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

October 18-25, 2024 Saint Benedict Center, Schuyler Nebraska Central Time Zone Living a contemplative life is not easy in our contemporary society. That’s why retreats can be a restorative practice, giving deep time in God’s presence nestled in community with silence, stillness, and serenity. Consider this a rendezvous of availability with God*, a place to

“CONTEMPLATION is the highest expression of a person’s intellectual and spiritual life. It is that life itself, fully awake, fully active, fully aware that it is alive. It is spiritual wonder. It is spontaneous awe at the sacredness of life, of being. It is gratitude for life, for awareness and for being.” -Thomas Merton The