Are you looking for strength and wisdom to weather the storms of life? Do you want to embolden your faith life? Do you want to feel more connected to the St. Clare parish community and the Body of Christ? If so…have you attended a Women's ACTS retreat, yet? All women are welcome!
If you or someone you know has not attended a Men's ACTS retreat, please pray about attending the next retreat! If you’ve never been on a retreat, or if it has been a long time, don’t miss this opportunity! An ACTS retreat can change your life!
When: TBA
Where: Christian Renewal Center, Dickinson
Cost: TBD. The fee includes a double-occupancy room at the Christian Renewal Center in Dickinson for three nights, as well as eight delicious meals.
Financial assistance is available for those in need–don’t let the cost prevent you from experiencing this amazing opportunity to retreat from the world for a weekend and draw closer to God!
More Information: Contact the ACTS Core Team, Tom, [email protected]
Registration Form: REGISTRATION IS NOT YET OPEN
An ACTS Retreat is a parish-based event 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 in this way, serve to build Christian community at a 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 through ACTS."
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 His love by spiritually surrendering to Jesus in order to have new life with Him. This invitation is extended through the pillars of the apostolate:
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, diaconate classes have been filled, 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," and this has been found to be good.
As of October 2017, ACTS Missions are represented worldwide.