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Retreat: Walk with Mary through Advent Season

By: Tracy Simmons

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November 30, 2014

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Immaculate Heart Retreat Center’s Advent Weekend Retreat entitled “Walking with Mary through the Advent Season” will be held on Dec. 19-21. This retreat will be lead by the REv. Armand Nigro, and Sister Sharon Bongiorno.

According to a press release, this retreat consists of guided sessions on the mysteries of the season of Christmas, especially as revealed through the work of God in relation to Mary.

Nigro and Sister Sharon will conduct private spiritual direction, along with the celebration of the sacraments, Eucharistic adoration, and quiet time for contemplation, writing, thinking, meditation and prayer

The weekend begins after registration on Friday at 6 p.m. and extends through lunch on Sunday. Retreat cost is $185 for singles or $280 for couples and $100 for commuters. (Scholarships are available.) Register at (509) 448-1224, or at www.ihrc.net. Early registration is recommended.

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 Associate Professor of Journalism at Washington State University.

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