Fall Directed Retreat I 2024

With Fr. Joe Schad, SJ, Sister Jean Marie Pisula, CSFN, Buff Barnes and Sr. Jean Marie Holup, SSSCM

September 20 - 27, 2024

Date and Time Details: Starting September 20th at 4:00pm; ending September 27th at 11am

Location: St. Raphaela Center

  • Hermitage – $675.00
  • Individual Room – $580.00
  • Floor 1 - Private Room with Semi-Private Bath – $580.00
  • Floor 1 - Private Room with Bath – $675.00
  • Private room with bath – $675.00

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 the necessary skills to guide their directees compassionately and peacefully, allowing them to listen to God’s voice and to journey closely with their loving God, both within the retreat setting and going forth into their daily lives.  The number, nature and length of periods of formal prayer each day will depend upon the ability and needs of the individual and will be determined in conversation with the director. Retreatants are provided suggested scripture passages tailored to their own prayer. Ideally retreatants will have some experience in meditative prayer, the desire to enter into prolonged silence, and sufficient self-awareness to recognize their own inward movements. All retreatants have the opportunity for daily liturgy and reconciliation.

Date: September 20-27, 2024

Time: Starting at 4:00pm

Cost: $580 – $675 (depending on room choice)

 

 

About the Spiritual Directors

Fr. Joe Schad, SJ

Joe Schad, SJ, is originally from South Philadelphia.  He attended St. Joe's Prep, where he first encountered the Jesuits. He graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), with a BFA in the graphic arts program. Afterwards, Fr. Joe spent most of a year discerning his vocation at a Trappist monastery in North Carolina. Following […]

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Sister Jean Marie Pisula, CSFN

Sister Jean Marie Pisula is a Sister of the Holy Family Of Nazareth, who just recently returned from 26 years of missionary service in the Philippines. Her Masters degree in Spirituality at Creighton University and her studies and practicum at the Ignatian Spirituality Center in the Philippines have helped her to do ministries like Bible […]

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Buff Barnes

Buff has been offering spiritual direction to individuals and groups since 2004. She completed a certificate training at Oasis Ministries in Camp Hill, PA, and subsequently completed a Master's degree in Holistic Spirituality and Spiritual Direction at Chestnut Hill College. Buff is part of the spiritual direction ministry at Wayne Presbyterian Church and St. David's […]

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Sr. Jean Marie Holup, SSSCM

Jean Marie Holup, SS.C.M., a Sister of Sts. Cyril and Methodius, has been the Director of St. Cyril Spiritual Center in Danville, PA , for the past 20 years. She received an M.A. in Christian Spirituality in 1995 from Creighton University, Omaha, NE, and did her practicum at the Jesuit Center for Spiritual Growth in […]

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