Upcoming Retreats

Young Adult Retreat

Friday, November 7, 2025 - Sunday, November 9, 2025
Archabbey Guest House & Retreat Center

Young Adults ages 18-35

Saint Meinrad Archabbey, a Benedictine monastery in southern Indiana, is hosting unstructured retreats for young adults. The cost includes an ...


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The Infancy Narrative According to the Gospel of Luke

Friday, November 14, 2025 - Sunday, November 16, 2025
Archabbey Guest House and Retreat Center

Saint Luke is a master storyteller. Nowhere is that better demonstrated than in his presentation of the birth of Jesus. The story contains both intrigue and theological depth. This retreat will foc...


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Saints of Hope

Tuesday, December 2, 2025 - Thursday, December 25, 2025
Saint Meinrad Guest House and Retreat Center
10:00 a.m.

December 2, 9, 16, and 23, 2025. Fr. Kolbe Wolniakowski, OSB, (Four-Week Workshop). Saints of Hope is a four-week workshop designed to help you reflect on the saint’s witness of fa...


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Being A Eucharistic People: The Embodied Presence of Christ

Friday, December 12, 2025 - Sunday, December 14, 2025
Archabbey Guest House and Retreat Center

This retreat will focus on the value and meaning of the Holy Eucharist as the “source and the summit of the Christian life”. Reflections will focus on the ramifications of our faith in the Eucharis...


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Young Adult Retreat

Friday, January 9, 2026 - Sunday, January 11, 2026
Archabbey Guest House & Retreat Center

Young Adults ages 18-35

Saint Meinrad Archabbey, a Benedictine monastery in southern Indiana, is hosting unstructured retreats for young adults. The cost includes an ...


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Biblical Mercy: Matthew's Gospel as an Encounter with Jesus' Love

Friday, January 16, 2026 - Sunday, January 18, 2026
Archabbey Guest House and Retreat Center

We will explore several parables from Jesus' life and other passages from Matthew's Gospel and reflect on how we might more completely accept Jesus' radical love and mercy in our lives.
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Seasons of Us: Renewing Marriage Through Every Stage of Life

Friday, February 13, 2026 - Sunday, February 15, 2026
Archabbey Guest House and Retreat Center

This retreat invites couples of all stages to step away from the noise and rediscover the heart of their vocation. Through the wisdom of Scripture, the inspiring witness of married saints, sh...


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Ash Wednesday and The Contemplative Life

Wednesday, February 18, 2026
Archabbey Guest House and Retreat Center

At this workshop, we will contemplate the ashes as we consider dying to self so that we can live freely in the Spirit.


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Women of the Bible

Tuesday, February 24, 2026 - Thursday, February 26, 2026
Archabbey Guest House and Retreat Center

This retreat will explore the roles, often heroic, of women in the history of salvation as presented in the Holy Bible.


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Blessed Are You

Tuesday, February 24, 2026 - Tuesday, March 17, 2026
Archabbey Guest House and Retreat Center

Four-week workshop. Each session will explore one or two Beatitudes in depth, connecting their spiritual richness to our daily lives.


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Pilgrims of Hope

Friday, March 27, 2026 - Sunday, March 29, 2026
Archabbey Guest House and Retreat Center

Retreat conferences will reflect on how Christ's Church is commissioned to be a "pilgrim people" moving through our world proclaiming Christ and his Gospel. 


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Praise and Worship in the Fine Arts

Wednesday, April 8, 2026 - Friday, April 10, 2026
Archabbey Guest House and Retreat Center

Engage yourself in God's love and beauty through the treasures of art. No prior artistic knowledge is needed.


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Into the Ocean of Mercy

Friday, April 10, 2026 - Sunday, April 12, 2026
Archabbey Guest House and Retreat Center

This retreat invites you to step aside from the pace of daily life and enter a space of stillness where the gentle, healing presence of God's mercy can be experienced in new and personal ways...


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Young Adult Retreat

Friday, April 17, 2026 - Sunday, April 19, 2026
Archabbey Guest House and Retreat Center

Young Adults ages 18-35

These retreats are intentionally unstructured in their design to give young adults the opportunity to spend time at Saint Meinrad in personal ...


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Faith Stories from the Gospel of Matthew

Monday, April 20, 2026 - Friday, April 24, 2026
Archabbey Guest House and Retreat Center

(Priests Retreat) This retreat will focus on some of those stories of faith as presented in the Gospel of Matthew.


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Women Carrying the Light of Christ: Past and Present

Friday, May 1, 2026 - Sunday, May 3, 2026
Archabbey Guest House and Retreat Center

(Women's Retreat) This retreat will consider examples of such women, past and present, to honor their contributions and to reflect on how we, too, carry the light of Christ i...


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Being "Eucharistic" People

Friday, May 15, 2026 - Sunday, May 17, 2026
Archabbey Guest House and Retreat Center

Retreat conferences will reflect on what it means to be Eucharistic people - as individual disciples and as Christ's Church.


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Healing Lonliness

Friday, May 22, 2026 - Sunday, May 24, 2026
Archabbey Guest House and Retreat Center

This retreat explores the problem of loneliness and how Christians can offer healing to those who suffer.


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Heart on Fire

Wednesday, May 27, 2026
Archabbey Guest House and Retreat Center

The stories of women in the Church who have bravely and boldly stood in the fire of the Holy Spirit can enrich our present lives. We will consider saints, mystics, doctors of the Church, and ...


