
9-Day Intensive, Advanced Intensive and Post-Intensive Retreat
October 8 @ 3:00 pm - October 16 @ 11:00 am
$975
REGISTRATION OPENS APRIL 1, 2025
This retreat offers three tracks simultaneously: Intensive I, Advanced Intensive and Post Intensive. If this is your first Centering Prayer retreat of this length, we suggest you choose Intensive I. All tracks may be repeated.
Intensive I: There will be 3 sets of two 30-minute periods of Centering Prayer daily and 2 sessions of watching video talks from Fr. Thomas Keating’s Spiritual Journey series with optional discussion.
Advanced Intensive: There will be 3 sets of two 30-minute periods plus one additional 30-minute period of Centering Prayer daily and one session of watching video talks from Fr. Thomas Keating’s later series with optional discussion.
Post-Intensive: There will be 3 sets of two 30-minute periods plus two additional 30-minute periods of Centering Prayer daily.
Lectio Divina and a contemplative Eucharist will be offered daily for everyone, as well as optional soul-friending with staff.
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.