Silent Retreats

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This year, I went on my first retreat in years. It was a 3 day silent retreat which I enjoyed emencely.

Due to some turmoil in my life right now, I am researching other silent retreats that are longer in length (about a week) that are more personal in nature for when the current situation is finally resolved. I am mainly looking in the upper midwest near Michigan.

Does anyone know of any. The only one I know is at the Abbey of Gethsemani is Kentucky.

Thanks in advance.
 
May God’s peace, love and mercy be with you!

St. Meinrad Archabbey in Indiana is a Benedictine monastery where monks offer spiritual retreats based on your needs. You have the option of doing it on your own or with a spiritual director or attend the ones with certain themes. God bless!

saintmeinrad.edu/monastery_info.aspx

Blessed be Jesus an Mary!
 
So far, I have not found any additional ones on the web. The only reason I knew about Gethsemani is because Al Kresta mentioned it on his program.
 
I suspect you and I may have been at the same retreat this year. But that is just a guess. 🙂

Manresa has longer silent retreats than just the three days. You can also do week long or longer retreats there with personal spiritual direction. Give them a call and ask to speak with Fr. Bernie Owens - he really is wonderful. 🙂

~Liza
 
lizaanne said:
I suspect you and I may have been at the same retreat this year. But that is just a guess. 🙂

Manresa has longer silent retreats than just the three days. You can also do week long or longer retreats there with personal spiritual direction. Give them a call and ask to speak with Fr. Bernie Owens - he really is wonderful. 🙂

~Liza
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If you are talking about the Opus Sanctorum Angelorum retreat in Holly in January, you would be correct.

As for Manresa, I had already checked them out since they are only about 15 minutes from me but it was not really what I wanted.
 
I tried to PM you the following, but you aren’t receiving PMs 🙂

Oh yes! I didn’t see that!

I was actually at Manresa in February, and since there aren’t very many silent retreats around here I took a stab at you being at that one. If you have not been there I do recommend it, I’ve been on 9 retreats there over the years and I just love it. It is a beautiful place, and I find it extremely spiritual and restful.

Thanks for your PM - sorry I missed your post!

If I hear of any other silent retreats in the area I’ll let you know. There is one that someone told me about just about a month ago and I’ve completely forgotten where it was. When I looked it up it had already happened in our area for the year, so no chance till next year. I just can’t recall the name of the group or place. 🤷

Happy Easter!
~Liza
 
lizaanne said:
I tried to PM you the following, but you aren’t receiving PMs 🙂

Oh yes! I didn’t see that!

I was actually at Manresa in February, and since there aren’t very many silent retreats around here I took a stab at you being at that one. If you have not been there I do recommend it, I’ve been on 9 retreats there over the years and I just love it. It is a beautiful place, and I find it extremely spiritual and restful.

Thanks for your PM - sorry I missed your post!

If I hear of any other silent retreats in the area I’ll let you know. There is one that someone told me about just about a month ago and I’ve completely forgotten where it was. When I looked it up it had already happened in our area for the year, so no chance till next year. I just can’t recall the name of the group or place. 🤷

Happy Easter!
~Liza
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It was probably Opus Sanctorum Angelorum at the Maryville Retreat Center in Holly. It is part of the Contraternity I am joining.
 
This place is a Jesuit retreat house that is in Cleveland. They offer the Ignatius spirituality exercises but you can do individual retreats for as many days as you like. They can be silent if you want, too. The rooms are simple and there is a walking path with the stations.

Not sure if it’s what you’re looking for but you can check it out:
jrh-cleveland.org/
 
Jenlyn said:
This place is a Jesuit retreat house that is in Cleveland. They offer the Ignatius spirituality exercises but you can do individual retreats for as many days as you like. They can be silent if you want, too. The rooms are simple and there is a walking path with the stations.

Not sure if it’s what you’re looking for but you can check it out:
jrh-cleveland.org/
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I go here every year for a week-long silent directed retreat, it is excellent, and better yet, it is silent during those weeks, because they don’t have other activities going on. Cost is just room and board. You don’t even have to meet with a director if you don’t want, but I advise it. My only thorn is the daily Mass, at which some of the priests invite congregation (usually 5-10) people to stand around the altar. Bear in mind this is diocese of Cleveland where liturgical oddities are the norm, not the exception, and otherwise the liturgy is pretty tame, by local standards. Daily Mass and joining LOTH are optional.

there used to be a good retreat center in Oxford MI in north Oakland county, but don’t know anything about it now.

The Sacred Heart Retreat Center in Youngstown Ohio is also worth a look.
 
A friend of mine has been to a silent retreat at Cenacle House in Warrenville, IL and enjoyed it.

cenacle.org/

You pay per night and can have as much or as little direction as you like.
 
I go to St. Lazare Retreat House in Spring Lake each year for a silent retreat. Their retreats are only for the weekend, but I believe they are very open to having people use the retreat house during the week as well. They also have a little cabin on their grounds which is somewhat secluded. This would probably be more of a self-guided retreat experience though. I’m not sure if that’s what you are looking for but if you are interested, here’s their website:

stlazareretreat.org/html/site_map.html
 
puzzleannie said:
there used to be a good retreat center in Oxford MI in north Oakland county, but don’t know anything about it now.
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St. Benedict Monastery in Oxford about 45 minutes from me.

They have been relatively quiet until recently. In fact, they were not doing any Spiritual Direction (I checked when I moved here). I just went out to their web site and they are starting an oblates program. May check into it.
 
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