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Men's ACTS Retreats
Enter into or deepen your relationship with our Lord.
WHAT IS ACTS?
An ACTS Retreat is a parish-based 3-day, 3-night retreat, which offers parishioners an opportunity to experience the love of Jesus Christ. This in turn fosters a desire for intentional discipleship. ACTS Retreats are given by parishioners for parishioners, and serves to build Christian community at the parish.
The ACTS Retreat begins Thursday evening and ends with Sunday Mass in the parish. While utilizing prayer, service, and teaching, the ACTS Retreat meets people where they are in their spiritual journey and invites them to experience God in a manner that is both personal and communal. In this way, the ACTS Retreat fulfills the mission of spreading the Gospel of Jesus Christ among Catholic communities.
The ACTS Retreat experience is rooted in the Pascal Mystery in that retreatants are invited to reflect on the Passion, Death, and Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. Throughout the weekend, retreatants are invited to prayerfully consider how they can respond to God's love by spiritually surrendering to Jesus in order to live more fully with Him. This invitation is extended through the pillars of the apostolate:
Adoration:
Community:
Theology:
Service:
A response to God's love through prayer and worship.
Participating in the One Body of Christ as Church.
Deepening our relationship with God in order to better fulfill His will.
Answering the call to discipleship by following the model He gave us.
WHY ATTEND?
Those who attend an ACTS retreat share in an experience that has impacted more than one million lives worldwide since the first retreat in 1987. There are numerous testimonies describing retreatants who were evangelized through a personal encounter with Jesus Christ. They witness to becoming better fathers, mothers, husbands, wives and children. Parishes have been revitalized, and all seek to deepen their relationship with Christ through prayer and service. As a result, ACTS is supported by bishops and priests worldwide as a legitimate participant in the Church's New Evangelization. Through ACTS, the laity respond to their baptismal call, and seek to participate in the apostolic mission of the Church "to go and make disciples of all nations."
WHAT IS THE COST?
Held at Our Lady of Guadalupe Camp, we desire for all to attend so much that we are off setting the cost for our parishioners by $100, leaving your cost at $125 per person. Register now!
Please Note: Financial difficulties should not prevent any parishioner from attending the retreat. Please contact Stephanie Stovall at (405) 340-0691 (ext. 112) for scholarship information.
Mailing Address: PO Box 510, Edmond, OK 73083
Physical Address: 900 S. Littler Avenue, Edmond, OK 73034
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Office Line: (405) 340-0691
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