RETREAT DIRECTORS

Sister Karen Guth, SCL, is actively involved in spiritual direction and retreat ministry and has facilitated workshops with women’s groups. Sister Karen has an MA in theology with emphasis in spirituality. She completed the Vincentian Spiritual Directors Program in Denver in 1998. She previously taught in Catholic schools; coordinated Making Choices, a program that trained women volunteers to mentor incarcerated women; and served as a team member at Marillac Center.

Sister Marilyn Peot, CSJ, has been in full-time spiritual ministry since 1972. Trained in the art of listening, discernment and spiritual development, she has done extensive study in psychological and emotional development and in varied spiritualities, Scripture and the Ignatian Exercises. In addition to retreat work and spiritual direction, she has initiated ongoing groups for prayer, Scripture study and inner healing.

Father David Simpson, OCarm, was ordained in 1970. His ministries include high school teacher, novice-master, pastor and retreat facilitator. Father David served in leadership in his community. He also was on the ministerial team of the Carmelite Spiritual Center in Darien, Ill, as a spiritual director. He now resides at St. Boniface Priory in Scipio, Kan., continuing Carmelite spiritual ministry.

Sister Kathleen Wood, SCL, a member of the Marillac staff, and recently retired from teaching theology and ministry at the University of Saint Mary, brings a wealth of understanding and appreciation of Scripture and the spiritual life to share in retreats and spiritual direction. She holds a master’s degree in theology with a concentration in Scripture from Boston College and a certificate in religious formation from Saint Louis University.