http://www.stemma.org/houses/ en webservices@etapestry.com Copyright 2011 2011-02-23T16:13:27+00:00 http://www.stemma.org/houses/calendar/legion_of_mary_and_others/ http://www.stemma.org/houses/calendar/legion_of_mary_and_others/#When:18:24:39Z Retreat Master:  Rev. Boniface Hicks, OSB Theme:  To be announced Retreat open to Men and Women Weekend:  $150 2012-10-26T18:24:39+00:00 http://www.stemma.org/houses/calendar/married_couples_retreat_at_the_retreat_house/ http://www.stemma.org/houses/calendar/married_couples_retreat_at_the_retreat_house/#When:18:21:34Z Retreat Master:  Rev. Angelus Shaughnessy, OFMCap Theme:  To be announced Married Couples Weekend:  $290 2012-10-19T18:21:34+00:00 http://www.stemma.org/houses/calendar/married_couples_retreat_at_the_monastic_guest_house/ http://www.stemma.org/houses/calendar/married_couples_retreat_at_the_monastic_guest_house/#When:18:20:13Z Retreat Master:  Rev. Edward Litavec Theme:  To be announced Married Couples Weekend:  $300 2012-10-05T18:20:13+00:00 http://www.stemma.org/houses/calendar/womens_retreat3/ http://www.stemma.org/houses/calendar/womens_retreat3/#When:18:19:07Z Retreat Master:  Rev. Thomas Acklin, OSB Theme:  To be announced Women’s Weekend:  $150 2012-10-05T18:19:07+00:00 http://www.stemma.org/houses/calendar/womens_retreat2/ http://www.stemma.org/houses/calendar/womens_retreat2/#When:18:16:41Z Retreat Master:  Rev. Msgr. Edward McCullough Theme:  To be announced Women’s Weekend:  $150 2012-09-28T18:16:41+00:00 http://www.stemma.org/houses/calendar/silent_retreat_for_men_and_women1/ http://www.stemma.org/houses/calendar/silent_retreat_for_men_and_women1/#When:18:11:31Z Retreat Master:  Rev. Thomas Acklin, OSB Theme:  To be announced Weekend:  $150 2012-09-21T18:11:31+00:00 http://www.stemma.org/houses/calendar/busy_moms_retreat/ http://www.stemma.org/houses/calendar/busy_moms_retreat/#When:18:08:24Z Retreat Master:  Rev. Thomas Acklin, OSB Theme:  To be announced Busy Moms:  $75 2012-08-03T18:08:24+00:00 http://www.stemma.org/houses/calendar/6_day_silent_retreat/ http://www.stemma.org/houses/calendar/6_day_silent_retreat/#When:14:16:37Z Retreat Master:  Rev. James Hess, OCarm Theme:  “The Sins that Sabotage Divine Love” Love was at one time a powerfully unifying force among Christians. In his letters, Paul consistently evokes charity as the avenue to both human and divine communion. If the magnitude of charity was of the utmost importance to early Christians, so were those sins that aimed to distract Christians from acting based on love. Taking seriously the efforts of Paul, and later Thomas Aquinas, to expose and root out the sins against charity. The practice of charity leads to inner joy and peace as well as outward mercy, good will, and unity with God and neighbor. The sins against charity—hatred, sloth, envy, discord and contention, schism, war and strife, and sedition and scandal—threaten loves concrete effects by rebelling against dependence on God and undermining interdependence on others. The Betrayal of Charity seriously considers the consequences of each of the sins against love, compelling individuals and communities to recognize their own loss of charity. Love—not the sins against it—will have the last word. 6 Day Retreat = $375 Part-time reservations accepted. 2012-07-20T14:16:37+00:00 http://www.stemma.org/houses/calendar/encounter_with_silence_retreat/ http://www.stemma.org/houses/calendar/encounter_with_silence_retreat/#When:12:10:20Z Rev. John-Mary Tompkins, OSB (accommodations at Monastic Guest House and Retreat House) Truth must bear fruit in love, and love must proceed from truth. These words of the late Father John J. Hugo crystallize the completeness of Christianity that the Encounter with Silence memorably conveys. Thousands of lay and religious people have made the Lacouture-Hugo retreat (now called Encounter with Silence) over the past 75 years. The Retreat became a marker of profound change for them; six days of silence in which to realize the love of Christ and the demands of His Gospel. The late French-Canadian Jesuit Father Onesimus Lacouture gave the first Retreat to priests in 1931. Father Hugo began to give it to the laity soon after. Father John Mary Tompkins, OSB currently carries on that tradition. Perhaps the most famous lover of the Retreat is the Servant