9-Day Dual-Track Intensive and Post-Intensive Retreat

REGISTRATION OPENS APRIL 1, 2025

This retreat offers two tracks simultaneously: Intensive I and Post Intensive. For everyone, there will be 3 sets of two 30 minute periods of Centering Prayer daily. The Intensive I retreat will watch video talks from Fr. Thomas Keating’s Spiritual Journey, focusing on “The Human Condition and the Spiritual Journey”. The Post Intensive retreat has no videos and an additional hour of Centering Prayer each day. You choose the track that works best for you. Any of the tracks may be repeated multiple times. If this is your first Centering Prayer retreat of this length, we suggest you choose Intensive I.

Lectio Divina and a contemplative Eucharist will be offered daily, as well as optional soul-friending with the staff. Throughout the retreat, we will be in silence.

Pre-requisite: A daily practice of Centering Prayer for 6 months or longer.

The Retreat begins Wednesday, October 8 with registration from 3:00 to 5:00, an opening session at 5:00pm, and dinner at 6:00pm. We end on Thursday, October 16 at 11:00am (lunch optional).

The retreat will be facilitated by experienced Contemplative Outreach staff. For more information, contact Susan Turpin at +1(541) 324-1207 or email her at slturpin@me.com.

If you are traveling by air, the Contemplative Outreach staff can arrange transportation to and from the Sacramento airport to the Mercy Center. Please book your arrival on the beginning day for 2:00pm or earlier and your departure on the ending day for 1:30pm or later. Let us know your flight information. A contribution of $25 per ride (cash, check or Venmo) sustains this for us.

Limited scholarship money is available to assist those who would otherwise be unable to attend. The scholarship money has been donated by former retreatants.

Rooms are single with a sink in the room; bathrooms are shared.