Offerings
Learn By Doing
Our retreats and programs go beyond good teaching. When you join us, you will be invited to enter into experiences to discover or deepen your spiritual practice—and bring it into your daily life.
Retreats
Mercy Spirituality Center is a retreat center for people of all faiths. We believe that each of us, individuals and organizations alike, needs time apart to find, deepen, or refresh our connection to what matters most in life. We are deeply grateful to be able to offer our beautiful space to the community for rest, reflection and spiritual growth.
Our facilitated retreats center around contemplative practice, Ignatian Spirituality and finding God in nature. Check our calendar to see what’s up next, or call to arrange an experience tailored to the needs of your group.
We also offer private retreats for groups and individuals. A Day to Call Your Own opens with an optional communal prayer, then the rest of the day is yours. We provide a private room, a simple lunch, and our beautiful house and grounds for you to explore as you wish. If you need a little more time in quiet, consider A Retreat to Call Your Own which includes all of the above plus an overnight and pick-up breakfast. Check our calendar for scheduled opportunities, or contact us to arrange a date that fits your schedule.
Located just one block from Highland Park, Mercy Spirituality Center offers 10 private guest rooms, meeting spaces for groups as small as 5 or as large as 35, kitchen and dining facilities along with various dining options dependent on the length and nature of your stay, a richly stocked library, spacious yard with gazebo and plenty of off-street parking.
"Mug Up" with Sr. Jody Returns!!
When I did my graduate studies in Vermont, there were many students attending from Newfoundland as well. Usually once or twice a week they would spread the word that there would be a Mug Up at 10:00 pm in student housing. Anyone interested brought an empty mug and the hosts would provide a snack and a hot drink of your choice. “Mug Ups” were a nice way to chat and unwind after a night of studying. Our “Mug Up” will occur at 10:00am! Each week we will play a short video with reflection questions that will be used for discussion in each session.
Facilitator: Sr. Jody Kearney, RSM
Dates: Tuesdays, Feb. 23, March 2, 9, 16, and 23
Time: 10am – 11am
Fee: Free will, suggested offering $10
Spiritual Wisdom in our Aging Years
Have you noticed that we are living longer and may be experiencing a better quality of life than our predecessors? Aging need not be viewed as a time of diminishment but an intentional time to harvest all of our life experiences and explore the spiritual invitations of this second coming of age. The soul, like a fine wine, must be properly aged and tended to so it can yield it's wisdom in our later years. If you are 60 years or more come be awakened to a vision of spiritual eldering.
Facilitator: Fr. John Rose
Date: April 20
Time: 10:00am-1:00pm VIA Zoom
Fee: $30
Fr John Rose was ordained for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Syracuse in 1972. In his 48 years as a priest he has served as parish priest, hospital chaplain, spiritual director, trainer of spiritual directors, spiritual integrator at a mental health treatment center for clergy and religious and retreat director. He recently retired and is enjoying his wisdom years.
Quiet Retreats
Our day-long, mini-weekend and full weekend retreats provide opportunities for slowing down and making space for the more in your life. We offer practices designed to quiet busy minds in order to make room for a deeper and richer experience of the divine.
Mercy Spirituality Center is a retreat center for people of all faiths. We believe that each of us, individuals and organizations alike, needs time apart to find, deepen, or refresh our connection to what matters most in life. We are deeply grateful to be able to offer our beautiful space to the community for rest, reflection and spiritual growth.
Our facilitated retreats center around contemplative practice, Ignatian Spirituality and finding God in nature. Check our calendar to see what’s up next, or call to arrange an experience tailored to the needs of your group.
We also offer private retreats for groups and individuals. A Day to Call Your Own opens with an optional communal prayer, then the rest of the day is yours. We provide a private room, a simple lunch, and our beautiful house and grounds for you to explore as you wish. If you need a little more time in quiet, consider A Retreat to Call Your Own which includes all of the above plus an overnight and pick-up breakfast. Check our calendar for scheduled opportunities, or contact us to arrange a date that fits your schedule.
Located just one block from Highland Park, Mercy Spirituality Center offers 10 private guest rooms, meeting spaces for groups as small as 5 or as large as 35, kitchen and dining facilities along with various dining options dependent on the length and nature of your stay, a richly stocked library, spacious yard with gazebo and plenty of off-street parking.
Group Retreat Opportunities
We believe in the value of time apart from the routines of daily life. In our warm, inviting space, Mercy Spirituality Center is uniquely able to offer intimate, experiential, contemplative retreats for your small group. Call us to find out more about our weekend (Friday evening – Sunday brunch) and mini-weekend (Friday evening - Saturday late afternoon) offerings. Call 585-473-6893. Or email us at: [email protected] But contact us early! Available weekends fill quickly.
Ignatian Spirituality
Exercises of St. Ignatius In All Of It's Forms
The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius in all of its forms, create an awareness of God in all things—all people, all creation, every human experience, and especially in the person of Jesus. We offer a model of the Spiritual Exercises designed by St. Ignatius for use in daily life which takes place over 30 weeks, rather than 30 days. This program is currently being offered virtually. Please contact Sr. Jody Kearney via email [email protected]
The Creation Stations
We invite you to contemplate nature on our beautiful grounds; walk our Creation Stations, or perhaps just sit in quiet to experience God in nature. Booklets of prayers and reflections are available for your use.
The Creation Stations at Mercy Spirituality Center were developed out of our desire to assist you in making connections with the natural world and God, our Creator.
Your journey begins at the Peace Garden and follows a path to the Wind, Creatures, Light, Earth, Water, and Trees stations. You are invited to walk these stations in the order they were intended or to just sit quietly at one of the stations.
More Creation Stations
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