Retreats
Mother of Mercy has a 4 -year retreat program, designed to help students understand oneself, their classmates, and their God more deeply.
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Freshman Retreat – Led by 30
Freshman Focus senior mentor leaders, Freshman retreat is centered
around the theme of friendships. Freshman year is full of change and
transition. Students are nervous and unsure about making new friends
and letting go of old friends. This retreat explores the anxieties of
such, helps the girls get to know one another better and meet new
people, and ultimately helps them to foster a “friendship” with God.
The retreat ends with the entire class celebrating the Eucharist
together. It is a 1 day retreat that takes place at an off campus
site. This retreat takes place in early October.
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Sophomore Retreat – Sophomore
Retreat is a service retreat. The entire sophomore class engages in a
day of preparation, discussion, and activities surrounding what it means
to engage in service and why it is important. This day takes place at
Mercy. Then, the sophomore class is divided in to two large groups and
each group goes into Over-the-Rhine, beginning at the Peaslee
Neighborhood Center, to perform acts of service and learn about the
community. Both groups go on opposite days of each other. This retreat
seeks to educate and expose students to the Catholic Christian Call to
serve one’s neighbor and to be a good neighbor. The retreat also
involves deep reflection and processing that continues into the
Christian Justice course that all sophomore students are required to
take. This retreat takes place in early February. All groups are
accompanied by an adult teacher/staff member.
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Junior Retreat – Juniors attend a
2-day, overnight retreat that focuses on the theme, “Not that
Different”. It seeks to help the students recognize that they all go
through similar feelings and experiences in life and ultimately they are
all loved by the same God. This retreat takes place off campus,
usually in early March, and challenges the girls to share about their
faith, and grow from one another. All juniors will attend this
retreat. It will take place at 3 different locations at the same time
so that all of the junior class will be engaged in small group faith
sharing at the same time. This retreat ends back at school with a junior
class liturgy. All small groups are led by faculty.
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Senior Retreat – Seniors participate
in the Kairos retreat. It is a 3-day, 2 night retreat off campus
whereby the students engage in deeper small group faith sharing. This
retreat involves the sacrament of reconciliation and the celebration of
the Eucharist. This retreat empowers the students to give witness to
their faith and life experiences, learning and growing from one
another’s sharing. This retreat takes place in the summer before the
senior year.
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