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Women's Overnight Retreat: Opening Advent Doors with Sister Nancy Iampietro


  • St. Francis Center for Renewal 395 Bridle Path Road Bethlehem PA 18017 (map)

Advent is a time of promise! Join St. Francis Center for Renewal for a special women’s overnight retreat exploring the doors that await us as we prepare for this time of promise. We will seek and find the doors that call us to open our hearts and that are knocking at our souls. As Jan Richardson write, “You have looked at so many doors with longing, wondering if your life lay on the other side. For today, choose that door that opens to the inside. Travel the most ancient way of all: The path that leads you to the center of life.” We will follow where God leads, not with certainty, but rather to be present where we are. This is the place our God is waiting to meet us; waiting to show us the doors that will incarnate his promise to us.

Facilitator: Sister Nancy Iampietro, CPS

Registration Information: The retreat will run from 8 a.m. on Saturday, November 11, to 12 p.m. on Sunday, November 12, at St. Francis Center for Renewal in Bethlehem, Pa. There are two registration options from which to choose:

  • Overnight Option (Saturday 8 a.m. to Sunday 12 p.m. with single-occupancy overnight accommodations and all meals) — $200 per person

  • Saturday-Only Option (8 a.m. to 5 p.m. with all meals) — $115 per person

To register online, please click the blue button below. If you would prefer to pay by check or register over the phone, please call SFCR at 610-867-8890.

About the Presenter: Sister Nancy is a Missionary Sister of the Precious Blood from Shillington, Pa. She is a graduate of St. Joseph University, Duquesne University and St. Louis University with degrees in theology, formative spirituality and spiritual direction. Sister has been in ministry since 1969, primarily with inner city outreach, formation, spirituality, spiritual direction and leadership. She has served as novice director, secretary, provincial and general superior for her congregation; retreat director; and teacher of spirituality in the United States, Rome, Africa and elsewhere. Currently, she is in full-time spiritual ministry at Mariawald Renewal Center in Reading, Pa., and wherever invited.

Earlier Event: November 9
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Later Event: November 15
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