Retreat Center Recommendations
Welcome to FindtheDivine. This is our first post.
Many visitors to FindtheDivine have expressed interest in sharing their experiences at various retreats. We welcome your views on retreats and retreat centers on our web site. Were your expectations met? Can you recommend a retreat center to visit?
August 18th, 2007 at 4:51 pm
Hi Phil,
Congratulations on setting up a blog!
I will be your first subscriber I guess.
September 15th, 2007 at 8:56 pm
Hi Fields,
I am anxious to learn about some of the Retreat Centers in Chile… Yes, you were the first post!
Phil
October 16th, 2007 at 5:25 pm
St John’s Abbey:
I spent 10 days in Collegeville, MN, in September,
6 days at the Episcopal House of Prayer, retreat center, whose Executive Director is Ward Bauman; he provided wonderful hospitality and was the abbot of the Benedictine Experience we participated in. The final 4 days we moved to the new (!!) Abbey GuestHouse, opened 12/06. It has wonderful accommodations for singles, couples and groups in suites. We entered into the community prayers 4 times a day. Exquisite time!
November 6th, 2007 at 4:51 pm
The Franciscan Renewal Center provides one of the best Holy Week experiences in the Country.
I highly recommend it.
Also, they have great summer time rates for non profit groups.
http://WWW.thecasa.org
November 29th, 2007 at 11:38 pm
Pacem in Terris in St. Francis, MN is a great place to go for a personal silent retreat. They have wonderful little ‘Hermitages’ that are located in the woods. The Hermitages are equipped with a single bed, a table, and a rocking chair that sits in front of a large picture window that faces the woods. A basket with bread, cheese and fruit is brought to your Hermitage each day as well as drinking water. You may go to the ‘main house’ for evening meals and join the family who owns the retreat and other guests. The lower level of the ‘main house’ has an exercise room, roll in showers and a library with reclining chairs and you can enter it without going in the upstairs. A path through a meadow leads to a lake with a dock. Very nice!!!!
December 10th, 2007 at 11:36 pm
Hi Phil,
Great to see the new retreat blog. Will subscribe to your feed and keep abreast of happenings in the retreat world. On that note anyone wishing to retreat to CA or AZ for a great start to the new year contact us. We continue to offer personal healing retreats year round in Sedona, Arizona and will be offering rejuvenation retreats and corporate retreats in Feb, and March. A new retreat of interest is our women’s support retreat focused on the principals of Eat, Pray, Love at Warner Springs in March and then in Arizona in May.
Happy Holidays Phil and to all the retreat facilitators family. May your holidays be filled with laughter, peace and joy.
Annie B Lawrence
October 25th, 2008 at 8:03 pm
Check out OjaiSoulArts.com for many great retreat opportunities with a spiritualist named Ronda LaRue. I have attended 2 retreats, one alone and the other a Midlife Call with 11 other women. Amazing is the only way to describe OjaiSoulArts and Ronda.
December 16th, 2008 at 11:26 am
I used findthedivine.com as well as the Christian Camp and Conference Association, http://www.ccca.org as well as the American Camps Association, http://www.acacamps.org to create a state by state listing of camp and conference centers for my book, The Complete Leader’s Guide to Christian Retreats (Judson Press, 2008) which is a user-friendly, how-to guide on retreat planning that just officially released.
May 14th, 2009 at 6:55 pm
Link to an article – A Monastery Vacation: The Simple Life Revisited. An article about taking a simple inexpensive vacation to a peaceful spiritual retreat center in Minnesota called St. John’s Abbey, which is a Benectine college and monastery.
Visit – http://www.trifter.com/USA-&-Canada/Minnesota/A-Monastery-Vacation-The-Simple-Life-Revisited.707199