Women’s Retreat: Relationship, identity, mission

At the Diocese of Superior’s 2024 Women’s Retreat, the presenter was Angela Schnieders, a former FOCUS missionary of 15 years and who serves a board chairman of FIERCE Athlete and also works with The Woman School founded by January Donovan. A college athlete herself, Schnieders has also studied with the Augustine Institute.

For the second year, two weekends were provided to accommodate the number of women registering for retreat. In addition to three talks and one question-and-answer session with the speaker, women retreatants heard multiple personal testimonies from other women on the themes of relationship, identity and mission.

While the women’s content was similarly themed as the men’s, Loree Nauertz, associate director for the Diocese of Superior’s Office of Evangelization and Missionary Discipleship, said each retreat is planned with men’s and women’s specific needs in mind.

Schnieders’ first talk was about relationship. Relying heavily on Scripture, she presented with Jesus as the central figure of her reflections. Jesus’s passion is the model for what the word means, to suffer for what one loves, she explained. “The crucifixion is the greatest tragedy of humanity, but also its greatest grace.”

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