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St. Carlo Acutis Video Gamers Young Adult Retreat

Friday, May 29, 2026 - Sunday, May 31, 2026
Archabbey Guest House and Retreat Center

Young Adults ages 18-35

This retreat seeks to gather Catholic and other Christian gamers for a weekend of prayer, fellowship over meals, Eucharistic devotion, and, of...


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Spirituality of Liturgical Architecture

Friday, June 5, 2026 - Sunday, June 7, 2026
Archabbey Guest House and Retreat Center

Taking place on the weekend of the Solemnity of Corpus Christi, this retreat will explore the development of church architecture, the meaning of liturgical focal points, and their connection ...


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Doubting Thomas: Keeping Faith in a Secular Age

Friday, July 10, 2026 - Sunday, July 12, 2026
Archabbey Guest House

We will consider the main sources of doubt: the idea that science can explain everything without God, and the problem of why God would allow so much suffering. 


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Catherine of Siena and Julian of Norwich: Women of Hope

Friday, July 17, 2026 - Sunday, July 19, 2026
Archabbey Guest House and Retreat Center

We will reflect on some of the key teachings each of these women offer us as ways to stay connected with the theological virtue of hope, vital for every time and age...ours included!
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The Catholic Approach to Studying Scripture

Saturday, August 1, 2026
Archabbey Guest House and Retreat Center

Whether you want to read Scripture with discernment as part of your personal prayer (i.e. lectio divina), lead a Bible study, or seek enrichment when you hear the Word a...


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Young Adult Retreat

Friday, August 7, 2026 - Sunday, August 9, 2026
Archabbey Guest House and Retreat Center

Young Adults ages 18-35

Fr. Simon Herrmann, OSB, and the monks of Saint Meinrad Archabbey are hosting reduced rate retreats, made possible by our benefac...


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Experiences of Prayer in the Bible

Friday, August 21, 2026 - Sunday, August 23, 2026
Archabbey Guest House and Retreat Center

This retreat will explore a wide variety of prayer experiences taken from both the Old and the New Testaments.


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Forgiving Because We Are Forgiven

Friday, August 28, 2026 - Sunday, August 30, 2026
Archabbey Guest House and Retreat Center

This retreat explores the divine mandate for disciples of Jesus to forgive offenses. 


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Lifted High: A Retreat for the Exaltation of the Holy Cross

Friday, September 11, 2026 - Sunday, September 13, 2026
Archabbey Guest House and Retreat Center

A retreat centered on the mystery and majesty of the Holy Cross - the instrument of our salvation and the sign of God's unfathomable love.


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Pilgrims of Hope

Friday, September 18, 2026 - Sunday, September 20, 2026
Archabbey Guest House and Retreat Center

Retreat conferences will reflect on how Christ's Church is commissioned to be a "pilgrim people" moving through our world proclaiming Christ and his Gospel.


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Serving, Receiving, and Giving: From the Church to the World

Friday, September 25, 2026 - Sunday, September 27, 2026
Archabbey Guest House and Retreat Center

This weekend's retreat will focus on the Liturgy of the Word, the Liturgy of the Eucharist, and how our participation in the sacraments, especially Mass, helps prepare the Church to serve, re...


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Holiness in the Hoosier Hills: A Mini-Pilgrimage to Historic Southern Indiana Churches

Friday, October 9, 2026 - Sunday, October 11, 2026
Archabbey Guest House and Retreat Center

Please join Br. Stanley Rother Wagner, OSB, the community's archivist and historian, on retreat, featuring a tour of five area churches.


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Faith Stories from the Gospel of Matthew

Monday, October 12, 2026 - Friday, October 16, 2026
Archabbey Guest House and Retreat Center

Priests Retreat

This retreat will focus on some of those stories of faith as presented in the Gospel of Matthew.


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Young Adult Retreat

Friday, October 23, 2026 - Sunday, October 25, 2026
Archabbey Guest House and Retreat Center

Young Adults ages 18-35

Fr. Simon Herrmann, OSB, and the monks of Saint Meinrad Archabbey are hosting reduced rate retreats, made possible by our benefac...


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Being "Eucharistic" People

Friday, October 23, 2026 - Sunday, October 25, 2026
Archabbey Guest House and Retreat Center

Retreat conferences will reflect on what it means to be Eucharistic people - as individual disciples and Christ's Church.


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Basket Weaving: A Monastic Microcosm

Tuesday, November 3, 2026 - Thursday, November 5, 2026
Archabbey Guest House and Retreat Center

Sculptural basket weaving will be used as the model for discussing monastic work; the majority of the retreat, therefore, will be spent learning this craft.


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The Infancy Narrative of Matthew's Gospel

Friday, November 13, 2026 - Sunday, November 15, 2026
Archabbey Guest House and Retreat Center

This retreat will focus on the key characters of Matthew's birth story emphasizing how it still has meaning today.


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Stories from the Old Testament for Today

Friday, November 20, 2026 - Sunday, November 22, 2026
Archabbey Guest House & Retreat Center

This retreat will explore key stories from the Old Testament: creation (Gen 1-3), Exodus and the Journey to the Promised Land.


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Benedictine Spirituality as Lived in Marriage

Friday, December 18, 2026 - Sunday, December 20, 2026
Archabbey Guest House and Retreat Center

Married Couples Retreat

This retreat explores the Benedictine vows of obedience, stability, and conversion as they can be applied in marriage.


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