Midwest Retreat Houses

A former monastery, The Abbey is a non-profit retreat and event center located among the lakes and prairie hills of northeastern South Dakota. The Abbey offers hosted retreats and interactive experiences that reflect the peace sustained by Benedictine monks for more than 60 years. If you like to write, hike, pray or play – regardless of your faith – there is a unique experience waiting for you at The Abbey. Come visit us – as a guest, volunteer or simply take a tour – and Rediscover Peace at The Abbey.

Retreat House Accomodations

• Double Room - Private Bath - Private Bath
• Double Room - Shared Bath - Shared Bath
• Hermitage - Electric - Outdoor Bath
• Private Room - Private Bath - Private Bath
• Private Room - Shared Bath - Shared Bath

Retreats Offerings

• Customized Group Retreats
• Days of Recollection - 1 Days

Bellarmine Jesuit Retreat House is located on 80 acres of gently rolling meadows and wooded countryside just 40 miles northwest of Chicago. Bellarmine offers Ignatian, silent retreats for men and women adapted from the Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius. A wide variety of other retreat experiences are held at Bellarmine, including Kairos retreats for teens, 12-step retreats for those in recovery, as well as private and directed retreats. Jesuit and lay colleagues collaborate in planning retreats and spirituality programs. In addition, Bellarmine extends its hospitality to parochial schools, churches, and other partners in ministry and recovery programs that share in our vision and core values.

Retreat House Accomodations

• Private Room - Shared Bath - Shared Bath

Retreats Offerings

• Co-Ed Silent Preached Retreat (4/5 Day) - 5 Days
• Co-Ed Silent Preached Retreat (Weekend) - 3 Days
• Couples Retreats - 3 Days
• Days of Recollection - 1 Days
• Healing/Recovery/12-Step Retreats
• Individual Directed Retreats (4/5 Day) - 4 Days
• Individual Directed Retreats (8 Day) - 8 Days
• Other Specialized Retreats
• Private Directed Retreats (Varied Duration)
• Private Non-Directed Retreats (Varied Duration)

Broom Tree Retreat Center, constructed in 2004 by the Catholic Diocese of Sioux Falls, provides facilities and opportunities to support all people of faith as they experience an awakening to God’s continual call to conversion and as they deepen their response to it.

Located six miles west of Irene, South Dakota on 300 rolling acres of the beautiful Missouri Valley, the Retreat Center provides modern, clean, and comfortable lodging rooms with private baths, queen sized beds and a couch or recliner as a standard for each guest. The full kitchen staff is also on hand to provide delicious, freshly prepared meals.

Retreat House Accomodations

• Private Room - Private Bath - Private Bath
• Shared/Bunk Style Room - Shared Bath

Retreats Offerings

• Couples Retreats - 3 Days
• Customized Group Retreats
• Days of Recollection - 1 Days
• Healing/Recovery/12-Step Retreats
• Individual Directed Retreats (4/5 Day) - 4 Days
• Individual Directed Retreats (8 Day) - 8 Days
• Men's Silent Preached Retreat (Weekend) - 3 Days
• Private Directed Retreats (Varied Duration)
• Women's Silent Preached Retreat (Weekend) - 3 Days

Christ the King Retreat Center is a ministry of our community, The Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate. We are the eleventh largest order of religious men in the Roman Catholic Church with over 3,800 priests and brothers serving in 68 countries.

Christ the King Retreat Center is one of four major retreat centers that we operate in the United States. Wherever we are, our mission is to bring the Good News of Jesus Christ to those who have had the least opportunity to hear it.

Our community was founded in 1826 in Aix en Provence, France, by St. Eugene de Mazenod. He has been called the patron of dysfunctional families. To learn more about St. Eugene and to request a brochure call 763-682-1394.

Retreat House Accomodations

• Double Room - Private Bath - Private Bath
• Double Room - Shared Bath - Shared Bath
• Private Room - Private Bath - Private Bath

Retreats Offerings

• Days of Recollection - 1 Days
• Men's Silent Preached Retreat (Weekend) - 3 Days
• Private Directed Retreats (Varied Duration)
• Private Non-Directed Retreats (Varied Duration)
• Women's Silent Preached Retreat (Weekend) - 3 Days

The Cloisters brings a 500-year tradition of Ignatian spirituality to Nebraska. Completed in 2017, its bucolic setting near the Platte River was selected for a rare combination of natural isolation and accessibility to highways. Every year, The Cloisters brings the power of quiet reflection to people seeking spiritual renewal. We welcome you to discover that power for yourself.

