Franciscan Spiritual Connections

Call: (320)632-0680 | Email: fscinfo@fslf.org | Events

Our Mission

We offer retreats and events through a Franciscan lens that refresh spirits, deepen a reverence for all creation and inspire a compassionate presence in our world. We are a place of hope, healing, and renewal.

Here's to the bridge-builders, the hand-holders, the light-bringers,

those extraordinary souls wrapped in ordinary lives

who quietly weave threads of humanity into an inhumane world.

- L.R. Knost

Ways You Can Retreat

From time to time, pulling away from your daily routine and tasks invites refreshment of body, mind, and spirit. It can offer you a sense of reunion with Spirit as you deepen down into listening to the quieter voice within.

Personal Retreat

We invite you to create a personal retreat of your own design, whether for a day or more. Our guest rooms are simple and comfortable, dorm style with a shared bathroom. A kitchen and sitting room are available, or you may eat in our dining room with the Sisters. Roaming our grounds offers you abundant space to explore God in nature, with a labyrinth, Peace Garden, and a lovely walking path. Please contact our Hospitality office for more information and reservations (320-632-0695).

Group Retreat

We welcome day groups of up to 100 people to come explore practices that inspire renewal and reconnection with self, others, and Spirit. We welcome overnight groups up to 20 people.

For more information please contact fscinfo@fslf.org.

Welcoming House

Located in St. Cloud, the Welcoming House sponsors events and programs designed for people hungry to explore their relationship with God.

We also offer space to host your event for up to

40 people.

Welcoming House Brochure

Call: (320) 217-2108 | Email: whinfo@fslf.org

1600 11th Ave S, Saint Cloud, MN, 56301

Spiritual Direction

Are you looking for support for your spiritual journey? Desiring to deepen your spiritual life? Wanting conversations that help you discern the movement of Spirit? Our ministry of spiritual direction can support you walking through whatever is taking shape in you.

Learn more about Spiritual Direction

Engaging Franciscan Wisdom podcast

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Our Engaging Franciscan Wisdom podcast explores stories of the challenges and beauty of life through the lens of Franciscan values to inspire your own spiritual life today.

Listen here

Engaging Franciscan Spirituality

This long-term program offers an opportunity to foster spiritual growth inside the collective wisdom of a small group. The group explores faith through a Franciscan lens and develops relationships that journey on long after the program's completion.

(FULL) January 11, 2025 - April 11, 2026 | 9-11:30 a.m.

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