“A Catholic Writer’s Retreat: Writing as a Vocation”
Join Fr. John Bullock, L.C. and Sarah Cortez for “A Catholic Writer’s Retreat: Writing as a Vocation”
Grow your connection to writing as a vocation through spiritual reflection and prayer.
Saturday, September 30, 2023, 9:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Holy Name Passionist Retreat Center
430 Bunker Hill Rd, Houston, TX 77024
Attend this retreat to better understand your writing as part of your spiritual vocation in life. Fr. John Bullock, L.C., will illuminate the artist’s role from the writings of St. John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI. Through participation in the Mass, Eucharistic Adoration, and group discussion, you will solidify your writing as part of your spiritual vocation.
Come together with other Catholic writers to deepen your understanding of the Church’s vision for the writer. Grow spiritually and artistically, while meeting other writers in a communion of faith.
This day will foster your spiritual and artistic growth through a deeper understanding of writing as part of your spiritual vocation in life.
Fr. John Bullock, LC, is a priest with the Legionaries of Christ and was ordained in 2002. He has lived and worked in California, Cincinnati, and is currently living in Houston, Texas, his hometown. He has worked with youth, in college campus ministry, and as a chaplain to the Regnum Christi Movement. He also works with the Catholic business ministry Lumen.
He has authored A Heart Like Jesus: A Regnum Christi Essay on Contemplating and Imitating Jesus, and A Cyclist’s Spirituality.
Sarah Cortez, a member of the Texas Institute of Letters, Fellow of the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture, and Fellow of the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, has poems, essays, book reviews, and short stories anthologized and published in journals, such as Texas Monthly, Rattle, The Sun, Pennsylvania English, Texas Review, Louisiana Literature, The Midwest Quarterly, Southwestern American Literature, Presence. She is a contributing editor for Catholic Arts Today and the international arts columnist for St. Austin’s Review. She writes for the National Catholic Register. She has 14 award-winning books across genres, and has been a developmental editor for 4 publishing houses. She is president and founder of Catholic Literary Arts based in Houston, Texas. She is guest faculty for the MFA in Creative Writing at the University of St. Thomas.