Enders Island is the perfect setting for spiritual renewal and deepening your relationship with God. In the Island’s prayerful routines and setting, in its gardens and chapels, you will find solitude, peace, and a closeness to God that can heal, comfort, inspire, and renew you.

Topics and themes of retreats vary. All our retreats, even our Sacred Art programs, inform and enrich your spiritual journey through a deepening communion with God.

Many other retreats offer spiritual growth and renewal beyond the work of recovery from addiction. Retreats may last from a single day of reflection to a weekend or full week. Themes vary widely, serving our retreatants with their diversity of interests and spiritual quests. In our retreat listing, you will find everything from the spirituality of Mary to bereavement, storytelling, Christian meditation, and journaling.

Our Retreat Leaders have extensive experience in their ministries, and often participants return year after year to share in a fellowship of friends interested in similar spiritual interests.

While attending Retreats, participants sometimes find time to schedule individual sessions with our other pastoral ministries, such as exploring recovery from compulsions or from abuse or trauma.

DIRECTED RETREATS

Directed Retreats are available on a limited basis. Retreatants enjoy a prayerful interlude in their own lives by staying on the Island, attending Mass and other services, and meeting with a Spiritual Director daily. Duration of Directed Retreats are flexible and established during the registration process.

SILENCE

Silence permits an individual or a group to focus on prayer and reflection during their stay. Participants describe how a retreat spent in silence frees them to focus on an interior spiritual journey. Other than time spent with a Retreat Leader or Spiritual Director, or in prayer and worship, participants in silent retreats reside among us in silence – including eating meals in a dining room reserved for that purpose. A commitment to silence during a retreat is an option for all Directed Retreats and may be incorporated by Retreat Leaders into group retreats as well.