2016 “Jubilee of Mercy”

RETREAT

JESUS

Powerful Healer, Rich in Mercy Come, Encounter the Lord!

Seek the Lord’s MERCY manifested in:

** Forgiveness (in Confession)

** Physical healing

** Inner healing

** Relationship healing

** Life-changing Christ-centered preaching

sponsored by

The Catholic Charismatic Renewal

of the Diocese of Scranton

Friday & Saturday September 16-17

7:00 p.m. Friday to

8:00 p.m. Saturday

Villa of Our Lady Retreat House

Mount Pocono PA

You are invited to gather with us as Fr Bill McCarthy leads us into a deeper encounter with the persons of the Blessed Trinity and the Blessed Virgin Mary. He’ll help us to:

•Listen to the merciful Father

•Love with the saving Son

•Live in the healing Spirit

•Be nurtured by the Mother of Mercy

In addition to Fr Bill’s presentations, we’ll experience:

  • Praise and worship
  • Mass oConfession
  • Individual prayer for healing

We’ll also enjoy fine meals, great fellowship and opportunities for personal quiet time in a beautiful retreat setting.

Fr Bill McCarthy, ordained a priest in Rome, has served the Lord in parishes in the Archdiocese of Hartford. He is a member of the Holy Apostles Community based in Cromwell, Connecticut. As priest, he has been curate, pastor and spiritual leader in the Ecumenical, Cursillo, Charismatic, Marriage Encounter, and Koinonia movements within the Church. As teacher, he has taught religion in two Catholic high schools and is now teaching Sacred Scripture and spirituality in both the retreat center and novitiate of his community. As an ecumenical evangelist, he has been active in Full Gospel Businessmen's Fellowship and Aglow as a speaker and spiritual director. Fr Bill has been giving parish missions for more than 20 years and spoken at over 300 parishes throughout the United States. He has a special gift for showing God's love for each person. His teaching and missions are healing and inspiring. Fr Bill is cofounder and co-director with Sr. Bernadette Sheldon of My Father's House Spiritual Life and Retreat Center in Moodus, Connecticut. Fr Bill was

Spiritual Director at Holy Apostles Seminary and now serves on the Provincial Council. His time now is occupied in giving retreats, counseling, and providing spiritual direction. He is the author of numerous books on Catholic spirituality and healing.

Our Retreat will be held at the Villa of Our Lady Retreat House,

245 MeadowsideRoad, Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania 18344

( The Villa has both single and double bedrooms, each with a private bathroom. Linens and towels are provided. Out of sensitivity to other guests, smoking is not permitted inside the Retreat House.

Registration starts at 7:00 p.m. on Friday, and the main program will begin at 8:00. Our retreat will end approximately 8:00 p.m. Saturday evening.

Requested donation amounts (which include 3 meals on Saturday) are:

For those who have served as a Volunteer at the annual Scranton Catholic

Charismatic Conference in 2014, 2015 or 2016:

$90 per person for a double-occupancy room

$105 per person for a single private room

$45 for commuters (Friday and/or Saturday) (no overnight room)

For those who have notserved as a Volunteer at the annual Scranton Catholic Charismatic Conference in 2014, 2015 or 2016:

$105 per person for a double-occupancy room

$120 per person for a single private room

$60 for commuters (Friday and/or Saturday) (no overnight room)

Paid registration deadline is September 6th

Registrations cannot be accepted by recorded message on phone

You can register with BobValiante via:

oPhone (live) at the CCR Office: 570-344-2214

Recorded phone message registrations will not be acceptedoBy USPS Mail (see form below)

oBy email:

Please mail your reservation information and payment to arrive by September 6th to the CCR Office with the form below. Make checks payable to “CCR”. Include the information requested below for each of the people you are registering. Call 570-344-2214 with questions (reservations cannot be accepted by recorded voice message on phone).

Mail to: CCR, PO Box 3306, Scranton PA 18505-0306
Name______Street______City______State____ Zip Code______Telephone______Email______ Volunteer rate  Non-volunteer rate  Single (private) Room  Double Room  Commuter (if Double Room, sharing with:______) Credit Card Number______Expires______Security Code______

(3-digit code on back of card)

But God, who is rich in mercy, out of the great love with which he loved us…made us alive together with Christ…

– Ephesians 2:4-5

Have mercy on me, O LORD, for I am languishing

O LORD, heal me, for my bones are troubled.

–Psalm 6:2(RSV2CE)

Is any among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over

him, anointing him with oil in the name of the

Lord; and the prayer of faith will save the sick man, and the Lord will raise him up…

–James 5:14-15

The Service Team seeks to stir into flame the grace of Pentecost and to assist the various forms of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal.

We facilitate cooperation among leaders as their groups encourage people in a personal relationship with Jesus Christ and lead them to the baptism in the Holy Spirit and the gifts of the Holy Spirit. The Service Team seeks to maintain a bond of unity and collaboration with the Bishop of Scranton as we work together to fulfill the mission of the diocese.