6TH ANNUAL RETREAT
“This is my Beloved
and this is my friend.”
(Song of Songs 5:16)
JANUARY 23 & 24, 2026
Hosted by Julia Monnin, OCDS
with Guest Speakers Fr. Jedidiah Tritle
and Fr. Sean Wilson
Join us for some time of rest with the Beloved as we spend the weekend in prayer, silence, reflection, fellowship, adoration, Mass, and confession. This year, we’ll explore the theme of “friendship” as seen in the life of prayer and in the saintly male/female duos of St. Thérèse of Lisieux and her spiritual brother Fr. Maurice Belliere, St. Teresa of Jesus and St. John of the Cross, and St. Francis de Sales and St. Jane Frances de Chantel. Talks will be given by author and speaker Julia Monnin, Fr. Jedidiah Tritle, and Fr. Sean Wilson. Mass will be celebrated Friday by Fr. Jedidiah Tritle and Saturday by Fr. Sean Wilson. Confessors joining us this year are Fr. Sean Wilson and Fr. Alexander Witt. Space is limited to 50 retreatants.
Retreat Schedule*
(*Check-in, check-out, and meal times are final. All else is subject to change.)
Friday, January 23, 2026
2:30pm Registration and Check-In Begins
4:00pm Welcome/Opening Address
4:30pm Holy Mass
5:30pm Dinner
6:30pm Evening Prayer
7:00pm Conference #1
Saturday, January 24, 2026
8:00am Morning Prayer
8:30am Breakfast
9:30am Conference #2
11:00am Holy Mass
11:45pm Exposition
12:00pm Lunch
12-2:00pm Adoration | Sacrament of Reconciliation
2:00pm Benediction
2:15pm Individual Prayer/Silence
4:00pm Conference #3
5:00pm Evening Prayer
5:30pm Dinner
6:30pm Conference #4 (Q&A, Closing Remarks)
Please note before registering:
Men and Women (ages 18 and over) are welcome to attend.
Each retreatant will need to register. Please include names of all those attending. If you are staying overnight as a married couple and sharing a room, then one person should sign up with the room/meal option you are choosing and the other person should sign up with the commuter/meal option of choice. You can pay together in one transaction!
There are queen size beds in the Jack & Jill rooms. (The Jack & Jill rooms share a restroom with another Jack & Jill room.) Private rooms include a full size bed and their own restroom. The semi-private rooms include a full size bed and share a bathroom.
St. Teresa of Jesus visits St. John of the Cross and Fr. Antonio de Jesús, the first religious of her reform, in Duruelo, Artist and date of execution unknown, Church of St. Teresa of Jesus “La Santa”, Avila Image Credit: Discalced Carmelites, cropped
St. Francis de Sales and St. Clare, Valentin Metzinger, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, cropped
Portrait of Thérèse de Lisieux, Public Domain, cropped
Fr. Maurice Belliere. Photo credit: White Fathers (Missionaries of Arica), cropped