Women's Retreat
Please join our Women’s Retreat for a special day of faith, reflection, and renewal as we come together to celebrate this year of Hope “hope perseveres in the midst of trials: founded on faith and nurtured by charity, it enables us to press forward in life.”
Date: Saturday, 5 April 2025
Time: 9:30 AM - 2:30 PM
Location: Marian College, 2 Lydia Street, Northcote, Christchurch
Special Guest Speakers: Lisa Borkus & Sr Lauren of the Cross - Carmelite Extern Sister from the Christchurch Carmelite Monastery
Lisa is a faithful Catholic woman of God who has faced immense challenges. She was born with Cystic Fibrosis (a life threatening genetic disease) and underwent a double-lung transplant during a time when the Christchurch earthquakes and aftermath from those occurred. She is also a wife and a mother of 2. She will be speaking about the hope, trust and the strength she experienced in her faith journey throughout the most difficult times.
Sr Lauren will share a Carmelite perspective on hope by reflecting on the life of St Therese of Lisieux that helped form her way of complete trust and confidence in the Father.
Schedule:
- 9:30 AM - Mass with Bishop Michael
- Speaker: Lisa Borkus
- Small group discussions
- Lunch & fellowship (Reconciliation available)
- Speaker: Sr Lauren of the Cross
- Prayer and closing
Cost & Registration:
Ticket price is $20.00 includes lunch & morning tea
- Register by clicking here
Dietary Requirements: Please advise if you require Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free, Vegetarian, or any other specific dietary requirement email jacinta@sjr.nz
Mark your calendars to join our community of women from our diocese as we come to enjoy a day of hope, faith and renewal
Christian hope does not deceive or disappoint because it is grounded in the certainty that nothing and no one may ever separate us from God’s love: “Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Hardship, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril or the sword? No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord”
( Rom 8:35.37-39).
