Linwood offers a variety of retreats as well as days and evenings of prayer. We welcome individual private retreats and outside group rentals. We often have room available for individuals seeking a quiet stay. Group rentals are not sponsored by Linwood, are not open to the public, and are not listed in our brochure. Please note, we have been blessed to have a pretty full calendar, many groups book over a year in advance. Please contact us for rates and availability. 

Individual Retreats   

Linwood welcomes private retreats.  This is a personal retreat, not affiliated with any group retreat or program. The agenda is your own.  Spiritual Direction may be available. Please inquire when you make reservations. Availability is based on current bookings at the spiritual center. Payment in full is required at the time of reservation. 

An invitation to journey through the complete Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius for women and men whose commitments at home and at work do not allow them to make the usual Thirty Day Experience. The process will include a commitment to daily prayer, weekly meetings with an experienced spiritual director, and monthly gatherings for sharing. The retreat begins September and continues through early May, with individual flexibility. 

• Spiritual direction focuses on religious experience. It is concerned with a person’s actual experience of a relationship with God.
• Spiritual direction is about a relationship. The religious experience is not isolated, nor does it consist of extraordinary events. It is what happens in an ongoing relationship between the person and God. Most often this is a relationship that is experienced in prayer.
• Spiritual direction is a relationship that is going somewhere. God is leading the person to deeper faith and more generous service. The spiritual director asks not just “what is happening?” but “what is moving forward?”
• The real spiritual director is God. God touches the human heart directly. The human spiritual director does not “direct” in the sense of giving advice and solving problems. Rather, the director helps a person respond to God’s invitation to a deeper relationship.

https://www.ignatianspirituality.com/making-good-decisions/spiritual-direction/