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Advent Retreat for Young Families

  • Holy Family Passionist Retreat Center 303 Tunxis Road West Hartford, CT, 06107 United States (map)

Prepare Your Hearts to Receive Him

Advent Retreat for Young Families
Sunday, December 8, 2024
2:00 to 6:00 p.m.
Lisa Orchen

Join us for a fun and faith-filled afternoon to prepare your family to celebrate the Advent season. Advent is a time to slow down, listen, and prepare – not just rush through to get to Christmas. This retreat will help families learn to enjoy the time with focused activities, thoughtful prayer, and conversation to ensure that those four weeks are celebrated, not wished away.

This retreat is most appropriate for families with school-aged children. The cost of the retreat includes dinner and materials for a family project.

Offering: $10 per person, includes dinner


Lisa Orchen

Lisa Orchen is the communications director at St. Josephine Bakhita Parish in Rocky Hill, CT. She has served in pastoral and catechetical ministry for over 25 years in the Archdiocese of Hartford, most recently as the Archdiocesan Director of Catechetical Initiatives for the Office of Education, Evangelization and Catechesis. Additionally, she is a spiritual writer and workshop and retreat leader. Lisa holds a B.A. and Master of Divinity from the University of Notre Dame.


Dietary restrictions? Holy Family is committed to making your stay as comfortable and enjoyable as possible, and to that end, we can accommodate most dietary needs. Please email Ted, our registrar, at tjastrzebski@holyfamilyretreat.org, if you have any dietary restrictions or food allergies, so that we may make preparations in advance of your retreat.

We are no longer accepting online registration for this program. Please contact Liza Peters at lpeters@holyfamilyretreat.org to sign up your family.

Earlier Event: December 7
Christmas Glass Workshop
Later Event: December 8
Sunday Eucharist