Retreats
Retreats are a critical component of every Catholic’s faith journey. They provide an opportunity to encounter Jesus in a silent place, and they allow a clarity that is difficult to achieve in our busy world.
As part of our mission to support each student’s faith journey, St. Louis Catholic High School provides multiple retreat opportunities each year. For more information on our retreats, please see below:
House Retreats
St. Louis Catholic High School is a community of Saints. One of the building blocks of our school community is the House System. Like everything else at St. Louis Catholic, our Houses are rooted in faith. In an effort to help House members develop deeper relationships with each other and with Jesus Christ, each group completes one daylong retreat together each academic year.
House retreats are held off-campus and include a variety of activities for each student. These experiences provide an opportunity for students to:
- Strengthen their relationships with each other
- Deepen their relationship with Jesus Christ
- Grow spiritually with the guidance of our clergy, faculty and staff, and with the support of their fellow House members
As our retreat date for our Houses nears, you will receive further information regarding the location and any other details. For all six of our St. Louis Catholic Houses (listed below), this year's retreats will be held September 6, 2024.
- Saint Cecilia
- Saint Josephine
- St. Augustine
- St. John Paul II
- St. Joan of Arc
- St. Elmo
COR Retreats
COR – Catholic Outdoor Renewal – is a retreat structured for high school students. This week-long retreat incorporates a celebration of the sacraments, physical activities, and prayer, and it helps participants to discover who they are, who they are meant to be, and how much God loves them. For the summer of 2024, St. Louis Catholic students and faculty backpacked in Wyoming with Wyoming Catholic College's COR Expedition Trip. The COR Retreats bring teens and young adults into the wilderness to rediscover the wonder and beauty of God's creation and enter into natural revelation in a meaningful way.
“The COR trip was both the most difficult and beautiful thing I have ever done. I am so grateful for the opportunity to overcome physical challenges, experience the wonder of God's creation, and be part of the hands and feet of Christ with these students.”
– Holley Fontenot, St. Louis Catholic faculty and 2004 graduate
“Contact with nature, with its beauty and its peace, gives us new strength and restores us.” – St. John Paul II