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Holy Week Wisdom Teachings: Accompanying Jesus and Mary Magdalene through the Paschal Mystery – with Heather Ruce (2023) This retreat was recorded live April 3–6, 2023, at Bethlehem Retreat Centre in Nanaimo, BC, Canada, and is now offered as an online E-Course. This purchase includes over 16 hours of video recordings, organized into daily sessions that follow the four-day retreat structure (2–8 sessions per day). In this Wisdom School retreat, Heather Ruce guides participants into the heart of Holy Week as a lived, contemplative passage. More than commemorating historical events, Holy Week is experienced as a timeless invitation to embody the postures of Jesus and Mary Magdalene through the Paschal Mystery. Entering into silence, attention, and three-centered presence, we discover the transformative energy of surrender and the unshakable truth that “Love is as strong as death.” The retreat weaves together mindful walking, Centering Prayer, chant, ritual, teaching, reflection, and contemplative free time, along with Gurdjieff Exercises and Movements. Within the rhythm of the Great Silence, participants are invited to enter this sacred passage not only as remembrance but as mutual accompaniment, awakening to the call to bear Love into the world. As this is a LIVE recording you may notice some audio variability and background noise. Heather Ruce, M.A., is a Wisdom spiritual director who companions individuals and facilitates Wisdom practice circles, groups, retreats, and Wisdom Schools in the Christian Wisdom tradition. She offers guidance in Centering Prayer, Christian meditation, sacred chant, lectio divina, conscious work, and embodiment practices—all in service of waking up and putting on the mind of Christ. Learn more at heatherruce.com