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Weekend Retreats
Back to the Garden Women's Retreat
With Sarina Stokes and Fr. Cole Kennett
April 4 - 6, 2025
Our Lady of Good Counsel Retreat House
Pulling from the wisdom of St. Pope John Paul II’s Theology of the Body, the poetic love story of the Song of Songs, and personal testimony; young adult women will come to encounter the beauty within themselves and the truth of who they are and Whose they are, Jesus Christ’s.
Compassion in the Passion
With Fr. John Rooney
April 11 - 13, 2025
Our Lady of Good Counsel Retreat House
This Palm Sunday Weekend retreat, pondering the scriptural moments during the events of Holy Thursday through Easter, will prompt retreatants to spend time in personal imaginative prayer with the events of Holy Week with a focus on the persons and their experiences.
Ignatian Retreat: 4-Day, 5-Day Holy Week Apr 13-17
With Fr. Gary Coulter and Matt Simmons
Flexible Dates
Our Lady of Good Counsel Retreat House
The Silent Directed Ignatian Retreat, based on the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius, involving daily meditation on scripture, journaling about prayer and meeting individually with a director to receive guidance. The retreat is completely silent with no talks or social times outside of the opening and closing.
Holy Week Retreat for Young Women
With Marian Sisters of the Diocese of Lincoln
April 17 - 19, 2025
Our Lady of Good Counsel Retreat House
An opportunity for single young women, aged 19-32, to experience Christ’s deep love through meditation on his passion, death and resurrection.
Desert Day Fri. Apr 25 (Feast of Our Lady of Good Counsel)
April 25, 2025
Our Lady of Good Counsel Retreat House
A Desert Day is a quiet daytime retreat with a flexible schedule allowing you to arrive and departure anytime. The basic schedule is 7-10am check-in and coffee, 10am Confessions, 11:15am Mass, Noon lunch, 1-4pm Adoration with conference.
Ignatian Retreat: 8-Day (& 4 Days) April 30-May 8
With Fr. Gary Coulter and Fr. Christopher Barak
April 30 - May 8, 2025
Our Lady of Good Counsel Retreat House
The Silent Directed Ignatian Retreat, based on the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius, involving daily meditation on scripture, journaling about prayer and meeting individually with a director to receive guidance. The retreat is completely silent with no talks or social times outside of the opening and closing.
The Power of a Praying Mother
With Women at the Well, Natalie Gifford and Kristin Schiff
May 9 - 10, 2025
Our Lady of Good Counsel Retreat House
A 24-hour retreat for women focused on Marian Devotion and also on the lives of the Saints that were mothers and the influence that their prayers had.
Ignatian Retreat: 8-Day (& 4 Days) May 16-23
With Fr. Gary Coulter, Matt Simmons and Jo Vasa
May 16 - 23, 2025
Our Lady of Good Counsel Retreat House
The Silent Directed Ignatian Retreat, based on the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius, involving daily meditation on scripture, journaling about prayer and meeting individually with a director to receive guidance. The retreat is completely silent with no talks or social times outside of the opening and closing.
Desert Day Tues. May 20
May 20, 2025
Our Lady of Good Counsel Retreat House
A Desert Day is a quiet daytime retreat with a flexible schedule allowing you to arrive and departure anytime. The basic schedule is 7-10am check-in and coffee, 10am Confessions, 11:15am Mass, Noon lunch, 1-4pm Adoration with conference.
Virtual & Commuter Ignatian Retreats: June 1-July 31
With Fr. Gary Coulter, Matt Simmons, Sarina Stokes, Jo Vasa and Fr. Christopher Barak
Flexible Dates
Our Lady of Good Counsel Retreat House
The Silent Directed Ignatian Retreat, based on the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius, involving daily meditation on scripture, journaling about prayer and meeting individually with a director to receive guidance. This is an at-home retreat with daily meetings either in-person or commuting.
Busy Person Retreats (Online): June 1-July 31
With Fr. Gary Coulter, Matt Simmons, Sarina Stokes, Jo Vasa and Fr. Christopher Barak
Flexible Dates
Our Lady of Good Counsel Retreat House
The Silent Directed Ignatian Retreat, based on the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius, involving daily meditation on scripture, journaling about prayer and meeting individually with a director to receive guidance. This is an at-home retreat with daily meetings.
Family Retreat Day Sunday July 13
July 13, 2025
Our Lady of Good Counsel Retreat House
Family Retreat Day at Good Counsel Retreat House A Day of Recollection and Reflection Your entire family is invited to an all ages spiritual day of fun and activities, with testimonials, a family scavenger hunt, breakout talks, attend Sunday Mass, Adoration and Confession. Conclude with a gathering around the campfire (guitars welcome!) Tentative Schedule - […]
Los Ejercicios Espirituales de San Ignacio para mujeres
With Padre Jeffrey Jambon
August 22 - 24, 2025
Our Lady of Good Counsel Retreat House
Mujeres de todas edades están invitadas a un retiro de "Ejercicios Espirituales" predicado en español con la Misa tradicional en Latín celebrado por el Padre Jeffrey Jambon.
Magnificat Women's Life in the Spirit
With Susan Potvin, Karen Herrmann, and Carolyn Cannizzaro (Living Praise Worship Team)
September 26 - 28, 2025
Our Lady of Good Counsel Retreat House
Deepening in Prayer retreat will explore the benefits of silent prayer as a catalyst to encounter the love Jesus bestows from His Father, especially by opening ourselves to the movement of the Holy Spirit.