Begin Your 2026 with the Lord
ᑕOᗰE TO TᕼE ᑕEᑎᗩᑕᒪE ᗩᑎᗪ ᗷEGIᑎ YOᑌᖇ 2026 ᗯITᕼ TᕼE ᒪOᖇᗪ.
Retreat
Be Our Light: A Christmas Retreat Through Art Journaling
This weekend retreat offers a reflective and creative space where you will contemplate Christmas images in art, pray on scripture texts, reflect on your life’s journey, and create your own art journal. Through these activities, you will pray and encounter the God who “pitched his tent among us” and became one of us.
2025 | Advent Weekend Retreat
29-30 November 2025 Facilitator: Sr. Judette Gallares,rc This stay-in weekend retreat will help the participants begin the new liturgical season by preparing their hearts and minds to the celebration of the nativity of Jesus Christ. register here: https://forms.gle/8bZbQKX8fhuSvvoK7
2025| The Gift of Years: An Onsite Weekend Seminar
November 22 and 23, 2025 (Sat and Sun) November 22 – 9:00 to 5:00pm (GMT+08) November 23 – 9:00 to 12:00nn *include stretch breaks, lunch and rest from 12-230pm, personal reflection time* Participants should be at least 50 years of age. Our facilitator will be Dr. Maria Teresa Gustilo-Villasor, a Clinical Psychologist. An online weekend seminar for those who are in their post-midlife or older years. It offers a space to come home to oneself, to look at the significance of this time in one’s life, in order to see how the years are not a burden but are truly a gift and blessing. Based on Joan Chittister’s book, “The Gift of Years: Growing Old Gracefully”. Open only to those in their fifties and above. register here: https://forms.gle/f6hYNFG9FY9gCAhF8
Finding Rest in the Midst of Work [ONLINE]
27 September 2025 Saturday, 9:00am – 12:00nn Retreat facilitator: Sr. Perry Inso,rc “Come to Me… and I will give you rest” – Matthew 11:28) This half day online recollection provides spiritual and emotional rest for teachers, helping them reconnect with their deeper purpose and God’s presence without ignoring the reality that they still need to work. Suggested Contribution: Php400 per person Register here: https://forms.gle/1iJQbxK5fumw3A4QA NOTE: This program is designed specifically for teachers.
Grieving: A Way to Healing
August 30 and 31, 2025 (Sat and Sun) August 30 – 8:30am until August 31 – 12:30pm(after lunch) Manila Time Retreat Facilitator: Sr. Mel Benedictos, rc To register/for more information, click here: https://forms.gle/9qkpf4CpFsZPMhmo8 ———————————– ‘Grief is itself a medicine. ‘It is important to deal with the very real pain of loss. We should not feel guilty for grieving because it is a necessary part of God’s pathway to healing.” – from Living through Grief ———————————— The retreat includes input on the grief process, obstacles to the healing process, and recognizing God’s presence in our grief. Spaces for expressing one’s grief through prayer experiences will also be provided. Grief here is not just for someone who died, but can be for a significant loss (such as a broken relationship, job or role, a way of life, etc.) Thank you!
Online Individual (Guided) Retreats (2 options)
Option 1 Calming the Storm Within: A Spirituality for the New Normal An online retreat in 4 sessions – individual. This individual online retreat is designed to help participants discover the nearness of God in their lives, and in the process, help them confront the new normal brought about by the ongoing pandemic. Participants will pray for the graces needed to develop a peaceful mind and a trusting heart, strengthened and ready to respond to the invitations of God in their lives. The format of the retreat is to complete 4 sessions of watching pre-recorded points for prayer and then praying with the prayer points (ie. each session includes watching 1 video (less than 30min each) and making 1 prayer period individually). Participants will choose the date and time for each session for the prayer point – the link to each video will be emailed to them accordingly*. Participants will also meet with a Cenacle Sister twice for individual consultation (20-30minutes each) during the course of the retreat. *participants are advised to keep the interval between each session not beyond 1 week. Suggested contribution for the retreat: P2500 (US$50 or SG$70) per person Click here to register Option 2 Spiritual Exercises in a Covid 19 World: Finding Meaning in this Pandemic A 5-Day Guided (Online) Retreat with the Cenacle Sisters – Individual In this Covid-19 world, we find ourselves in uncertain times and unfamiliar territory. We long to make sense of our experiences and questions. This guided retreat, with suggested spiritual exercises, is an invitation to find the meaning behind our experience of this current pandemic. The first annotation to the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius describes a spiritual exercise as any way of disposing and ordering ourselves in order to seek and find God, of opening ourselves to the Spirit for light and understanding, and discovering how we can more deeply respond to God’s love and call. We invite you to set out on this prayer journey, to enter into this present global reality, and to experience personal transformation as you co-create the emerging new normal. Retreatants will access retreat materials via the internet. They will meet online daily with a Cenacle Sister for individual consultation. Suggested Offering: P5000 or SGD140 per person. You may choose any 5 days (consecutively or weekends only) for your retreat. Register HERE. Need more information regarding the above options or if you’d like to cater to a group? Email us at cenacle.philippines@gmail.com We have made available Online Spiritual Accompaniment (a.k.a spiritual direction) and Individual Retreats: http://cenaclephilsing.org/online-retreat/
Features, General, Soul Food, Vocation
Courage, Trust & Love of a Religious
Immersion Program @Cenacle, 2020 A testimony from a participant through whatsapp: Gd Morning Sr.!I really wish to visit Manila. My heart is drawn to go there again.. It is hard to share a little of my experience about the Manila Immersion Programme as it is a rich and eye-opening 7 days journey. However, if I am to summarize the grace God has granted me, that would be the courage to trust in the love of our good Lord, in the way He wants to love me, not in my preferred way, because He always know the best than I do. At first, I hesitated to join the programme because there is too many ‘risk’ I have to face, especially in taking leave from full time job, which is normally not so easy. But even before the programme, God has granted me the courage to trust in His providence. He only wants my YES and He takes care of the rest. Praise God for that! Throughout my journey in Manila, He showed me that this grace came alive in the Religious Sisters and Brothers whom we visited. They face different challenges in their respective missions and vocation journey, but they persevere on and amazingly, all of them look so happy. They love until it hurts, but they still carry on to love, until it hurts no more, but only love remains. Thank you Sisters and Brothers for letting me taste the fruits of your courage, trust and love. On top of all, I thank my Lord for this experience. It is too wonderful that I wish to return to Manila and I hope there will be another similar programme so others can receive the experience like I do. 🙂
We have a New Page! “What Retreatants Say”
“What Retreatants Say” is a platform to allow our in-house retreatants share testimonies of their encounters with Jesus, in so enriching our hearts and spirits. We are happy to welcome and receive your “thanksgiving symbol/expression” be it artwork, poetry, story, prayer or reflection (max 1 page). What Retreatants Say