Retreats

Perhaps you're interested in learning how Scripture, prayer, Benedictine wisdom or art can enhance your spirituality.

Saint Meinrad offers a variety of monk-led retreats during the year - on these and other topics at our Guest House and Retreat Center in southern Indiana.

Three-day retreats are held on weekends (Friday evening through Sunday noon) or during the week (Tuesday evening through Thursday noon).

Check-in time for retreats is 2-5 p.m. Vespers in the Archabbey Church is at 5 p.m. followed by supper. The opening conference typically begins at 6:30 or 7:30 p.m. The retreat concludes with lunch on the last day of the program. A complete schedule is provided at registration.

To register online, begin by clicking on the title of the retreat that interests you.

Organ Concert - 157403

Saturday, December 16, 2023
Archabbey Guest House and Retreat Center

Join us on December 16th at 3:00 PM Central Time for an Organ Concert in the St. Thomas Aquinas Chapel! This solo organ concert will feature organist Nolan Snyder and is free and open to...


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Christmas Celebration at Saint Meinrad Archabbey 163603

Sunday, December 24, 2023 - Tuesday, December 26, 2023
Archabbey Guest House and Retreat Center

This “celebration,” not “retreat,” will be an opportunity to immerse oneself in the richness of the tradition that we celebrate at Saint Meinrad. Your visit will include opportunities to join the m...


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Winter Chant Workshop: Chant Notation and Interpretation - 146977

Monday, January 22, 2024 - Friday, January 26, 2024
Saint Meinrad Archabbey

Sessions during the week will focus on how to read the earliest sources of chant and interpret their notation. 


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Women of the Word 146500

Tuesday, February 27, 2024 - Thursday, February 29, 2024
Archabbey Guest House and Retreat Center

(Midweek Retreat) This retreat explores and reflects on the role of women in the story of salvation as told in sacred scripture. Participants do not need a background in scripture studies, but they...


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Created in the Image of God: A Woman’s Day of Reflection 166207

Wednesday, March 6, 2024
Archabbey Guest House and Retreat Center

Come spend the day reflecting on the meaning of the imago Dei (image of God) for you, your relationships with God and others, and your life in the world. The day will include a blend of pr...


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Unpacking the Vocation of Marriage through Scripture and Married Saints 146558

Friday, March 8, 2024 - Sunday, March 10, 2024
Archabbey Guest House and Retreat Center

(Married Couples Only) With all the distractions of the world, children, jobs, volunteering, etc., the vocation aspect of marriage can fall to the wayside. This retreat will provide inspirational e...


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Sleeper Awake! 146586

Friday, March 15, 2024 - Sunday, March 17, 2024
Archabbey Guest House and Retreat Center

St. Paul wants us to “wake up” to the truth of who we are as those baptized into Christ. During this retreat, we’ll reflect on the basic elements of our baptismal character as foundational to our C...


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Living the Liturgy of the Triduum 146618

Wednesday, March 27, 2024 - Sunday, March 31, 2024
Archabbey Guest House and Retreat Center

(Holy Week Retreat) This retreat will help participants take part in the monastic community’s celebration of the Triduum and the ongoing experience of the Paschal Mystery.


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Forgiving as We Have Been Forgiven 159643

Friday, April 12, 2024 - Sunday, April 14, 2024
Archabbey Guest House and Retreat Center

This retreat will reflect on the divine call for mercy on the part of all Christians.


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The Gospel of Mark: Lessons in Rejection 146649

Monday, April 22, 2024 - Friday, April 26, 2024
Archabbey Guest House and Retreat Center

(Priests Retreat) Mark’s Gospel can be understood as being structured around four major rejections experienced by Jesus. This retreat will consider Mark’s Gospel through the lens of these four majo...


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Keep Your Lamps Trimmed & Burning #169408

Saturday, May 4, 2024
Saint Meinrad Archabbey
9:00 a.m. CST

Discernment is not just a prayerful process for the young, but an ongoing spiritual progression that can help us all to remember and live out our baptismal call. If you are looking for guidan...


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Benedictine Spirituality 101 146691

Friday, May 17, 2024 - Sunday, May 19, 2024
Archabbey Guest House and Retreat Center

St. Benedict of Nursia did not “invent” Christian monastic life. It had been around for a few centuries by the time he wrote his Rule for Monks in the early sixth century. What he did was ...


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In Sickness and in Health: Prayer, Covenant, and Healing 146758

Friday, June 14, 2024 - Sunday, June 16, 2024
Archabbey Guest House and Retreat Center

Most of us need healing – physically or spiritually. Drawing on his own experience of health difficulties and the Church’s rich theology of prayer, Fr. Lorenzo’s conferences will focus on our coven...


