Retreats and Prayer

PORTLAND METRO

• Archdiocese Griffin Center
• Our Lady of Peace Center 
• The Grotto

WILLAMETTE VALLEY

• Mt. Angel Abbey Retreat House
• Fr. Bernard Youth Center
• Trappist Abbey Guest House
• St. Benedict Lodge
• Shalom at the Monastery

SOUTHERN OREGON

• St. Rita Retreat Center

In our busy lives, there is a great need for personal prayer and spiritual reflection, to ensure that the interior life remains healthy.  Here are a few reasons why:

Get Away From Busy-ness and Stress - We have too many meetings and commitments and emails and voice mails and bills and chores. Get away from everyday life completely and spend time on retreat filling up what has been drained away.

Be Quiet and Listen to God - It is a noisy world. God is always talking to us, but it can be difficult to hear what He is saying. The opportunities for quiet reflection in our day-to-day life are usually filled with noise and steals some of the communication time from God.

Be around other Catholics - We are not afforded the setting or the company to comfortably talk about our prayer life and our faith. Gathering together fills you with a joy that can carry motivation to keep your prayer life strong.

Or, Be Alone - Going on a directed retreat with others is a great experience, but once in a while we also need to just get away from everybody. A private retreat affords you time for silence, prayer, holy reading, and reflection. 

Jesus did it - Jesus spent forty days in the desert fasting and praying. You may only have the time to get away for one or two days, but the example has been set.

Whether you join a group retreat, take a personal retreat or take a retreat with your spouse,  spend time with the Lord to rest, reflect, and re-engage. Here are a few options:

• Archdiocese Parish Leaders Retreat at Mount Angel Abbey
• Make a Personal Retreat    
• Make a Retreat with your spouse    
• Coordinate a Parish Retreat with your pastor (a few options below):

From Portland to Ashland, parish ACTS retreat weekends have allowed retreatants to experience God’s love and joy. They return to their parish with a deeper love for each other and a desire to become more involved in their parish community. Several parishes throughout the Archdiocese have experienced a transformation with these retreats.  LEARN MORE

Changing Lives. Transforming Parishes. 
Most of the people you see every day feel like something is missing in their lives. Welcome is an incredible experience that helps them discover what that something is—and what to do about it. It’s run by parishioners for parishioners, and it’s re-energizing parishes across the country.  LEARN MORE

The Cursillo Movement is a movement of the Catholic Church, where the lay faithful working together with our priests and bishops, use the cursillo method to find, form, sustain and link Lay Leaders for Christ and His church.  Cursillo is a means of supporting Christian Community.   LEARN MORE