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Upcoming retreat: “Praying and Contemplating in the Ignatian Way”

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Immaculate Heart Retreat Center will host an 8-day Ignatian Silent Retreat, “Praying and Contemplating in the Ignatian Way” conducted by the Rev. Alan Yost, July 20- July 27.

According to a press release, “St. Ignatius has gifted the church with a deep, well-formed method for finding God in all things.”

Attendees will learn and engage in contemplation and prayer in a silent retreat with conferences on discernment, explaining how the Holy Spirit works in times of consolation and desolation.  Spiritual direction will be available.

Yost has been a member of the Oregon Province of the Society of Jesus since 1998. He holds a master’s degree in writing and publishing from Emerson College in Boston and two masters’ in theology from Weston Jesuit School of Theology. His current mission is as university minister at Gonzaga University, coordinating the contemplative retreat, spiritual direction, and the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA) for the university.

Cost for the retreat is $656 for overnight with meals. For commuters it is $54 a day.  Register by (509) 448-1224, or at www.ihrc.net.

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Tracy Simmons
Tracy Simmons
Tracy Simmons is an award-winning journalist specializing in religion reporting and digital entrepreneurship. In her approximate 20 years on the religion beat, Simmons has tucked a notepad in her pocket and found some of her favorite stories aboard cargo ships in New Jersey, on a police chase in Albuquerque, in dusty Texas church bell towers, on the streets of New York and in tent cities in Haiti. Simmons has worked as a multimedia journalist for newspapers across New Mexico, Texas, Connecticut and Washington. She is the executive director of FāVS.News, a digital journalism start-up covering religion news and commentary in Spokane, Washington. She also writes for The Spokesman-Review and national publications. She is a Scholarly Assistant Professor of Journalism at Washington State University.

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