The Star of the North Retreat Centre’s signature two-year program is Aurora Living: Formation Through Word and Creation. Our emphasis is to deepen our relationship with Sacred Word and renew our relationship with Christ’s Spirit for the good of creation. Aurora Living is learning, integrating, and practicing a contemplative way of living in response to the call to love and serve our global family and care for our common home.
Word ~ Creation ~ Community ~ Contemplation ~ Right Relationship
will transform us for a radical way of life to become agents of a new dawn.
Welcome to Aurora Living!
FORMAT
Aurora Living is a two-year formation journey comprised of six unique modules offered both in-person or online. Each three-month module includes:
Inclusive of everyone, we invite you to consider joining us on this journey of hope and action! Do you have a higher-education goal? Contact us about how Aurora Living can contribute to your Master’s degree.
MODULES
Creation: Stories of Beginnings
SEPTEMBER • OCTOBER • NOVEMBER 2024
Wilderness: The Journey to Wholeness
JANUARY • FEBRUARY • MARCH 2025
Psalms & Wisdom: The Wells We Drink From
APRIL • MAY • JUNE 2025
Truth-Telling: Finding Our Prophetic Voice
SEPTEMBER • OCTOBER • NOVEMBER 2025
Good News: An Invitation to Everyone
JANUARY • FEBRUARY • MARCH 2026
New Community: Together Toward New Creation
APRIL • MAY • JUNE 2026
We aim to keep our application process relatively simple, so if you have questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us.
Step 1: Check Admission Requirements
❑ Applicants must demonstrate in their application a desire and openness to personal spiritual growth and a commitment to the learning process through participation in all aspects of our program.
Step 2: Complete Application
NOTE: To download and print these forms, please find the attachments at the bottom of this page.
❑ Complete the online Application Form, including a brief reflection outlining your background and spiritual formation journey; their reason for application to Aurora Living, etc. as outlined.
Step 3: Make Reference Request
Please contact a spiritual and/or professional reference (i.e. mentor, spiritual director, employer, pastor, priest, etc.) who can provide a brief, online character reference on your behalf. We will send you the reference link as part of the application process.
Step 4: Application Review & Payment
Program registrants will be notified of payment options/plans within two weeks upon acceptance of their application.
We want to ensure access to funds for people in need of assistance to cover the cost of these modules. Please note bursary applications are available upon request for those in need.
Vision: Awaken Spirit – Transform the World
Guided by Laudato Si, sacred teachings and wisdom traditions, Aurora Living aims at learning, integrating and practicing a contemplative way of living in response to the call to love and serve our global family and to care for our common home.
Mission
Recognizing as common to all spirituality the longing for depth and communion, our goals are inspired by the universal wisdom contained in the Christian, Indigenous and other faith traditions, as communicated through Scriptures, guiding us to union with God, each other and creation.
Goals: Love in Truth & Action
“You shall love the Lord your God
with all your heart,
and with all your soul,
and with all your strength,
and with all your mind;
and your neighbour as yourself.”
~ Jesus, Luke 10:27 ~