Lent 2025 Retreat: Respond from your Contemplative Heart with Nancy Sylvester, IHM
To conclude our series of offerings during Lent 2025, FutureChurch welcomes Nancy Sylvester, IHM for this beautiful time of contemplative reflection. This two hour retreat invites participants to experience contemplation and how it awakens us to a new way of seeing, a new way of being.
The retreat begins with a brief introductory to contemplative practices and then invites participants to remain in a contemplative space as Nancy guides us through contemplative reflections on the sacred events of Holy Week.
Please note: To facilitate at home and small group contemplation, we have retained spaces of contemplative silence within the video. There are moments of silence for the initial contemplative sit and after each reflection on the days of the Triduum.
Nancy Sylvester, IHM, founded the Institute for Communal Contemplation and Dialogue (https://iccdinstitute.org) in 2002. Prior to that she served in elected leadership positions both within her religious congregation, the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (IHM) of Monroe, MI., and in the Presidency of the national Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR). She served on the staff of NETWORK, a D.C. based Catholic Social Justice Lobby, for fifteen years, ten years as Executive Director. Nancy also taught at Marian high school in Bloomfield Hills and Immaculata in Detroit, MI. She is a well-known speaker, writer and process facilitator. She has recently written the book, Journey-Faith in an Entangled World (available here). She has an undergraduate degree in philosophy and political science from St. Louis University and a master’s in human development from St. Mary’s University in Winona, MN.
More Resources:
- To learn more about the Institute for Communal Contemplation and Dialogue and for more resources, visit https://iccdinstitute.org.
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- To purchase a copy of Nancy’s book, Journey-Faith in an Entangled World, click here.