Manresa is a silent retreat based on St. Ignatius of Loyola’s Spiritual Exercises. Held each year during winter break at BC's beautiful Connors Family Retreat Center, Manresa is a time of quiet, reflection, and prayer with an open, flexible schedule in a peaceful setting.
Questions?
For more information email: cmretreats@bc.edu
or contact Campus Minister for Retreats:
Grace Davis
grace.davis@bc.edu
The Manresa Silent Retreat Experience
What's it like?
- Plenty of time to rest, explore the grounds, pray, reflect, and just be, free of the pressures and stress of daily campus life
- Retreatants meet individually with a spiritual director each day to explore questions about faith, justice, and meaning. Directors include campus ministers, Jesuits, and other BC faculty and staff
- Daily opportunities to attend Mass and prayer services based upon the Spiritual Exercises, as well as, contemplative offerings including art, meditation and movement
- Retreatants will stay in single occupancy rooms at the Connors Family Retreat Center in Dover, MA. Lodging, food, and transportation is provided.
Who attends?
All undergraduate and graduate students are welcome on the Manresa Silent Retreat.
This retreat is rooted in the Catholic, Ignatian tradition, but all students seeking to lead lives of faith and justice can benefit from the silence, reflection, and peaceful environment.
The retreat is open to students of all faith backgrounds. If a student is not Christian, Campus Ministry aims to provide a spiritual director from one's own tradition.
Space is limited, so please apply as soon as possible.
Costs
The cost of the retreat is $150, including:
- Lodging
- Food
- Transportation
- Retreat materials
Campus Ministry wants to ensure that cost does not prohibit any student from attending the Manresa Silent Retreat. Please indicate if a financial need exists within the application and a campus minister will be in touch.
Register
The Manresa Silent Retreat will be held from January 7 - 11, 2026.
The registration for the Manresa Silent Retreat opens on October 1, 2025 at 9:00 a.m. and closes on November 14, 2025 at 11:59 p.m. EST.
After participation in the Manresa Retreat, students will be able to:
- Describe at least one aspect of their faith or spirituality that is more hopeful or empowering from what it had been prior to participating in the retreat.
- Identify a concept or prayer within Ignatian spirituality that they encountered on the retreat and describe how it relates to at least one experience from their life.
- Articulate an insight from the retreat that relates to their relationship with themselves, someone else, or God.