Good Shepherd Women's 2006 Prayer Retreat

The Women's Prayer Retreat was held at Blue Cloud Abbey on Friday October 27th to Sunday October 29th. Marlene Weires, Tammy Briggs, and Christina O'Hara facilitated the gathering. The group learned many new facets of prayer: How to pray; Praying through the Psalms; keeping prayer journals; making Anglican prayer beads to use in contemplative prayer.

Front row, l. to r.: Irene Thurman, Tammy Briggs, Deb Newcomb, Marlene Weires, Stacy Lenker; Back row, l. to r.: Christina O'Hara, Marci Leichtman, Mary Pat Forsberg, Becky Kaiser and Lois Goff.

The women attended numerous services with  the monks including vespers, lauds, and vigil services. Some of the attendees remarked that making of prayer beads was "a humbling experience".