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Immaculate Heart Retreat Center will be hosting a Day of Prayer on Ash Wednesday, Feb. 18, as its traditional beginning to the Lenten season. This year’s Ash Wednesday speaker will be the Rev. Joachim Hien.
The Day of Prayer, “Finding Christ in the Ashes of Life” begins with a rosary at 9 a.m. and will include two conferences, the Sacrament of Reconciliation, Mass, lunch and will close with Adoration at 3 .m..
Cost is $35 per person, or $45 with the use of a private room. Register now at (509) 448-1224 or www.IHRC.net
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 SpokaneFāVS.com, 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.