of God Dorothy Day. She made the retreat over 20 times and wrote of it in her books. The retreat creates a spiritual hothouse of strict silence, profound prayer and Holy Mass. It then plants the seed of conversion by showing that Christ’s teaching must be radically change our lives, and especially our mentality: Christianity demands more than respectability and natural virtue. Christians are called to holiness and perfection. It boldly challenges the purely human thinking of our times with divine truth. It converts the already Christianized. Join us in holy silence and be transformed, so that the Church and Her saints can transform the world. © Rosemary Fielding 2007 For additional information on the retreat and the writings of Father John Hugo, visit: http://www.fatherjohnhugo.com When making reservations, please specify Monastic Guest House or Retreat House — thank you! For questions or additional information, please call 724-834-3060, Ext. 139. Encounter With Silence, accommodations at Guest House = $475 Encounter With Silence, accommodations at Retreat House = $425 2012-07-20T12:10:20+00:00 http://www.stemma.org/houses/retreat-experiences/evening_of_recollection/ http://www.stemma.org/houses/retreat-experiences/evening_of_recollection/#When:16:13:27Z 3:45 p.m. - Exposition of Blessed Sacrament - Opportunity for the Sacrament of Reconciliation 4:45 p.m. - Rosary 5:10 p.m. - Conference/ Benediction   6:00 p.m. - Dinner (retreat dining room) 7:15 p.m. - Conference (Fatima Chapel) 8:00 p.m. - Eucharist with homily (Fatima Chapel) 2011-02-23T16:13:27+00:00 http://www.stemma.org/houses/retreat-experiences/day_of_recollection_845_a.m._-_400_p.m/ http://www.stemma.org/houses/retreat-experiences/day_of_recollection_845_a.m._-_400_p.m/#When:16:10:40Z Typical Schedule 8:45 - Arrival/Coffee & rolls - Opportunity for Sacrament of Reconciliation 9:30 - Conference 11:00 - Eucharist/homily 12:00 - Lunch 1:30 - Conference or Question Box 3:00 - Holy Hour 2011-02-23T16:10:40+00:00 http://www.stemma.org/houses/retreat-experiences/typical_weekend_schedule/ http://www.stemma.org/houses/retreat-experiences/typical_weekend_schedule/#When:16:03:14Z Friday 4:00 - Confessions (if possible) 6:00 - Supper 8:00 - Eucharist/homily (Fatima Chapel) - Sacrament of Reconciliation Saturday 6:45-8:45 - Pick-up Breakfast 9:00 - Morning Prayer (Fatima Chapel) 9:15 - Conference (Fatima Chapel) - Sacrament of Reconciliation 10:30 - Rosary (Fatima Chapel) 11:00 - Eucharist/homily (Fatima Chapel) 12:00 - Noon Meal Extended quiet time: An invitation to meet God in a special way…Please no talking in the rooms or halls. 2:00 - Sacrament of Reconciliation 3:00 - Conference (Fatima Chapel) - Sacrament of Reconciliation 4:30 - Vespers with Benedictine Nuns - (Cor Jesu Chapel) 5:30 - Supper 7:00 - Question Box (Lounge) 8:15 - Holy Hour / Conference (Fatima Chapel) (all night adoration when group is large enough) Sunday 6:45-8:45 - Pick-up Breakfast 9:00 - Morning Prayer (Fatima Chapel) 9:15 - Conference (Fatima Chapel) (when there is all night adoration, Benediction combined with conference) 11:00 - Eucharist/homily (Fatima Chapel) - Blessing of Religious Articles 12:00 - Noon Meal - Departure 2011-02-23T16:03:14+00:00 http://www.stemma.org/houses/retreat-experiences/day_of_recollection_845_a.m._-_600_p.m/ http://www.stemma.org/houses/retreat-experiences/day_of_recollection_845_a.m._-_600_p.m/#When:15:53:10Z Typical Schedule 8:45 - Arrival/Coffee & rolls - Opportunity for Sacrament of Reconciliation 9:30 - Conference 11:00 - Eucharist/homily 12:00 - Noon Meal 1:30 - Conference - Opportunity for Sacrament of Reconciliation 2:45 - Rosary or Stations 3:45 - Holy Hour with Conference 5:00 - Evening meal 2011-02-23T15:53:10+00:00 http://www.stemma.org/houses/retreat_house_monastic_guest_house/ http://www.stemma.org/houses/retreat_house_monastic_guest_house/#When:01:27:58Z And in the face of the widespread need to get away from the daily routine of sprawling urban areas in search of places conducive to silence and meditation, monasteries of contemplative life offer themselves as oases in which human beings, pilgrims on earth, can draw more easily from the wellsprings of the Spirit and quench their thirst along the way. Pope Benedict XVI The Benedictine Nuns welcome you to: 2011-01-26T01:27:58+00:00