Contemplative prayer is the opening of mind and heart—our whole being—to God, the Ultimate Mystery, beyond thoughts, words, and emotions. This retreat, involving breath practice, is for beginners on the contemplative journey. LEARN MORE
At the beginning of Holy Week, we will hear Matthew’s Passion on Palm Sunday this year. We will look at what Matthew focuses his attention on. He introduces Jesus as one who saves us from our sins, that is what his name means. LEARN MORE
BioSpiritual Focusing helps us to experience the whole of our selves – mind, body, and spirit – as a way of deepening our connectedness with God, others, and self. LEARN MORE
Come, step out during Lent in expectant faith and await the marvels of your God as you retreat! These five days of quiet will offer blessings in abundance as you spend meaningful time with your ever-present LEARN MORE
This weekend retreat is for those who have already had a basic introduction to BioSpiritual Focusing and seek to better understand how to be open to a more profound connection with God, self, and others. LEARN MORE
There's never been a better time to remove the barriers to a healthy, productive life! You can be free from grudges, resentment, self-defeating habits, and negative feelings. Forgiving is the only way to stop the pain and bring hope for the future. LEARN MORE
Conclude your Lenten season and enter into the holiest week of the year in a most powerful way by kissing the feet of Jesus. Spend four days of silence with the lover of your soul! Enjoy 10 conferences, Masses, Confessions, Spiritual Direction & delicious meals. LEARN MORE
We invite you to join the Benedictine monks of Christ the King Priory near Schuyler in their prayer and worship during the ‘Three Holy Days.’ Times of silence, meditation and talks will help us to focus on the mystery of Christ’s passion and resurrection and how it informs and forms our lives. LEARN MORE
An Ignatian Marriage Retreat
Join the Doran’s on this Divine Mercy Weekend to contemplate the necessity of mercy in marriage. LEARN MORE
During six Zoom sessions we will pray with The Cloud of Unknowing, a 14th-century classic text that provides the Christian seeker with a path and guidance toward developing a deeper union with God through the practice of loving contemplation. LEARN MORE
He is Risen!
There are countless ways that Christian disciples experience the Risen Lord in daily life; we just have to take the time to recognize them. This retreat will focus on St. Luke's account of Jesus and the two disciples on the road to Emmaus (Luke 24:13-35). LEARN MORE
We are invited to be followers of Jesus in our personal life and as members of God’s family. We will look at the Scripture texts of the 4th Sunday of Easter and pray with “vocation stories” as examples to what it means to be a joyful and dedicated follower of Jesus. LEARN MORE
For us humans and all life on earth it is the source of energy par excellence. Besides the scientific astronomical background and insight, which is the focus of this retreat, we will also look at the sun’s importance in the Christian tradition. LEARN MORE
This Ignatian Silent Retreat will have presentations about the many ways that Jesus took flesh in the lives of others. In these days of prayer, retreatants will be encouraged to spend time in imaginative contemplations of how Jesus came that we may have life. LEARN MORE
We will spend a day with the German mystic Meister Eckhart.
In his sermons and writings, he meditates on the immediate presence of God in the human soul. LEARN MORE
A retreat for religious Sisters.
We will draw from the book, Jesus: A Pilgrimage by Fr. James Martin, SJ. We will follow the life of Jesus from the Annunciation to the Resurrection. LEARN MORE
A retreat for women.
Join us for a transformative weekend retreat, where women of all ages are invited to find peace and resilience in life’s storms. LEARN MORE
During this retreat, Fr Joe will invite us to reflect on Jesus as the image of the invisible God in our world today through the Sacraments, the beauty of the world around us, and how we, the Church which Jesus established, can be what we are: the image of Jesus to others. LEARN MORE
We live in difficult times – political polarization, growing intolerance and violence, climate change precipitating natural disasters.
In the midst of this, God says through his Word and through his action in our lives: LEARN MORE
“What do we love, if it be not beauty?” (St. Augustine). This is the animating question in this sixth annual ecumenical retreat. It will engage us in the process of spiritual growth by exploring the various connections between beauty and spirituality in lectures, workshops, and liturgy. LEARN MORE
During this retreat the group will gather daily for a conference.
