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 TWO THOUSAND FIVE PARISH
 MISSION
 Father Kenan Peters, CP
 Retreat Director
 January 31 through February 3, 2005
 WHAT IS A PARISH MISSION?
 More and more people are expressing a desire for spirituality. Perhaps we’ve
 tried other paths, and we’re still empty. If anything were to characterize the
 journey of contemporary people, it is a real hungering for an authentic
 EXPERIENCE of God—a realizable, touchable experience. People today feel
 a need to deepen their faith, their relationship with the Lord and one anoth-
 er. The origin of the word mission is Latin; it means “to send.” While many
 associate the word with foreign missions (where persons are sent to preach
 and teach), here the word is used interchangeably with retreat...we
 Passionists are sent to a local parish (rather than have parishioners travel to
 a retreat center) for about a week. It’s a fun and inspiring time, a week of
 preaching and counseling and spiritual direction, a time of sharing stories,
 and song and prayer, a time of faith revival, simply listening to God and
 God’s love for us.
 WHO IS THE MISSION FOR?
 While plenty of activity fills each day, the evening service is the heart of the
 Parish Mission. Something happens to individuals and faith communities
 when we pack into church each night and are bonded by the preaching of
 God’s Good News and song. The sermons are focused on practical, down-to-
 earth topics as we ponder how the Scriptures nourish and heal us in the
 everyday struggles and joys of our lives.
 MISSION DATES &
 CONFERENCES:
 DAILY SCHEDULE
 Monday, January 31
 Living where God is...The Present
 Tuesday, February 1
 Life is a journey of deepening awareness
 Wednesday, February 2
 On our journey we need to affirm and
 be affirmed
 Thursday, February 3
 The strong right hand of God... 
 Trust, the key to the heart of God
 Morning Mass immediately followed
 with the Mission Conference in the
 PSR building. (Coffee & pastries served)
 7:45 A.M.
 Eucharistic Adoration
 4:00 to 5:00 P.M.
 Evening Mass and Conference 
 6:30 P.M.
 Mission closes Thursday evening with
 a Passion and Resurrection Service.
 Reconciliation will be each day after the morning
 and evening Masses and during Adoration.
 St. Mark The
 Evangelist
 Catholic Church
 All are invited...young and old, married and divorced, 
 single and widowed; the appeal is to all who have
 stayed or strayed over the years. 
 Let us come home to the Lord.


