Erie Benedictine Sister Carolyn Gorny-Kopkowski will come to your area to lead a
retreat using selected books by Joan Chittister, OSB.
Group retreats are available for Twelve Steps to Inner Freedom: Humility Revisited,
The Friendship of Women and In Pursuit of Peace: Praying the Rosary through the
Psalms, Scarred By Struggle, Transformed By Hope, In Search of Belief, Wisdom
Distilled From the Daily and How Shall We Live.
Sister Carolyn brings 20 years of experience in leading retreats.
Here is a listing of scheduled 2011 programs:
Retreats by Carolyn Gorny-Kopkowski, OSB
based on select books by Sister Joan Chittister.
Here's what retreatants have to say about Sister Carolyn's
retreats: "It changed my life." "I found God in places I never
thought to look." "We did the retreat together and our
communication has deepened." "Wow." "Thank God I came
to this retreat."
For more information on these programs,
contact Sister Carolyn:
Phone: 814-452-6318
Fax: 814-459-8066
Email spirituality@mtstbenedict.org
Or write:
Sister Carolyn G-K
345 E. Ninth Street
Erie, PA 16503
COMPANIONS ON THE WAY (Men and Women in the Erie area)
Thursday Afternoons:
March 3
April 7
May 5
June 9
September 1
October 6
November 3
December 1
A luncheon is served at 1:15 pm
followed by a spirituality program
from 2:15 until 3:15pm Sister Joan
Chittister’s book, The Gift of
Years is the basis of our
conversations. Location: Pax
Priory 345 East 9th Street
WOMEN IN TRANSITION (Saturday Reflection Days)
Based on the book, The Story of Ruth – Twelve Moments in
Every Woman’s Life by Sister Joan Chittister. Location: Mt. St.
Benedict Monastery, 6101 East Lake Road. Participants arrive at
9:30 for breakfast refreshments. Lunch is with the Benedictine
community.
Program: 10 am – 3 pm
March 5 Loss, Change, Transformation
May 14 Aging, Independence, Respect
July 30 Recognition, Insight, Enpowerment
October 1 Self-Definition, Invisibility, Fulfillment

Sister Anne will come to your area to lead a retreat
on themes of monastic and Benedictine spirituality
including:
--Growing in Love and Freedom: the Rule of Benedict
and nonviolence
--Contemplative retreat in the Spirit of St. Gertrude
--Sacraments of Friendship and Community
Retreats would be a helpful in conjunction with or as
follow-up to Sister Joan’s books:
A Monastery of the Heart; Rule of Benedict:
Spirituality for the 21st Century; Wisdom Distilled
from the Daily, Illuminated Life; 12 Steps to Inner
Freedom
Anne holds a MA in Theology from St. John’s University,
Collegeville in monastic studies and completed Shalem
Institute’s program, “Leading Contemplative Prayer Groups
and Retreats.” Long involved in peace and justice ministry,
she serves on the board of the Monastic Interreligious
Dialogue internationally and in the US.
For more information contact Sister Anne:
Email: annemcc@benetvsion.org
Phone: 814-459-9224
Retreats on Benedictine
or monastic spirituality
by Anne McCarthy, OSB