St. Bernard’s encourages our parishoners to take advantage of our retreat opportunities each year.
Men’s Retreat
Our annual Men’s Retreat is held in January at Holy Family Passionist Retreat Center
Our annual Womens Retreat is also held at Holy Family and the month varies from year to year.
High School Youth Retreats and Leadership Training
Our high school age youth are offered a retreat weekend at either Trinita Retreat Center in New Hartford or at the Steubenville East Youth Conference held in July each year.
The LEAD program, an outreach of Franciscan University of Steubenville, is a 5 day training opportunity which precedes the Steubenville East High School Conference each year. We selectively invite one or more of our young people whom we judge are mature enough for this worthy program. Those who attend receive faith formation, are taught how to pray and learn how to give witness to of their faith to others as part of evangelization.
Annually, we offer two high school students the chance to experience a weekend leadership retreat at the Holy Family Passionist Retreat House. This includes growth in personal faith, community building and leadership training.
