Catholic Ministry to Adult Children of Divorce or Separation
About the Life Giving Wounds Retreat
No matter your age when it happened, the effects of your parents’ divorce or separation are deep and long-lasting. Life-Giving Wounds is a national Catholic ministry specifically for adults (18+) whose parents are divorced or separated — providing a unique opportunity for men and women who are the children of divorced or separated parents to give voice to their pain and experience Christ’s transformational healing, together with peers who know the challenges that broken homes cause.
The Life-Giving Wounds retreat is a three-day retreat for young adults and adults with divorced or separated parents. It invites participants to move through the broken image of love that appeared to them in their parents’ relationship to their deepest identity found in God. The retreat gives participants a greater understanding of the wound of divorce and the ways it affects their lives, offers advice about the difficulties concerning love and trust of others, and explains how the Catholic faith, spiritual practices, and the Sacraments are essential to self-knowledge and healing. This retreat has something for any adult child of divorce or separation, no matter how much healing you have already received or need. Topics covered include: Grief and Beginning to Name our Wounds; Finding Our Deepest Identity; Faith and Our Relationship with God; Love, Dating, and the Sacrament of Marriage; Anger, Anxiety, and Sin; False Guilt and Shame; Forgiveness and Reconciliation; Family Boundaries; The Christian Meaning of Suffering; Healing and the Sacraments of Reconciliation and the Eucharist; and more!
The retreat will begin late afternoon on Friday (can arrive as early as 3:00pm, dinner served on-site, retreat proper starts at 7:00pm), and will end around 3:30pm on Sunday (after the celebration of Mass). The anticipated retreat cost is $350.00 per person. Please write to Dr. Daniel Drain if the cost of attendance is a hardship for you.
