Summer Sabbath 2024

7 Night Retreat

With Directors Mercy Associates Andrea Minelli and Carol Villagio

July 28 - August 4, 2024

Single - $880
(Price includes overnight accommodation, private bathroom, and meals.)

Register for this Offering

 

 

What is Summer Sabbath at Mercy by the Sea?

Sabbath means to rest! Sometimes the best gift you can give yourself is permission to rest.

Summer Sabbath at Mercy by the Sea offers a space where you can intentionally put aside your day-to-day work and concerns, take time to rest, renew, reenergize, and reconnect with your God, while enjoying the healing beauty of these sacred grounds and the gentle sea breezes of Long Island Sound.

Participants are invited to gather once daily for communal prayer, and reflection. The rest of your day is open to spend as you need and choose, walking the beautiful grounds or our newly restored Labyrinth, sitting on the beach with a good book, enjoying the magnificent sunrises and sunsets, and maybe treating yourself to a massage.

Eucharistic Liturgy is available close by at several local parishes and Spiritual Direction is available as requested. Summer Sabbath is NOT a Directed Retreat, Preached Retreat, Guided Retreat or Silent Retreat.

About the Presenters

Andrea Minelli is a graduate of the Women’s Leadership Institute and has an MA in Spirituality from Hartford Seminary. She is a certified Spiritual Director and Retreat Leader trained through Mercy by the Sea. She is a Mercy Associate. She received a certificate in Bio-Spiritual Focusing through the Spiritual Life Center, West Hartford CT and is trained as a Pastoral Care Associate through St Francis Hospital, Hartford, CT.

Carol Villagio also received her training in Spiritual Direction and Retreat Ministry from Mercy by the Sea and from the Spiritual Life Center in West Hartford. She has a certificate in Bio-Spiritual Focusing. Her practice as a Bio-Spiritual Focusing facilitator adds a deeper dimension to spiritual direction in which she offers and companions individuals to various approaches of encountering the Holy in prayer and life experience. Carol is also a Mercy Associate.