Summer Directed Retreat I 2024

With Sr. Mary Elizabeth Looby, GNSH, Sister Jean Marie Pisula, CSFN, Sister Carmen Cabrejos, ACJ and Sister Cam Banh, ACJ

May 23 - 30, 2024

Date and Time Details: Starting May 23 at 4:00pm; ending May 30 at 11am

Location: St. Raphaela Center

  • Hermitage – $675.00
  • Individual Room – $580.00
  • Individual Room - 1st Floor – $580.00
  • Individual Room with Private Bath - 1st Floor – $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.

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

 

About the Spiritual Directors

Sr. Mary Elizabeth Looby, GNSH

Sr. Mary Elizabeth Looby is a Grey Nun of the Sacred Heart. She holds a BA in History and Political Science from D’Youville College; a M.Ed. in Educational Administration from Temple University. Her training for spiritual direction and retreat ministry was at Bon Secours Spiritual Center in MD. She added a certification in Spiritual Direction […]

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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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Sister Carmen Cabrejos, ACJ

Sister Carmen Cabrejos is a Handmaid of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Born in Peru, she has lived in the United States since 1986, in Miami, Athens and Atlanta GA, Philadelphia, and is coming back to Haverford.  She has worked in Hispanic ministry, adult faith formation, work with the homeless and Spiritual Direction. She holds […]

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Sister Cam Banh, ACJ

Sister Cam, who is of Chinese decent, was born and grew up in South Vietnam.  She immigrated to the United States (Pennsylvania in 1982, and in 1989 entered the Handmaids of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in the USA Province.  After finishing her religious formation, she studied and completed her Bachelor’s degree in Theology and […]

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