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Welcome to the Bon Secours Retreat & Conference Center’s blog! This blog will extend our retreat ministry by bringing prayers and reflections into your home ‘retreat’. Many of our presenters and staff share their homilies, favorite prayers and reflections through this medium. We encourage you to comment, pass it along to friends or simply take a moment to pray with us. We hope that this will serve as a moment during your day when you can ‘retreat with us’.
Today is the beginning of National Catholic Sisters Week, a time to recognize the inspiring history and future of women religious throughout the United States. For the Sisters of Bon Secours Foundation Day on January 24, the Bon Secours Mercy Health Center for Ministry Formation created this beautiful video that showcases their amazing history and we thought today would be a great time to share it with our visitors. The video also includes beautiful moments of prayer and readings from…
Guests of the "Prayer and Creativity: Practices for a Holy Lent" retreat, guided by Dr. Kathleen Staudt, are departing today. We hope that the Spirit spoke to them in a special way, inspiring this sacred season of waiting. Creativity within the written word is often the most touching and the poets below are some of the many gifted writers who can express what we're already feeling in a profound way. Let's sit in the stillness and let this creative form…
Are you feeling as if you're in a season of rushing instead of a slowed season of introspect and quiet for Lent? Maybe this reflection by Fr. Michael Schleupner will help you with finding balance for your spiritual wellness. This is the 9th blog in this series, so if you've missed the others, please scroll through our blog to learn more. Spiritual Wellness - 9 Maintain a Balance Dear Friends, Trying to keep a balance between work and time for…
Have you adopted a new giving practice this Lenten season instead of 'fasting' from something? Maybe you're adding acts of service to your schedule or giving resources to those in need? As we consider the needs of others, let's offer this prayer for Lent... Lenten Prayer (inspired by Isaiah 58: 1-12) We have chosen to fast Not with ashes but with actions Not with sackcloth but in sharing Not in thoughts but in deeds We will give up our abundance…
Fr. Michael Schleupner continues his series on 'Spiritual Wellness' today with this blog about faithfulness, providing inspiration to apply this faithfulness to all that we do! This is the 8th blog in this series. We invite you to read the others as you scroll through past posts too. Spiritual Wellness - 8Be Faithful Dear Friends,One of my favorite psalms in the Hebrew Scriptures (what we usually call the Old Testament) is Psalm 117. This is also the shortest of all the…
Mary DeTurris Poust, author and retreat presenter, shares today's blog with us. She always inspires with her Lenten reflections! If you'd like to attend a retreat with Mary, she'll be at our Center this fall and you can read more about that retreat here. Does this reflection resonate with you? Have your goals for Lent evolved too? Share your thoughts with us in the comments. This Lent, let God set the course Back when I was younger, I would approach…
At the Retreat & Conference Center today, we are welcoming guests for our Ash Wednesday retreat as we usher in the season of Lent. How are you marking the beginning of this sacred time? May you feel God's Presence during this special sacred season. Let us pray... Gracious God, today begins a period of inner reflection and examination. The days stretch before me and invite me inward to that silent, holy space that holds your Spirit. This special time beckons…
Have you been following our series about spiritual wellness from retreat presenter and spiritual director Fr. Michael Schleupner? In today's post, he reaffirms the importance of gratitude. You can browse through our blog at any time to review the other six posts in this series too. Let's read Fr. Michael's recommendations and tips to be thankful today so that we can strive for complete spiritual wellness in our lives! Spiritual Wellness - 7Be Thankful Dear Friends,Being thankful is essential for…
In recognition of Black History Month, we offer this beautiful prayer by Howard Thurman today. If you would like to learn more about this inspiring mystic, teacher and prophet, we encourage you to check out the powerful retreat by Rev. Joan Crawford at our Center on Monday, May 15. Click here to read more. Let's take a few quiet moments to pray for an open spirit as we strive to respect and bring equality to our world of many colors.…
Continuing in the spirit of Valentine's Day, we offer this beautiful prayer that reminds us to depend on and to be comforted by unending love from the ultimate Source! A Prayer for Resting in God's Love God of Goodness, I come into your presence so aware of my human frailty and yet overwhelmed by your love for me. I thank you that there is no human experience that I might walk through where your love cannot reach me. If…
