THE BLOG OF THE BON SECOURS RETREAT & CONFERENCE CENTER
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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’.
Tomorrow, we celebrate the birthday of the great Martin Luther King, Jr. How can we make a change and honor his great legacy? His wife, Corretta Scott King has offered this advice: "The greatest birthday gift my husband could receive is if people of all racial and ethnic backgrounds celebrated the holiday by performing individual acts of kindness through service to others." Let's take a few moments to read some of these poignant quotes from Martin Luther King, Jr. below.…
We invite you to find a moment today to express your gratitude for all of life's blessings. In the comments, share one of your blessings! Heavenly Father, I come before You with a grateful heart, recognizing the abundance of blessings that surround me. Thank You for the gift of life, for every breath I take. Help me cultivate a spirit of gratitude and contentment, appreciating the simple joys that often go unnoticed. Release me from the grip of discontentment…
Today's post is a shared video from YouTube. This is a great way to begin your day! Take just 10 minutes to sit quietly and listen prayerfully. We hope you feel the peace and love of Jesus through this short meditation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R53ZF9jBjNA
As the new year still settles in, we are taking a little time to remind ourselves to live this year with great intention, to remain focused on God, and to be gentle with ourselves and others. “As the dawn breaks on a new year, let us give thanks for all we hold dear: our health, our family and our friends. Let us release our grudges, our anger and our pains, for these are nothing but binding chains. Let us live…
We are grateful for the dawn of this new year! This year, the Sisters of Bon Secours are celebrating the 200th anniversary of their foundation in Paris, France in 1824. Throughout the year, we will be sharing reflections, prayers, photos, and more to commemorate this special year. The Sisters compiled a collection of prayer to share through the year, as well. The prayer below is one of the hand-selected prayers and it reminds us that today - and the fresh…
As we celebrate the closing of 2023 and entry of 2024, let us pray for guidance and trust in the One who is our constant. From the staff of the Bon Secours Retreat & Conference Center to you and yours, we wish you abundant blessings. May the message of God's peace disperse throughout the world in the new year. Help me to journey beyond the familiar and into the unknown. Give me the faith to leave old ways and…
The Lord's Light Within Lord, we reflect with thankful hearts On the wonder of your birth The love you expressed when you left Your glory to come to earth For your life was like a beacon, Lord Shining brightly in the night Filling the world with the radiance of The Father's glorious light And we, too, long to have inside Your light for others to see The beautiful reflection of your grace And the wonder of your majesty For as…
The Word Was Made Flesh The Word was made flesh, all things became new the Light of the world illuminating the view. A new life was given, one filled with peace as truth and grace was being released. The Word became man, guiding all who believed the promise of His Spirit one day would receive. A hope like no other, a mystery revealed as the glory of God was being unsealed. The Word was made flesh, Jesus became a man…
Whether you're enjoying this Christmas with family and friends, at a church service, at work, alone baking, writing out cards or quietly meditating on scripture, we hope that it is a time of rich spiritual blessings. The staff of the Bon Secours Retreat & Conference Center wishes you the joy of Christmas and the peace that can only come from knowing that our Savior is born! Joy of Discovery The joy of discovery that moment when hope and expectation were…
