BENEDICTINE RETREAT & CONFERENCE CENTER

Drawing on its monastic heritage, the Benedictine Center creates

a place where people at all stages of life can find resources

and support to pursue balanced lives.

 

 

 

 

What do you seek?

Welcoming All Guests
For Years
To Come

The Benedictine Center and the Cloister Gift Shop will remain open as the monastic community builds its new home on the north end of the campus beginning in April 2008. 

The Center will continue its retreat ministry during the construction period and move into the new monastery upon its completion in 2009.

The Sisters and the staff look forward to welcoming all guests for years to come.

Reserve your personal or group retreat today by calling 651.777.7251 or emailing benedictinecenter@stpaulsmonastery.org

Share with your friends the good news about the Sisters' new home and their continuing ministries to the Twin Cities.

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Hitting the Time Factor Head On

by Vic Klimoski, director

We sometimes find ourselves at the Center being a bit glib about how people should spend their time.  "People should be signing up for one of our workshops or a retreat," we say.  "They would gain so much for the time invested." 

But often even as those sentiments are being said aloud, we realize that few people feel free to spend time outside the ordinary demands of daily life.  Family, work, social commitments, involvement in church or other primary groups all demand attention.  Taking time for one's spiritual growth, while a seemingly wonderful idea, appears as a luxury.


The spiritual masters claim that as one finds a pace of life in which time for "spiritual things" has as much priority as time for life's other responsibilities, spaces opens up

Read on...

   

“The Center has been an immense contributor to my spiritual development...and I am on the path Home. A long journey it has been--our Center and staff were instrumental. Thank you all deeply.” Linda

“I have had just the right balance of solitude and community. The sisters have made me feel very welcome, yet give me space for solitude and silence. What a blessing to be able to be apart without feeling alone on my journey.” Carolyn

Download 2006-2007
Annual Report

Capturing Inspired Energy

(exhibit open 9a-6p daily)

Chillon (Shih-LAWN) Leach

May
15   (cancelled) The Parish as Learning Organization
16  

Taizé Prayer

16 17 Retreat for Those in Transition
21   Is There Such a Thing as the Spirituality of Work?
26  

Men's Contemplative Spirituality Group

Jun
13 18

Directed Retreat

14   Spirituality of the Seasons: Summer
19   For Everything there is a Season: Ministry and Change
20  

Taizé Prayer

23   Men's Contemplative Spirituality Group
Jul
18   Taizé Prayer
18 19 Finding the Sacred in the Ordinary
26   Pottery Immersion Retreat
28   Men's Contemplative Spirituality Group
Aug
1 6

Centering Prayer and Lectio Divina Retreat

1   Do Whatever Christ Tells You: Faithful Ministry (change in date)
15   Taizé Prayer
15 16

Teachers' Retreat

21   Ministry in the Face of Budget Realities
23  

Retreat for Men's Groups

25   Men's Contemplative Spirituality Group

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