Life-Giving Wounds retreat

May 7, 2027 3:00 PM - May 9, 2027 6:00 PM
Location: Creighton Retreat Center, 16493 Contrail Ave, Griswold, IA 51535

The Tragedy, Picasso

The Life-Giving Wounds retreat is a three-day retreat for young adults and adults with divorced or separated parents.  It invites participants to move through the broken image of love that appeared to them in their parents’ relationship to their deepest identity found in God.  The retreat gives participants a greater understanding of the wound of divorce and the ways it affects their lives, offers advice about the difficulties concerning love and trust of others, and explains how the Catholic faith, spiritual practices, and the Sacraments are essential to self-knowledge and healing.  This retreat has something for any adult child of divorce or separation, no matter how much healing you have already received or need.

Topics covered include:

• Grief and Beginning to Name our Wounds
• Finding Our Deepest Identity
• Faith and Our Relationship with God
• Love, Dating, and the Sacrament of Marriage
• Anger, Anxiety, and Sin
• False Guilt and Shame
• Forgiveness and Reconciliation
• Family Boundaries
• The Christian Meaning of Suffering
• Healing and the Sacraments of Reconciliation and the Eucharist
• And More