Looking Forward to Easter
With Tim Oberholzer
February 28 - March 2, 2025
Does your spiritual life need a reset? Is Lent your 40-day version of the movie Groundhog Day? Do you give up the same thing every year? Is every day bland and meaningless? Are you just waiting for Lent to be over?
In Looking Forward to Easter we will use Chapter 49: The Observance of Lent from the Rule of St. Benedict as a guide for self-reflection. Inspired by the Holy Spirit, we will examine our physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual states to determine what should be washed away, what should be added, and what should be offered as we “look forward to holy Easter with joy and spiritual longing.”
This retreat will be a combination of group guided reflections and significant time for personal pondering and prayer.
Leader
Tim Oberholzer is Executive Director of the Center for Benedictine Life. In addition to managing the operations of the CBL, Tim facilitates in-person retreats and on-line programs. Tim also accompanies others as a spiritual director. Tim spent five and a half years as a Trappist monk at New Melleray Abbey in Peosta, Iowa. Deep prayer and reflection led him to leave the community prior to making solemn profession. He moved to Idaho to be closer to his parents, discovering the Monastery of St. Gertrude through a job posting for the innkeeper position at the Inn at St. Gertrude. Tim earned…
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