Feeding the spirit...

Since 2003, I’ve been involved in bringing ACTS retreats—a Cursillo-based program of personal and parish renewal—to parishes throughout the St. Louis area.

In 2010, I participated on my first Kairos Inside prison retreat team, at the Menard maximum security correctional center in Chester, IL. I witnessed many astonishing things as a result of that weekend—not the least of which were the 2,000 dozen homemade cookies that many friends, neighbors and complete strangers made in support of the ministry.

The “bottomless bowl of cookies” is a Kairos tradition—meant to symbolize the depth of God’s love for each of us. And it was amazing to see all that love stacked floor-to-ceiling in our meeting room the weekend before Menard #1.