Perhaps you're interested in learning how Scripture, prayer, Benedictine wisdom or art can enhance your spirituality.
Saint Meinrad offers a variety of monk-led retreats during the year - on these and other topics at our Guest House and Retreat Center in southern Indiana.
Three-day retreats are held on weekends (Friday evening through Sunday noon) or during the week (Tuesday evening through Thursday noon).
Check-in time for retreats is 2-5 p.m. Vespers in the Archabbey Church is at 5 p.m. followed by supper. The opening conference typically begins at 6:30 or 7:30 p.m. The retreat concludes with lunch on the last day of the program. A complete schedule is provided at registration.
To register online, begin by clicking on the title of the retreat that interests you.
(Second Valentine Retreat, Married Couples Only)
In the sacrament of marriage, the couple invites Christ into their married life together. This weekend retreat will offer the opportunity to ...
(Midweek Retreat)
Anger is an unavoidable human feeling and we often have good reasons to be angry. But anger can also be an obstacle to living a fuller life. This retreat aims to exa...
The Rule of St. Benedict for monasteries has many valuable lessons for those living outside the monastic setting. Conferences will focus on identifying some of the important aspects of the...
Conferences will focus on biblical passages taken from the Lectionary, the Church’s book of liturgical readings, to demonstrate how praying the scriptures moves one from the literal level of the wr...
Live the Paschal Mystery through the liturgy with the monastic community. Daily presentations and have time for personal prayer and quiet reflection. ($465 single, $735 double)
(Priests Retreat)
Matthew’s story carries a vision of the human condition that provides us with a stance toward life, a way to view the world and the Church in which we live. We pray and stu...
The call to holiness is a call to communion with God, for God alone is holy. Our holiness is a participation in God’s holiness through Jesus Christ and his Spirit that dwells in us by baptism. Conf...
This retreat is a time for one’s personal stock-taking, meditation, prayer and decision. Whether the sins against us are from an individual or the community, genuine forgiveness is the path to esca...
(Midweek Retreat)
This retreat will focus on the holy Rule of St. Benedict and how it can apply to living with peace in today’s fast-paced society. Many chapters of the Rule can be...
(Retreatants limited)
From the beginning, art has been used as a pathway toward spiritual insight and awareness. On this studio retreat, each participant will work in one of several media t...