2025 Clergy Retreat
In 1866, at the request of Bishop John McGill of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Richmond, the Sisters of the Visitation in Baltimore sent six of their number to establish a monastery and open a girls’ school in the devastated city of Richmond.
Following the discipline of their order, they inaugurated daily prayer for the city and the needs of its citizens. Bishop McGill purchased for them the house that Col. Richard Adams had built at the time of the American Revolution, just 80 years before. The Adams mansion had dependencies stretching to the east, and in 1880 the Roman Catholic diocese added to the precinct the Adams-Taylor House, which had been sold to them by the Wilkins family after the war.
After the Sisters moved out of the city, an Episcopal Priest purchased it and made it into a retreat center (he wanted to start a seminary there) and eventually it became a progressive, ecumenical open and affirmed Christian Retreat Center.
Recently, the cabin where slaves were held was discovered on the monastery grounds, adding to its significance, and sacredness.
Our retreat will be led by Archbishop Bernard Sheffield, of St. Julian of Norwich Old Catholic Church in Port St. Lucie FL (https://www.facebook.com/groups/329229550499761?_rdr)
This will be a silent directed retreat. We will gather daily with the retreat master and have a discussion about the day and he will assign us a topic to pray and meditate on every day.
We will follow the prayer rhythm of the retreat center, and We will gather for the Chrism Mass on Saturday evening, and The Feast of Saint Augustine of Hippo on Sunday morning.
If you have any questions, please email
socialmedia@naoldcatholic.com
Following the discipline of their order, they inaugurated daily prayer for the city and the needs of its citizens. Bishop McGill purchased for them the house that Col. Richard Adams had built at the time of the American Revolution, just 80 years before. The Adams mansion had dependencies stretching to the east, and in 1880 the Roman Catholic diocese added to the precinct the Adams-Taylor House, which had been sold to them by the Wilkins family after the war.
After the Sisters moved out of the city, an Episcopal Priest purchased it and made it into a retreat center (he wanted to start a seminary there) and eventually it became a progressive, ecumenical open and affirmed Christian Retreat Center.
Recently, the cabin where slaves were held was discovered on the monastery grounds, adding to its significance, and sacredness.
Our retreat will be led by Archbishop Bernard Sheffield, of St. Julian of Norwich Old Catholic Church in Port St. Lucie FL (https://www.facebook.com/groups/329229550499761?_rdr)
This will be a silent directed retreat. We will gather daily with the retreat master and have a discussion about the day and he will assign us a topic to pray and meditate on every day.
We will follow the prayer rhythm of the retreat center, and We will gather for the Chrism Mass on Saturday evening, and The Feast of Saint Augustine of Hippo on Sunday morning.
If you have any questions, please email
socialmedia@naoldcatholic.com
