Women's Retreat

Come and join your sisters in Christ for a day of prayer, learning, reflection, and sharing of our faith. Miriam Marston from St. Anthony Church in Tigard will lead us through Scripture, prayer, and stories to reflect on the role of mystery in our Christian faith and how it invites us on a journey of wonder, beauty, and meaning. We will also reflect on how the mercy of God transforms us and equips us for the mission of sharing the Gospel and how our trust in Jesus prepares us to deepen our exploration of the mysteries of our faith. You will spend the day with Jesus in the Tabernacle as the talks and reflections will be in the church. Check-in, breaks, and lunch will be held in the Parish Hall.
Come and join your sisters in Christ for a day of prayer, learning, reflection, and sharing of our faith. Miriam Marston from St. Anthony Church in Tigard will lead us through Scripture, prayer, and stories to reflect on the role of mystery in our Christian faith and how it invites us on a journey of wonder, beauty, and meaning. We will also reflect on how the mercy of God transforms us and equips us for the mission of sharing the Gospel and how our trust in Jesus prepares us to deepen our exploration of the mysteries of our faith. You will spend the day with Jesus in the Tabernacle as the talks and reflections will be in the church. Check-in, breaks, and lunch will be held in the Parish Hall.
Simultaneous translation from English to Spanish will be provided.

Our tentative schedule:
8:15 am Mass in the church
9:00 am Check-in and coffee in the parish hall. 9:30-10:15 TALK 1: MYSTERY
10:15-10:45 am Personal reflection/journal
10:45-11:30 am TALK 2 - MERCY
11:30 am -12:00 pm Reflections/journal 12:00-12:45 Lunch in the hall Q&A: 12:45-1:05
1:15-2:15 pm ADORATION/CONFESSIONS in the Church
2:30-3:15 pm TALK 3: MISSION
3:15 -3:30 pm Personal reflection/journal
3:30-4:00 Rosary followed by final comments/ thank you’s and farewells.

About our speaker: Originally from Alexandria, VA, Miriam Marston is a Portland-based writer, speaker and musician. She has released several albums and books and presents on various topics about Christian life and culture. From 2020-2024, she hosted the weekly show “Blazing the Trail” on Mater Dei radio. Miriam is the Director of Faith Formation at St. Anthony’s in Tigard. Before that, she was the Institute for Catholic Life and Leadership coordinator at the Archdiocese of Portland. After receiving her MA in Theology and Ministry from Boston College in 2010, she worked for the Theological Institute at St. John’s Seminary in Boston until 2013. Before her graduate studies, she lived and worked in Oxford, UK, then moved to Boston, where she worked in the canon law office for the Archdiocese of Boston. She studied history and religion at the College of William and Mary in Virginia.
One of her greatest joys is being an aunt to 7 wonderful nieces and nephews who live in Tigard, OR, and Neuchatel,Switzerland. She is fluent in French and will happily watch many hours of soccer in her spare time. Miriam was consecrated by Archbishop Sample in 2020, and she is so grateful to live out the vocation of consecrated virginity in the Archdiocese of Portland.