Last spring the Office for Persons with Disabilities (OPD) hosted the first retreat for adults with special needs. The NET (National Evangelization Team, WWW.NETUSA.ORG) shared the gospel through words, music, and skits. Fr. Kyle Schnipple listened to confessions and celebrated Mass with those who attended. It was a beautiful day for our friends and family who attended.
Due to the wonderful response and needs of our adult friends with special needs throughout the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, we will be hosting two NET retreats in 2024. Save the date for our northern NET Retreat on March 23rd (location and time TBA) and southern NET Retreat on April 27th (location and time TBA). Fr. Kyle Schnipple will be the celebrant again this year. If you would like to learn more about the upcoming retreats, please email Lisa Averion LAVERION@CATHOLICAOC.ORG to receive updates on time, location, and registration. Registration will open on Feb. 1st.
Last spring the Office for Persons with Disabilities (OPD) hosted the first retreat for adults with special needs. The NET (National Evangelization Team, WWW.NETUSA.ORG) shared the gospel through words, music, and skits. Fr. Kyle Schnipple listened to confessions and celebrated Mass with those who attended. It was a beautiful day for our friends and family who attended.
Due to the wonderful response and needs of our adult friends with special needs throughout the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, we will be hosting two NET retreats in 2024. Save the date for our northern NET Retreat on March 23rd (location and time TBA) and southern NET Retreat on April 27th (location and time TBA). Fr. Kyle Schnipple will be the celebrant again this year. If you would like to learn more about the upcoming retreats, please email Lisa Averion LAVERION@CATHOLICAOC.ORG to receive updates on time, location, and registration. Registration will open on Feb. 1st.
Please join us for this gathering of meditation and healing Sutra recitation for the New Year.
The retreat is structured like our regular monthly virtual gathering described above, except that during the second practice period, volunteers will take turns reading from the Medicine Buddha Sutra.
Everyone participating in the retreat is encouraged to be one of the volunteers who will read aloud. As the Sutra is being read aloud, the text will also be displayed on the screen so everyone else can read along.
Retreat participants are also invited to submit up to three names of people to whom this healing practice will be especially dedicated. Those names will be placed on the altar at in the temple at Furnace Mountain and will also be read aloud.
The Sutra is quite short and can be read in full in under one hour. So in the course of the day’s practice we will be able to read the entire Sutra twice.
As in past one-day online Furnace Mountain retreats, you can come for as much of the day as you are able, but please attend for at least one complete 2-hour session. The event is free, but Furnace Mountain gratefully accepts any donations.
The unsurpassed, profound, subtle and wondrous dharma is difficult to encounter, even in a hundred, thousand, million kalpas.
Now we see and hear it and are able to receive and maintain it.
We vow to understand the Tathagata’s true meaning.
DETAILS & REGISTRATION
The retreat includes sitting and walking meditation, Dharma talk, and 1:1 interviews. Participants are expected to sit the entirety of the day to maintain consistency of the retreat experience.
A mid-morning snack, light vegetarian lunch, and dinner will be served.
Previous experience sitting with the CZC or Furnace Mountain Sangha is recommended, or equivalent experience.
Guest Teacher Dae Do Soen-Sa (Dr. Bob Kohl) is an osteopathic physician, bodyworker, and Zen teacher in the Furnace Mountain Sangha. He began practicing Zen in the early 90s and received Inka (permission to teach) from Zen Master Dae Gak in 2011.
Suggested donation is $90. If this donation presents a hardship, please email us—we have scholarships available.
If you attempt to register and find the retreat is full, you will have the option of joining a waitlist. We will notify you if spaces become available.
DETAILS & REGISTRATION
The retreat form includes sitting and walking meditation, a Dharma talk, and interviews. Participants are expected to sit the entirety of the day to maintain consistency of the retreat experience. A light vegetarian lunch and dinner will be served.
Myo Wol has studied with Zen Master Dae Gak since the inception of the CZC in 1994. In 2008 he received Inka (permission to teach), becoming Resident Teacher. His interest is the activity of manifesting original nature right in the midst of the challenge, heartbreak, and unbounded joy of daily life.
Previous experience sitting with the CZC or Furnace Mountain Sangha is recommended, or equivalent experience.
Suggested donation is $90. If this donation presents a hardship, please email us—we have scholarships available.
REGISTER FOR RETREAT
The Cincinnati Zen Center will be celebrating Buddha’s Enlightenment Day with a day-long, in-person retreat with guest teacher Yong Song Soen-sa.
Register HERE.
The Cincinnati Zen Center will be celebrating Buddha’s Enlightenment Day with a day-long, in-person retreat with guest teacher Yong Song Soen-sa.
Register HERE.
ATTENTION: ALL HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
You are invited to join us for a day of fun and learning together. We will get to know one another through story and learn how those stories have power.
Fall Interfaith Retreat: Pilgrimage & Power
All day on Saturday, October 2, 2021
@ Camp Joy
10117 Old 3 C Hwy
Clarksville, OH 45113
Register at
For more info simply text or call Adam Hayden at 812-430-4464
ATTENTION: ALL HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
You are invited to join us for a day of fun and learning together. We will get to know one another through story and learn how those stories have power.
Fall Interfaith Retreat: Pilgrimage & Power
All day on Saturday, October 2, 2021
@ Camp Joy
10117 Old 3 C Hwy
Clarksville, OH 45113
Register at
For more info simply text or call Adam Hayden at 812-430-4464
