retreat

  • Retreat Takeaways – Bells, Time & Open Hands – Raised Catholic 155

    Retreat Takeaways – Bells, Time & Open Hands – Raised Catholic 155

    The following is a transcript of a Raised Catholic podcast episode. To listen to the episode, click here. Today is episode 155: Retreat Takeaways: Bells, Time, and Open Hands Hi friends. This week I’m finishing up my short series on some of the takeaways from a recent retreat experience I had. If you missed the first…

  • Retreat Takeaways: Trees, Dancing & Anchors – Raised Catholic 154

    Retreat Takeaways: Trees, Dancing & Anchors – Raised Catholic 154

    The following is a transcript of a Raised Catholic podcast episode. To listen to the episode, click here. Today is episode 153: Retreat Takeaways: Trees, Dancing & Anchors Hi friends. This week I’m continuing my short series on some of the takeaways I received from a recent retreat experience. During my time there, a few…

  • Retreat Takeaways – Stations of the Cross – Circle of Life – Raised Catholic 152

    Retreat Takeaways – Stations of the Cross – Circle of Life – Raised Catholic 152

    The following is a transcript from a Raised Catholic podcast episode. To listen to the episode, click here. Today is episode 152: Retreat Takeaways: Circle of Life – Stations of the Cross  Hi friends. I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving! As I mentioned in the introduction to last week’s episode, I am newly home…

  • Revisiting: Retreat to Move Forward – Raised Catholic 151

    Revisiting: Retreat to Move Forward – Raised Catholic 151

    The following is a transcript of a Raised Catholic podcast episode. To listen to the episode, click here. Hi friends. This week as I was away on a team for a cursillo retreat with no time to make a new episode for you, I thought I’d bring you an older one from September of 2021.…

  • Retreat to Move Forward – Raised Catholic episode 41

    The following is a transcript from the Raised Catholic podcast. To listen to the podcast, click here. Today is episode 41: Retreat to Move Forward Well, hi, friends.  What a couple of years it has been, am I right?  We’ve heard the phrase ‘unprecedented times’ maybe more in the last handful of years than we ever have…

  • Bloom Where You’re Planted – Raised Catholic episode 11

    Bloom Where You’re Planted – Raised Catholic episode 11

    The following is a transcript from the Raised Catholic podcast. To listen to the podcast, click here. Today is episode 11: Bloom Where You’re Planted Well, hey friends. Two towns away from where I live, there is a half mile stretch of road that contains huge chunks of my life and vocation in various buildings…

  • Be or Do – Raised Catholic episode 7

    Be or Do – Raised Catholic episode 7

    The following is a transcript from the Raised Catholic podcast. To listen to the podcast, click here. Today is episode 7 – Be or Do Well, hi friends. If it’s okay with you, I thought we’d start today with a question. Right off the top of your head, would you please complete the following sentence:…

  • Fr. Joe

    Fr. Joe

    Our friend Fr. Joe Callahan passed from this life on Easter morning. He was the spiritual director of our retreat house, and had held that position for almost twenty years, affecting the lives of hundreds and hundreds of people who lived cursillo and other retreats at the house. When I heard the news, I did…

  • Keeper

    Keeper

    As I settled into my seat at the annual gratitude mass for a large area charity, I shook my head in wonder. There were hundreds of people at the mass, and it had taken us quite a while to sit, there were so many people to hug. We’ve been a part of this place since…

  • Blessing

    Blessing

    I just returned from helping out at a retreat weekend, and though I’ve been a part of many such weekends, I always learn and take away something new. It seems we go to things like these when we most need it, and this weekend was no exception. Sometimes we hear something in one of the…