Students encounter Christ on Hoosier Awakening

Hoosier Awakening, a weekend retreat for Indiana University students, was held last October. This past fall, 110 students took part in this retreat, which is designed to help students grow in their love of Christ, and to deepen their faith in our Lord and commitment to the Church.

Fellow IU students

Annaliese Budd and Rachel Stephens handled the planning and implementation of the retreat, and designated St. Maximilian Kolbe and St. Mary Magdalene as guiding patron saints for the event. The retreat’s theme was Wounded Healer, and was selected after much prayerful consideration to show forth the idea that we are healed from Christ’s wounds that he bore on the cross.

Programming for the retreat included large and small group interactions, and included talks from fellow students. Our students found the retreat as an opportunity to not only invest in other students, but have their own spiritual lives poured into as well. The retreat further emphasized that the Catholic Church is all part of the Mystical Body of Christ where we are all interwoven and never alone.