Women’s Come and Rest Retreat

In-Person

The demands of everyday life can weigh us down. This retreat is your invitation to set it all aside for a weekend and enter a place where you can truly rest. Come as you are, with whatever you are carrying and rest, become quiet, and notice what God may be stirring in your heart.

Come and Rest is a semi-silent retreat with a gentle, spacious rhythm. Communal prayer and reflections offered by the facilitators will provide touchpoints throughout the retreat, with optional opportunities for gathering, as well as generous unstructured time for silence, personal prayer, rest, spiritual direction, and time to encounter Spring on the beautiful grounds of the Jesuit Retreat Center.

You will have the opportunity to meet one-on-one with a spiritual director each day who will listen and help you to notice the movements of the Spirit in your life and prayer. Familiarity with spiritual direction is not required to attend the retreat.

This retreat begins Friday at 5:00pm followed by dinner at 6:00pm and the Retreat ends at Noon on Sunday. There will be a 4:30pm mass on Saturday.

Facilitators:

Roberta Bryer-King – A certified spiritual director and author of Embracing Your Wicked Good, God Awe-Full Life: Rejoicing in Your Imperfection, Letting God Heal You, and Making Your Stumbles Part of the Dance, Roberta is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame with a BA in theology and economics and an MBA from Regis University. She has a diverse background that includes being a retreat leader, an anti-human-trafficking advocate, a music minister, a corporate IT program manager, writer, and former professional golfer. She lives in Akron, Ohio with her husband and has three Russian-adopted sons in their twenties.

Colleen Favetti – A classmate of Roberta’s from the Ignatian Spirituality Institute at John Carroll University (JCU), Colleen is also a certified spiritual director. Her lifelong commitment to accompanying others on their spiritual journeys has taken shape through one-on-one spiritual direction, leading retreats, and offering a compassionate presence in a variety of settings, including corporate, nonprofit, and university marketing, as well as refugee mentorship, dementia care, and hospice ministry. She holds a BA in communications from JCU and currently resides in Avon, Ohio. She is married with two children. Her oldest is a sophomore at the University of Alabama, and her youngest is a senior at St. Ignatius.

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