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Ignatian Spirituality Retreats
In St. Louis
The Bridges Foundation brings Ignatian Spirituality and the Spiritual Exercises of
St. Ignatius Loyola to everyday life for those who live in the Greater St. Louis area.
We do this through a number of retreats and programs, including our premiere program:The Bridges Retreat: a 9-month (19th annotation) program for experiencing
the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius in everyday life.Registration for the 2020-21 Bridges Retreat is now closed. Registration for 2021-22 retreat will open in May 2021. Dates of summer information sessions will be announced early in 2021. But we’re always happy to talk to you about the retreat and the possibility of your participation next year. Feel free to contact executive director Linda Leib at linda.leib@bridgesfoundation.org or call (314) 313-8283.
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LATEST POSTS
Advent 2020: Welcome to the ‘Demented Inn’
By bridges / November 19, 2020In this time of advent hope — even in a seemingly hopeless time — we wait to welcome Christ again to the world. Unlike those people in Bethlehem 2,000 years ago, we pledge to make room for him in the “inns” of our hearts, right? That’s the real hope for us right now. Do we have the courage to open the door?Read More
Interview with Executive Director Linda Leib
By bridges / September 24, 2020Bridges Executive Director Linda Leib was recently interviewed about the origins, structure and spirituality of the Bridges Retreat by Angela...Read More
A Rough Entry into the Spiritual Exercises
By bridges / August 19, 2020Dr. Hsin-hsin Huang came to Bridges in 1997, searching for a spiritual formational program to help her integrate spirituality and psychology. She was in a spiritual desert, thirsty for something to quench her dried-out soul. Twenty years later, she continues to “marinate in the richness of the Spiritual Exercises” — a way, she says, “of living, praying, relating to God, knowing Jesus, and living in radical honesty.”Read More
Called Again: A Protestant Theologian Experiences the Spiritual Exercises
By bridges / July 29, 2020As a teenager, Sharon Tan heard the call to “love God with all my heart, soul, mind and body.” This led her eventually to become a professor of ethics and then academic dean of a mainline Protestant seminary. But by the time she came to St. Louis on an interim position, she had been battered for several years by conflict both at work and at home. Then she found Bridges.Read More
Meet a member of the Bridges Community: Steve Tadrick
By bridges / May 23, 2020Steve Tadrick spent most of his life painting houses, never dreaming he’d be spending his retirement years putting paint to paper and bringing those who view his works into a closer walk with Jesus.Read More
CONTACT INFORMATION
Linda Leib, Executive Director
331 N. New Ballas Box 410275
St. Louis, MO 63141-9998
314-313-8283
linda.leib@bridgesfoundation.org