The Abbey of St. Walburga will be hosting
an Advent Day of Recollection
with Sr. Maria-Walburga OSB

Saturday, November 22nd, 2025
9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

“Beloved from the Beginning”

***NOTE: THIS EVENT HAS REACHED REGISTRATION CAPACITY***

Begin the Advent Season with a quiet day at the Abbey, pondering the Lord’s gift of love and renewal.

Hot drinks, cookies, and good cheer will be provided. 

Please bring your own lunch (refrigerators and microwaves will be available).

The suggested donation is $15 per person.

*There will be an opportunity for the Sacrament of Reconciliation.

Registration is required. Please email our Guest Mistress at aswretreats@gmail.com
to make a reservation.

Be Transformed…

Retreat weekend at the Abbey of St. Walburga
for women discerning their religious vocation

Ages 18-35

July 18-20, 2025

contact: walburgavocations@gmail.com

970-472-0612

*Note: This year’s Advent Retreat has reached capacity

The Abbey of St. Walburga will be hosting an Advent Day of Recollection
with Sr. Maria-Walburga OSB:

Saturday, December 2nd
10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

“Abide in My Love”
—the call of the
Most Holy Trinity

***NOTE: Registration for this retreat day has already reached its capacity***

Begin the Advent Season with a quiet day at the Abbey, pondering the lord’s gift of love and renewal.

Hot drinks, cookies, and good cheer will be provided. 

Please bring your own lunch (refrigerators and microwaves will be available).

The suggested donation is $15 per person.

*There will be an opportunity for the Sacrament of Reconciliation.

Registration is required. Please email our Guest Mistress at aswretreats@gmail.com
or call (970) 472-0612 to make a reservation.

Life’s journey can be full of distractions and diversions. Come to a day of recollection to find the meaning of Lenten observance and restore your vision of Christ for Easter.

Sister Maria Josepha, OSB

The Abbey of St. Walburga will be hosting two Lenten retreat days:
March 10 and March 29 from 9:30 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.

Two conferences will be given by one of the nuns on the topic of “Returning to Christ”.

Participants are welcome to join the nuns for midday prayers (the Divine Office).

A light lunch will be provided, or you are welcome to bring your own food (refrigerators and microwaves will be available).

The cost is $35 per person.

Registration is required. Please email our Guest Mistress at aswretreats@gmail.com
or call (970) 472-0612 to make a reservation.

This fall, we tinted the upper windows of our chapel to solve the dilemma of having very direct sunlight hit our faces when we are trying to pray the Divine Office.  It was a three-day ordeal, involving moving our liturgies to the conference room, fitting a JLG lift through doorways it almost couldn’t, and a constant process of building and re-building scaffolding, but it was all worth it, because at last, “By day the sun shall not smite you, nor the moon in the night” (Psalm 121:6).

Annual Community Retreat

On October 9-15, we had Father Jeff Loseke, Ed.D., S.T.L. (currently serving as Pastor of St. Charles Borromeo Parish in the Diocese of Omaha, Nebraska) direct our annual community retreat.  His daily conferences were on the topic of healing, and were a great blessing to us. 

Click here to read more about our retreat.

Bringing in the Fall Harvest

How wonderful to compare the before and after pictures of our garden this season!

The Changing of the Leaves

Let the heavens be glad and the earth rejoice;
let the sea and what fills it resound;
let the plains be joyful and all that is in them.
Then let all the trees of the forest rejoice
before the LORD who comes,
who comes to govern the earth,
To govern the world with justice
and the peoples with faithfulness.

Psalm 96:11-13