Previous Retreat Topics

Please feel free to look through the fliers of previous retreat offerings presented by Father Aloysius Michael and other contemplative leaders. Our community has been truly blessed with the abundance of knowledge shared among us.

If your community or group wishes to present one of these retreat topics below, or if you'd like to suggest a topic of your own choice, please make your request on the contact page provided on this website.

 

Transformation

Metamorphosis in the Uncreated Light of Mt. Tabor

What is Born of Spirit is Spirit: A Deep Look at the Sacrament of Initiation 

Be Still and Know that I am God

Indwelling Presence: Abiding Wisdom of the Divine Logos

Blessed Simplicity: Joy of the Beatific Experience

Watch and Pray: Mastering Spiritual Attentiveness

Contemplating the Nativity

Ordinary Contemplatives-Extraordinary Lives

The Beatitudes: Toward a Blessed Life

New Man

Divine Intimacy

Listening to the Still Small Voice Within

Contemplative Spirituality: An Attitude of the Heart

Dark Night

Listening is Prayer

Going Deeper in Prayer

The Challenge of Compassion: Los Angeles Buddhist Catholic Dialogue 

Signs of the Times: A Contemplative Look at End of the World Prophecies

Ars Moriendi and Vivendi: The Art of Dying and Living 

Contemplation and Spiritual Combat

World Day of Prayer I: A Global Celebration of the Contemplative Experience

Cloud of Unknowing 

The Kingdom Within

The Joy of the Gospels

The Desert Tradition

Meditation and Healing

World Day of Prayer II -Silence: Another Approach to Interfaith Dialogue

Urban Monastics: The Future Church in Need of Contemplative Laity

Living in the Transfiguration of the Uncreated Light of Mt. Tabor   

Transformation of the Consciousness: Encountering the Sacred Presence in Relationship to Others