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The Christine Center The Christine Center is a spirituality center offering solo and group retreats in a wooded sanctuary. The Christine Center was established in the lineage of St.
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Francis and St. Clare of Assisi, and embraces persons of all spiritual paths. Organizations, individuals, groups, teachers, and students are invited to share the energy of this sacred space. The Center offers lodging and meals for individual retreats, group retreats, seminars and sabbatical stays. You’re also welcome to have your day meeting or overnight gathering of your small faith community, hospital, church, educational or management group at the Center. Situated in a tranquil forest setting with guest house, hermitages (small cabins), and camping on 125 secluded acres, the Christine Center has served the spiritual needs of thousands of people from all over the world for almost thirty years. You’re invited to partake of its silence and beauty, and to participate in its opportunities for personal spiritual deepening and global transformation. Spiritual seekers are drawn to The Christine Center by the activities of a vibrant community, prayer, contemplation and work. The Center offers retreats on spirituality, transformational change and inner development. It hosts a diverse and wide range of workshops and retreat programs. As a Catholic retreat center, it welcomes opportunities to engage in dialogue with teachers and seekers of many spiritual paths. The Center also offers services such as spiritual guidance, bodywork, and recreational activities which can supplement your reflection and relaxation. A supportive, natural environment provides you with the ambience for a contemplative practice, creativity, or nurturing the Spirit within. Many come to explore inner awakening, holistic living and honesty in relationships. Out of this energy the Christine Center offers its signature program “Spiritual Deepening for Global Transformation.”

Beginning again with Verse 1.Next week, our weekly Tao Te Ching gathering begins a new journey through all 81 verses – m...
10/29/2026

Beginning again with Verse 1.

Next week, our weekly Tao Te Ching gathering begins a new journey through all 81 verses – making it an especially welcoming time to join this ongoing online community.

Each Wednesday, Ron Moor facilitates a gathering centered on the week’s verse, with lively discussion, contemplation, and silent meditation.

The Tao invites us toward greater simplicity, harmony, and presence – with ourselves, one another, and all of creation.

New to the group? You are very welcome. This is a drop-in offering, so you can join as often as you like.

Tao Te Ching: Offering a Way Forward
Wednesdays at 10:15 am Central
Online with Ron Moor

Details and registration:
https://christinecenter.org/event/tao-te-ching/

Home is not always a place on a map. Sometimes it is a feeling of belonging, a moment of being understood, or the freedo...
10/29/2026

Home is not always a place on a map. Sometimes it is a feeling of belonging, a moment of being understood, or the freedom to arrive just as we are. This holiday season, we invite you to find a spiritual home at the Christine Center.

Our annual Thanksgiving Gratitude Gathering offers a gentle, spacious retreat with opportunities for meditation, quiet contemplation, nourishing community connection, and simple practices that honor gratitude in everyday life. With time for both shared experiences and solitude, you are welcome to follow your own rhythm and make room for what this season holds.

Thanksgiving Community Retreat
November 25-27, 2026

Details and registration:
https://christinecenter.org/event/community-holidays/

From Thanksgiving through Advent, Christmas, and the New Year, our holiday retreats and online gatherings offer space for gratitude and grief, celebration and quiet reflection, rest and sacred connection – welcoming the many ways we experience this season.

Explore our holiday offerings:
https://conta.cc/4zistpp

Email from Christine Center Holiday retreats and online gatherings to nourish the heart and spirit.   Home is not always a place on a map. Sometimes it is a feeling of belonging, a moment of being und

A beautiful weekend of practice, reflection, and community at the Christine Center. 🌻During The Spark of Tejas retreat w...
10/27/2026

A beautiful weekend of practice, reflection, and community at the Christine Center. 🌻

During The Spark of Tejas retreat with Amie Heeter, guests gathered to explore yoga, meditation, yoga nidra, and the inner spark of awareness that helps us meet both shadow and light with greater presence.

We’re grateful for Amie’s guidance and for each person who brought their presence, openness, and unique gifts to this shared space.

May the practices and connections formed here continue to offer support as everyone carries them back into daily life.

Explore our upcoming retreats and programs:
https://christinecenter.org/program-offerings/

Did you get your copy?From Sister Virginia Mary Barta’s original vision in 1980 to the Christine Center of today, many p...
10/26/2026

Did you get your copy?

From Sister Virginia Mary Barta’s original vision in 1980 to the Christine Center of today, many people, moments, and seasons of change have shaped this place over more than four decades.

Seasons of Deepening at The Christine Center gathers some of that history into one beautifully illustrated, full-color booklet filled with photographs and historical highlights from across the years.

