RETREAT OFFERINGS

"The Healing Care of Our Garden"

with Rev. Christopher Krymski, OSM

Cardinal Stritch Retreat House

invites all women religious to a retreat

beginning 7:30 p.m. on July 11

and ending with lunch on July 15, 2011.

This retreat will explore the meaning of "garden"--both our own selves,

as well as where we find ourselves in the world--and

how to care lovingly for these different gardens

through the insights of our Catholic traditions.

Fr. Krymski is the national director of the National Shrine of St. Peregrine,

as well as pastor of Our Lady of Sorrows Basilica Parish.

Through the ministry of prayer, blessing and reconciliation,

the Shrine works to accompany caregivers

and those who live with serious illness.

Coupled with the insights from the work of the Shrine,

Fr. Krymski brings his background

in art therapy (BA/BFA in studio arts and

Masters in Art Therapy from Chicago's Art Institute) to this retreat.

Fr. Krymski also has a Masters of Divinity from CTU in Chicago and

served as a chaplain for ten years at Loyola Hospital.

It is Fr. Krymski's art which energizes his life.

Joining Fr. Krymski for an extended session will be Joseph Malham,

artist in residence at St. Gregory Church in Chicago.

Mr. Malham is an iconograher and will be on hand

to explain the theology and art of icons.

Icons, windows into the divine, are useful in the project of  both praise of God

as well as assisting us to ground ourselves in the gardens in which we live.

Both Fr. Krymski and Mr. Malham are lively presenters

and will uplift you and encourage you.

Please call 847.566.6060 with any questions.

www.stritchretreat.org

The fee for the retreat, accommodations and all meals is $345.00.

Future retreats will be posted.