2013
Place: Our Lady of Guadalupe Retreat Center (Limit—8 Persons)
Fee: $150.00 Registration Required

"The Exemplary Husband"

We live in an era when the very fabric of our society is becoming anti-family. Life today is busy and fast-paced and on a every front there are distractions and temptations that pull and tug. Our call as husbands and fathers is weighty and daunting.

A husband’s role is not simple. It requires principle-centered leadership that is replete with organizational and administrative demands. His role requires the heart of a counselor, the ability to lead and be followed, and the disposition of a loving soul-mate, mentor, friend, protector and devoted listener.

This workshop is your best possible start to becoming the husband God calls you to be. Man up and say yes to this one-of-kind workshop. Your wife will melt.

DATE/TIME: May 18, 2013—9:00 AM—4:00 PM
PLACE: Our Lady of Guadalupe Conference Room
FEE: $50.00 Registration Required

PROGRAMS / WORKSHOP

Women's Bible/Faith Sharing

(Come let us stay close to God, meditate on the Word, and ask the Holy Spirit to bring it to life for us)

Married and engaged-to-be-married women are invited to join us.

Wednesdays—starting
September 5, 2012—5:00 pm—6:30 pm
Fee: Donation
Place: Our Lady of Guadalupe Meeting Room

Spiritual Directors’ Peer Supervision & Reading Seminar

Those who are presently engaged in the ministry of spiritual direction meet monthly in a prayerful setting for this seminar. Through presentations of case studies, prayer and sharing, they draw on the insights of one another, enabling them to grow in the art of listening and discerning the movement of the Spirit in direction.

Relevant reading material is the focus of this monthly sharing among the Center’s Team of Spiritual Directors. The reading selected for 2012—2013 is “Sacred Is The Call” by Suzanne M. Buckley.

Date: Thursdays 1:30 pm — 4:30 pm (First Thursdays of every month)
Place: Community Room

OTHER OFFERINGS

Married Couples Enrichment Nights

Married couples, who want to keep their relationship vibrant and alive, meet monthly for their own development, for group bondedness and support as married couples. It’s fun and enriching!

All married couples are invited to join us!

Fridays: 7:00 pm—9:00 pm (Last Friday of every month)
Place: Our Lady of Guadalupe Conference Room
Facilitators: Vincent & Loretta Palacio
Fee: Donation

The Excellent Wife

A 4-session program that will more deeply explore the teachings of “The Excellent Wife” workshop held in May 2012.

Sessions are scripturally based, practical and attainable. It speaks to your calling in life and to the issues you face. Not only will it teach what God requires of a Christian wife, but also how to be that wife.

(You need not have attended the workshop to participate in this program.)
All married and aspiring to be married women are welcome.

Date: November 5, 2012 | December 3, 2012 | January 7, 2013 | February 4, 2013
Time: 6:00 pm—9:00 pm
Fee: $50.00 (registration required)

Earth Day April 22

In advancing our mandate, and in particular that of one of our critical concerns … to reverence Earth and work more effectively toward the sustainability of life, Our Lady of Guadalupe Mercy Center (OLGMC) as a Ministry of the Sisters of Mercy is impelled by the urgent crises of violence to our Earth, and is committed to Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream.

April 22, 2013 is commemorated as Earth Day and on that day we want to share with our children the unique experience that the Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream Symposium brings.

We will help them to realize that we as a people did not weave the web of life, but rather that we are merely a strand in it and that whatever we do to it we do it to ourselves. So join us in bringing this very important message of caring for our Earth.

Call us to register your child:
Ages 12—15 are invited.

Prayers

Intercessory Prayer

“There should be prayers offered for everyone—petitions, intercessions and thanksgiving”
(1 Timothy 2:1)

“Wherever two or three are gathered in my name, there am I.” That was Jesus’ promise. The Intercessory Prayer is a sacred time. Persons called by God to minister to the people by interceding for them gather twice monthly at the Guadalupe Center.

You are invited to join them to pray for your loved ones, Belize and for the world. Mail or phone in your requests for prayers. The Church needs intercessors. God has given the Center strong intercessors. We praise God!

First & Third Wednesdays: 9:00 am—10:00 am

Our Lady Of Guadalupe Chapel

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