After I moved to Missouri three years ago, I really missed my vibrant parish and parish school community that I'd left behind. I said "no" to the ACTS retreat my first year because I didn't know anyone. By the time my second ACTS retreat came around, a number of women had told me that building our community is a core part of the retreat - so I went! It was lovely to develop relationships with women in all stages of life and in all stages of their own faith journeys. It's also such a blessing to walk into Mass nowadays, as I always see a few people from my retreat to maintain those connections.  More information can be found here!

- Elizabeth Ortmann