Roanoke Times
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DATE: SATURDAY, January 11, 1992 TAG: 9201110220
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BRIEFS
Retreat offers spiritual growthThe Audacious Act, a Lenten retreat on the Lord's Prayer, is scheduled March 13 and 14 at the Phoebe Needles Conference Center in Franklin County. It will be led by the Rev. William Wells, a former Roanoker who now is rector of the Episcopal Church of the Holy Comforter in Richmond.
Registration is now open for the retreat and may be made by sending the $40 fee before Feb. 7 to the Phoebe Needles Center, Rt. 1, Box 440, Callaway 24067. For more information about the ecumenical event for spiritual growth call the Rev. Christine Payden-Travers at 483-3381.
Brethren churches schedule conference
The national Annual Conference for Churches of the Brethren is scheduled this year in Richmond. It will be June 30 through July 5 with sessions at the city's coliseum and convention center. Several thousand delegates from throughout the nation are expected.
Workshop to answer `Who Am I?'
Registration is open for a "Who Am I?" workshop to be held at Our Lady of Nazareth Catholic Church on two weekends in February.
For the Western Virginia public, it represents the introduction of the spiritual growth program that also is being tested in Massachusetts and Oregon after its development in France.
The 30-hour workshop will begin Feb. 14 with sessions through Feb. 16. The second weekend session will be two weeks later, a church staff member said. Cost of the program is $200 with $25 required on registration by Jan. 31. The workshops, which are components of the Personality and Human Relations program to promote spiritual growth, are offered as a ministry of the parish for the community. Pre-registration is required with enrollment limited to 15. Call Nancy James or George Cosmo at 774-0066 for more information.
Catholic program recognizes Indians
To mark the 500th anniversary of the discovery of America by the Catholic explorer Columbus, Bishop Walter Sullivan of the Catholic Diocese of Richmond has opened a program of evangelism and reconciliation, with American Indians a special concern.
The diocese will sponsor a pilgrimage to the basilica of the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington on May 2. Sullivan is asking Catholics in his diocese to pray nightly for the reconciliation of all peoples in 1992.