program retreats
Program retreats at Rosemont Community Retreat House are multi-day retreats intended to provide spiritual formation for those serving the Church, including musicians, clergy, seminarians, and anyone serving in ministry. Each retreat is focused around a particular theme, with presentations offered by notable retreat leaders and instructors. We currently have accommodation for eight residential participants, but we also welcome a limited number of day retreatants. Beginning in the summer of 2024, we will expand our accommodations to include 13 guests.
For more information, please contact the parish office at 610-525-7070. For more information on getting to and from the retreat house, you can learn more here.
upcoming program retreats
April 19 - 21, 2024
Friends of Good Shepherd Weekend
Suggested donation: $170 per person, includes Saturday and Sunday breakfast and lunch. To support scholarships for those in need, we invite anyone who is able to contribute more.
Each year on the Fourth Sunday of Easter, the Church of the Good Shepherd, Rosemont, celebrates its Feast of Title, when we hear the Gospel reading about Jesus as Good Shepherd. Friends of Good Shepherd are invited to spend the weekend with us. There will be activities, a luncheon, and opportunities to help around the church. The weekend ends with Choral Evensong and Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament.
register here for “Friends of good shepherd weekend”
May 14 - 17, 2024
Marvelously Made: A Retreat for LGBTQ+ Persons of Faith
Suggested donation: $350 per person (residential), $200 per person (commuter), includes dinner on the first day, all meals on the next two days, and breakfast on the final day. To support scholarships for those in need, we invite anyone who is able to contribute more.
For centuries, LGBTQ + persons of faith have either had to keep their sexuality private, try to lead double lives, or risk being persecuted within and outside the Church for being honest. Thankfully, in many corners of the Church this is changing. But years of secrecy and lingering suspicions can make it difficult to be an LGBTQ + person of faith. This retreat will offer a time for intentional prayer, reflection, and fellowship with others who have had similar experiences trying to live authentically and honestly within the fold of the Church. Our time together will include conversation, lectio divina, and praying the daily round of prayer in the Church of the Good Shepherd, Rosemont.
register here for “marvelously made”
October 21 - 24, 2024
Inspiration Is Only the Beginning: A Retreat for Organists in Liturgical Improvisation and Service Playing
Presenter: Robert McCormick
Suggested donation: $400 per person, includes dinner on the first day, all meals on the next two days, and breakfast on the final day. To support scholarships for those in need, we invite anyone who is able to do so to contribute more.
This retreat is designed for organists who wish to become more fluent and confident improvisers, especially in a liturgical context. Many organists don't know how to practice improvisation, and are frustrated in their attempts to build helpful skills. Now offered for the third year, this retreat is designed for organists-improvisers of all abilities and comfort levels. Included in the retreat is time for practice, fellowship with other retreatants, immersion in the liturgical life of Good Shepherd, including three sung Evensongs, along with time to be still and refresh musically and spiritually.
register for “Inspiration is only the beginning.”
March 23 - 26, 2025
Choral Liturgy: The Holiness of Beauty
Presenter: Robert McCormick
Suggested donation: $400 per person, includes dinner on the first day, all meals on the next two days, and breakfast on the final day. To support scholarships for those in need, we invite anyone who is able to contribute more.
This retreat will center around the great feast of the Annunciation of Our Lord Jesus Christ to the Blessed Virgin Mary. One of the special charisms of many Anglo-Catholic parishes is the offering of a true choral liturgy; that is, the rendering by the choir of texts such as the Mass ordinary and Canticles. This retreat is intended for church musicians and liturgically comfortable choral singers to come together, along with the semi-professional Choir of the Church of the Good Shepherd, to sing a Solemn Evensong & Benediction for the Eve of the Annunciation, as well as a Choral High Mass on the feast itself. Included will be time for discussion, an exploration of some of the distinctive attributes of our liturgy, and how the catholic liturgical and musical tradition of Anglicanism still moves and shapes us today.