Advent Retreat 2025

Ignatian Spirituality Advent Retreat
Saturday, Dec. 6 in Biss Hall

9:15 am: Coffee
9:30 am - 12 noon: Program

Join us for a contemplative retreat based on the Joseph’s Dream: Matthew 1: 18-24.

In the prayer styles of Ignatius of Loyola, the retreat offers scripture, an imaginative contemplation, reflection, time for individual silent meditation, and group sharing.

Facilitated by the St. Peter Ignatian Spirituality team.

Ignatius was convinced that God can speak to us as surely through our imagination as through our thoughts and memories. In the Ignatian tradition, praying with the imagination is called contemplation. In the Exercises, contemplation is a very active way of praying that engages the mind and heart and stirs up thoughts and emotions. (Note that in other spiritual traditions, contemplation has quite a different meaning: it refers to a way of praying that frees the mind of all thoughts and images.)