RETREATS
HANDPRINTS WEEKEND
Handprints Weekend is a retreat led by upper-class students that is held for first-year students. During the weekend, participants have the opportunity to listen and learn from insightful talks by upper-class student leaders, hang out with fellow classmates, explore one's faith and spirituality, eat delicious food, and have fun! The four main themes of the weekend include self-identity, relationships, social pressures, and faith and prayer.
Handprints is a terrific retreat for first year students as it allows for the building of community and fellowship that extends beyond the weekend.
Location: Jesuit Villa on Cazenovia Lake
2012-2013 Dates: Fall Semester- September 21-23
Spring Semester- February 15-17
Cost: $40.00
PATHWAYS
Pathways is a weekend retreat that focuses on discernment and is open to all upper-class students. Through the use of “The Three Key Questions,” as presented by Fr. Michael Himes, this weekend retreat provides students with the opportunity to openly and honestly look at what path/s and decisions lead to a life of meaning and fulfillment. The three key questions include:
1) What brings you joy?
2) Are you good at it?
3) Does anyone need you to do it?
During the weekend, students learn and practice skills of Ignatian discernment within a supportive community and environment and explore where God might be inviting them in regards to their career and Christian vocation. Led by junior and senior students and Le Moyne staff and faculty, the retreat consists of leader presentations, small group discussion, prayer and reflection, and large group integration activities.
Location: Jesuit Villa on Cazenovia Lake
2012-2013 Dates: Fall Semester Only- November 9-11
Cost: $40.00
KAIROS
Le Moyne held its first Kairos retreat the weekend of March 30 to April 1, 2012, at the Stella Maris Retreat and Renewal Center in Skaneateles, NY. Popular at numerous Jesuit high schools, colleges, and universities, Kairos is a weekend retreat experience that offers students the opportunity to detach themselves from the various challenges and demands of college life and to intentionally and meaningfully spend time reflecting on their relationships with God, themselves, and others. Kairos is led by a team of upper-class students all of whom attended a prior Kairos Retreat.
While Kairos is grounded in the Catholic tradition and rooted in Ignatian Spirituality, it is open to students of all faith and religious traditions. Large group activities, small group and individual reflection, celebration of Mass, prayer, and student leader talks are major components of Kairos.
Location: Stella Maris Retreat and Renewal Center
Skaneateles, NY
2012-2013 Dates: Spring Semester Only- March 22-24
Cost: $40.00
THE ESSENTIAL CONNECTION: Faith and Justice Retreat
With the support of persons experienced in the areas of faith and justice in the Catholic Church and beyond, this weekend retreat offers students the opportunity to explore the essential connection between faith and justice that exists in the Catholic tradition and Jesuit mission. Moreover, students learn ways to live lives that integrate both faith and justice and how to balance the two. This retreat consists of prayer reflections, justice education, small group discussion, large group integration activities, community building, and of course… breaking bread together.
Location: Jesuit Villa on Cazenovia Lake
2012-2013 Date: The Essential Connection retreat will not be held during the 2012-2013
school year.
Cost: N/A
ART AS PRAYER
Journey closer to God through art with Sister M. Joselle Orlando, OSF. Come for a time of creative prayer as you learn to use simple water color techniques as a language of prayer. Walk with St. Francis of Assisi and St. Hildegard of Bingen, two mystics who found creation to be their path to prayer, to their Creator! Learn how to pray using the mandala, a sacred circle which represents the dialogue between the visible and the invisible, earth and heaven, the conscious and the unconscious.
Location: Drescher Community Room
2012-2013 Date: October 27 (1:00pm-6:00pm)
Cost: $10
MEN'S RETREAT
Location: Jesuit Villa on Cazenovia Lake
2012-2013 Dates: October 19-20
Cost: $20
WOMEN'S RETREAT
Location: Jesuit Villa on Cazenovia Lake
2012-2013 Dates: April 12-13
Cost: $20
JOYFUL NOISE
Location: Spirituality and Nature Center at Alverna Heights
2012-2013 Dates: February 1-3
Cost: No Charge
IGNATIAN RETREAT
Location: Stella Maris Retreat and Renewal Center
Skaneateles, NY
2013 Dates: March 7-10
Cost: $60.00
The Ignatian Retreat is a three day “silent” retreat. Participants have the opportunities to learn and practice Ignatian methods of prayer, to develop the ability to recognize God in oneself and in one’s life, to meet with a spiritual director each day, to spend quiet time in reflection, to pray with scripture, to discern, and to use one’s imagination as a child of God.
Each retreatant meets with a spiritual director during the three days who contributes to the retreatant’s experience with God as s/he learns, prays, and discerns God’s presence and call.