--- title: How To Be His Advent Retreat --- ![Advent Retreat 1920X611](https://retreat.spiritualdirection.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Advent%20Retreat%20%201920X611.png?width=1920&height=611&name=Advent%20Retreat%20%201920X611.png "Advent Retreat 1920X611") ## Welcome! #### Scroll down to view the recorded talks! Prepare your heart for Advent with reflections on the promise and power of the Eucharist! Set out on a journey of ascent with us, and draw nearer to the pinnacle of our worship, the Source and Summit of the Christian life. - needs editing  Free Journal  ### [![Cover](https://retreat.spiritualdirection.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Cover.png?width=155&height=201&name=Cover.png)](https://retreat.spiritualdirection.com/hubfs/How%20to%20Be%20His%20Reflection%20Journal.pdf?hsLang=en)Use the reflection questions for each talk as a way to enter more deeply into the heart and learn how to be His. - need journal ### Download [HERE](https://retreat.spiritualdirection.com/hubfs/How%20to%20Be%20His%20Reflection%20Journal.pdf?hsLang=en). ## Schedule 9:30AM - Introduction 10:15AM -  10:30AM - Break 10:40AM -  11:30AM-  ## About Our Speakers ### [Claire Dwyer](https://retreat.spiritualdirection.com#inline-content-1widget_1741383711819) ![Claire Dwyer](https://retreat.spiritualdirection.com/hubfs/claire%20dwyer.webp) Claire Dwyer About Claire Dwyer Claire Dwyer is the editor of and frequent contributor to [SpiritualDirection.com](http://spiritualdirection.com/) and grateful and humbled to be a part of the Avila team.  At the Avila Institute that she discerned the call to be a spiritual director and was introduced to St. Elizabeth of the Trinity, whose life and writings inspired Claire’s first book, *This Present Paradise.* She has a Master’s certification in Spiritual Theology through the Institute, and an undergraduate degree from Franciscan University--where she currently serves on the Advisory Board of the Leadership Institute. Her passion lies at the intersection of the interior life and the power of the written word to communicate that mystery with beauty and clarity. She is co-founder and content director of [Write These Words](https://www.writethesewords.com/) and the [PraiseWriters Catholic Writing Community.](https://www.writethesewords.com/praisewriters)  A wife of 26 years, mom to six and grandmother to two, she lives with her family in Phoenix. ### [Fr. Jeremiah Shryock CFR](https://retreat.spiritualdirection.com#inline-content-2widget_1741383711819) ![Fr- Jeremiah Shryock CFR](https://retreat.spiritualdirection.com/hubfs/Fr-%20Jeremiah%20Shryock%20CFR.jpeg) Fr. Jeremiah Shryock CFR About Fr. Jeremiah Shryock CFR Fr. Jeremiah Myriam Shryock CFR, is from Barto, PA. He graduated from Kutztown University in Kutztown, PA in 2002 where he studied Philosophy and professional writing. In September of 2002 he entered the Community of Franciscan Friars of the Renewal (CFR) and was ordained a priest in 2011 by Cardinal Timothy Dolan in St. Patricks’ Cathedral in New York City. In 2014 he completed studies in spiritual direction at Our Lady of Divine Providence School of spiritual direction in Clearwater, FL. Throughout his time as a Franciscan, he has participated in his community’s charism of hands-on work with the poor and preaching. He lived for three years as a hermit at the Monastery of Bethlehem in Livingston Manor, NY and now currently lives in San Juan Diego Friary in Albuquerque, New Mexico where he preaches retreats, is a spiritual director and conducts parish missions on either the spiritual life or Mary. He is author of Amid Passing Things: Life, Prayer, and Relationship with God, Mary and the Interior Life, and Let Him Lead: An Invitation to Let Jesus Guide Your Heart and Your Life (2025). For more information, visit his website at: fatherjeremiah.com and follow him on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/father\_jeremiah/\ --- ## A Mother Who Remembers - Claire Dwyer ---