Follow Up Material
This page offers participants in the Vestry Retreat 2013 resources they may want to use as they follow up on that day.
Spiritual Maps
This section includes the spiritual maps you were exposed to during the retreat and a one other.
The Episcopal Way - On our tradition's ethos and spirituality. Not a map in itself but a stance toward all spiritual maps
Related resource for sale - Anglican Spirituality: A program to increase the competency of parishioners in spiritual practices. Includes an educational design for a three and five session courses. It's a mix of presentation. discussion, and experiential activities. There are also a variety of handouts and resources for use in the course.
Includes additional spiritual maps: Threefold Rule of Prayer, A Map-worship and prayer, Benedictine Promise.
Cost: $40 Comes with permission to use the materials as a parish leader, diocesan staff person, or as a consultant. You may make as many copies as needed for your work over the next five years. Materials are not to be sold though you may charge for copying costs.
Listening Methods
Also see in Fill All Things pages 100, 107 - 116, 185 and In Your Holy Spirit: Shaping the Parish Through Spiritual Practice Chapters 4 and 5.
The Holy Eucharist
The Eucharist and the Formation of Christians
Dom Gregory Dix - for meditation on the Eucharist
Practices in the Holy Eucharist - Booklet for use with the congregation. Legal size paper lay out.
Be Present, Participate, and Engage: The three primary ways people join in the Eucharist
A Rite for the Blessing of Water
Your Spiritual Practice: A Rule of Life
Developing a Rule of Life - Worksheets
Rule of Life - About a Rule of Life
Leadership
Vestries: Choices and Alignment - Word file
What to look for in a parish priest