Overnight Program
Personal Overnight Retreat
An individual may make a retreat at the Center for a few hours, for a few days, or for an extended period of time. During this time, the retreatant may meet with a spiritual director or just spend some time in personal prayer or quiet reflection.
Palm Sunday Women’s Weekend: Walking the Journey with Jesus
With Mercedes Rojo, OSF
Master, where do you live? Come and see… Come spend a weekend with other women and with Jesus, finding out where he lives and listening to what he says. We will walk with him and watch him as he goes around teaching, comforting, loving, forgiving, challenging…so that we may get to know him more clearly, […]
Koinonia: A Respite for the LGBTQ+ Community
With Joshua Barrett Tracey
Koinonia celebrates the luminous side of queer Christian life — the joy, creativity, and deep spirituality of those who live at the often-fraught crossroads of faith and identity. It offers an ecumenical, unhurried, and spacious environment for rest and renewal. This retreat is for those who are LGBTQ+ and are Christian, Christ-haunted, or still finding their […]
Spring Directed Silent Retreat Weekend 2026
With Sister Carmen Cabrejos, ACJ and Sister Jean Marie Pisula, CSFN
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 […]
Writing Retreat: for those laboring for Justice in our world
With Tricia Way
This is a writing retreat for artists, activists, community organizers, scholars, educators, students, practitioners, and nonprofit leaders in the fields of restorative or transformative justice, criminal legal defense, justice studies (racial justice, gender justice, climate justice), or social justice advocacy who have a writing project of some sort—a book, thesis, dissertation, article, grant proposal, newsletter, […]
Summer Directed Retreat I 2026
With Buff Barnes, Sister Jean Marie Pisula, CSFN, Sister Catherine Anne Soley, ra and Sister Carmen Cabrejos, ACJ
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 […]
Summer Directed Retreat II 2026
With Buff Barnes, Sister Jean Marie Pisula, CSFN, Sr. Mary Elizabeth Looby, GNSH, Sister Kathy Benham, IHM, Sister Carmen Cabrejos, ACJ and Fr. Rocco C Danzi, SJ
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 […]