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Breakaway will be an experience of faith and fun. Participants will participate in workshops, prayer experiences, small group sessions, hiking, boating, social activities and more. We will also participate in liturgical experiences including Mass each night. Each day we will participate in a service project that will be done on site and will benefit local charities. The team will be staffed by youth ministers from around the diocese, college students, and local high school youth. For questions regarding the program please contact Brian Evers at brian.evers@rcda.org. Download either the 2020 Middle School Registration Form or the 2020 High School Registration Form.

Note: You can pay online via the registrationl in below but need to register with the documents linked above.

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Surrounded by the beauty of lake, mountains and wildlife, we will explore and enrich our conscious contact with God. Facilitator: Anne S. who can be contacted at 518-322-1373.

A gathering where experienced and beginning storytellers explore ancient tales and the stories within. This weekend will include workshops, coaching, a concert and story swaps.

Coordinator: Marni Gillard.

For inspiration, participants will listen to Billy Collins, Mary Oliver, and several famous 20th century poets reading their work. We will explore the importance of imagery in our poems, using Linda Pastan’s poetry as an example. Diverse poetry prompts (beginning with haiku) will be offered in the welcoming, peaceful backdrop of PLC, which will mirror this workshop’s environment. Constructive feedback will be available, as well as information on and submitting poetry for publication. Following the retreat, Cynthia offers all participants an opportunity to be published in the third annual anthology of the poetry we create together. For those attending the Women’s Writing Retreat, this will be a great jumpstart into the poetry workshop offered that week. Facilitator: Cynthia Brackett-Vincent

Spend your mornings attending workshops in journal writing, fiction, storytelling, poetry, travel writing and creative non-fiction. Spend your afternoons hiking, contemplating, writing, boating, swimming, reading and relating. Spend evenings listening to published writers read from their works or hearing workshop participants share their writings. For additional information, contact the PLC registrar.

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This program gives families the opportunity to experience the wonders of nature and outdoor recreation in an atmosphere that fosters family interaction, group activities (e.g. planned hikes, nature walks, informal discussion and communal meals) are all part of this experience. Participants are expected to assist at least one day in food preparation and clean up. You are invited to bring fruits and vegetables from your garden to share. Our theme day is "50^th Anniversary of Woodstock".

The natural beauty of Pyramid Life Center will serve as a catalyst for exploring how God speaks to us in sound, sight, touch, smell, and taste. We will take time to reflect on their connection to our spiritual journey. Hiking will be an optional activity. Sr. Susan Leslie OP, Father Tom Zelker, Ted Miles, Dr. Harry Owens and Claudia Gregoire facilitate this week of quiet, prayerful re-creation. For more information, download the brochure.

Take a break - and come away for a weekend dedicated to nurturing your creativity amid the natural beauty of Pyramid Lake. This retreat combines directed, short presentations and group sharing with plenty of "personal time" to renew and refresh your unique, creative soul. All are welcome!

In unique and varying ways, yet with one voice, scriptures and mystics throughout time proclaim the mystery of our oneness with the Divine. We are immersed in God’s ever-present, unconditional love! And God is always inviting us into a deeper experience of that love through a oneness with each other and all God’s creation. Through contemplation, dialogue, and time in nature and community, this retreat will help us explore our experience of Divine love – with God, each other, in creation – and how we share that love in a quest for wholeness.

As autumn color begins to kiss the leaves, come closer to the God of YOUR understanding by developing and deepening your spiritual journaling practice. The sacred space of Pyramid Life Center will support our journaling journey. Facilitator: Anne Samson who can be contacted at 518-322-1373.

Take a weekend to nourish body, mind, and soul as we enter into the beautiful fall season at Pyramid Life Center. This retreat will focus around the theme of “meditation in motion” and will include practices to help us discover the divine in the everyday, the miracles in the mundane. Optional daily yoga classes by a registered yoga teacher will be offered for those who are interested, as well as collage-as-prayer, journaling and more. Participants can also personalize this retreat by creating prayer practices around their own interests — photography, hiking, kayaking — in the abundant free time that will be scheduled into our weekend. This will be a semi-silent retreat: silent breakfasts and silent evenings after our closing sessions. (For those who want deeper silence, there is the option to take all meals in silence.)

“ In this wilderness I have learned how to sleep again. I am not alien. The trees I know, the night I know, the rain I know. …the world goes on with me in it.” wrote Thomas Merton. Join us as the wisdom of Thomas Merton becomes our “Adirondack Guide” to the silence and solitude found in the awesome beauty of the wilderness. Sister Monica Murphy CSJ will be the facilitator of this weekend.

Come to Pyramid Lake in the Fall. Spend a week honing and deepening your writing craft in Fiction, Creative Non-Fiction, or Poetry (participants will be asked to select one area of focus). The program is open to both men and women. Morning workshops will be followed by afternoon writing craft seminars, free time, and evening readings. The retreat starts Sunday evening after dinner and ends after lunch on Friday. For more information about workshops, email EllieOLeary@gmail.com. Email NelleStanton@gmail.com with any questions or concerns about registration and lodging.

The Saint Kateri Conservation Center will be hosting a retreat titled "Catholic Ecology at Home" at the Pyramid Life Center, a program of the Diocese of Albany nestled in 750 acres of Adirondack Wilderness in upstate New York. This retreat will occur from Friday September 25- Sunday September 27th 2020, and will focus on Catholic Ecology; the nexus between our Catholic Faith and the stewardship of creation.

This is a unique retreat! Hosted by the Center's own professional ecologists. It will include concrete actions that you can take at home and in your parish to be good stewards of creation, including how to create a Saint Kateri Habitat.

Come and join us as we walk in the footsteps of Saint Kateri Tekakwitha, in the present-day Diocese of Albany where Kateri was born and lived for most of her life.