Retreat
Events for October 4, 2026
Listen: A 4-day Centering Prayer Retreat
Central Illinois and Mississippi Valley Contemplative Outreach invite you to retreat into silence. We will Center, experience Lectio Divina, and learn insightful methods of listening from Abbot Joseph Boyle of St. Benedict’s Monastery. A minimum of 3 months Centering Prayer practice is required to attend. Please see the link below for more information and to
Centering Prayer Retreat
Central Illinois and Mississippi Valley Contemplative Outreach invite you to retreat into silence. We will center, experience lectio divina, and learn insightful methods of listening from a video of Abbot Joseph Boyle of St. Benedict’s Monastery. Note: A minimum of 3 months Centering Prayer practice is required to attend. The retreat begins Thursday, October 1
Presence, Prayer, and Writing From the Heart: A Contemplative Writing Retreat
We are never closer to our Creator than when we are creating. In writing, we engage in God’s infinite creative impulse to birth the new, the unexpected. Silence and stillness can assist that process by opening a portal to inner depths where we connect to ourselves, to others, to God, and all of creation. All
