With One Heart: Baking with Sourdough Experience
Women's Retreat
January 29-31, 2027
Holy Family Retreat Team
Attend a women’s retreat and learn about baking with a sourdough starter. We will start a little bit early on Friday and fit in the steps of making sourdough bread around the schedule of the women’s retreat. We will make our own lunch on Saturday (Detroit Pizza and Sourdough Discard Brownies) and miss some of the afternoon offerings from the women’s retreat. You will go home with greater knowledge, a lively sourdough starter, recipes, and a freshly baked loaf of delicious sourdough bread.
Offering: $450; more if you can, less if you can’t.
“More if you can, less if you can’t…”
Holy Family Passionist Retreat Center has a long-standing tradition of making retreats available to everyone – regardless of their financial situation and their ability to pay. If you are interested in this retreat but unable to pay the full offering at this time, please contact our registrar, Eric Melanson at 860-760-9705 for more information about our payment plans and scholarships.
We also ask that if you are able to make a donation over and above the suggested offering of the retreat, to help support this tradition and those who are less fortunate, we would be grateful for the added contribution.
2026-27 Retreat Theme: With One Heart
Peace, unity, and harmony are all things we desire in our lives, especially as we experience division in society, the Church, and our relationships. Our retreat theme for this season, With One Heart, will explore how our Christian faith calls us to resist division and to live as one in the love of God.
The biblical image of being “of one heart” expresses a deep sense of harmony, shared purpose, and mutual belonging. It points to a way of life in which we move beyond our differences and seek the common good as members of one community.
Pope Leo’s motto, "In Illo uno unum," reminds us that “In the One, we are one.” The hard reality is that fostering unity takes time and active work. It is easier to tear something down than to build it up. Focusing on what unites us opens doors for relationship-building, deep listening, and understanding—the very mandate Jesus gave us to “love one another.”
Through prayer, reflection, and dialogue, our retreat this season will guide us to live more fully With One Heart, uniting us to God and one another.
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Holy Family Retreat Team
At the center of Holy Family's ministry is its dynamic retreat team which leads nearly thirty weekend retreats each year. Our team brings a wealth of experience, theological education, and inspiration to your spiritual journey. Whether we are greeting you at our door for the first time, eating a meal with you, or sharing a spiritual teaching, each member of the team embodies a spirit of hospitality, welcome, and unconditional acceptance.
Payment plans and scholarships are available. If you are interested in this retreat but unable to pay the full offering at this time, please contact our registrar, Eric Melanson at 860-760-9705 for more information about our payment plans and scholarships.
Dietary restrictions? Holy Family is committed to making your stay as comfortable and enjoyable as possible, and to that end, we can accommodate most dietary needs. Please email Marianne, our Dining Room Manager, at mbrady@holyfamilyretreat.org, if you have any dietary restrictions or food allergies, so that we may make preparations in advance of your retreat.