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 Good Memory Day - who knew?! Considering this is the 200th anniversary year of the Sisters of Bon Secours we are taking this opportunity to fondly look back at the distant and recent memories of Sisters of Bon Secours and their ministries. We think of the first twelve women that took their vows in France to formally become the Congregation of Bon Secours in 1824. We remember the three Sisters that came to Baltimore in 1881 and began…
Snow is covering the grass and trees in Marriottsville - our first significant snow in a couple years. It is majestic! Below is a prayer about the winter months, reminding us to look for the beauty of God's handiwork. Gracious Lord, as winter blankets the land with its beauty, I am reminded of your majesty and creativity. Help me to see your handiwork in the glistening snowflakes, the frost-covered trees, and the quiet stillness of the season. Lord, I…
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.…
Please take a few moments to enjoy this beautiful, acoustic, song by Lauren Daigle. Do you have a favorite Christian song? Share it in the comments!
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…
