We as helpers need a steady diet of spiritual food so that we can continue to be generous distributors of God’s mercy. This retreat will explore your Moments of Mercy, your love language, how to create a menu to feed your soul and time for personal reflection. To continue to care for others requires that we take quality time to be nurtured and deepen our relationship with the Holy Trinity so that we can dwell in God’s tent.

Day 1: Moments of Mercy

Over the past year, we have all endured painful experiences. Even difficult past experiences can provide us with grace in abundance, usually after we have passed those painful moments. In today’s Spiritual Care Workshop, join Father William Jarema to discuss and reflect on God encounters that will enliven your soul and provide you with a bucket full of grace and tender mercy. Other areas of discussion for today’s workshop include:

1. The Mercy Lifeline, a creative way to remember those life experiences that lead you to an awareness of dancing with the Holy Spirit

2. Understanding how we like to be loved and show our love and how that helps us to appreciate how God is working through us to care for and love our neighbors

3. How our images of Jesus and God shape and form us throughout our lifetime

4. General affirmations are a must for our health and well-being

Day 2: Discovering Your Spiritual Gifts

Everyone has been blessed with spiritual gifts, infused within you as grace at baptism. The Holy Spirit calls us to use these gifts to build heaven here on earth. Any application of our spiritual gifts used without compassion leads to chaos and can harm those we serve. Join us for Day Two of the Avila Institute’s 2021 Spiritual Care Workshop where we once again welcome Father William Jarema to guide us in areas of:

1. Discernment as our attempt to listen to God

2. Putting on the mind of Christ so that we can seek out the pleasure of God

3. Forgiveness and how the burden of refusing to forgive weighs down on you

4. Discovering your own spiritual gifts

5. Compassion gained by unlearning some of our previous notions to make space to expand our repertoire of helping and healing skills

6. The Table of Mercy – choosing the 12 people who have helped get you to this point in your life

Continuing Education

Registrants seeking continuing education will be asked to watch the webinar in full and submit an evaluation form. 

Catholic Chaplains: This educational program has been approved for 8.0 Continuing Education Hours by the National Association of Catholic Chaplains

 

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