We invite you to explore the story – and the enduring legacy that continues to unfold.

Receive the digital booklet with a donation of any amount:
https://4agc.com/donate/christinecenter-seasons-of-deepening

We often think about what we can offer others – our time, attention, care, energy, and love. Yet receiving can sometimes...
10/25/2026

We often think about what we can offer others – our time, attention, care, energy, and love. Yet receiving can sometimes feel less familiar.

We might brush aside a compliment, hesitate to accept help, or move so quickly through our days that we hardly notice the beauty and kindness around us.

What might we discover if we gave receiving the same attention as giving?

Receiving: Opening to What Is Already Here
November 20-22, 2026
with Julie Bassett

Through contemplative practices, meaningful conversation, time in nature, and creative expression, explore receiving as a spiritual practice – becoming more open to the love, beauty, support, joy, and abundance already present in our lives.

Details and registration:
https://christinecenter.org/event/receiving/

Email from Christine Center The spiritual practice rarely taught. Recognizing and receiving God’s gifts.   We often think about what we can offer others – our time, attention, care, energy, and love.

We continue our Full Moon Meditations with the Hunters Moon!🌕October 26, 6:30pm CST with Barb Woolley Free event - a gif...
10/25/2026

We continue our Full Moon Meditations with the Hunters Moon!🌕
October 26, 6:30pm CST with Barb Woolley
Free event - a gift to our community.🩵

This full moon is in Constellation Taurus.♉️ Its energies return to relaxation and self-care, as well as tending to home life.

Let us manifest in our “BEING” the world our hearts know is possible. The 2026 moon meditations invite a monthly sacred virtual sanctuary. Together we enter the Great Silence, offering one another quiet Presence, and letting Soul shine like the brightest moon.

Details on the series and link to join:
https://christinecenter.org/event/full-moon-meditations-2026/

New beginnings do not always arrive with certainty. They may emerge as a quiet longing, a changing relationship, a new r...
10/24/2026

New beginnings do not always arrive with certainty. They may emerge as a quiet longing, a changing relationship, a new role, an unexpected ending, or the sense that something within you is ready to grow.

Bring your big questions, your seeds of intention, and whatever you are cultivating in mind or body. Together, we’ll honor what has ended, explore what is arising, and enter the imaginal realm where new possibilities can begin to take shape.

Uplift Yoga: Cultivating New Beginnings
November 13-15, 2026
with Kate Karshna

Details and registration:
https://christinecenter.org/event/uplift-yoga-2026/

Growing older brings changes, challenges, and questions about who we are becoming. It can also open new possibilities fo...
10/23/2026

Growing older brings changes, challenges, and questions about who we are becoming. It can also open new possibilities for meaning, purpose, freedom, and spiritual growth.

Drawing from Joan Chittister’s beloved book The Gift of Years, this four-week online study offers an opportunity to reflect together on relationships, forgiveness, loss, legacy, and living fully in the present moment.

Whether you are approaching elderhood or have been walking this path for many years, you are warmly welcome.

The Gift of Years Book Study
November 2, 9, 16, and 23, 2026
Mondays at 11:00am Central – on Zoom
with Chris Flynn

Details and registration:
https://christinecenter.org/event/the-gift-of-years-book-study-2026/

Email from Christine Center Explore aging as a time for freedom, wisdom, creativity, reflection, and spiritual depth.   Growing older with grace, gratitude, and purpose. The Gift of Years Book Study N

The second half of life is not defined by age, but by the moments that invite us to reconsider who we are and what may b...
10/23/2026

The second half of life is not defined by age, but by the moments that invite us to reconsider who we are and what may be unfolding now. Through writing, discussion, creative play, and mindfulness exercises, this retreat offers a comfortable space to reflect, open, learn, and explore.

The Second Half of Life: A Creative Retreat for a Time of Deep Change
November 1-3, 2026
with Joanne Nelson

Details and registration:
https://christinecenter.org/event/joanne-nelson-the-second-half-of-life-2026/

Email from Christine Center The Second Half of Life November 1-3   Uncover the Transformative Possibilities Within Times of Change The Second Half of Life: A Creative Retreat for a Time of Deep Change

Address

W8303 Mann Road
Willard, WI
54493

Opening Hours

Monday 8:30am - 5pm
Tuesday 8:30am - 5pm
Wednesday 8:30am - 5pm
Thursday 8:30am - 5pm
Friday 8:30am - 5pm
Saturday 8:30am - 2:30pm
Sunday 8:30am - 2:30pm

Telephone

(715)2677507

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