Winter Directed Retreat Weekend 2025

With Sister Mary Ellen Higgins, IHM, Sister Clare A. D’Auria OSF, Sister Jean Marie Pisula, CSFN, Sister Carmen Cabrejos, ACJ, Sister Ruthann O'Mara, SSJ and Fr. Joe Schad, SJ

January 24 - 26, 2025

Date and Time Details: Starting Friday January 24 at 4:00pm; ending Sunday January 26, 2024 after lunch

Location: St. Raphaela Center

  • Floor 2 - Private Room with Bath – $280.00
  • Individual Room – $250.00
  • Individual Room - 1st Floor – $250.00
  • Floor 1 - Private Room with Bath – $280.00

This is a wonderful opportunity to tap into the peace of God during the stillness of winter. Spend a weekend in silence and tranquility to listen more deeply to the quiet voice of God that speaks to each of our hearts. Our experienced spiritual directors on staff will accompany you throughout this privileged time of retreat in the Ignatian spirit. Come away to be renewed and refreshed in the abundant love of God.

Date: January 24 – 26, 2025

Time: Starting at 4:00pm

Cost:  $250

 

About the Spiritual Directors

Sister Mary Ellen Higgins, IHM

Mary Ellen Higgins, IHM, is a Sister, Servant of the Immaculate Heart of Mary from Scranton, PA. She was trained in the practice of spiritual direction at Fordham University and has companioned others in spiritual direction for over twenty five years. Mary Ellen served in Latin America for seventeen years and so also speaks Spanish. She […]

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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 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 Ruthann O'Mara, SSJ

Ruthann O’Mara, SSJ, a Sister of Saint Joseph, Philadelphia, PA, holds a Master’s Degree in Spiritual Direction and Holistic Spirituality from Chestnut Hill College, Phila., PA, and a Certificate in Supervision for Spiritual Directors from the Upper Room Spiritual Center, Neptune, NJ. Sr. Ruthann has ministered as a spiritual director, retreat director, and supervisor for spiritual directors […]

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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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