Sacerdotes In Aeternum Priest Retreats

Canonical, week, weekend, or day retreats are available at no cost to the priest except for travel expense. Taking a break from technology to reestablish good habits in the following areas are essential to the priesthood. 

The blurring of the roles of priest and laity have led to overly administrative ministry and forgetfulness of the identification of the priest with Christ the High Priest. The laws of prayer, faith, and life of priests can be recovered with exposure to a conducive environment.

Good habits and a rule of life can be re-established on the retreats, in order to return to ministry able to fulfill the obligations of Divine Office, mental prayer, divine worship, and sufficient rest. It is essential for priests to recover a focus on the interior life through time tested traditional practices.

Priests express having inadequate formation in the doctrinal aspects of the Catholic faith. Time and sufficient quiet and solitude for re-establishing habits for study of Sacred Scripture and all areas of theology are ample on the priest retreats.

Inadequate formation in the lex Orandi and lex Credendi has led to a failure in living the demanding aspects of the traditional norms of the Lex Vivendi. The acsetical life, which protects the purity of the priestly state, assists in living out the priesthood more fully and more peacefully.

Maintaining emotional balance and holy chastity, and avoiding some of the worldly habits so easily succumbed to in modernity is also greatly helped by establishing pattterns of contemplative physical activity, like the early monastics. The priest enclosure, designed in a Carthusian style, provides access to walking in the woods or lonely roads, or privately cultivating the garden, or other outdoor opportunities according to need or desire . 

The contemplative retreat must include no obligations of "getting things done".  The only obligation  to the priest retreatant is offering the morning Mass. The healthy meals provided establish habits of eating that counter-balance emotional and physical fatigue common in the culture today. Scroll down to contact us and see a pictoral slideshow of the priest retreat enclosure which is under construction...