Married Couple's Retreat # 11

January 6 - 8, 2023

Date and Time Details: Check in starts at 4:00 p.m. on Friday and concludes with lunch on Sunday. Meals and linens are provided. If you need additional information on this retreat, please contact the captain as listed below or call the retreat center.

Location: Saint Joseph Abbey Retreat Center

Address: 75376 River Rd Saint Benedict, La 70457

Contact PersonLynette Kendall
clc@sjasc.edu
985-892-3473

Captain(s):

Clyde & Karen Messenger *225-572-9400

Brian & Denise McKnight 504-415-5972

Theme: Prayer: A Cornerstone of Our Faith

  • Married Couple – $478.00

SCHEDULE

FRIDAY

4:00 PM   Registration upon Arrival (Rooms not available until 4:00 PM)
5:45 PM   Welcome Wine and Cheese (St. Thomas Aquinas Room)
6:30 PM   Supper
7:45 PM   Mass (Retreat Center Chapel)
Night Prayer

SATURDAY

7:20 AM   Rising Bell
7:50 AM   Morning Prayer (Retreat Center Chapel)
8:00 AM   Breakfast
9:00 AM   Conference (St Thomas Aquinas Room)
9:45 AM    Sacrament of Reconciliation
10:30 AM  Rosary (Retreat Center Chapel)
11:15 AM   Mass (Abbey Church)
12:00 PM  Lunch
1:00 PM   Free Time or Spiritual Direction (see sign-up sheet @ check in)
4:00 PM   Conference (St. Thomas Aquinas Room)
6:15 PM   Supper
7:15 PM   Conference (St. Thomas Aquinas Room)
8:00 PM  Eucharistic Adoration (Retreat Center Chapel)

SUNDAY

7:20 AM   Rising Bell
7:50 AM   Morning Prayer (Retreat Center Chapel)
8:00 AM   Breakfast
9:00 AM   Conference (St. Thomas Aquinas Room)
Renewal of Baptismal Promises
10:00 AM  Rosary (Retreat Center Chapel)
11:00 AM   Mass (Abbey Church)
12:15 PM   Lunch

SILENCE IS OBSERVED IN AND AROUND THE RETREAT HOUSE FROM AFTER MASS ON FRIDAY NIGHT UNTIL AFTER MASS ON SUNDAY.  PLEASE RESPECT THIS POLICY

Spiritual Direction:  Br. Meinrad Carmago, O.S.B.

Meinrad (2)

Br. Meinrad Carmargo, OSB, was born in southern Brazil in 1981. He graduated from Law School in 2007 and practiced law before entering into monastic life. He joined a Trappist monastery in Brazil in 2014 and came to Saint Joseph Abbey in 2018. He currently is a monk in simple vows.

Sr. Judith, a native of New Orleans, is a Marianite Sister of Holy Cross. She holds a Masters in Theology and Religious Studies from St. Paul University, Ottawa, Canada. Sr. Judy began her service to the Church as a classroom teacher, then as a Director of Parish Religious Education. Sister has ministered in the inner city, on the bayou and in the Alaska bush. Sister worked in the Archdiocese of New Orleans as adjunct staff at Notre Dame Seminary for a “sweet 16 years” and with the Society for the Propagation of the Faith promoting world mission for over a decade. Sister was the first woman appointed to the National Board of the Pontifical Mission Societies in New York.