RETREATS & EVENTS
Please click on our events to find out more about these retreats, which are sponsored by the Bon Secours Retreat and Conference Center. If you would like information about scheduling a group conference to come to our Center, please contact our Sales Manager, Rainey Taylor, at 410-442-3144. Conferences are distinguished from retreats because the group comes to our center for the facilities, lodging and/or meals, but they have their own presenter and attendees. Retreats are events that we plan here at the Center and are open to the public to attend.
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March 2019
Quiet Mornings – March
Ever wish you had time set apart for quiet prayer? Or, perhaps a mini-morning retreat? Do you desire structure to support an ongoing practice, but need flexibility too? We hold these every month. You can take part whenever you’d like to match your schedule/desire/need. Interested adults are invited to gather with us at 9:30am for introductions and a short gathering prayer. We will move into silence from 9:45 to 10:35am. During that time, individuals might elect to stay in the…
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Centering Prayer Session – Afternoon
Centering Prayer sessions are held weekly. On the 1st and 3rd Tuesdays of each month it is held from 1-2pm and then on the 2nd and 4th Tuesday each month it will be held in the evening. (If there is a 5th Tuesday in a month, it will be held at 1pm.) If lunch is being served at our Center on this day, you are welcome to arrive at noon and purchase a meal ticket too ($10). Please call us…
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The Hope of Easter Retreat *Commuter Option
The Hope of Easter: Journeying through the Desert, the Garden and the Empty Tomb. Lent is a time set aside each year for Christian transformation. The Hope of Easter is the message of 1 John 3:3, “And all who have this hope in him purify themselves, just as he is pure.” You are invited to join us as we take the journey of inner purification. How do we purify ourselves and become more like Jesus, “taking the very nature of…
Find out moreCentering Prayer – Evening
Centering Prayer sessions are held weekly. On the 1st and 3rd Tuesdays of each month it is held from 1-2pm and then on the 2nd and 4th Tuesday each month it will be held in the evening. (If there is a 5th Tuesday in a month, it will be held at 1pm.) If dinner is being served at our Center on this day, you are welcome to arrive at noon and purchase a meal ticket too ($10). Please call us…
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Lunch & Dialogue: Joining Jesus on the Way
Joining Jesus on the Way: Praying the Stations of the Cross in 2019 The tradition of praying the Stations of the Cross during Lent has been observed for countless centuries around the world. As a spiritual practice whose focus centers on the passion of Christ, participants are invited to contemplate the experience of Jesus as he made his way to his crucifixion at Calvary. Join us this Lent as we timely revisit such sacred mysteries in Jesus’ life and prayerfully…
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Afternoon Centering Prayer
Centering Prayer sessions are held weekly. On the 1st and 3rd Tuesdays of each month it is held from 1-2pm and then on the 2nd and 4th Tuesday each month it will be held in the evening. If there is a 5th Tuesday in a month, it will be held at 1pm. If lunch is being served at our Center on this day, you are welcome to arrive at noon and purchase a meal ticket too ($10). Please call us…
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Final Words – Unrelenting Love – Ultimate Trust
Final Words – Unrelenting Love – Ultimate Trust On Good Friday, the Seven Last Words of Jesus were spoken by him from the cross as he was dying. Three of the “Words” were addressed to the Father—“Forgive them, for they know not what they are doing; My God, my God, why have you forsaken me; and, Into your hands I commend my spirit.” Two of the “Words” were spoken by Jesus of himself—“I thirst; and, It is finished.” Finally, two…
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Opening our Hearts to Letting Go: Lenten Prayer Retreat
Opening our Hearts to Letting Go: The Welcoming Prayer and our Lenten Journey Our Lenten journey is one of discerning in the movements of our own lives the mystery of Jesus’ self-emptying and self-gift. Contemplative prayer assists us in listening more attentively to the attachments, addictions and emotional programs for happiness that have developed within us that keep us from a greater degree of surrender, holy detachment and peace. In this day of prayer, we will explore the contemplative practice…
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*Please note that this is the first Centering Prayer session of January, due to the New Year’s holiday. Centering Prayer sessions are held weekly. On the 1st and 3rd Tuesdays of each month it is held from 1-2pm and then on the 2nd and 4th Tuesday each month it will be held in the evening. If there is a 5th Tuesday in a month, it will be held at 1pm. If dinner is being served at our Center on this…
Find out moreCentering Prayer – Afternoon Session
Centering Prayer sessions are held weekly. On the 1st and 3rd Tuesdays of each month it is held from 1-2pm and then on the 2nd and 4th Tuesday each month it will be held in the evening. If there is a 5th Tuesday in a month, it will be held from 1-2pm. If lunch is being served at our Center on this day, you are welcome to arrive at noon and purchase a meal ticket too ($10). Please call us…
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