To Love and Be Loved

The Great Commandment, to "love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind" and "love your neighbor as yourself” is the foundation of our faith.

We have been created to love and be loved. This is reflected in St. Benedict’s Rule which recommends the principles of stability, conversion of life, obedience, and hospitality.

Benedict can inspire our love, whether we are monks or in a marriage or any other walk of life. His spirituality helps us to discover our "inner monk."

This program – which begins Friday, July 25, at 7:30 p.m. and ends after lunch on Sunday, July 27 – will be led by Father Mauritius Wilde, OSB, and Jodi Blazek Gehr.

Father Wilde teaches at Sant' Anselmo, a Benedictine study house in Rome and is an author, retreat director and radio guest.

Jodi Blazek Gehr is a wife, mother, Benedictine oblate and a certified SoulCollage and Boundless Compassion facilitator.

Program fee: $80

Rooms (per person, per night): single $52, double $43

Meals: breakfast $9, lunch $13.30, supper $12.30

Sales and lodging taxes are extra.