Sr. Mary Bello — The Center for Spiritual Direction at Holy Family

Sr. Mary Bello, C.S.J.

Sr. Mary Bello is a Sister of St Joseph of Chambery. She earned a BA in education from the Diocese Sisters College, and an MS in special education from Southern Connecticut State University. She worked as a teacher of regular and special education, for 42 years, and taught adult Ed for the Hartford public schools for 5 years. Sister was office manager of the Spiritual Life Center for 5 years. She also created storytelling and prayer programs for adults and children in a hundred venues throughout the Archdiocese of Hartford. She gave a storytelling workshop for the Deacons of the Archdiocese of Hartford, and served the Hospital for Special Care in New Britain, CT with retreats. Sister Mary has been ministering as a spiritual director for 12 years.

Session Type:

In-person at Holy Family

Availability:

Thursdays 9:00 am-11:30 am, other days are varied.

Payment:

Please make payment for your session as an offering to the Center through our payment page. Since spiritual direction is intended as an ongoing, monthly relationship, it is possible to set up recurring, automatic payments through this page.

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If you are a new directee seeking direction from Sr. Mary, please fill out the intake form below.

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Please give a brief description of your background (professional, personal, family life, faith community, current struggles or concerns... anything you would like your spiritual director to know about you)

Have you engaged in spiritual direction in the past? What was helpful to you? Was there anything that was not helpful to you?

What are you seeking through spiritual direction at this time?

Spiritual Direction Offering

This spiritual director is volunteering the service of spiritual direction in support of the mission of the Center for Spiritual Direction at Holy Family and so the director has indicated that payment for each session should be made directly to the Center. The standard suggested offering is $75 per session and can be made on the “payment” page of the CSD website. The Center for Spiritual Direction endeavors to make spiritual direction accessible to all. Those who cannot make the standard offering of $75 may set their own payment amount for each session on our payment page.

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Session Appointments, Changes, and Cancellations

All spiritual direction sessions are scheduled and coordinated between the director and the directee. Directees are expected to keep their scheduled appointments. If you need to reschedule or cancel an appointment, please contact your spiritual director at the email address on this bio page (some directors may also choose to share phone contact information with directees once they begin meeting). Whenever possible, please provide 24 hours notice for all appointment changes. Spiritual direction is usually conducted once a month. You and your director will decide on the frequency and timing of your sessions.

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Next Steps

After you complete this intake form, the spiritual director should contact you to let you know if they can take you on as a directee and then begin the spiritual direction relationship by scheduling your first session. If this spiritual director does not contact you within one week, please send an email to the Center for Spiritual Direction at csd@holyfamilyretreat.org and we will assist you in moving forward.

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