Registration: Spiritual Life Center FR. WILLIAM MENINGER

Spiritual Life Center The Spiritual Life Center serves as a retreat facility  TRAPPIST for those seeking to respond to the Word of God.  PROLIFIC AUTHOR Online: [email protected] The focal points  MASTER RETREAT LEADER Programs and Retreats of the Spiritual Phone: (316) 744-0167 Life Center are our two chapels, Cost: $100 (includes lunch and snacks) The Chapel of Mary, the First Questions: Contact Sharon Gash Disciple and The (316) 214-1971 Blessed Sacrament Chapel. Accommodations include: six Please register by June 12, 2015 conference rooms capable of hosting large and small groups; individual bedrooms with private baths to host as many as 114 overnight guests; a Presents: The Process of dining room facility with delicious meals prepared by our kitchen staff; and beautiful grounds for Forgiveness reflection walks and prayer, rest and renewal. th The Spiritual Life Center, as a retreat and June 20 , 2015 conference center, welcomes many religious 8:00am to 4:30pm groups of other faith traditions as well as community non-profit organizations. The solitude and quiet that this place provides gives people opportunity for reflection. Jesus invited his Spiritual Life Center th disciples to come away and rest awhile. 7100 E. 45 ST N.

Overnight Room Reservations: The Lord walks with us in this pilgrim journey of Bel Aire, KS 67226 faith. We invite you to walk with the Lord on this (Bel Aire is a suburb of Wichita) Please call the Spiritual Life Center holy ground. Won’t you join us? We invite you to Online: [email protected] browse through our website, to read about our Phone: (316) 744-0167 upcoming retreats, programs, workshops and classes. Cost: $40 per night The Spiritual Life Center Additional meals paid to Spiritual Life Center: www.slcwichita.org Breakfast $6.25, Lunch $7.50, Supper $9.75 Contemplative Outreach Wichita Sponsored by Contemplative www.contemplativeoutreachwichita.org Outreach Wichita The Retreat Fr. William Meninger Schedule Fr. William Meninger will present a retreat on Father William was born, raised and educated in Forgiveness, based on his best selling book “The the area in . His mother was Morning: Process of Forgiveness.” “Christianity is not the born and raised in County Kerry and his father was a Quaker from . only religion to command forgiveness. It is at the Ordained in 1958, after 8 years in St. John’s 8:00 Registration heart of every significant religious, philosophical, Seminary. He was incardinated into the Diocese of 8:15 Welcome/Orientation ethical, psychological or even political construct.” Yakima, Washington where he worked on an Father William will talk with us about how we Indian Reservation and with Mexican traveling 8:30 Conference 1 have most likely forgiven many times, yet we often workers for 6 years. In 1963 he entered the (includes 30 minute meditation) re-experience the hurt we have been trying to at St. Joseph’s Abbey in Spencer, forget. Our lives and relationships are affected. Massachusetts, where he served in the guest house 11:45 Lunch How do we forgive? How do we Afternoon: move beyond the hurts and take them to God? 1:15 Conference 2 This retreat will 4:00 Closing offer hope and help as we learn to forgive and 4:30 Departure begin to “live in the wholesome world of your own making. It is for 15 years. There he taught Scripture, liturgy and not a world without patristics and served as and dean of the junior pain, but the pain can be redemptive. It is not a professed . world without sorrow, but know that sorrow is not In 1974 he was transferred to a daughter house, St. an evil but a proof of love.”* Benedicts Monastery in Snowmass, Colorado, *quotes from ‘The Process of Forgiveness’, by Fr. William Meninger where he served as Prior, vocation director, , and teacher of theology and scripture and taught at the Center for Biblical Studies in Retreat Bookstore: A large selection of books Jerusalem and at the Trappist Monastery of Latroun. He also did graduate studies at Seattle from St. Benedict’s Monastery will be University, Harvard Divinity School, and Boston “The Process of Forgiveness is the most available for sale. Proceeds return to St. University. In 1974, he Originated the workshop intimate, the most important, and the most Benedict’s to support their ministry. on Contemplative Meditation (later know as loving manifestation of our Christian commitment. Very often it is neglected, not Centering Prayer) which he now teaches worldwide along with workshops on Forgiveness, the because of bad faith or unwillingness, but Note: The bookstore accepts cash and checks Enneagram, Sacred Scriptures, and Prayer. He simply because of ignorance. We can be leaves the monastery only 4 times each year to do taught the process of forgiveness.” this lest he lose his own monastic orientation while sharing it with others. - Fr. William Meninger