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  2. Holding on to Hope: A Lenten retreat for caregivers and persons with chronic illness and pain

Holding on to Hope: A Lenten retreat for caregivers and persons with chronic illness and pain

Thu, 03/20/2025 - 1:00pm EDT to 4:00pm

For those whose life journeys are already made challenging because of caregiving or an ongoing illness or pain, hope can seem elusive or unrealistic. Yet, the theme of hope in this Jubilee Year, particularly during Lent, reminds us that hope is at the center of our experiences, even those that might be painful. This Lenten retreat will offer a time to pray, reflect, and listen deeply to the ways that God’s mercy, grace, and abiding love carry us forward, and help us to be ever more strengthened and inspired in faith and hope.

Maureen Pratt

Maureen Pratt, MTS, MFA

Executive Director, The Peace in the Storm Project

Maureen is an award-winning Catholic author, speaker, retreat leader, and Executive Director of The Peace in the Storm Project (www.thepeaceinthestormproject.com). Her pioneering work in the intersection of faith and chronic pain and illness include her devotional, Peace in the Storm: Meditations on Chronic Pain and Illness, the only devotional focused on chronic pain and illness to have been granted the nihil obstat and imprimatur. Maureen is a graduate of Georgetown University and the Jesuit School of Theology at Santa Clara University. She lives with multiple chronic illnesses, including lupus, ITP, heart disease, alopecia universalis, and autoimmune iron deficiency. Her website is www.maureenpratt.com

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