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by bcadmin | Sep 23, 2022 | Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, camp, Catholic Youth Camp, Local News, Minnesota Catholic Youth Partnership, News, retreats, Summer camp, youth camp | 0 |
A nonprofit group of private donors in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis has been looking for a permanent site near the Twin Cities to hold summer camps for middle schoolers and fall, winter and spring retreats for parishes and schools — and leaders believe they have found the spot.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 7, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend, News, retreats | 0 |
Three months of cold showers and no alcohol, soda, dessert or televised sports: It sounds less like Lent and more like a military boot camp. Who would volunteer for such an experiment in austerity? Tens of thousands of men, it turns out.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 10, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, Diocese of Salina, News, Nuns, Religious Sisters, retreats | 0 |
The coronavirus pandemic has created the conditions for a spiritual crisis, but a traditional retreat at a house run by women religious isn’t necessarily COVID-19 friendly.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 21, 2020 | Demontreville, Dunrovin, Franciscan Retreats, King's House, Local News, News, Pacem in Terris, retreats | 0 |
King’s House wasn’t fulfilling its mission while it was closed, Father Sudlik said. “When the house is empty it’s painful for us,” he said. “It’s good to have folks coming back, and we hope that we don’t have another round of this.”
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 13, 2020 | Featured, Iowa shrine, News, retreats, Trinity Heights Queen of Peace Shrine | 0 |
At Trinity Heights Queen of Peace Shrine, a 30-foot-tall stainless-steel statue of Mary, Queen of Peace, welcomes 80,000 visitors a year with an outstretched hand. With the other, she points across the shrine’s statues and gardens to the source of peace — a slightly taller statue of Jesus revealing his Sacred Heart.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 13, 2020 | Featured, Iowa, John Paul II, News, retreats, Saint John Paul II, Truro | 0 |
Dial back to the fall of 1979. A new pope, John Paul II, set out to embark on a nine-day apostolic journey to the United States that included a special visit to Des Moines, Iowa, only 230 miles from the Twin Cities.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 13, 2020 | grotto, Iowa, Iowa grotto, News, retreats, Shrine of the Grotto | 0 |
John and Natalie Sonnen have seen many Catholic shrines, but when the St. Paul couple visited the Shrine of the Grotto of the Redemption in northern Iowa on their way home from a convention last September, they were particularly impressed.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 13, 2020 | New Melleray Abbey, News, retreats | 0 |
Trappist Brother Paul Andrew Tanner remembers the day 24 years ago when he drove to the New Melleray Abbey near Dubuque, Iowa, to attend his first retreat there. “Until I pulled into the parking lot, I had my CD player going and my radio going,” he said. “And then I turned that off and had a weekend of quiet — religious quiet.”
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 6, 2020 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Lent, News, retreats, Roman Curia, Spiritual Exercises, Vatican | 0 |
The purpose of the Lenten journey is to spiritually retrace the journey of Exodus — from the desert to the mountain of God, a Jesuit theologian told top Vatican officials.
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