Sodality Retreat

November 1-3

Grand Coteau Retreats
Grand Coteau, LA

All adult Sodalists and those interested in joing the Sodality of Our Lady are invited to a three day silent retreat based on the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius.

Format: Individually Directed, with some conferences

Cost: $280

Accommodation: Individual rooms, ensuite

Begins: 5pm, Friday, November 1st

Ends: 1pm, Sunday, November 3rd

Location: Grand Coteau Retreat House, 313 E MLK Dr, Grand Coteau, Louisiana 70541

Scholarships: There is financial assistance available for those who need it. Contact: ajms@estovir.org

JUNE 9-10

St. Louis University

St. Louis, MO

Drawn into Communion (cf. Lumen Gentium, 7)

During this period of Eucharistic Revival, Holy Mother Church calls to be drawn into communion with Christ in the Eucharist. Our Church offers us the gift of the Eucharist - the Real Presence of our Lord entrusted to her two thousand years ago. The Church is inviting us to renew ourselves through a proclamation that our Lord Jesus Christ is truly present - Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity - in the Holy Eucharist. And through this proclamation, we will be inspired to enter a deeper union with Him, form ourselves in the richness of our faith, and live as witnesses of His transforming love.

As sodalities in the Marian tradition, we look to Our Lady as the example of a personal relationship with our Lord. She is the one that cared for our Lord, she taught Him, and she suffered with him at the Cross. As a result of the creative revival of the Sodality model, interest and growth has spread in the United States. Through the sodality model, we are reaching a greater number of Catholic youth and revealing to them the presence of our Lord in the Eucharist and the loyal witness of our Lady. The Sodality model continues to offer a community that fosters and protects us as we deepen our understanding of ourselves, our faith, our Lady, and our Lord.

Join us for the second Sodality Congress, which will once again be held on the weekend of the Jesuit ordinations of the UCS province. Let us continue to strengthen the bonds between the different sodalities and invigorate the sodalists in their living out of their spiritual commitments.

  1. Highlight the invitation to Eucharistic revival.

  2. Inspire sodalists to deepen their personal relationship with Jesus Christ.

  3. Foster spiritual communion and collaboration between Sodalities.

  4. Form sodalists in the Marian and Eucharistic dimensions of the Sodality.

2024 SODALITY CONGRESS

SPIRITUAL EXERCISES OF ST. IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA

  • Silence

    Silence is the invitation to draw nearer to our Lord. In silence, we set aside our daily distractions to permit the Lord to make His presence known to us. In Silence, we discern our passions to determine whether they are ordered toward the greater glory of God. In Silence, we encounter our Lord calling us to a deeper relationship with him.

  • Contemplation

    St. Ignatius provides explicit instructions on engaging our imagination and our senses to experience the life of Christ with our whole being.

  • Examination

    The Ignatian practice of the Examen permits us to enter deeply into our daily thoughts, actions, and words to discern with precision how we can grow in virtue. Practiced as often as three times a day, but no less than once at night, the Examen is the exercise that reveals our erroneous perceptions, our transgressions, our vices, and our disordered passions.

  • White House

    Click here to learn more about the Spiritual Exercises offered at the White House Jesuit Retreat Center in St. Louis, Missouri.

  • Manresa House of Retreats

    Click here to learn more about the Spiritual Exercises offered at the Manresa House of Retreats in Convent, Louisiana.

  • Grand Coteau Retreats

    Click here to learn more about the Spiritual Exercises offered at Grand Coteau, Louisiana.