Retreat House Accomodations

• Private Room - Private Bath - Private Bath

Retreats Offerings

• Men's Silent Preached Retreat (4/5 Day) - 5 Days
• Women's Silent Preached Retreat (4/5 Day) - 5 Days

You would be welcome to visit a quiet, prayerful place in which the Spirit of God can touch the heart and move the soul. We are a full-service retreat center with excellent meeting/conference rooms, private direction rooms, overnight facilities, dining hall and a Chapel; please see schedule for Mass times. Our comfortable facilities and hospitable environment are set in 157 acres of wooded area along a river teeming with wildlife, songbirds, hiking trails and an awesome night sky.

Consistent with our Jesuit tradition and Ignatian heritage, we offer individual 8-day and 30-day directed, silent retreats based on the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius Loyola. We also welcome individuals and groups for their own private retreats of any length and offer a variety of additional preached retreats and other programs throughout the year. Our mission is to support and foster an active prayer life, a deeper conversion and relationship with our Lord Jesus Christ.

As a department of Creighton University, we serve Creighton students, faculty/staff and alumni. We also welcome all others seeking a place of rest or retreat, including religious, parishes, school groups, organizations and private individuals.

Retreat House Accomodations

• Double Room - Shared Bath - Shared Bath

Retreats Offerings

• CSP Silent Directed Retreats (8 Day) - 8 Days
• Individual Directed Retreats (30 Day) - 8 Days
• Individual Directed Retreats (8 Day) - 8 Days

Each year more than 3,000 men from all walks of life participate in retreats at the Demontreville Jesuit Retreat House. Retreats at Demontreville have one theme: to know, love, and serve God in this world. To really know, love, and serve God, however, one must know oneself.

The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius Loyola (1491-1556) provide a wonderful method for doing this. They help us see who we are – one loved by God. They help us realize we are called by God to follow Jesus Christ, who became man over 2,000 years ago to show us how to live. He still shows us how to live today.

Retreat House Accomodations

• Private Room - Shared Bath - Shared Bath

Retreats Offerings

• Men's Silent Preached Retreat (4/5 Day) - 5 Days

Franciscan Retreats and Spirituality Center offers a beautiful chapel, library, conference room, and gift shop. Most retreats provide spiritual direction, confession, four conferences and delicious home cooked meals. In addition to indoor activities Franciscan Retreats and Spirituality Center offers various opportunities to explore and nurture your spirituality outdoors. Our beautiful flower gardens, scenic sitting areas (some with pond views) and sixty acres of woods and prairie riddled with hiking trails will satisfy your urge to get out and explore nature.

Retreat House Accomodations

• Private Room - Private Bath - Private Bath

Retreats Offerings

• Co-Ed Silent Preached Retreat (Weekend) - 3 Days
• Couples Retreats - 3 Days
• Days of Recollection - 1 Days
• Healing/Recovery/12-Step Retreats
• Men's Silent Preached Retreat (Weekend) - 3 Days
• Other Specialized Retreats
• Women's Silent Preached Retreat (Weekend) - 3 Days

The Jesuit Retreat House - located six miles south of Oshkosh on twenty-three beautiful acres along the shore of the largest inland lake in the Midwest - draws on the rich tradition of Ignatian spirituality and reflection.

The retreat house offers resources to all who want to discern God's presence in their lives. At the same time, they also aim to help their retreatants to become "contemplatives in action," people who bring this spirituality into the everyday world.

This silent retreat ministry hopes to help women and men of all backgrounds to more fully grow in their personal relationships with Jesus Christ. The Jesuits see themselves as companions of Jesus, and they invite others to join with them, as friends in the Lord to build up the body of Christ here on earth.

