Self-Directed Retreat Guides

A foundational Ignatian retreat drawing from the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola. The perfect starting place for a first visit to Pacem - or a return to the essentials of prayer.

Centered on Mary, the mother of Christ - her courage, her surrender, and her immeasurable love - as a lantern for every mother who has known both joy and sorrow

Grounded in the love of God the Father - steadfast, pursuing, tender, and strong - as the source and model for every father's calling.

Drawing from The Artist's Way and Scripture's vision of a Creator God, a retreat for those who create - recovering the sacred source of imagination, craft and the creative self.

For those who believe they have no time. A compact, honest retreat that meets you in your urgency and invites you into a freedom you forgot was possible.

A gentle retreat for those mourning the loss of a loved one. There is no rushing here, no performance of healing. God meets us in the grief - not beyond it.

For those who give and give - who tend the sick, the aging, the fragile, and the difficult - and who have quietly forgotten that they also need care. Come empty. Leave held.

For those standing at a threshold - uncertain about vocation, relationship, education, or simply the next faithful step. This retreat does not give you the answer. It teaches you how to listen for it.

For teachers, professors, administrators, coaches, andall who form the minds and hearts of the young. A retreat that honors the calling - and the cost - of Christian education.

For pastors, priests, deacons, religious sisters and brothers, and all who shepherd God's people. A retreat for those who preach rest while running on empty - and who need, at last, to receive what they give.

For husbands and wives who long to reconnect - spiritually, prayerfully, and truly - with each other and with the God who brought them together.

For those who have finished a career, raised a family, or crossed the threshold into the later chapters of life - and who are asking what faithfulness looks like now.

For women in any season of life - honoring the whole of a woman's interior world, her belovedness, her wounds, and her specific calling.

For men - addressing the specific interior landscape of manhood, the wounds rarely named, the freedom rarely claimed, and the God who meets a man exactly where he is.

For engaged couples - preparing spiritually for the sacrament of marriage by meeting the God who is the ground of the covenant you are about to make.

For those living with a serious diagnosis, a chronic illness, or a life-altering medical reality - and for those who love them. God is not absent from this. He is here.

For those whose marriage has ended or is ending - bringing the disorientation, grief, failure, and fragile hope of divorce into the presence of a God who does not abandon the broken.

For those in recovery from addiction - honoring the spiritual foundation already present in your journey, and deepening your encounter with the God of the Twelve Steps.

For those who have served - in uniform, in fire stations, in squad cars, in emergency rooms - honoring the specific burden of service and the God who meets the moral injury, the trauma, and the weariness of those who protect others.

For those who have been away from God, from the Church, or from faith - and who find themselves, perhaps unexpectedly, on the way back. You are not starting over. You are being found.