A Celebration of Love: Rejoicing in the Journey 2022

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Wondering how you will celebrate Valentine’s Day this year? Come to a Celebration of Love at the FCJ Christian Life Centre! Your evening together will include a delicious meal, a dinner speaker and opportunity for Mass with Renewal of Vows.

Schedule:

Friday February 11, 2022 6:00 pm- 8:30 pm

Supper: 6:00 pm

Speaker: 7:00 pm

Mass and Renewal of Vows: 7:30 pm

Directors:

Sr. Ann Marie Walshis a member of the Sisters Faithful Companions of Jesus (FCJ), and a staff member at the FCJ Christian Life Centre. She offers individual spiritual direction and individual or group retreats in person and on-line. Ann Marie came to the FCJ Centre in 2012 after many years in Catholic Education, both as a teacher and an administrator. She has held various leadership roles in her congregation. Having received her training in spiritual direction with the Jesuits at Loyola House in Guelph, Ontario, she was a member of the retreat staff there before coming to Calgary. The ministry of spiritual direction gives her the opportunity to remind people that God loves them uniquely and individually. Accompanying people in their search for a closer relationship with God brings her joy.

Patricia Harasym, a member of the FCJ Centre Resource Team, offers spiritual direction, individual

and group retreats, and courses at the FCJ Centre. Patricia is on the National Council for the Canadian

Community for Christian Meditation and facilitates Christian Meditation groups through the FCJ Centre. Patricia received her training in Ignatian Spiritual Direction at the FCJ Centre Calgary and her Master’s and Ph.D. level training in Communication and Culture from the University of Calgary. Her passion for compassionate and equitable communication underlays her deep desire to find God in all things.