Please join the Midwest Augustinians at the Carmelite Spiritual Center in Darien, Illinois for our Annual Women’s Retreat June 28-29th, 2024.

The Carmelite Campus features over 40 acres of grounds, including beautiful Stations of the Cross and a number of prayer stations and sacred spaces throughout the grounds.  It will be a great time to step back from the ordinary to experience something extraordinary. 

Our retreat is the “right size” for everyone; allowing for you to join us beginning Friday evening 4pm or for the day beginning Saturday morning at 8am.  We hope you will be with us for the extended time but we welcome all no matter their availability.

Our retreat will be facilitated by Bonnie Leightly and Fr. James Halsted, OSA. 

Bonnie Leightly is an Augustinian Affiliate and serves at Cascia Hall Preparatory School.  Bonnie serves in Campus Ministry directing retreats and Augustinian values and mission driven initiatives.

Fr. James Halsted holds doctorates in religious studies and moral theology from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, (Louvain, Belgium). He has served as associate pastor, university professor, weekend associate, province counselor and is now Treasurer of the Province of Our Mother of Good Counsel.