At Marello Youth Retreat Center, we offer retreats directed by the Ministry Coordinator with help from the Oblates. If you are someone interested in booking a Marello-directed retreat, we have multiple topics that may be a good fit for your group. Feel free to contact us if you have any questions regarding any particular retreat.

Marello-Directed Retreats

  • Prayer Introduction Retreat

    The goal behind this retreat is to introduce the youth to different forms of prayer and give them time for small group discussion about their prayer experience. Cultivating a deeper understanding of our relationship with prayer and aiming to make prayer more approachable.

  • Saints Introduction Retreat

    The goal behind this retreat is to make Catholicism and a relationship with God more approachable and attainable for individuals who are newly introduced to the church. By taking time to consider different saints and how they were all cut from different cloth allows us to better envision how we should live our lives as Catholics.

  • The Sower & the Seed Retreat

    The goal behind this retreat is to take the youth through a meditation that can help them identify where they are in their relationship with God and what things are holding them back from giving God everything. Through the Sower and the Seed passage, the retreatants will be able to challenge themselves to a deeper relationship with our Lord.

  • Desire with Pope Saint John Paul II

    “It is Jesus in fact that you seek when you dream of happiness.” - Pope Saint John Paul II

    The goal behind this retreat is to look inward and challenge ourselves to recognize the truth of our desires. Through this retreat, we will take a deeper look at this infamous quote by JPII and challenge ourselves to see Jesus in everything we love and to make him the center of our lives.

  • Core Training Retreat

    A retreat for youth leaders and their volunteer team. The goal of this retreat is to provide spiritual nourishment and potential catechesis/meditative content for the group. To allow for opportunities of relationship growth amongst the Core team members and to exemplify what relational ministry looks like along with an attitude of surrender.