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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 Steve Givens at executive.director@bridgesfoundation.org or call (314) 401-2072.
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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 Steve Givens at executive.director@bridgesfoundation.org or call (314) 401-2072.
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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 MoreMeet a member of the Bridges Community: Steve Tadrick
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CONTACT INFORMATION
Steve Givens, Executive Director
331 N. New Ballas Box 410275
St. Louis, MO 63141-9998
314-401-2072
executive.director@bridgesfoundation.org