Vocation Awareness Retreat Held in Maryland

April 7, 2003. Silver Spring, Maryland

The Franciscan Sisters of the Eucharist were one of eleven communities of religious women recently invited to attend a weekend vocation awareness retreat for women at the Elizabeth Seton Retreat Center in Emmitsburg, Maryland. The retreat was sponsored by the Arlington, Virginia diocese and led by Father Brian Bashista, promoter of vocations for the diocese. Sister Damien Marie Savino from the La Verna Center in Silver Spring, Maryland represented the FSE community.

Twenty-one young women attended the retreat. Each community presented the charism of their institute and there was time throughout the weekend for the women to meet with the different communities, as well as to participate in Eucharistic adoration, the Liturgy of the Hours and the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.