We are very excited to share with you our newest addition to our Digital offerings. We hope you enjoy it!

A GIFT FOR YOU….

As we enter 2021, our CTK Ministry Team would like to give you an additional opportunity to continue growing in faith and feeling connected to the Retreat Center. Fr. Jack Conley, CP and Fr. Tom Bonacci, CP got creative and came up with a digital version for reflections.

General Guidance:

There is no charge for this special experience of reflections and renewal during our upcoming year. You will receive the videos every Tuesday through email.

This is our way to say thank you for the support and love you’ve shown us this past year. We hope to see you soon; stay well!

PS. If you feel inclined to donate to the Retreat Center, to help cover costs with our ministry efforts, please feel free to do so by clicking HERE

This fifteen-minute reflection invites the listener to ponder the role of imagination in their personal spirituality. Through a series of narrated stories Fr. Jack insists upon the necessity of cultivating a sense of wonder — stretching beyond our routines, and surely beyond our comfort zones — if one is to experience the virtue of hope today.

Reflection Questions

Spirituality and Imagination: Cultivating a Sense of Wonder

1. List the names of people who have, at different times of your life, altered your vision. Perhaps this was a coach who believed in you, maybe a teacher who “turned on a light” for you, or a friend in high school who first communicated compassion.

2. How is grace rubbing against you now? How is God trying to expand your horizons? …stretching the poles of your tent? …pushing your “comfort zone”? (e.g., racism, poverty, immigration, family responsibility, inner healing)

3. What tools are you now making use of to stretch your imagination, expand your vision? (e.g., spiritual direction or counseling, books or theatre, depth conversations with a good friend, or the grace of matrimony)

4. Imagine a continuum or a scale of one to ten. How good are you at verbalizing your care or affection for another? What is your “intimacy quotient” at this time of your life?

5. Spiritually, emotionally… how full is your bank account at this time of your life? Is the vessel brimming, or half empty? What “works” to replenish you? (How do you “re-fill” the vessel of your spiritual / emotional bank account? What works?)