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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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

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

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

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

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

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