Each participant will meet individually with one of the directors every day. Opportunity to join the monks for Mass and prayer. LEARN MORE
Iconography begins with prayer and is executed with the sense that the seven days of creation are being represented in the artistic endeavor. This workshop is an instruction in icon writing in the Byzantine-Russian tradition. LEARN MORE
Bless yourself with a few days to simply be present and receive insight, healing, sense of connection or whatever is most needed now. Allow yourself to be gifted by God as you open yourself to the Great Love that holds and graces all. LEARN MORE
Make this the time for you and God to walk your spiritual path together. Discover the benefits of using a structured process to name how you are being called to live out the healthy desires of your heart. LEARN MORE
This retreat will lead you to an encounter with Jesus. It will take you on a spiritual journey focusing, among other things, on Jesus as captivating and winning storyteller, on Jesus’ deep love and care for people in all walks of life, and on Jesus who practices forgiveness even while being tortured on the cross, inviting us into the same attitude. LEARN MORE
“God looked at everything he had made and found it very good” (Gen 1:31). BioSpiritual Focusing is a way of opening the whole of ourselves—mind, body, and spirit—to a deeper connectedness with God, others, and self. LEARN MORE
“Who am I to lead my people...?” Even during his direct dramatic encounter with God at the burning bush, Moses questions God's call. Jesus Christ calls us today. In our encounters with Him He equips us to respond in our own unique way and to become His missionary disciples. LEARN MORE
Everybody is invited to make a pilgrimage to St. Benedict Center, view God’s Love made visible in nativity scenes from the Holy Land, from Africa, Asia, South & North America and Europe and pray for peace, which our world so urgently needs. LEARN MORE
During six Zoom sessions, we will pray with, The Showings of Julian of Norwich. Julian’s writings stem from a series of revelations she received during a life-threatening illness. She left us with the very first book composed by a woman in the English language which deeply conveys God’s love and goodness toward us. LEARN MORE
Psychiatrists tell us that most people only accomplish 10 percent of what they are capable of doing. This seminar will help you to attain a positive attitude about yourself, to accept yourself, to feel free to be yourself, and to forget about what others might be thinking about you. LEARN MORE
Everybody is invited to make a pilgrimage to St. Benedict Center, view God’s Love made visible in nativity scenes from the Holy Land, from Africa, Asia, South & North America and Europe and pray for peace, which our world so urgently needs. LEARN MORE
A special two-week opportunity to do Christmas shopping at the Center, Mon.-Fri. 2:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., Sat.-Sun. 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. A great variety of crafts and gifts made by area artists will be on sale. Book and Gift Store will be open Mon.-Fri. 10 AM – 4 PM. LEARN MORE
In contemplative prayer, we divest our minds of all thoughts and images in order to receive the pure and simple light of God directly into the summit of our souls. This retreat involves breath practice. It is for those who have begun the practice of non-conceptual prayer. LEARN MORE
This quiet, contemplative day will awaken and celebrate creative ways of being with God through a variety of prayer forms, scripture, reflection, and hands-on expression with art materials. You will be invited to be playful in your prayer life while partnering your own creativity with God’s creative Spirit. LEARN MORE
Mysticism is known as union with God or the Absolute. This union was interpreted as a religious experience that provides certainty about God or a transcendental reality. In mystic states we both become one with the Absolute and we become aware of our oneness with all of creation. LEARN MORE
This Level III program is for spiritual directors seeking to deepen their understanding of biospiritual focusing as well as how to help those they see for direction become more attentive to their embodied experience of God. LEARN MORE
As children of the Holy One, we are invited to live in wonder. Yet in a world that at times seems full of woe, that can feel dark and dingy, we need sacred space to practice living in the light of awe and astonishment. Come – Walk into wonder! LEARN MORE
Partnering with another regularly for biospiritual focusing helps develop a deeper capacity to notice and be present to the whole of our embodied experience – and to come to a greater sense of connection with God, others and ourselves. LEARN MORE
St. Francis has inspired followers of Jesus throughout the centuries and still does today. At San Damiano, a church building in ruins outside of his native Assisi, Francis heard Christ’s word “rebuild my church!” LEARN MORE
As you step away from the noise and commotion of the outer world, come into a sacred, quiet space to breathe, listen, and rest. A time to slow and soften into sensing the movement of the Holy Spirit, deepening an awareness of compassionate presence with God, yourself, and others. LEARN MORE
Bless yourself with a few days to simply be present and receive insight, healing, sense of connection or whatever is most needed now. Allow yourself to be gifted by God as you open yourself to the Great Love that holds and graces all. LEARN MORE
Iconography begins with prayer and is executed with the sense that the seven days of creation are being represented in the artistic endeavor. LEARN MORE
Maria (portrayed by her great-great-granddaughter Karen Wyatt Drevo in period attire) looks back at her life as a prairie pioneer in Otoe County, Nebraska, where she homesteaded in 1867. Maria crossed the Atlantic Ocean with seven children to reunite her family after a 7½ year separation. LEARN MORE
We know from experience that our body, mind, and spirit are intimately and intricately connected. True health encompasses this holy relationship. LEARN MORE
Come, step out during Lent in expectant faith and await the marvels of your God as you retreat! These five days of quiet will offer blessings in abundance as you spend meaningful time with your ever-present God. LEARN MORE
We do not pick and choose. In this retreat we will look at a selection of psalms and together find out the message that applies to our daily life. LEARN MORE
BioSpiritual Focusing enables us to find doorways into transformation in our relationship with God, self, and others -...a growing sense of connectedness within the Whole Christ where we know ourselves gifted. LEARN MORE
Retreat for mothers and their daughters, ages 11 – 15. The mother-daughter relationship is very special even as it undergoes numerous changes. This retreat provides opportunities for enhancing open communication between mom and daughter during the tween/teen years. LEARN MORE
During this Ignatian silent retreat, we will spend time for personal prayer and reflection on the seven sacraments of the Catholic Church considering their comforts and their challenges. LEARN MORE
We have been created to love and be loved. This is reflected in St. Benedict’s Rule who recommends the principles of stability, conversion of life, obedience, and hospitality. Benedict can inspire our love, whether we are monks or in a marriage or any other walk of life. LEARN MORE
St. Bernard of Clairvaux said, “Let us examine our paths; and in order to accomplish this in truth, let us invoke the Spirit of truth … because he leads us on the way by which we discover ourselves.” LEARN MORE
During this silent retreat the group will gather daily for a conference and from Mass. Each participant will meet individually with one of the directors every day. Opportunity to join the monks for prayer. LEARN MORE
This retreat for fathers and their sons, ages 11–17, provides opportunities for open communication and mutual learning between fathers and their adolescent sons. LEARN MORE
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