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A Step 11 Retreat for Recovering Alcoholics and Alanons – Conscious Contact 146822

Friday, July 12, 2024 - Sunday, July 14, 2024
Archabbey Guest House and Retreat Center

This retreat will lead you to a broader understanding of Step 11 and “conscious contact.” There will be time to explore “conscious contact” in prayer, meditation, and in mindful living. While engag...


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Summer Chant Workshop: Singing and Conducting Chant - 147121

Monday, July 29, 2024 - Friday, August 2, 2024
Saint Meinrad Archabbey

Focuses on some of the fundamentals of chant, vocal pedagogy and conducting chant.


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Discipleship According to the Gospel of Mark 147154

Friday, August 23, 2024 - Sunday, August 25, 2024
Archabbey Guest House and Retreat Center

This retreat will focus on the way Mark’s Gospel presents the disciples. They struggle to understand who Jesus really is. What can Mark’s Gospel teach us about our own discipleship?


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Advanced Patterns of Christian Prayer 147186

Friday, September 6, 2024 - Sunday, September 8, 2024
Archabbey Guest House and Retreat Center

Has your prayer life plateaued? Has prayer become dry and “boring” to you? This retreat will explore the contemplative dimensions of prayer coming out of the Christian tradition from as far back as...


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Letting Holy Leisure Be Our Way 147252

Friday, September 13, 2024 - Sunday, September 15, 2024
Archabbey Guest House and Retreat Center

(Retreat for young adults 20-40 years old) – The late 20th-century philosopher Josef Piper described that our world is heading toward “total work.” We are being subsumed into work, and the world’s ...


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Navigating Difference: Serving in Multicultural Communities 147285

Friday, September 20, 2024 - Sunday, September 22, 2024
Archabbey Guest House and Retreat Center

What are the different assumptions we make about others based on their race and cultural background and, more importantly, why do we make them? How do these assumptions affect our behavior? How doe...


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A Rosary Retreat 147316

Friday, October 11, 2024 - Sunday, October 13, 2024
Archabbey Guest House and Retreat Center

This retreat will examine the history and practice of the rosary in the Christian life. Participants may wish to attend the rosary devotion at our Monte Cassino Shrine after the retreat on Sunday, ...


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The Gospel of Mark: Lessons in Rejection 147348

Monday, October 14, 2024 - Friday, October 18, 2024
Archabbey Guest House and Retreat Center

(Priests Retreat) Mark’s Gospel can be understood as being structured around four major rejections experienced by Jesus. This retreat will consider Mark’s Gospel through the lens of these four majo...


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Integrating Catholic Faith and Patient Care in Today’s World 163960

Friday, November 1, 2024 - Sunday, November 3, 2024
Archabbey Guest House and Retreat Center

The aim of this retreat is to increase the knowledge and comfort level of physicians, nurses, advanced practice providers, and other healthcare professionals in applying Catholic faith and spiritua...


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Photography Basics: Camera, Composition and Technique 166219

Saturday, November 2, 2024
Archabbey Guest House and Retreat Center

Photography techniques, terminology and equipment can seem complicated and intimidating at first. This hands-on workshop is designed for beginner photographers who want to increase basic photograph...


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Spiritual Poverty and the “Magisterium of Frailty” 147380

Friday, November 8, 2024 - Sunday, November 10, 2024
Archabbey Guest House and Retreat Center

In the summer of 2022, Pope Francis spoke about the need for Christians to take better care of those impoverished by physical and mental diminishment. Too often the sick, the very elderly, the home...


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The Passion Narrative of Mark’s Gospel 147412

Friday, November 15, 2024 - Sunday, November 17, 2024
Archabbey Guest House and Retreat Center

The most important section of Mark’s Gospel is the Passion Narrative. It comes last in the story, but it was probably written first. It is a model followed by all the other gospels. This retreat wi...


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Benedictine Spirituality as Lived in Marriage 159675

Friday, December 13, 2024 - Sunday, December 15, 2024
Archabbey Guest House and Retreat Center

(Married Couples Only) This retreat explores the Benedictine vows of obedience, stability, and conversion as they can be applied in marriage, with humility as the thread that binds these three vows...


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Christmas Celebration at Saint Meinrad Archabbey 162038

Tuesday, December 24, 2024 - Thursday, December 26, 2024
Archabbey Guest House and Retreat Center

This “celebration,” not “retreat,” will be an opportunity to immerse oneself in the richness of the tradition that we celebrate at Saint Meinrad. Your visit will include opportunities to join the m...


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