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Week of Events
A Mardi Gras Valentine’s Celebration
A Mardi Gras Valentine’s Celebration
Celebrate as a couple on the day before Valentine’s Day (Valentine’s Day is on Ash Wednesday this year). Come and renew your vows, listen and share in the Eucharist, enjoy a candlelight Mardi Gras dinner and refresh with God as a couple. Bring your shared story of the challenges and surprises of your journey together. Bring a picture of your wedding to share. Fr. Jim Clarke PhD is presently a consultant for the Spiritual & Human Formation for the Permanent Diaconate candidates and their wives for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. He is also an Associate Spiritual Director at the Cardinal Manning House of Prayer for Priests.
Lent 2024 People of the Passion
Lent 2024 People of the Passion
Please join us each Thursday evening this Lent, beginning on February 15 and culminating on March 21, 2024, via Zoom for a series of reflection and prayer experiences presented online by the Los Angeles Retreat Center Community (LARCC). Each of our six weekly Lenten spiritual journey presentations will focus on the book People of the Passion. Drawing from the book, as well as the four Gospel accounts of the suffering and death of Jesus, we will experience the passion from the perspective of selected characters who participated – or were affected – in some dramatic way by their encounter with Jesus during that time. Some characters may be well known and involved throughout the passion; others may be lesser known and involved only for a short interval. Nevertheless, suffering and distress seem to bring out the best and the worst in human nature – with crisis responses including courage, trust, generosity, weakness, greed, and despair.