"God of the Old Year and this New Year, deepen our faith to see life through Your eyes. Fill us with hope and trust that you dwell amidst our joys and sorrows. Be love in us as we journey. God of the New Year, we praise you. Amen." Come and enjoy a candlelight dinner followed… Read More »New Year’s Eve Prayer for Peace
Join faith-filled individuals to savor the commodity of stillness in order to listen for God's desire. Program includes a themed discussion, self-reflection, faith sharing and gathering of the graces.
Take a drive to Cormaria and participate in a "take-home experience." Enter the driveway at 77 Bay Street and drive through to receive a Sunday Supper bag containing two servings of homemade soup, side salad, artisanal flatbreads and baked cookies.
Join faith-filled individuals to savor the commodity of stillness in order to listen for God's desire. Program includes a themed discussion, self-reflection, faith sharing and gathering of the graces.
Whether it's to protect ourselves from life's harshness or an attempt to look good in the eyes of others, we often don the armor of invincibility. All the time our true self, loved into being by God, aches to be acknowledged rather than betrayed. Bill Wilson wrote, "We'll make it not because we're a better people -… Read More »Men’s Weekend Retreat
Thomas Merton defined Original Sin as "our need to know how we're doing," which makes our relationship with God a kind of scorecard. As we enter the Lenten Season, we remember what Jesus said to Marjory Kemp: "More pleasing to me than all your prayers, all your penances, and all your good works... is that… Read More »Ash Wednesday – God Can’t Count, But We Can and Do!
It's time to put on your emerald green and join us for a festive afternoon enjoying a hearty Irish family dinner to support the mission of Cormaria Retreat Center. Reservations and advanced payment are required. For more information call 631-725-4206 or email us at info@cormaria.org.
The word "Hobo" translates to Homeward Bound. For us, it is homeward bound to our God. This retreat will invite you to reverence the good seed that our loving Creator planted within each of us before we were born. Lent means "Springtime" so come, welcome what God's love longs to bring to new life within each of us… Read More »A Lenten Hobo Honeymoon
"Come back to me with all your heart, don't let fear keep us apart." We sing these words from "Hosea" to welcome Lent each year. Why does fear loom so large in our relationship with God? God waits for us to need His mercy and love. Simone Weil reminds us, "Time is God's waiting as… Read More »Lenten Day of Renewal
Join faith-filled individuals to savor the commodity of stillness in order to listen for God's desire. Program includes a themed discussion, self-reflection, faith sharing and gathering of the graces.
H.F.M. Prescott asks, "Have you thought that God stained Himself, being not only with men, but Himself a man? And it wasn't that God put on man like a jacket to take off at night, or to bathe. Man He was, as man is man. The Maker made Himself the made; God was un-Godded by… Read More »Palm Sunday Weekend Retreat
The Peter, Judas, Magdalene, Thomas & Jesus in each of us... Impetuous Denier/Loving Shepherd; Disillusioned Betrayer/Filled with Remorse; Faithful Gratitude/Apostle of Joy; Courageous Doubter/Praising Apostle, and Mercy within Mercy. It's all here! These days capture and disclose all that is human and through our humanity - through the life, passion, death, and resurrection of Jesus… Read More »Holy Triduum
