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Advent 2025 – Quiet Day Retreat: The Music and Mystery of Advent led by David and Naomi Wenger
December 6, 2025 @ 9:30 am - 4:00 pm
When: Saturday, December 6, 2025, 9:30 am – 4:00 pm Bonus Evensong: Friday, December 5, 7:00 pm
Where: The Hermitage Community, Three Rivers, MI
To Register: Please fill in the guest reservation request form and note that you are registering for the Advent Retreat.
Have questions? Reach out to contact@hermitagecommunity.org (or 269-244-8696)
Join us for an exploration of the Music and Mystery of Advent. During this Advent Quiet Day Retreat, we will sample the music of Advent and immerse in lyrics that usher us into the mystery of the Incarnation. Bring your love of music, a willingness to sing, a musical instrument (optional), your sense of wonder, and the courage to create. Musical ability is not required. Bonus: for those wishing to begin their retreat on Friday evening, we offer a candlelit Evensong in the style of Taizé on Friday at 7:00 pm.
Schedule
Friday
7 pm Advent Taizé Evensong
Saturday, 9:30-4
- 9:30-10:30-Session 1
- 10:30-11:30-Personal Reflection
- 1:30-12:15 Session 2
- 12:30-Lunch and personal reflection
- 2:00-2:30-Session 3
- 2:30-3:00 Personal Reflection
- 3:00-4:00-Session 4
Session 1: What is Advent?: Waiting and Watching for Mystery
Session 2: Why is Advent?: Exploring the Incarnation
Session 3: When is Advent?: Reclaiming the Season of Deep Joy
Session 4: How, this Advent?: Sharing our Songs, Becoming Receptive
Please send in your payment when you register or at least a month before the retreat to hold your space. Thank you and we look forward to hosting you then! Payments can be by check (to the Hermitage, 11321 Dutch Settlement Road, Three Rivers, MI 49093) or online.
Rates:
Day Retreat with Lunch
$100 individual day retreat suggested donation
– Subsidized: $75
Overnight Friday + Saturday day retreat with meals:
$200 (single) individual day retreat + overnight
– Subsidized: $175
$275 (double) individual day retreat + overnight
– Subsidized Price: $225
Overnight Friday and Saturday evenings, all meals, and Advent Retreat
$300 (subsidized $225)