JARS Retreat Interest Form
YOU ARE INVITED to an 8-day, Ignatian retreat to enter into prayer with and through Black Spirituality.

This individually directed retreat offers participants an opportunity to spend time in song, prayer, and community to experience the transformative nature of the Spirit moving through two deep traditions: Black Spirituality and Ignatian Spirituality.

HISTORY OF THE RETREAT:
The Jesuit AntiRacism Sodality (JARS) started designing and planning this retreat in August 2020 with the active engagement, input, and accompaniment from the Black Jesuits of the United States. In June 2021, 19 people (Jesuit and lay) gathered together for the inaugural retreat experience. This summer's retreat will be the fourth annual JARS Retreat.

LOGISTICS OF THE RETREAT:
Directors for this retreat will be individuals who have been formed in both Black and Ignatian Spirituality.  Our days together will begin and end in communal prayer, including daily Mass, to highlight the daily graces which frame this sacred time of reflection and prayer. Throughout the retreat, Black Sacred Song, optional films, and other supplemental prayer resources, illustrating the Black experience, will enrich the graces of each day and serve as guideposts to the grace.

WHERE: Loyola University Retreat & Ecology Campus (LUREC) in Woodstock, IL
WHEN: June 24 to July 3, 2024
FEE: $1,100 (financial support available as needed)

For your planning considerations, the schedule for this retreat includes the following days:
 - Monday, June 24 - Arrive at retreat center, Mass, dinner, & film
 - June 25 - July 2 - Eight days of retreat
 - Wednesday, July 3 - Faith Sharing, end with lunch followed by departures

Please complete this form to indicate your interest in attending "The God of Us All: Praying with Black Spirituality." Space is limited to 15 retreatants.

If you have any questions, feel free to email Thomas Bambrick, S.J. at tbambrick@jesuits.org.

TESTIMONIES FROM PAST RETREATS:
From the first song at our first gathering, I felt so glad that I was going to be a part of a spiritual adventure, but one which was well thought-out and planned and definitely spirit-led and spirit-fed.  -Mary Baudouin
 
The retreat brought me into contact with the cloud of my ancestral witnesses while dialoguing with my Ignatian spirituality—opening up a whole new sense of reality for me.
-Dayne Malcolm

My exposure to Black spirituality on the retreat deepened my experiences of the Exercises and offered an additional pathway for me to connect with God and experience healing with my image of God.  -Sullivan McCormick, S.J.

Having a retreat experience where Blackness was the main meditation, and not just a subsection in my journal, was very liberating.  I felt like I could bring all of myself to the experience without guarding myself.  -Justin White
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Thank you for expressing your interest in the JARS retreat, "The God of Us All: Praying with Black Spirituality." We will be in touch with further information and details about how to move forward. If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to Thomas Bambrick, S.J. at tbambrick@jesuits.org. Blessings and prayers to you.
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