6-Day Intensive and Post-Intensive Centering Prayer Retreat
Overnight Contemplative Retreat
May 4-9, 2025
Fr. Bill Sheehan, O.M.I., and Susan Turpin
This retreat offers two tracks simultaneously: intensive and post-intensive. Everyone attending will share three sets of two 30-minute periods of Centering Prayer, daily. The intensive retreat will watch and discuss video talks from Fr. Thomas Keating’s The Spiritual Journey. Instead of videos, the post-intensive retreat includes an additional hour of Centering Prayer each day. You choose the track that works best for you. Lectio Divina will be offered daily, as well as optional soul-friending with the staff. Silence is maintained throughout the retreat.
Offering: Private Room with Private Bath - $950
Private Room with Hall Bath - $800
“More if you can, less if you can’t…”
Holy Family Passionist Retreat Center has a long-standing tradition of making retreats available to everyone – regardless of their financial situation and their ability to pay. If you are interested in this retreat but unable to pay the full offering, please contact our registrar, Ted Jastrzebski at 860-760-9705 for more information.
We also ask that if you are able to make a donation over and above the suggested offering of the retreat, to help support this tradition and those who are less fortunate, we would be grateful for the added contribution.
Presenter Profiles
Fr. Bill Sheehan
Fr. Bill Sheehan is an experienced and beloved retreat director who has led countless Centering Prayer workshops and retreats. Since 1983, he has been involved with Contemplative Outreach founded by Fr. Thomas Keating, practicing and guiding others in Centering Prayer. He participated in the original Lama retreat from which the Centering Prayer movement arose. In the last several years, he has also participated in leading 11th Step retreats.
Susan Turpin
Susan Turpin has been practicing Centering Prayer since 1994 and has been serving Centering Prayer retreats since 2005. She is a presenter of the Centering Prayer Workshop and serves as a spiritual director. She is a retired accountant.
Dietary restrictions? Holy Family is committed to making your stay as comfortable and enjoyable as possible, and to that end, we can accommodate most dietary needs. Please email Ted, our registrar, at tjastrzebski@holyfamilyretreat.org, if you have any dietary restrictions or food allergies, so that we may make preparations in advance of your retreat.