ISI Founding Board and former Board Chair, ISI Formation Team
Sheila is an Ignatian spiritual and retreat director. She helps others make the Spiritual Exercises in Everyday life, as well as serving as companion for the Toward Greater Freedom retreat at Jesuit College Prep in Dallas, and Finding Christ in the World retreat in various parishes and churches. She has continued serving the retreats for many years while also helping form and train new Companions. Sheila is also the Chair of the ISI Board of Directors. Sheila was in the first group to make both the Toward Greater Freedom retreat and the Finding Christ in the World Retreats. She participates in days of reflection and retreats at Montserrat Jesuit Retreat House including both personal and couples retreats, and numerous ISI workshops. Sheila made the Spiritual Exercises in Everyday life and completed the ISI Spiritual Companioning program in 2015. Sheila is an architect, and enjoys traveling, viewing art, and painting. She and her husband live in Dallas and have two adult children.
Encountering Christ in Prayer
When it comes to prayer, one size does not fit all. Do you yearn for a deeper experience of prayer? Do you want to discover what your prayer means for a life of faith, hope, and love?
God is the first actor in prayer. On our part, prayer can be silent or vocal, sung or spoken, whispered or shouted, formal and informal. We can kneel, stand, sit, dance, run, walk and more to express ourselves. In prayer, we can and do express the gamut of emotions as we feel, imagine, desire, remember, understand, ponder, evaluate, ask, and decide. And we listen, listen, listen. Most of all we can and do meet Christ in prayer.