Immaculate Heart Retreat Center
Immaculate Heart Retreat House has been known as a Catholic place for 50 plus years. The center is trying hard to update its image as a welcoming place for people of all faith tradtions and its fall program shows some of what it hopes to offer.
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Sister Mary Eucharista, right, and Ann Price visit the chapel on the grounds of the Immaculate Heart Retreat Center, Sept. 9, 2011.
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Sister Mary Eucharista, a Catholic sister, is the program director at the retreat center. Ann Price, a Presbyterian, is the center’s development officer.
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Sister Mary Eucharista, right, and Ann Price visit the Prayer Walk on the grounds of the Immaculate Heart Retreat Center. The center is open to people wishing to stroll its grounds as a quick getaway from urban life.
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The chapel is part of the center’s 13 acres. It’s surrounded by 22 more acres owned by Queen of Peace Cemetery.
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Sister Mary Eucharista hopes that people coming to the retreat center work on healing “wounds” from abuse, addiction and other sorrows.
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Ann Price said of the retreat center’s beauty: “You can see the most beautiful sunsets up here.”
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Deer, a big part of the retreat center’s wildlife sanctuary, prance past the “brown chapel” on the grounds of the Immaculate Heart Retreat Center.
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The Rosary is said daily at 7:30 a.m. at the retreat center.
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Sister Mary Eucharista gets a smooch from Daisy on the grounds of the Immaculate Heart Retreat Center.
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