Overnight Program

Awaken to Your Spiritual Story is a reflective and nurturing retreat for women of all ages to engage with their creativity, self-expression, and intuition to discover greater spiritual meaning in their life stories.    Each life story has times of ease and love, mystery and drama, and challenge and sorrow. Exploring these experiences through contemplative, creative […]

Take a weekend away with other women to nurture your relationship with God. Enjoy this privileged time and space to grow in your spiritual journey. Sr. Kathy will provide you with food for your prayer, guiding you as you retreat with our God of abundant love. This is a wonderful opportunity to prepare to enter […]

The Easter Triduum invites us to take a long, loving look into the Paschal Mystery as the foundation of our faith. Join us for a weekend of beauty and intention as we flow through liturgical celebrations, silence and sacred circles of sharing. Father Jack Newns will be our Presider. Holy Thursday: Seder Meal & Mass […]

A directed retreat at St. Raphaela Center is a time of quiet in order to enhance attentiveness to God's voice within you and in your life. A reverent silence is maintained throughout the Retreat Center at all times including during meals. Each retreatant meets with his/her director daily for approximately 45 minutes. Our Spiritual Directors on staff will […]

Reflections on the Life of Ignatius During this weekend, we will explore some of the events which shaped the spiritual journey of St. Ignatius of Loyola. Along the way, we will be introduced to his graced moments, challenges and faith, with an emphasis on how we can incorporate some of the principles of the Ignatian […]

Stop, Look, and Listen...and Smell, and Taste, and Touch: Praying with Our Senses “The five senses are the ministers of our soul.” - Leonardo DaVinci In his Spiritual Exercises, St. Ignatius of Loyola recommends that we pray with scripture by putting ourselves in the scene and contemplating the scene with our senses - what do […]

30-day Spiritual Exercises retreat  - St. Ignatius’ prepared the Spiritual Exercises as a 30-day intensive retreat.  The Exercises can be helpful for someone making a decision – whether it is a vocational choice, a decision regarding one’s current way of life, or pertaining to a period of transition.  It is also an excellent experience for […]

A directed retreat at St. Raphaela Center is a time of quiet in order to enhance attentiveness to God’s voice within you and in your life. A reverent silence is maintained throughout the Retreat Center at all times including during meals. Each retreatant meets with his/her director daily for approximately 45 minutes.  Each director possesses […]

A directed retreat at St. Raphaela Center is a time of quiet in order to enhance attentiveness to God’s voice within you and in your life. A reverent silence is maintained throughout the Retreat Center at all times including during meals. Each retreatant meets with his/her director daily for approximately 45 minutes.  Each director possesses […]

Escuchando a Dios como Ignacio 25 de agosto al 1ro de septiembre 2025 Casa de Retiros Santa Rafaela 616 Coopertown Road, Haverford, PA 19041 Este retiro está basado en los Ejercicios Espirituales de San Ignacio de Loyola. La Espiritualidad Ignaciana ofrece diversas oportunidades, formas de orar y acompañamiento espiritual. La hora de llegada es de […]