Name: 3-Night Retreat: Saints and Sinners in the Halls of Heaven
Start: 2025-10-30
End: 2025-11-02
Location: Ignatius House

Living into the Household of God

Join us over the holy days of All Saints (11/1) and All Souls (11/2) for a contemplative journey into God’s dream for all creation – where heaven and earth, the living and the dead, saints and sinners are all reconciled by Christ’s love. We yearn for this, and yet so often feel burdened by grief and loss, grudges and seemingly irreconcilable differences, or lurking fear. On this retreat we will bring our real lives and sincere hearts face-to-face with our loving God, who took on flesh and dwelt among us so that we might be redeemed. Through prayer, preaching, the sacraments, natural beauty and blessed rest, we invite the Holy Spirit to instruct our hearts how to live into the Dream – right now – to take our place around the one table in God’s house.

About Fr. Brent Otto, SJ

Brent H. Otto, SJ is a Jesuit priest who comes to us from Worcester, MA where he teaches history at the College of the Holy Cross and edits the Journal of Global Catholicism, while also helping out in campus ministry, his home parish, and offering spiritual direction. He has been a Jesuit for twenty-one years and looks back fondly on his year on the staff of Ignatius House following his ordination. In his free time Brent enjoys biking, views of the ocean, and eating good food with good people. He cherishes his visits to ‘the lake’ in Maine and to see family in Atlanta and friends in the Bay Area of CA.