Retreat House Accomodations

• Private Room - Private Bath - Private Bath

Retreats Offerings

• Healing/Recovery/12-Step Retreats
• Individual Directed Retreats (4/5 Day) - 4 Days
• Individual Directed Retreats (8 Day) - 8 Days
• Men's Silent Preached Retreat (Mid-Week) - 4 Days
• Women's Silent Preached Retreat (Weekend) - 3 Days

A retreat facility operated by the Catholic Diocese of Lincoln, Nebraska. The facility includes a chapel, library, dining room and fifty individual rooms with private bathroom and showers in each. We are situated on a beautiful spacious acreage amid the rolling hills just southwest of Waverly, Nebraska. As a Catholic ministry in the Diocese of Lincoln, our Mission is to provide a sanctuary and experience which leads people to encounter Jesus Christ. Through inspiring retreats and warm hospitality, we seek to transform and renew the spiritual lives of all desiring the opportunity to listen to the Holy Spirit and know the Father's love, peace and healing.

Retreat House Accomodations

• Private Room - Private Bath - Private Bath

Retreats Offerings

• Individual Directed Retreats (4/5 Day) - 4 Days
• Individual Directed Retreats (8 Day) - 8 Days

Pacem in Terris is a hermitage sanctuary and is a response to God’s call to “Create an environment where my people can come and be alone with me.”

Pacem in Terris (Peace on Earth), is a Franciscan center of Spirituality called to serve the people of God through prayer and by providing the opportunity to retreat into the silence and solitude of a hermitage environment.

St. Therese of Lisieux HermitageThe hermitages are nestled in the midst of the natural beauty of forest, prairie and a wildlife lake. Away from the struggles and influences of a secular society, the hermit/guest enters into the freedom of a “desert-like” environment, following Christ’s example where “he would often go off to someplace where he could be alone to pray.”

Retreat House Accomodations

• Hermitage - No Electric - Outdoor Bath

Retreats Offerings

• Private Non-Directed Retreats (Varied Duration)

The Mission of the Redemptorist Retreat Center, Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, is to provide a place of renewal, rest and contemplative reflection. The Center is open to all people seeking spiritual growth and maturity.

The Redemptorists of the Denver Province, through their commitment to the values and charism of their founder, St. Alphonsus Liguori, continue to maintain the retreat center so that the redemptive love of Jesus Christ may be abundantly proclaimed.

Retreat House Accomodations

• Double Room - Shared Bath - Shared Bath
• Hermitage - Electric - Outdoor Bath
• Private Room - Shared Bath - Shared Bath

Retreats Offerings

• Customized Group Retreats
• Days of Recollection - 1 Days
• Men's Silent Preached Retreat (Weekend) - 3 Days
• Private Non-Directed Retreats (Varied Duration)
• Women's Silent Preached Retreat (Mid-Week) - 4 Days
• Women's Silent Preached Retreat (Weekend) - 3 Days

Since 1978 the Sioux Spiritual Center has been serving under the leadership of the Jesuit Fathers as a sacred place for Native American Catholics to encounter Jesus Christ and be formed as holy, healthy disciples and leaders of an inculturated Church. This mission continues today under the ministry of the Diocese of Rapid City, and has been broadened to offer support for the spiritual needs of Catholics in Western South Dakota and beyond, through spiritual formation opportunities, retreats, and spiritual direction.

Located in a lovely nook in the Cheyenne River Breaks south of Plainview, this beautiful log-cabin style retreat center has 15 bedrooms, 29 beds, 6 bathrooms, and a large kitchen and dining room. We have a cooking staff and can provide meals for at least 29 people at a time. In addition to the log chapel built in 2002 (in English, “House of the Holy Spirit”), there is also a small pioneer church, St Patricks, built in 1918. The center boasts a very nice (small) theological library for days of study. And of course, there are nearly 30 acres of nature to explore for contemplative walks and prayer.

Retreat House Accomodations

Retreats Offerings

• Co-Ed Silent Preached Retreat (Weekend) - 3 Days
• Customized Group Retreats
• Healing/Recovery/12-Step Retreats
• Individual Directed Retreats (8 Day) - 8 Days
• Private Directed Retreats (Varied Duration)
• Private Non-Directed Retreats (Varied Duration)

In the spirit of Benedictine hospitality, Saint Benedict Center welcomes all guests as Christ, offering a place of peace for people of many faiths who seek God.

Saint Benedict Center is a ministry of the Catholic Missionary Benedictine community of Christ the King Priory, whose prayer and presence abides there. This oasis of peace is open to visitors of all faiths and welcomes group and individual retreats, planned programs and spiritual direction. The Center also welcomes business and community groups seeking a quiet and reflective environment for meetings. It offers both overnight and day only accommodations.

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