Please join us each week & month…

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Every Tuesday at Noon The Tuesday Fellowship St. Mary’s Chapel, inside Taylor Hall at DeKoven Ecumenical Celebration of Holy Communion, followed by Reception in Taylor Dining Room.

Every Friday Morning 8:30 a.m. Contemplative Service of Holy Communion (Quiet & Informal) Oratory of Holy Wisdom 3rd Floor of Taylor Hall Followed by Coffee and Conversation in The Walker Reading Room.

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2008 Events at a Glance

   

 CREATIVE SPACE

"Do what you love; love what you do."

                                                 Rumi

October 24-26

Friday noon through Sunday afternoon

Suggessted donation: $185.00

lodging and meals

Commuter Rate: $110.00

 

Experience a weekend with time to devote exclusively to your creative work!

The DeKoven Center sponsors Creative Space Retreats several times a year, offering participants private space and time to pursue their writing, artwork, photography, music or any creative endeavor. 

Retreats are held in Taylor Hall, part of the beautiful and historic DeKoven Center campus, located jusst south of downtown Racine along Lake Michigan. 

The weekends are planned to allow maximum free time for work on creative projects, as well as times for socializing and sharing with other participants. 

If you are looking for a place away- to work, be inspired and commune with other creative people- Creative Space Retreats offer that opportunity. 

 

For more information contact barbaralewczyk@milwpc.com

 

 

NOVEMBER

 November 11      SECOND TUESDAYS WITH TRAVIS

                         "Heaven in Epitome"

Those of you who were present last year when Travis introduced his friend, George Herbert, 17th century devotional poet, will be happy to meet another friend, Katherine Phillips,also a 17th century poet, this time from Wales.  Phillips’ work is a stunning testimony to the power of faith and friendship in a life bounded by turmoil of the English Civil Wars.  Coffee and Conversation at 10:00 in the Fireside Room; Reflections at 10:30 in the Library!

 For detailed information about this event please visit the Second Tuesdays page.

 

 DEKOVEN’S ADVENT- PREPARATION RETREAT

November 21-23, 2008

with

The Rt. Rev. Francis Campbell Gray, conductor

retired Bishop of Northern Indiana; retired assistant Bishop of Virginia

"Come, thou long expected Jesus"

 This Silent Retreat is always one of our most anticipated offerings, perhaps for the very reason Bishop Gray suggests:  "The inevitalbe activity that this time of year brings, much of it good, all of it necessary, leaves mosst of us a little disquieted.  In our own lives, we know how easily the Advent of God can be pushed aside."

And yet the season itself bids us pauses.  Something is about to happen.  Advent hymns and antiphons remind us.  Advent parables warn us to be ready. 

"Advent is carefully designed as a season of reflection," Bishop Gray reminds us.  Each year we look once more to the coming of the Christ Child in history, and in our hearts-and, again, to the final gathering of all things into God."  His Meditations will focus on the common Advent themes that hold our lives together. 

The Retreat begins Friday afternoon at 5:00 with a gathering Reception and ends Sunday following the Holy Eucharist and brunch.  Suggested donation is $185.00.

To register contact www.dekovencenter.org

DECEMBER

December 25    Christmas Morning at DeKoven

A 9:00 celebration of the Holy Eucharist, quiet and reflective. 

Celebrant to be announced. 

A reception followint with good friends, good food, good conversation. 

A beloved way to greet the Infant King on this day of all days in the year. 

 

" How silently, how silently

The wondrous gift is given!

So God imparts to human hearts

The blessings of his heaven. 

No ear may hear his coming,

But in this world of sin,

Where meek hearts will receive him still,

The dear Christ enters in."

             

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The DeKoven Center welcomes private guests and long-term sabbatical guests whenever space is available. Call or e-mail us for our Private Guest brochure. Also, in most instances overnight accommodations are available for anyone who would like to come early or stay longer for our sponsored events.