Preached Retreats - Usually a Week Long
Retreat offering:
Morning and Evening Prayer Services
Daily Liturgy with Guided Reflections
2 Conferences Daily
Time to Celebrate the Sacrament of Reconciliation
Mid-Week Anointing Service
One-on-One Meetings with Retreat Director
Time for Personal Devotions
Time for Personal Meditation
Directed Retreats - A 5 Day Experience
offering:
The Retreatant time to enter into the Silence
Daily Meetings with the Spiritual Director
Sacred Scripture as the Main Sources for Direction
Alternative Spiritual Readings are available
Daily Liturgy
Morning Prayer and Evening Prayer are private. (A Total of 5 People maximum)
Parish Missions - Designed for you and your
friends offering:
A “Tailor-made” Family experience at your Home Parish Community
Weekend Celebration of the Liturgy
Daily Liturgy with Guided Reflections
4 Evening Conferences
Time for Reconciliation and Anointing Services
Time set apart to meet with the Director
Visitation for specialized Groups (i.e. Parish Staff Members, Teachers and
Students, Parish Societies, etc.)
Weekend Retreats - Designed for the Working
Person offering:
Beginning Friday Evening until Sunday Noon
4 Conferences
2 Liturgies
Faith-Sharing
Reconciliation Service
1 Meeting with the Director if so desired
Days of Prayer - This day offers the
Retreatants:
Morning Prayer Service
2 Conferences
Liturgy
Faith-Sharing
Closing Prayer Services
Evenings of Meditation - Designed for the
busy person offering:
2 Hour Prayer Experience
Scripture Based
Time of Silent Meditation
Faith-Sharing
Closing Prayer and Blessing
Healing Retreats - 3-5 Day Retreat
Experience offering:
Morning and Evening Prayers
Daily Conference and Faith-Sharing
Anointing Service
Supporting friends are also invited
(Follow up retreats are available)
Franciscan Spirituality Workshops -
Designed to fit your schedule:
Day-long Workshops
Luncheon Presentations
Evening Gatherings
Reviewing Franciscan writings
Studying how the Franciscan Movement is alive and active in The World Today!
Staff Retreats - Design to meet your needs
and the needs of those that you work with, to enrich your place of employment
with Gospel Values while respecting the dignity of all people.
Faculty Retreats - We are All Missionaries
of the Good News! Designed to meet your busy schedule, this retreat can be an
“In-Service” Program. This will be time well spent while praying with one
another and for the well-being of the Student Body. Time to review your Mission
Statement and to enhance Talents so to improve our learning environment for
people of all ages.
Spiritual Direction - For the Religious
living in the Chicago Area, Spiritual Direction is available by calling
1.312.520.5164.
Why a Retreat?
To honor a religious experience of drawing aside to a quiet place, by
oneself or with a friend or a group, so to learn more of the ways of God.
To know of God’s loving relationship with us and to discover how to recognize
the presence of the sacred in the ordinary moments of life, as well as in the
extra ordinary events of life.
A Retreat is . . .
A time to examine, to discover and to decide.
A time to look back with reverence and gratitude.
A time to find peace in the present and hope for the future.
A time to decide which path of life to follow.
A time to integrate Gospel Truths into one’s life style.
A Retreat . . . for Me?
Need to reestablish Peace in your Life?
Need to discover New Ways to deal with Tensions in Life?
Need to further your Development of Christian Love among Family Members?
Need to deepen your Faith in Jesus Christ and His Church?
Need to rediscover Christian Traditions in Life?
Need for Refreshment for Mind, Body and Soul?
Morning and Evening Prayer Services