Metanoia
in the Mother Love
A Lenten mini-retreat with Mother Mary
2 options to attend online in live time or to receive the recording:
Thursday March 14th: 6-8:30 pm Central Time
$33
When you sit with the energies of Lent, what comes to mind and heart? For many of us, the practices we grew up with were about giving something up, fasting, reckoning with our sinfulness, repenting for our wrongs and preparing our souls for Easter. Sometimes this went deep, sometimes it remained superficial, but usually it was cloaked in feelings of shame or guilt.
What if we approached this liturgical season from the lap and lens of the Mother Love? What if instead of guilt, Lent could be about naming and claiming the griefs our hearts hold? What if instead of shame and personal sin, it was about reckoning with a world full of suffering and systemic injustice? What if it was about metanoia– a simple turning towards, or returning to, the love that has held us all along? How might rooting into this kind of Love, truly the love that never ends, affect the ways we show up in the world?
In this mini-retreat, we’ll explore together the season of Lent from the perspective of the Mother Love. We’ll engage the presence and the guidance of Mother Mary– the One holding Jesus at the beginning and end of his walk to Calvary, both as Gaia Mother Earth and Our Lady of Sorrow. We’ll draw on the medicine of mystics like Julian of Norwich who tells us, “there is no such thing as sin.” We’ll dive into practices that allow us to cultivate an embodied spirituality of the Mother Love, and allow our own dynamic souls to root and rise.
What should I expect from this retreat?
In our time together we will:
-enter into embodied soul prayer— simple ways of accessing the Mother Love right here and now, in this human body
-be nourished by wisdom rooted in the stories of the Mother Love, in particular the ways Mother Mary witnessed and walked with Jesus in the suffering of his Passion, unlocking the ways She also walks with us
-have sweet time in one on one, small group and large group community sharing
-receive new ways of approaching the season of Lent, including practical tools for transformation
-deepen heart, mind, body and soul in the Mother’s Love
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Hi! I’m Erin
I’m so glad you’re interested in this work. I’m a midwife of the soul, movement minister and priestess of the Divine Mother. My central life's call is in service to the reclamation and renewal of Sophia, the Feminine heart of Christ, in devotion to the liberation of all beings. I’m honored and excited to re-member and reweave this golden thread of Sophia Christ all the way from the Great Cosmic Mother Goddess into our lives today. I hold masters degrees in Catholic Education (U. of Notre Dame), Multicultural Ministry (Franciscan School of Theology) and Christian Spirituality (Graduate Theological Union) and over two decades of experience teaching, facilitating and leading retreats. I am also an embodied soul care practioner, facilitator of embodied transformation, birth doula, theAlogian and writer. I live and love with my found family in the Dutchtown neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri.