Contemplative Retreat: Five-day Dual Track Centering Prayer Retreat

April 21-25, 2025

Course Description: This retreat is an opportunity for Centering Prayer Practitioners to deepen their contemplative journey in the contemporary world. It is a five-day experience of integrating contemplation and action through silence, solitude, and community.

The retreat offers two tracks.

• The intensive track is recommended for people who have completed the introductory workshop and who have a regular practice of Centering Prayer. It includes Thomas Keating’s videos on the Human Condition with a faith sharing after each video teaching.

• The post-intensive track is for people who have previously made an extended day intensive retreat. The post-intensive offers increased silence and additional periods of Centering Prayer.

The retreat provides group experiences of silence solitude and space for optional prayer times with the monks included Mass. Afternoon includes time for walking in natures and soul friending with retreat facilitators. The retreat experience fosters an ever-deepening level of interior silence and may lead to an awareness of the presence of God in everyday life.