Parish Programs

Quiet Days of Prayer

What:  Quiet time for busy people to:

When:

Lunch and snacks provided. No fee required. Donations gratefully accepted for retreat scholarship.

 

Directed Retreat in Your Daily Life

What is a Directed Retreat in Your Daily Life?

This is a way of making a directed retreat in the midst of daily living. It helps retreatants integrate prayer more deeply into all things of daily life. Participants agree to:

Where did the idea come from?

The practice of reflecting on one's prayer and speaking of it to another person of faith is part of a long tradition in Christian churches known as "spiritual direction". It is neither counseling nor therapy; neither instruction nor problem solving. Rather it is conversations between two people of faith wherein one person reviews with a trained person of faith his or her prayer experience in order to interpret or discern how God may be speaking to him or her. Being guided in prayer this way has proved to help people listen more carefully and respond more sensitively to God's personal communication with them. In this way we begin to find God in all things.

Who might be interested?

Men and women of all ages who:
  •  want to deepen their personal relationship with God
  •  have been wanting to make a retreat but have not been able to take time away from home, family, work
  •  want to pray more regularly
  •  want to discern God's call in their lives
  •  want to speak prayer one-on-one with a trained person of faith
  •  desire to integrate more fully their prayer with their active life

    • How does it happen?

    a. The retreat begins with an opening session on a Sunday afternoon, 1:00 - 4:00 pm. This will include introductions, an explanation of the structure of the retreat, some suggestions for prayer, an experience of guided prayer, and meeting with one's companion to set up appointments for the week.

    b. Throughout the week the retreatants pray, journal and meet with their companion. Prayer guides will be available for individual meetings each day throughout the week at different times, from as early as 5:30 AM until as late as 9:00PM.

    c. The retreat closes with another gathering on the following Saturday. The day will start with the 8:30 Mass. After refreshments the session will start at 9:30 AM and conclude by 11:00 AM.

    How to register?

    Participants are asked to fill out a registration form and drop it at the parish office or mail it to the attention of SJB Center for Spirituality along with a $10 registration fee.

    Space is limited because the retreat is conducted one-on-one. Applications will be accepted on a first come, first served basis.

    Registration forms