Let the Earth Rejoice - Encountering Our Common Home
A Day of Reflection for Adults
Monday, July 14, 2025
9:00 am to 3:00 pm
Program Cost: $80.00 (includes Lunch)
Summary
Let the Earth Rejoice: A Day of Retreat Centered on Encountering Our Common Home invites participants into a contemplative space to experience the sacredness of creation and deepen their relationship with God through the natural world. Rooted in Ignatian spirituality and inspired by Laudato Si’, the day offers a rhythm of prayer, reflection, silence, and time in nature to foster spiritual attentiveness and ecological awareness. Through guided talks, silent contemplation, and Eucharistic celebration, retreatants will explore how creation reveals God and how they are called to live in right relationship with the Earth. This retreat is an opportunity to listen, be renewed, and go forth with a deepened sense of connection and commitment to care for our common home.
Description
A day or evening of reflection, grounded in the Jesuit tradition, is a shorter version of the Ignatian Weekend Retreat. Wherever you are on your spiritual journey, a day or evening program is sure to give you the peace and serenity needed to be still and to rest in God's loving embrace.
Your day or evening of reflection includes thematic talks from our skilled Retreat Leaders, time for private prayer, celebration of Mass and a meal.
Bellarmine has two libraries, a resource center, two chapels, and many other common areas. Outdoor spaces include a various walking trails, various prayer gardens, a gazebo, stations of the cross, as well as a few patios and outdoor chairs and benches.
Retreat Experience Gallery
Bellarmine Main Entrance
Sacred Heart Chapel
Mary McKeon Library
St. Joseph Gazebo
Mother Teresa Garden
Eastern Africa Collection
Fireplace Lounge
Dining Room
Winter on the Grounds
Resource Center
Sacred Heart Statue at Sunset
Susie's Memorial Garden
Madonna Library
Lower Level Lounge
Retreat Leader
Benjamin Rogers, SJ
Benjamin Rogers, SJ, is from Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and is currently a Jesuit scholastic of the Midwest Province studying philosophy at Loyola University Chicago.