Summer Directed Retreat II 2025

With Sister Karen Doyle, SSJ, Sister Clare A. D’Auria OSF, Sister Carmen Cabrejos, ACJ, Linda Robinson, Sister Catherine Anne Soley, ra, Fr. Joe Schad, SJ and Sister Jean Marie Pisula, CSFN

July 17 - 24, 2025

Date and Time Details: Starting July 17 at 4:00pm; ending July 24 at noon

Location: St. Raphaela Center

  • Floor 2 - Individual Room (please only choose this option if you are unable to walk upstairs to the 3rd floor) – $625.00
  • Floor 2 - Private Room with Bath – $725.00
  • Hermitage – $725.00
  • House of Hope - Individual Room – $725.00
  • Individual Room – $625.00
  • Floor 1 - Individual Room (only choose if you cannot walk upstairs as there is a limited number) – $625.00
  • Floor 1 - Individual Room with Private Bath (only choose if you cannot walk upstairs as there is a limited number) – $725.00

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: $625 -$725 (depending on room choice)

 

About the Spiritual Directors

Sister Karen Doyle, SSJ

Karen M. Doyle SSJ, D. Min., a Sister of St. Joseph of Philadelphia enjoys the ministry of spiritual direction, supervision, formation of spiritual directors and Ignatian Spirituality for thirty years.  She has ministered to spiritual directors in the United States, Canada, Philippines, Denmark and Taiwan.

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Sister Clare A. D’Auria OSF

Clare A. D’Auria OSF, a Sister of St. Francis of Philadelphia, Aston, PA, currently ministers as a staff member at the Franciscan Spiritual Center in Aston, Pennsylvania.  For half of her fifty years in ministry, Clare has traveled throughout the United States and abroad, offering directed retreats as well as guided and preached retreats especially […]

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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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Linda Robinson

Linda received a master’s degree in Religious Studies/Ministry from LaSalle College, a master’s degree in Education Leadership from St. Joseph’s University, and Advanced Graduate Certificates in Spiritual Direction and Supervision from Chestnut Hill College. She has 20 years’ experience as a spiritual director and has served as a Program Presenter and Visiting Director, directing individuals […]

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Sister Catherine Anne Soley, ra

Catherine Soley is a Religious of the Assumption who has been involved in the ministry of spiritual direction for about 10 years.  She has a certificate from the Jesuit Retreat Center in Guelph, Ontario and in 2023 completed the Spiritual Director Internship Initiative program. Catherine has also directed members of her congregation on retreat. Catherine […]

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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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