Retreats and Prayer

PORTLAND METRO

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

WILLAMETTE VALLEY

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

SOUTHERN OREGON

• St. Rita Retreat Center

There is a need for enthusiastic study and lively fellowship with others...and there is also a need for personal prayer and spiritual reflection, to ensure that the interior life remains healthy.  Here are five reasons why you should seriously consider a retreat:

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

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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. 

5. 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 and we need to follow it.

Archbishop Sample encourages everyone (especially those in ministry) to take a yearly retreat.  Whether you join a parish retreat, take a personal retreat at one of the Oregon Retreat Centers, or participate in a diocesan or apostolate retreat, make sure to spend some time with the Lord to rest, reflect, and re-engage in our vocations and His mission.

Pick an option below:

• Sat. Feb. 6th 9a-2p:  Ministry Leaders Day Retreat at FBYC
• Sign-up Now HERE *Space is Limited

• Mon.-Weds. April 5-7:  Formation Retreat at the Abbey,  details to follow.
• Choose your own Retreat:  
  1. Pick a Retreat Center
  2. Schedule a date
  3. Show up for Retreat including Mass, Confession, Scripture reflection, journaling, Adoration, spiritual direction, Liturgy of the Hours, silence, etc.
  4. Resources here, here, and here. 

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