Loading...Bethany Spring, The Merton Institute Retreat Center, offers retreats in a peace-filled, rural setting. The Center is located just one mile from the Abbey of Gethsemani in New Haven, Kentucky.
Lent Bridges to Contemplative Living retreats offered March 8-10, and March 12-14.
Bridges to Contemplative Living retreat offered April 19-21. Participants reflect upon readings from Thomas Merton and other spiritual writers and engage in contemplative dialogue using these readings. Each Contemplative Living Session focuses on aspects of our relationships - with self, our neighbors, with nature, and with God. By attending to these core relationships in our daily lives we become contemplatives who are learning that our every day life is our spiritual life. Cost for each retreat is $235.00 per person. Scholarships are available for this retreat.
Holy Week Retreat, March 31-April 4, is a non-directed retreat in which participants rest in an atmosphere of silence. Guests are invited to attend the Triduum prayer services at the Abbey of Gethsemani. Cost for the retreat is $320.00. Scholarships are available for this retreat.
Thomas Merton and Mary Oliver: Poets of the Sacred, facilitated by psychotherapist Rusty Moe, uses Merton's and Oliver's approaches to nature and the feminine. Participants discern the "unheard feminine voice" within themselves. This retreat is April 9-11. Cost for the retreat is $285.00 per person. Scholarships are available for this retreat.
Bethany Spring is available for private retreats and group retreats. The facility features two hermitages, one for single occupancy and one for double occupancy. The House, which has seven bedrooms, is available for both private and group retreats. Grace's House is available for rental for 1-4 people.
The Magee Foundation has awarded a grant to Bethany Spring for scholarships to be granted to ministers, seminarians, and those who work in congregational ministry. Recipients use awarded scholarships for retreats at Bethany Spring. To apply, contact Vanessa Hurst at 502.899.1991 or vhurst@mertoninstitute.org.
For more information or to register for a retreat, contact Elizabeth Caskey at The Merton Institute: 502.899.1991 or 800.886.7275. A list of scheduled retreats is available online at www.bethanyspring.org.
The Merton Institute for Contemplative Living's mission is to awaken interest in contemplative living through the works of Thomas Merton in order to promote Merton's vision for a just and peaceful world. Bethany Spring, The Merton Institute Retreat Center, offers the experience of contemplative living.
