This Advent spend some time away from your busy schedule and enjoy this opportunity to walk with Our Lady as we prepare to celebrate the Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ. Conferences will explore the role of the Immaculate Conception, the Holy Angels, and the Blessed Virgin Mary in our lives as women of faith. Come on retreat during the celebration of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary and renew your heart and mind to receive the real peace found in joyfully living out our Catholic faith.
Conferences will be given by Dina Marie Hale, founder of Faith Moments. The weekend includes time for silence, personal prayer on the peaceful Abbey grounds, liturgical prayer with the monks, evening social time with other retreatants, and, of course, the delicious and plentiful Abbey meals are part of the retreat benefits. A private room and bath are included. Your retreat fee includes all meals beginning with dinner on the day you arrive and breakfast on Sunday morning.
For availability and registration information, click here or call 503-380-2575.
Dina Marie Hale is an adult convert to Catholicism. As a 1991 graduate of Lewis & Clark College with a degree in Communications, she worked in the hospitality industry and secular radio on the Oregon Coast. Dina Marie was confirmed on Easter Vigil 1999 at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Tillamook. In 2000, she began working for Catholic Radio KBVM (now Mater Dei Radio) serving as the morning show host and program director until the spring of 2018.
Dina Marie works as a freelance Catholic speaker, retreat leader, event emcee, writer, media coordinator and consultant. She is the host of the weekly radio show “The Voice of the Shepherd” with Archbishop Alexander Sample and produces a weekly podcast, “Faith Moments with Dina Marie,” where she proclaims and ponders the Sunday Mass readings. She also is the media coordinator for the Franciscan Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of Sorrows at Our Lady of Peace Retreat in Beaverton.
In 2022, Dina Marie launched her ministry FAITH MOMENTS where she provides “faith moments” to groups of all sizes and spiritual needs. She and her husband, Rob, (also a Catholic convert) live in Longview, Washington, and attend Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church in Kelso, Washington.
For more information, visit www.dinamarie.org.
Retreat Schedule
An Extended Stay option begins Thursday, December 7th
Please Note: You may arrive earlier in the day, however, check-in will not be available until 3 pm. You may keep your luggage in the guesthouse until check-in time. You are on your own for meals until our first meal together at dinner.
For those who wish to reserve a room the night of December 7, the Abbey prayer schedule on Thursday, December 7, is below. All are welcome to join the monks in prayer in the Abbey church. (Bells ring five minutes before prayer begins.)
5:20 am |
Bell for Vigils |
6:30 am |
Bells for Lauds |
7:55 am |
Bells for Mass |
11:55 am |
Bells for Midday Prayer |
Thursday |
Registration for extended stay option |
3-5:00 pm |
Check-in and hospitality in the guesthouse lobby and conference room |
*Sign up for a confession time — available Saturday from 4 to 5:15:00 pm |
5:00 pm |
Divine Office Orientation — Abbey church |
5:15 pm |
Vespers — Abbey church |
6:00 pm |
Dinner and welcome — dining room |
7:25 pm |
Compline — Abbey church |
8:00 pm |
Faith Moments and CWP Mixer — Conference Room |
Friday, December 8, 2023 — Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Holy Day of Obligation) |
Friday |
6:35 am |
Bells for Lauds (optional) |
7:30 am |
Breakfast — dining room |
8:55 am |
Bells for Mass — Abbey church |
10:30 am |
Conference with Dina Marie – conference room |
11:55 am |
Bells for Midday Prayer — Abbey church |
12:15 pm |
Lunch — dining room, followed by free time for prayer, recreation, prayer — unplug from the noise and connect with Our Lord — enjoy the solitude of the Hilltop grounds, Abbey church, and surroundings. |
*2:30 pm |
Holy Rosary (adoration chapel or conference room) TBD |
3-5:00 pm |
Check-in and hospitality in the Guesthouse lobby |
*Sign up for a confession time — available on Sat. from 4-5:15:00 pm |
5:00 pm |
Divine Office orientation — Abbey church |
5:15 pm |
Bells for Vespers — Abbey church |
6:00 pm |
Dinner, welcome and orientation — dining room |
7:00 pm |
Conference with Dina Marie Hale – conference room |
8:00 pm |
Bells for Compline — Abbey church |
8:30 pm |
Faith Moments and CWP Mixer – conference room |
Saturday, December 9, 2023 — Feast of St. Juan Diego |
Saturday |
5:20 am |
Bell for Vigils- Abbey church (optional) |
6:30 am |
Bells for Lauds — Abbey church |
7:00 am |
Breakfast — dining room |
7:55 am |
Bells for Mass — Abbey church |
9:15 am |
Conference with Dina Marie Hale – conference room |
11:55 am |
Bells for Midday Prayer — Abbey church |
12:15 pm |
Lunch — dining room |
3:00 pm |
Conference with Dina Marie Hale – conference room |
4—5:15 pm |
Reconciliation (individual confession) |
5:15 pm |
Bells for Vespers — Abbey church |
6:00 pm |
Dinner — dining room |
7:25 pm |
Bells for Vigils — Abbey church |
8:30 pm |
Evening Spiritual Social Hour — conference room |
Sunday, December 10, 2023 — Second Sunday of Advent |
Sunday |
6:35 am |
Bells for Lauds (optional) — Abbey Church |
7:30 am |
Breakfast — dining room |
**Check-out of room; you may keep luggage in conference room. |
8:55 am |
Bells for Mass — Abbey church |
10:15 pm |
Final Conference with Dina Marie Hale — conference room Refreshments and take group photo |
11:55 am |
Bells for Midday Prayer (optional) — Abbey church |
Departure following Midday Prayer