On-Campus Programs
Ongoing
Oasis Days - First Tuesdays of the Month
These will be quiet days of contemplative reflection. Each day will begin with an introduction and a prayerful invitation into the theme, followed by time for solitude, journaling, and other prayer practices, and sharing insights.
Sacred Circle - 2nd Tuesdays of the Month
Sacred Circle is a contemplative listening experience, which means it is about holy listening. Trained facilitators will guide you through a structured sharing format that creates the opportunity for deep listening and a respect for each person’s sacred story. Each Sacred Circle is a stand-alone session and new participants are always welcome.
Pathways - 1st or 2nd Saturdays of the Month
Pathways is an exploration of Spirit, by studying classical and modern texts, and applying this teachings and practices to everyday life. This year we will be reading and studying Raimon Panikkar, Ken Wilber, Hannah Arendt, Simone de Beauvoir, Ayn Rand and Simone Weil and building a bridge between the Holy Bible and Ch’an Buddhism.
Centering Prayer - Wednesday Mornings at 9:30am & Thursday Evenings at 6:30pm
Centering Prayer is a gentle, silent method of consenting to God’s presence and healing action within us. Based on rich Christian contemplative heritage, Centering Prayer offers us a way to be open to God. By taking time to “rest in God” each day, we open our awareness to the gift of God’s presence.
Upcoming
From Codependency to Interdependency - A Loving Look at Our Lives & Relationships
Calling all new Grads! Step into your nursing career with confidence, clarity, and calm. You've got the scrubs - now let's fuel your soul. Through guided practices and resilience - building strategies, you'll learn how to protect your peace, care for your body, and thrive - not just survive, as you begin your career.
Millions of people have stood in awe viewing the beauty depicted in the art of Vincent Van Gogh. His art has captured our imagination. While his art is well known and loved, less is known of the spiritual vision behind his paintings. Born of disappointment, faith and a love for the ordinary, Van Gogh offers the viewer profound insights into the sacred ordinary.
In a world filled with increasing chaos and division, it's easy to become discouraged — to lose sight of where God is present and how close Christ remains. This retreat is an invitation to slow down, look more carefully, and rediscover the many places where Christ can be found: in scripture, in silence, in one another, and in the ordinary moments of our lives.
Take a few days’ retreat from your daily routine and come share with us the sacred silence at beautiful Mercy Center, Auburn.
During this intensive retreat, you will sit in silent meditation (zazen) within your own inner space and with like-minded others. You will be able to hear the voice that speaks within you and connects you with all that is.
This two-day retreat for nurses offers in-depth continuing education on key aspects of menopause care, while also offering a chance to rest, recharge, and tend to your own spiritual needs in a peaceful and restorative setting.
This retreat will explore the mysticism and teaching of two great visionaries and evangelists of the Christian tradition. Paul, in the first century A.D., creates a radical gospel based on his experience of the Risen Christ. Julian, in late medieval Europe, has 16 visions/showings/revelations of the dying and risen Christ, Jesus of Nazareth.
Join us for a 4-day retreat of contemplation and practice focused on the 11th Step. We will spend our time cultivating the tools of mindfulness to support our recovery.
A creative expression, inspired with the spirit and passion of Blessed Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and Saint Mother Teresa. Facilitators Mimi Johnson and Alynn Allison Brutsman each bring a rich background in the areas of leadership, spirituality, ministry, scripture, contemplative prayer, retreats, and the arts.
This workshop is an exploration of living in relationships (personality types), especially those that are cause for frustration or conflict. The Enneagram provides the lens with which to 'see' the deeper truths that will serve to set one free from being triggered by the unhelpful assumptions, reactions and expectations that have been formulated.
Life is full of changes. Sometimes those changes are welcome, and sometimes they are not. Give yourself the sacred time and space to honor your life transition and discover new life within it.
A 9-day, silent Centering Prayer retreat offering the Intensive I, Advanced Intensive, and Post-Intensive tracks.
Discover the joy of creatively engaging with Scripture as Karen guides you through a peaceful, inspiring journaling experience.
A restorative retreat for nurses who are running on empty.
Step away from the demands of clinical care to rediscover the vital art of replenishment. Explore the 7 types of rest through restorative yoga, nature walks, and sensory grounding.
Al descubrir tu lenguaje de amor, podrás fortalecer tu relación con Dios, con tus hijos, con tu pareja y con todas las personas que te rodean.
We invite you to come away from your busy, noise-filled life to listen deeply to your still small voice and hear the longings of your heart.
This retreat for physicians invites you to trade the exhaustion of striving for the quiet power of "abiding," reclaiming your identity as a faithful healer rooted in grace rather than just a provider measured by outcomes.
During this Advent season, spend a weekend with the feminine power of the BLACK MADONNA. Through presentations, prayer, and silence, allow her power of healing and rebirth to touch the soul.
Spiritual directors continually confront the powers of regression and doubt along with breakthroughs from grace into love. This weekend will invite spiritual directors to enter that process themselves to embrace the transformation of shadow into love of self, others and the divine.
The Great Search 1 is the first of a three-part series of annual retreats led by the Celtic teacher John Philip Newell and his colleague Cami Twilling in which we explore the search for expanded vision, the search for intimacy with Earth, and the search for spiritual presence. This retreat is based on John Philip Newell’s book The Great Search.
Come rest in silence with other contemplative companions, and allow the mind, body, and spirit to surrender to God's presence and action within.
For many centuries, we've been chased away from our emotions, yet we understand now that emotions are essential to everything we think and every decision we make. Understanding our emotions, then, means understanding ourselves and others -- and our inner and outer worlds -- more fully. In this weekend exploration of the deep intelligence of your emotions, we'll learn new skills and practices to help us explore what emotions are, how they work, and how to work directly with their wisdom to improve every area of our lives.
This is a retreat for those who have attended multiple Intensive and Post-Intensive 8-10 day retreats and find themselves desiring yet longer sessions of centering prayer in community. Three times a day there will be a session of three 30-minute periods of centering prayer. Once a day, we will watch a brief (about five minute) segment of the film “From the Mind To the Heart”, a conversation with Thomas Keating, which he created for this retreat.
Beguiled by Beauty
During our time together, we will explore beauty as a threshold to the divine and to the deepening of compassion and joy. Beauty allows us to behold the sacred worth of all beings in nature, the arts, and the faces of others. Cultivating the practice of beauty opens us to a deeply joyful way of embracing the loveliness and sorrows of life. We will have time for discussion, small group conversations, meditation, quiet, and creativity – and for savoring the beauty of a life of faith.
Praying Your Life
God speaks to us in diverse ways, revealing the depths of love to us. This weekend of prayer and reflection focuses upon the revelation of God coming to us through the fabric of our own lives. Just as seekers listen to God through Lectio Divina, seekers can also explore the shape of God’s desire through reflecting upon the events, experiences and relationships which have shaped and are shaping their lives in the present.

