Weekend Retreats
The Joy of Forgiveness
With Sandy Hoenig
February 15 - 16, 2025
Our Lady of Good Counsel Retreat House
Discover the Joy of Forgiveness with Sandy Hoenig: a healing journey of discovering the profound emotional strength of forgiveness, and strategies for avoiding or resolving hurtful situations.
Flame of Love Retreat
With Jill Metz - US National Director, Flame of Love
March 7 - 9, 2025
Our Lady of Good Counsel Retreat House
The devotion to the Flame of Love seeks to make our parishes, families, and lives so full of Jesus by the power of grace, that Satan’s influence is broken, so that our families and communities are much more open to the gospel and the way of salvation. Thus we ask our Blessed Mother to: Spread the effect of grace of your Flame of Love over all of humanity.
Maturing in Prayer
With Fr. Chris Kubat
March 14 - 16, 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.
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.
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.
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.