CHARLOTTE — The Diocese of Charlotte Youth Ministry Office has opened registration for its annual High School Fall Retreat, which will be held Oct. 21-23 at Holy Spirit Church in Denver. The theme of this year’s retreat is “Enduring Mercy.”
The High School Fall Retreat is a weekend-long retreat, led by a team of teens and adults, that includes prayer, games, activities, presentations, group sharing, the sacrament of reconciliation, Eucharistic Adoration, Mass, and much more.
These retreats are a great way to come together in prayer with other high school teens from across the diocese, grow in faith and love for God’s Church and one another.
All high school-aged students in the diocese are invited. For details, go online to www.charlottediocese.org/ev/youth-ministry/events/high-school-retreat.
Capuchin Franciscan Father Martin Schratz stands outside the “Cenacle,” a new house for spiritual direction adjacent to Immaculate Conception Church in Hendersonville. HENDERSONVILLE — Immaculate Conception Church celebrated the opening of the “Cenacle,” a building which houses the parish’s growing Spiritual Direction Ministry. An open house was hosted Aug. 7 at the building, which is located at 718 Oakland St., one block away from the church.
The building had been most recently occupied by Ave Maria Resource Center and had also been the location where St. Gerard’s House and Grotto began. It was recently renovated after the closure of Ave Maria Resource Center.
The impetus for the Cenacle was to house the new and growing Spiritual Direction Ministry recently established at the Hendersonville parish. Four certified lay spiritual directors are currently serving the parish and the region.
The Cenacle is primarily a house of prayer for all who come. It will be used for spiritual direction, as well as for parish ministries such as Individual and Family Counseling, Healing Prayer, Unbound Prayer, Small Group Prayer Sessions and Called and Gifted Interviews.
It will offer much needed small group meeting space for the growing number of ministries at Immaculate Conception Church.
Woodley Murphy serves as the spiritual director for the “Cenacle” house in Hendersonville.
— Woodley Murphy, Special to the Catholic News Herald
Visitors at a recent open house tour the St. Ephram Room at the Cenacle. (Photos provided by Immaculate Conception Church)