Wellsprings of Healing:
A Mid-Winter Retreat
Saturday, February 1, 2025
9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
St Scholastica Monastery
We are half-way through the season of winter:
between the darkness of the Winter Solstice, and
the stirring of life that comes with the Spring Equinox.
Christmas and New Year’s Day taught us to embrace life,
And then we rested from all the preparations.
Now it is the time to release those things that do not bring life,
And to focus on the healing which comes from our hearts.
“Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life.”
Proverbs 4.23
It is the feast of Ireland’s St. Brigid, a poet and healer;
Groundhogs are being watched;
And Imbolc, a Celtic cross-quarter day, is celebrated.
What needs to be healed in your life?
Relationships? Exhaustion? Fears? Losses? Ills and Aches?
What will fill your soul’s well?
Come. Listen. Journal. Collage your replenishing well.
Facilitator: Rev. Marina Lachecki grew up in Duluth and is a 1974 graduate of the College of St. Scholastica. She is a published author in the field of creation spirituality. She served as Campus Minister for Northland College and then as pastor of St. John’s UCC on Madeline Island. She is a grandmother, storyteller, environmentalist, singer and author.
Suggested Offering: $40 (includes lunch)
If your budget does not allow for this suggested offering, please contact Dawn Carrillo at dcarrillo@duluthosb.org or 320-260-8233. Our intention is to have this retreat available to anyone, regardless of affordability.
If you would like to combine this daylong retreat with an overnight stay,
please call Sister Lois Eckes at 218-348-6280 to make arrangements.
St. Scholastica Monastery
1001 Kenwood Avenue
Duluth, MN 55811
(218) 723-6699
retreat@duluthosb.org
Find us in Stanbrook Hall which faces the lake and is next to the chapel by following the signs to Duluth Benedictine Ministries.