Calendar of Retreats

Belonging to God’s Holy Family: The Saints as Hope for our own Families

with Fr. Michael Niemczak, Tomasz Misztal, and Br. Cyril Drnjevic, OSB

March 7 – 9, 2025

The title of this retreat describes what participants can expect to learn from it: we each belong to God’s Holy Family, the Church. In God’s Holy Family we learn from saints how to live our Christian life very well. During this retreat we will learn about several saint families. They began with many of the same challenges we experience in our daily family life. We will learn how they grew into holy models of hope in their Christian family life. We will also learn how this same hope is present to each of us daily in our Christian family life. This is because Jesus guides our Christian family.

As a Lenten retreat, we will also reflect on how living a holy Lent helps us to live in hope within our own family.

Retreat Speakers: Fr. Michael is a priest of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe and serves as a formator for the Mount Angel Seminary propaedeutic year, the first year of seminary formation. Tomasz is a Catholic artist from Poland and currently lives in Portland, Oregon. His bas relief of the Last Supper is in the Saint Benedict Guesthouse dining room. Br. Cyril is a monk of Mount Angel Abbey and has given and participated in a variety of healing retreats across the country.

Cost: $350 single occupancy; $550 double occupancy

Email retreat@mtangel.edu to register.

(Schedule below subject to change)

Faith Over Fifty 2025

A Quick Trip Through the Afterlife

with Chris Anderson
March 28 – 30, 2025

This retreat is a three-day pilgrimage through the afterlife, taking in the most famous sites in Dante’s Divine Comedy: a pilgrimage about love and freedom, about joy, and about a new way of looking at the journey of growing old.

Please bring a notebook, a journal, or a laptop.

Chris Anderson is an emeritus professor of English at Oregon State University, a Catholic deacon, a poet, and the author of a number of books, most recently, Love Calls Us Here, a book of poems.

Cost: $350 single occupancy; $550 double occupancy

Email retreat@mtangel.edu to register.

Holy Week Paschal Triduum Retreat

with Abbot Jeremy Driscoll, OSB, Abbot Peter Eberle, OSB, & Br. Anselm Flores, OSB
April 16 – 20, 2025

Information to come soon!

Women’s Retreat

Childless and Catholic

with Pati Kiley
August 8 – 10, 2025

“Are you prepared to accept children lovingly from God and to bring them up according to the law of Christ and his Church?”
– The Order of Celebrating Matrimony

Expectations of having children is an integral part of marriage. If we are not to have children, then what are we supposed to do as a Catholic married couple? What is God’s will for our lives?

Trying to come to terms with infertility as a Catholic creates a burden on one’s heart that is hard to lift. What are the tools we can use to resolve feelings of self-doubt, regret, and shame?

You may have a hole in your heart or a stone. We invite you to join us on this retreat in offering up our suffering, presenting our burdens in sacrifice to our Lord as we strive to understand God’s will in our lives, coming to trust in him.

Childless and Catholic is a retreat for women who are:

• of childbearing age and long for a child, or
• pre and postmenopausal women who continue to grieve the loss of unmet hopes of having children of their own

This retreat is an invitation to come away for awhile and set one’s heart on God alone, immersing oneself in the rhythm of the monks of Mount Angel Abbey – joining them for Mass and the Liturgy of the Hours, the reading of psalms and scripture.

The retreat is comprised of five sessions based upon the mysteries of the Rosary, with opportunities for confession, prayer, contemplative silence, and being in camaraderie with other Childless and Catholic women.

Cost: $350 Single occupancy
Email retreat@mtangel.edu to register

Pati Kiley is a former youth minister who now works full-time for a general contractor and aspires to become a Catholic life coach. From high school throughout college, she participated in Teens Encounter Christ (TEC) weekend retreats in various leadership roles aiding confirmed Catholic youth in exploring their relationship with God and their faith by sharing her own. She has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Graphic Arts Management with a minor in writing.

Throughout her life, Pati has utilized her communication and organizational skills in each industry she has worked in, be it print production, educational materials, and now general contracting. She strives to connect with people whether clients, subcontractors, neighbors, or complete strangers at the grocery store (much to her husband’s chagrin).

The sixth of seven children, with both parents from large families, her husband of 24 years and she are childless. It has been on her heart to share her journey of understanding God’s will in her life as a married Catholic without children with other women who have or are currently struggling with this same question.

Pati strives to deepen her relationship with God through the Mass, prayer, scripture, conversation, and writing. Friends and family are accustomed to receiving texts or calls from her out of the blue to share revelations or questions encountered in everyday life. Pati and her husband live in Keizer, Oregon.

Marian Retreat

with Fr. Ephrem Martinez, OSB
August 15 – 17, 2025

Information to come soon!

Faith and Writing 2025

A Quick Trip Through the Afterlife
Praying and Writing with Dante

with Chris Anderson
August 18 – 20, 2025

In this retreat, author Chris Anderson leads retreatants on a three-day pilgrimage through the afterlife, taking in the most famous sites in Dante’s Divine Comedy while keeping a travel journal along the way. This is a pilgrimage about love and freedom, about joy, and about a new way of praying and writing.

Please bring a notebook, a journal, or a laptop.

Chris Anderson is an emeritus professor of English at Oregon State University, a Catholic deacon, a poet, and the author of a number of books, most recently, Love Calls Us Here, a book of poems.

Cost: $350 single occupancy; $550 double occupancy

Email retreat@mtangel.edu to register.

2 Become 1: A Retreat to Explore the Beauty and Truth of Catholic Marriage

with Fr. Matt Libra, Patricia Mackie LPC, and Br. Louis de Montfort Nguyen, OSB
September 26 – 28, 2025

The retreat includes marriage inventory, talks on sexual intimacy, spirituality, theology of the body, Mass, beer with the monks, and much more!

Cost: $575 per couple, all inclusive.
Information about financial assistance and scholarship available upon request.

Email retreat@mtangel.edu to register.

Please note: the schedule is subject to change. A final schedule will be emailed to registrants closer to the retreat.

Women’s Retreat

Changing Worry Into Hope

with Christin McIntyre, MD, PhD
November 14 – 16, 2025

As women – daughters, sisters, wives and mothers – we are uniquely designed to observe the needs of others and intercede on their behalf.  Yet, too often our loving concern only drives us to worry, while we feel powerless to help the ones we love.  Learn to model our Blessed Mother, Mary, drawing strength from the presence of Jesus within.  Experience “God with us” in Immanuel Moment meditation, allowing His grace to heal our hearts and restore our trust in our loving Father.  Learn to collect treasure from all that God permits to happen, as Mary did, making use of all things in hopeful prayer for the good of those we love.

Dr. Christin McIntyre is a married mother of five who converted to Catholicism in 1997.  She earned a combined MD/PhD degree in Pharmacology and Toxicology from the University of Kansas Medical Center, and returned to Oregon to complete a residency in Psychiatry at OHSU.  She has been in outpatient practice as a psychiatrist in the Portland area since 2003, and she continues to see patients in Oregon and Washington by telehealth since relocating to Idaho in 2021.  Psychotherapy continues to be a main focus of her practice, and to better serve a growing number of Catholic patients in recent years, she has pursued training in Thomistic psychology as well as with the John Paul II Healing Center. 

Cost: $400
Email retreat@mtangel.edu to register.
(Schedule below subject to change)

Abbey Advent Retreat

with Fr. Michael Shrum, OSB
December 5 – 7, 2025

Information to come soon!