Centering Prayer Dual-Track Intensive Post-Intensive Retreat

This retreat is an opportunity for practitioners of Centering Prayer to deepen their contemplative journey in the contemporary world. It is a week long experience of integrating contemplation and action through silence, solitude, and community. The cost of this retreat includes single room accommodations in the Anna House (new guest house with private baths in each room) or single rooms in St. Mary’s Hall with shared baths down the hall. For double occupancy pricing, please call. 

The retreat offers two tracks. The intensive track is recommended for people who have completed the introductory workshop and who have a regular practice of Centering Prayer. The post-intensive track is for those people who have previously made an eight-day intensive retreat. The post-intensive offers increased silence and additional periods of Centering Prayer. Both the intensive and post-intensive Centering Prayer retreat provide daily experiences of silence, solitude, walking, hiking, yoga, and spiritual companionship to foster an ever-deepening level of interior silence and awareness of the presence of God in everyday life.

Scholarship assistance is available for those with financial need. Please contact St. Mary’s Sewanee and let us know of your need. 

The Rev. Brad Smith, PhD is an Episcopal priest serving at St. John’s Episcopal Church (Charlotte, NC).  He has served as Co-Coordinator of Contemplative Outreach Piedmont, NC and led numerous centering prayer support groups. He has also organized and facilitates a Centering Prayer group (“The Inner Room”) specifically for clergy in the Diocese of North Carolina, that they are nourished in the silence as they serve their parishes. Brad is particularly interested in exploring how parishes can be transformed through contemplative studies and practices. Brad is a Benedictine oblate with St. Gregory’s Abbey (Three Rivers, MI) and incorporates the Rule of Benedict in all aspects of his faith and ministry.

For more information go to www.stmaryssewanee.org.