Explore the Compassionate Heart of Christ

5-week Group Prayer Experience offered via Zoom
Wednesday evenings from 7:00 – 7:45 p.m. – March 12, 19, 26, April 2, 9

Offered by: Joan Kilgore, WVIS Associate Spiritual Director Intern

The Tears of Christ is a collection of the insights and contemplative meditations of St. John Henry Newman. Spending time with this devotional text, will provide the participant an opportunity to meditate on His suffering, and discover a greater sense of Christ’s presence in our own lives, as we journey through Lent, and prepare ourselves to recognize Christ’s passion, death and resurrection. This experience can enable insight into our very own desires and yearnings to be disciples of Christ in the world.

REGISTRATION DEADLINE: March 10, 2025

The book Tears of Christ can be purchased new or used on Amazon.

Will You Let Jesus’ Cup of Life
Intermingle with Yours?

5-Week Group Spiritual Program via Zoom
Wednesday evenings, March 12, 19, 26 and April 2, 9 from 7:00 – 8:00 PM EST.

Offered by:
Jenny Brunoni, WVIS Associate Spiritual Director Intern

You are invited to participate in a five-week Lenten spiritual direction group via Zoom. The book Can You Drink the Cup? by Henri Nouwen will be our guide as we reflect on Nouwen’s deep understanding of Christ’s acceptance of His sufferings and joys during His earthly life. Together we will explore our own individual life journeys and the call from the Spirit to allow Jesus’ life to coalesce with our own. This will not be a book study, but rather, an encounter with the Holy Spirit via contemplation, meditation, art, music, and lifting of our hearts and our “cups” to our all-loving God.

During the week participants prayerfully read a chapter, reflecting on and taking note of what was most meaningful.  You will seek to spend 20 minutes each day in prayer and reflection.  You may choose to journal or jot down your reflections each day, and then we will come together each week to share with the group what has arisen out of your prayerful reading and reflection.  Please note that sharing is always optional.  Other participants will listen prayerfully, and everything shared will be confidential.

REGISTRATION DEADLINE: March 10, 2025

Offering: $10.00 (plus the cost of the book)

Can You Drink the Cup

5-Week Group Spiritual Program via Zoom
Monday evenings, March 10, 17, 24, 31 and April 7 from 6:30 – 7:30 EST.

Offered by:
Lisa Reese, WVIS Associate Spiritual Director Intern

You are invited to participate in a five-week Lenten spiritual direction group via Zoom based on the book by Henri J.M. Nouwen. Jesus asks James and John, “Can you drink the cup that I am going to drink?” How do we answer that question and can we apply the lesson of “drinking the cup” to our own lives? By journeying through Nouwen’s book, we will explore what is meant by holding the cup, lifting the cup and drinking the cup and begin to discover what God has put in our very own cup.

During the week participants prayerfully read a chapter, reflecting on and taking note of what was most meaningful.  You will seek to spend 20 minutes each day in prayer and reflection.  You may choose to journal or jot down your reflections each day, and then we will come together each week to share with the group what has arisen out of your prayerful reading and reflection.  Please note that sharing is always optional.  Other participants will listen prayerfully, and everything shared will be confidential.

REGISTRATION DEADLINE: March 9, 2025

Offering: $10.00 (plus the cost of the book)

Exploring Your Underground Stream: Going Deeper using Progoff’s Intensive Journal Method

A 5-Week Program via Zoom
Wednesday evenings, January 15, 22, 29 and February 5, 12 from 7:00 – 8:30 EST.

Offered by:
Sally Orcutt, O.P. – WVIS Associate Spiritual Director/Associate Ministry Director
Dr. Shannon Lenet – Spiritual Director

St. Ignatius and his Spiritual Exercises are a path to interior freedom, a path to coming to know ourselves as God knows us recognizing that all of who we are is who God loves. This January you are inviting to go more deeply on this path as we gather for, Exploring Your Underground Stream: Going Deeper Using Progoff’s Intensive Journal Method.

Combining the work of Dr. Ira Progoff (Intensive Journal Method) and Dr. Richard Schwartz (Internal Family Systems), this program invites you to come to understand yourself on a deeper level which includes meeting and dialoguing with your inner child(ren). According to Schwartz, we are all influenced on a daily basis by how these “parts” feel even though we are unaware. According to Progoff, if we follow the trail of the thoughts and feelings that come up over and over in our dialogues, we will see the pattern of these thoughts and feelings.

Each evening will include presentation, time for journaling, small group sharing, and time for questions. Everything shared will be confidential in the group.

REGISTRATION DEADLINE: January 13, 2025

OFFERING: $70.00 plus the purchase of a 1″ – 2″ binder for journaling (and paper). Scholarships are available by emailing exec.director@wvis.org.