Registration Form On RETREAT with Complete the form below. Mail with a check made Fr. William MENINGER payable to: Trinity United Methodist Church —The Great Mystics— Meninger Retreat 3331 Shadowmoss Drive Tallahassee, FL 32308 Name _____________________________________ Address ___________________________________ City ____________ State ___________ Zip ________ Phone: ____________________________________ Email: _____________________________________ Dietary Restrictions: ___ Vegetarian ____Vegan ___ Gluten-Free Church: ____________________________________ cut along dotted line dotted along cut _____ Single Room $310 _____ Double Room $245 per person Roommate _________________________________ (if you’d like us to place you with a roommate, check “double” and leave blank) • Please include full payment with registration • Cancellations, less a $75 fee, must be received by January 15, 2016. No refunds can be given after that date. Thank you to our 2016 Sponsors! February 26-28, 2016 Faith Presbyterian Church Killearn United Methodist Church Cerveny Conference Center Tallahassee Area Centering Prayer Groups at Camp Weed Trinity United Methodist Church Meninger Retreat Drive 3331 Shadowmoss FL 32308 Tallahassee, Live Oak, Florida The Retreat Fr. William Meninger Spend a weekend On Retreat With Fr. Meninger, as he Father William was born, raised and educated in the Retreat and Registration Details presents the great mystics. Boston area in Massachusetts. His mother was born Since the very beginnings of Christianity, there have and raised in County Kerry and his father was a Quaker Location: always been in the Christian church great mystics. People from Pennsylvania. Cerveny Conference Center at Camp Weed like St. Paul, St. Augustine, St. Francis of Assisi, Julian of Ordained in 1958, after 8 years in St. John’s Seminary, he 11057 Camp Weed Place Norwich and Thomas Merton are known to us all. There are was incardinated into the Diocese of Yakima, Washington Live Oak, Florida 32060 many others, perhaps lesser-known like Moses the Black, where he worked on an 386-364-5250 Paula of Jerusalem, St. Monica, St. Beatrice of Nazareth, Indian Reservation and with http://www.campweed.org etc. Famous or lesser-known, they are all great mystics, Mexican traveling workers Arrival: that is, they are holy people who have approached God for 6 years. In 1963 he February 26, 2016 - 4 p.m. directly without intermediaries, even the intermediaries of entered the Trappists at St. Departure: Joseph’s Abbey in Spencer, thoughts or words. In short, they are the contemplatives. February 28, 2016 - 2 p.m. Some have written about their experiences extensively, Massachusetts, where he some briefly, some not at all. served in the guest house Father William Meninger Cost: I have chosen, somewhat arbitrarily some of the for 15 years. There he taught Scripture, liturgy and Includes two nights lodging, six meals (dinner great mystics to speak about this weekend. You may patristics and served as prior and dean of the junior Friday through lunch Sunday) and retreat fee. wish to read their professed monks. Lodging is hotel style, with two beds and all linens writings or you In 1979 he was transferred to a daughter house, St. provided, and no television or phones in rooms. may simply wish Benedict’s Monastery in Snowmass, Colorado, where Single Room -$310 Double Room - $245 per person to be instructed he served as Prior, vocation director, novice master, Please include full payment with registration. and edified by a and teacher of theology and scripture. He spent 3 years Camp Weed Animal Policy description of in Israel where he studied scripture and taught at the “We do not allow pets. We do accommodate their lives and Center for Biblical Studies in Jerusalem and at the Trappist persons who need assistance provided by service their approach to Monastery of Latroun. animals. In the event that a member of your group prayer. Some of He also did graduate studies at Seattle University, requires a service animal, the animal must be these great mystics Beautiful and peaceful - Mandi’s Chapel is Harvard Divinity School, and Boston University. In 1974 certified as a service animal.” are: St. Beatrice of the spiritual center at Camp Weed. he originated the workshop on Contemplative Meditation Please contact [email protected] or Nazareth, Marguerite Porete, Walter Hilton, St. Teresa of (later known as Centering Prayer) which he now teaches telephone her at 850.364.6250 should you have Avila, St. Therese, and Evelyn Underhill. It was only after I worldwide along with workshops on Forgiveness, the any questions. Enneagram, Sacred Scriptures, and Prayer. He leaves the decided on these great mystics that I realized that all but Cancellations: monastery only 4 times each year to do this, lest he lose one of them are women. So be it. They shall be our teachers. A refund, less $75, will be given on cancellations “God loves you; just love God in return. Do this and his own monastic orientation while sharing it with others. made in writing before January 15, 2016. No refund everything else will be added unto you. Give the priority can be given after that date. of life to whom it belongs, to God.” For more information: Retreat Bookstore • https://www.facebook.com/meninger A large selection of books and CD’s from St. Benedict’s retreat2016 or search Facebook for Meninger Monastery will be available for sale. The Retreat 2016 proceeds return to St. • Email [email protected] Benedict’s to support • Call Nancy Bechard at 850-556-1937 their ministry. Please note—the All proceeds above costs benefit bookstore accepts cash St. Benedict’s Monastery, and checks only. Snowmass, Colorado Aerial view of Camp Weed.