“Any
other foundation
will fail, but
Christ is a sure
and steady
rock to build your
life on.”
– Billy Graham
“The simpler your
house, the easier
it will be to
run.
The fewer the
things and the
people you ‘simply
must have’,
the nearer you
will be to the
ideal of happiness
—
‘as having
nothing, to
possess all’.”
– Evelyn
Underhill
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Day of Prayer
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Christ the Teacher
Facilitated
by Paula
Mitchell
Director of
Doorways
Ministries
April
5, 2025
St. Mary’s by
the Lake 9:30
am – 3:00 pm
Our lives are
easily filled with
busyness and circumstances
beyond our control. Often
God seems distant and we
wonder how to live our
lives with a felt sense of
God. A Personal Day of
Prayer allows us to focus
on our spiritual life and
to explore various ways to
discern God’s presence.
Different types of prayer
become windows for the
soul to connect with God
and allow the inner
strength and peace of our
Lord Jesus Christ to
permeate our lives.
This day long retreat
titled Christ the
Teacher is focused on
Jesus: how His life is
centered on God as the
central factor in
every situation. How
Jesus taught.
Where He taught. What
He taught. We’re
reminded in the
Gospels that Jesus
teaches us where we
are, in our own
church, in our own
city or town, in our
own circumstances just
as He taught those
long ago in the
synagogue, on the
beach, anywhere and
everywhere He
encounters people who
are open to His
teaching.
“Christ
teaching in His life and
death, in his Scriptures
and His Church
and Saints—all different
aspects of one action,
parts of His economy
and so charged with His
life—teaching, but one
thing, God and
our total self-giving to
God—God who is greater
than our heart.
Once we have learned that
lesson all else falls into
place.”
– Evelyn Underhill, Light
of Christ
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>>> 2024-2025
Day
of Prayer
Registration
Christ the Healer
Facilitated
by Paula
Mitchell
Director of
Doorways
Ministries
June
28, 2025
St. Mary’s by
the Lake 9:30
am – 3:00 pm
This
day‐long retreat
entitled Christ the
Healer is an opportunity
to spend time learning
about and experiencing
together a sampling of
Christ’s healing
ministry.
The Gospels are full of
examples of Jesus’
physically touching and
healing people. Jesus
not only touched
suffering people who
needed healing He also
touched struggling
people who needed help.
We will spend the day
reflecting upon several
Gospel passages focused
on Jesus and the power
of His healing touch.
“as we look
at Christ…we feel it seems
to demand of us two
movements, a movement of
prayer and a movement of
service. We all
need in one way or another
that which is here poured
out of the life
and love of God, and that
same light and love
require of us, in our
turn,
a total self-giving to its
purposes. These two
movements of dependence
on Christ and co-operation
with Him make together a
Christian’s life.
We can only give what we
have received, we only
receive in order to give.”
– Evelyn Underhill, Light
of Christ
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Here
>>> 2024-2025
Day
of Prayer
Registration
Christ the Rescuer
Facilitated
by Paula
Mitchell
Director of
Doorways
Ministries
September
13, 2025
St. Mary’s by
the Lake 9:30
am – 3:00 pm
Our lives are
easily filled with
busyness and
circumstances beyond our
control. Often God seems
distant and we wonder
how to live our lives
with a felt sense of
God. A Personal Day of
Prayer allows us to
focus on our spiritual
life and to explore
various ways to discern
God’s presence.
Different types of
prayer become windows
for the soul to connect
with God and allow the
inner strength and peace
of our Lord Jesus Christ
to permeate our lives.
This day long retreat
titled Christ the
Rescuer will focus on
several Gospel passages
where Jesus rescues his
disciples. As we
look at these passages,
we are reminded of our
own need to be rescued
and where Jesus is
inviting us to trust in
the rescuing and
supporting action of God
in our present
circumstances.
William Connolly S.J.
reminds us that, “The
Christian is often in
need of rescue from
blind alleys and
tributary paths on his
journey. Traveling
habits that were
helpful at an earlier
stage later become
hindrances, and he
needs rescue from them
too. Disappointment is
a vivid signal that
the need for rescue is
present.” (1)
“to accept
historical Christianity as
God’s supreme
self-revelation…
means accepting the Gospel
story as touching our
lives significantly
at every point, because it
is conveying
God. If we are
ever to learn all this
record can mean for us, we
must never forget that
these, beyond all other
facts of history, are
indwelt, moulded, brought
into being by the living
Spirit of
God…. And if we
thus feel God within these
events, some so
strange and some so
homely…then we also accept
all these incidents as
conveying something of His
overruling Will and
Thought,
having something in them
for each of us.”
– Evelyn Underhill, Light
of Christ
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Here
>>> 2024-2025
Day
of Prayer
Registration
(1) William J.
Connolly SJ, The
Best of the Review
Volume 1 (1983),
p. 194.
