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Young Adults Silent Retreat

Welcome to a DIY Silent Retreat! This page has all you need to do your own silent retreat, at home, in adoration, or wherever you choose to do it. You'll find links to recorded meditations from the retreat preached by Fr Adam Zettel for young men and women in February of 2025. Along with the meditations, you can download the handouts to read and reflect one.

In order to make the most of this retreat, here are a couple helpful tips!

1. Find the right settings to pray in. Eliminate distractions; make sure it's quiet or that you have some good background music; put away anything around you that could distract you. Don't try to do the meditations while on the road or busy doing other things.

2. Journal: Make sure you have a journal and pen handy to take notes and write down how you are feeling, prayers, and reactions to the meditations.

3. Have a Bible handy to read and re-read the passages.

4. Reach out to the preacher! If you are doing this retreat seriously, send an email to Fr Adam, and he'll try to respond with spiritual advice. You can also request to speak to him in Spiritual Direction which is an essential part to completing the retreat. His email is azettel@legionaries.org

Handouts

You can download the retreat materials at the link below! Make sure you keep handy the page on "Meditation Sources" which has the Scripture passages you'll need to meditate on. The schedule from the in-person retreat is found there as well; you may be doing one meditation a day, or following your own schedule, so feel free to adapt it to your needs.

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