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Midterm Retreat: Out of the City into the Country

Missioner-in-training Mary Mortenson shares about the midterm retreat she and her formation classmates took.  We went on retreat this past week. Fr. Ed Shea, a Franciscan priest from Chicago, came to lead it. It was a blessing. A blessing to get out into the countryside and be surrounded by farmland. The farm girl in me…

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