Whether it's to protect ourselves from life's harshness or an attempt to look good in the eyes of others, we often don the armor of invincibility. All the time our true self,… Read More »Men’s Weekend Retreat
Thomas Merton defined Original Sin as "our need to know how we're doing," which makes our relationship with God a kind of scorecard. As we enter the Lenten Season, we… Read More »Ash Wednesday – God Can’t Count, But We Can and Do!
In his 1950 acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize for Literature, William Faulkner acknowledged the physical fear paralyzing humanity since the dropping of the atomic bomb five years prior: "The… Read More »Cormaria Film Series: The Old Verities & Truths of the Human Heart
The word "Hobo" translates to Homeward Bound. For us, it is homeward bound to our God. This retreat will invite you to reverence the good seed that our loving Creator planted… Read More »A Lenten Hobo Honeymoon
"Love don't make things nice - it ruins everything. It breaks your heart. It makes things a mess. We aren't here to make things perfect. The snowflakes are perfect. Not… Read More »Love, Death, Romance…Life in “Moonstruck”
"Come back to me with all your heart, don't let fear keep us apart." We sing these words from "Hosea" to welcome Lent each year. Why does fear loom so… Read More »Lenten Day of Renewal
H.F.M. Prescott asks, "Have you thought that God stained Himself, being not only with men, but Himself a man? And it wasn't that God put on man like a jacket… Read More »Palm Sunday Weekend Retreat
The Peter, Judas, Magdalene, Thomas & Jesus in each of us... Impetuous Denier/Loving Shepherd; Disillusioned Betrayer/Filled with Remorse; Faithful Gratitude/Apostle of Joy; Courageous Doubter/Praising Apostle, and Mercy within Mercy. It's… Read More »Holy Triduum
In his 1950 acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize for Literature, William Faulkner acknowledged the physical fear paralyzing humanity since the dropping of the atomic bomb five years prior: "The… Read More »Cormaria Film Series: The Old Verities & Truths of the Human Heart
In his 1950 acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize for Literature, William Faulkner acknowledged the physical fear paralyzing humanity since the dropping of the atomic bomb five years prior: "The… Read More »Cormaria Film Series: The Old Verities & Truths of the Human Heart
"...We all carry a piece of divinity inside of us. So long as life endures in a person, that spark, the fragment of divinity, glows. And when we notice the… Read More »Guided Retreat: Here We Are-Splinters of Humanity & Fragments of Divinity
