From Friday–Sunday, October 31–November 2, join us for a Spiritual Life retreat on Halloween, All Saints Day, and the Day of the Dead at the Villa Maria Education and Spirituality Center in Pulaski, Pennsylvania. Amid our normal retreat rhythms of solitude and community, silence and conversation, stillness and activity, we will explore our mortality, our […]

Join us for a weekend of quiet, rest, prayer, community and embodiment, Friday–Sunday, May 2–4. We will head up to Vila Maria Retreat Center, just an hour or so away, for a time of pondering and experiencing the gift and challenges of our human bodies. In the Easter season, we celebrate Jesus’ resurrection as the […]

Epiphany is a season where we celebrate and remind ourselves that God is a God who speaks, communicates, reveals, and shines light into darkness. God desires to be known and to know us as children. On this retreat in the season of Epiphany, we will reflect together on four ways in which God can communicate, […]

“First she surrendered her Green Then the Orange, Yellow, and Red… Finally she let go of her Brown… Shedding her last leaf She stood empty and silent, stripped bare Leaning against the sky she began her vigil of trust…” (Macrina Weiderkehr, The Seasons of Your Heart) Are you being invited into a vigil of trust? […]

As we approach Thanksgiving, look towards Advent, and ponder the end of 2023, it is a great time to take a weekend in community with others and slow down, reflect, pause, pray, and "forget not all of God's benefits." Join us for a Gratitude Retreat at the Villa Maria Retreat Center in Pulaski, Pennsylvania, Friday–Sunday, […]

In Philippians Paul says he yearns “to know Christ—yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow, attaining to the resurrection from the dead” (3:11). Join us for a post-Easter retreat at the Villa Maria Retreat Center in Pulaski, Pennsylvania, Friday–Sunday, May […]