• Come to an out-of-the-way place where you can be alone with the God who loves you and lives within you!
• Experience for yourself God's awesome love and peace.
• Take time for the infinite graces in the Sacraments of Reconciliation and Holy Communion!
• Listen to God's word through experienced retreat directors who share the truths of the Catholic Faith.
• Treat yourself to Eucharistic Adoration, Benediction, Bible Reading (Lectio Divina) and walks in the solitude and serenity of the retreat house grounds.

"You are anxious and worried about many things."

Jesus Himself gives us the reason why we need a retreat: We are worn thin. In our busy and hectic daily life, demands are made on us from the time we rise until the time we rest. We are even a demand to ourselves. In the whole process, the area that universally becomes first neglected is prayer, our time with the Lord. It seems that everything else has priority, but we can always let prayer wait. Strange, since, in fact, it is the most important area of our lives! If we are not with God, where are we? Sadly deceived.

"Mary has chosen the better part."

Once when I had returned from preaching a retreat, a good friend asked me where I had been. "Preaching a retreat," I answered. He jokingly said what he seriously felt inside, "RETREAT? Why retreat? 'Forward!' I say. Always forward!" As old as sin in man is the mistaken notion, never challenged, that his way is the best way. How different it is from God's perspective. If man had followed his Creator's plan from the very beginning, in one week (literally) history could have progressed immeasurably further than it has progressed ever since.

 "Oh, if today you would hear his voice and harden not your hearts."
 A retreat is a time - maybe your first time - to stop man's business and slow down long enough to listen to God.
--- Choose the better way!  Spiritual Encouragement from Father Gregory Dick, O. Praem.

"Come apart and rest for a while."