The Body is Like Mary

The Contemplative Society presents…

“The Body is like Mary: An Online Evening Retreat to Deepen into Advent”, with Heather Ruce

DATE: December 16th, 2024

TIME:  6:30–-8:30pm PACIFIC TIME

“The body is like Mary, and each of us has a Jesus inside. Who is not in labour, holy labour? Every creature…God is really there within, so innocently drawing life from us with Her umbilical universe – infinite existence… though also needing to be born. Yes, God also needs to be born!” — Rumi

Advent is a season rich with anticipation as we, alongside Mary, carry and prepare to bear God in our own lives yet again. Christ revealed to the world a life rooted in the heart, at the intersection of time and timelessness. We enter the dark and soft stillness of winter; ripening with courage and surrender to participate in the ongoing co-creation of embodied love in this world. As we anchor in our own awakened hearts, with roots in the finite and the infinite, cultivating our own deep “yes” parallel to Mary’s, we have the opportunity to carry forth tending to the horizontal demands of the season from a profound fullness. Slowing and staying awake to the true meaning of this season and offering the fruits of our awakened hearts.

Join us as we gather together for an Evening Retreat grounded in three-centered Wisdom practices and teaching, sitting and lingering in the quiet, readying our hearts to enter Christmas with humility, compassion, and great love; that we may offer what is needed.

Heather Ruce, M. A. is a Wisdom Spiritual Director who offers Wisdom Practice Circles, Retreats, and Wisdom Schools focused on the expansive Christian Wisdom Tradition. She works within the lineage of Wisdom Teacher Cynthia Bourgeault whom she has been a student of for over a decade. Heather weaves her Masters in Marital & Family Therapy and training in Somatic Experiencing, Organic Intelligence & Spiritual Direction into her teaching and guidance in various Wisdom practices, all in service of waking up and putting on the Mind of Christ. Find out more at heatherruce.com.

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