modeling mary (women’s retreat)
“I give you praise, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because what you have hidden from the learned and the clever you have revealed to the merest children” (Luke 10:21) “…for in weakness power reaches perfection” (2 Cor. 13:9). In Mary’s lowliness God’s power reached perfection. He chose to entrust His only Son, Jesus, to her care. God entrusts human beings to women who bring the “feminine genius” of nurturing and caring for others. When women model Mary, the perfect woman, they can become an “irreplaceable support and source of spiritual strength for families and even the world” (St. John Paul II). Come soak in the power of God’s Word and His Holy Sacraments. Come be refreshed and inspired by the Holy Spirit, through Mary. Be a source of God’s strength, healing, and light to a dying world.