Busy Person’s Retreat
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How to make this Retreat
1) Set aside 30 minutes each day for 4 days to PRAY
2) Meet with your Spiritual Director each day
3) Join us everyday for FOOD
Breakfast: 7-8:30am (grab-n-go)
Lunch: 11:30-1pm (Soup & Sandwich)
Dinner: 6pm
4) Morning Mass on Tuesday & Wednesday will be offered. Confession will be available during the week upon request as well
5) Closing Dinner at 6pm on Thursday with Adoration (8:30pm) & Mass (9:30pm) to follow
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Choose a Spiritual Director
Fr. Tom Long
Director of Vocations
UWGB Campus Chaplain
Diocese of Green Bay
I love being a priest. I thank God for helping me to listen to the call to priesthood, and for giving me the wisdom and strength to answer “Yes.” I love Sunday Mass, when God’s people gather and God uses me to make the connection between Christ and his people real through the Eucharist. I love knowing that I am doing what God calls me to do. It is incredibly satisfying to live a life of deep meaning. I thank God for that gift, which continues to deepen and grow. I love the Diocese of Green Bay. My family has been a part of the Church here for over 160 years. As a priest, I am a part of salvation history in northeastern Wisconsin.
I look forward to share my priesthood with all of you at UW Oshkosh on this year’s Busy Person’s Retreat!
Fr. Quinn Mann
Associate Director of Vocations
Oshkosh Newman Center Chaplain
Founder of Catholic Youth Expeditions
Diocese of Green Bay
“Man most fully discovers himself only through a sincere gift of himself” (Gaudium et Spes). As a Catholic priest, I have come to know this in a very real way.
Priesthood has afforded me many opportunities to make a gift of myself. It has been through this sincere gift that my life has become animated in such a way that I am compelled to share the Gospel message. Being a priest has given me a glimpse of the human capacity to love and the victory of sin over death. The most edifying gift of priesthood has been the celebration of the holy sacrifice of the Mass. The Holy Eucharist is the greatest gift given to the world and as a priest, you are called by God to bring Jesus Christ to the world through simple gifts of bread and wine, gifts that become the body and blood of Christ.
I challenge you to discover yourself by making a gift of yourself. Men are called by God to lay down their lives as Christ layed down His life. Priesthood is a great gift to the world and I encourage you to discover it for yourself!
Peggy Duemling
Formation Advisor of Catholic Youth Expeditions
Diocese of Green Bay
My name is Peggy Duemling. I grew up in a small town west of Milwaukee. My BS is in Political Science (in the UW system). As I was preparing for graduation and taking the LSAT’s, a question was “posed” to me, (in my heart) and that question forever changed and defined the direction of my life. That question was: “Do you love Me more than these” (Jn 21). I was 23 yrs old at the time; adventurous, enthusiastic-loving life, full of desires and goals and also self-focused and trying too hard to “protect” my interests and my plan for my life. But our Lord in His great patience and tenderness with me, broke through all of my barriers and He revealed a beautiful invitation-an “invitation” that would be definitive by its choice. I couldn’t resist the Love that was present in the invitation. By the grace of God I said “Yes” and in 1988 I joined the Missionaries of Charity.
That “yes” carried me to the poor in the S. Bronx, Brooklyn, San Francisco, Phoenix, Los Angeles, Tijuana, and Washington DC for 10 years. That “yes” then carried me home (with tears but great trust) to Wisconsin, where I completed my MS in Education and served in the capacity of Principal in a Catholic grade school in Menomonee Falls. Now that “yes” has carried me to my new home here at St. Joseph’s Formation Center in Bailey’s Harbor with private vows under the local Ordinary serving in the role of Formation Advisor. I am honored to serve under our incredible Bishop David Ricken and to work closely under these beautiful priests of CYE. I look forward to serving you in any way- helping you nurture your close relationship with our Living and Loving Lord, who has a particular plan for your life and whose Will for you will lead you to the heights of joy.
Holly Rutchik
Formation and Spiritual Director
Diocese of Green Bay
My name is Holly Rutchik and I’m in love with my vocation! I earned my Masters degree in Religious Studies and spent a few years working in parishes before getting married and becoming a stay at home/work at home mommy. I’m married to a wonderful, faithful and holy man named Joseph and God has entrusted us with two little souls, Teresa Rose and Anna Clare! I take my job of looking after and protecting the souls of my family very seriously. We love, laugh and pray everyday.
In the little spare time I have, I find great joy in the performing arts and words in any form. I’m currently building a career as a freelance writer and documenting my adventures as a Catholic mommy with the dream of writing for the Lord on my blog http://fallingupwardholly.blogspot.com/
I love people and enjoy finding the face of Christ in all I encounter! I require time to quiet myself and meet the Lord in adoration, the Eucharist and scripture to rejuvenate and head back out into the world – armed with truth and love!
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Retreat Readings & Reflections
Sunday Evening
In preparing for this year’s retreat, please take time to watch the following videos:
Archbishop Fulton Sheen: “The Meaning of the Mass”
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
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