Catholic Retreat, house, center, florida

The Open Gate Retreat Center

14626 West CR318

Williston, Fl 32696

352.528.1003

theopengate@opengateretreat.org

“Let all guests be received as Christ” Rule of St Benedict
“Pax et Bonum” (Peace and all Good) Franciscan greeting
"Cead Milte’ Failte" (A Hundred thousand Welcomes) Gaelic Greeting

"The Open Gate is an invitation to adventure." "The Open Gate is the call to explore new areas of yourself and the world around you." "What we have to learn is to recognize when an open gate is presented to us." "The gate of glory is already open and He is inviting us to enter into it."

Excerpts from "The Open Gate" by Rev David Adam

Situated on 23 acres in the beautiful rolling pastures of Florida’s horse country near the town of Williston halfway between Ocala and Gainesville, The Open Gate humbly invites you to come and rest for a little while. We offer our retreat house and chapel to you not as a destination but as a stop along the journey. A place to make “Space for God” as the author Don Postema so well stated.

At The Open Gate we seek to weave together three of the great strands within the Catholic tradition, providing a unique place of welcome where the Franciscan, Benedictine and Celtic are integrated. We pray that our greetings from the traditions reflect our intent as hosts and facilitators during your stay whether as an individual or group. Though our base is Catholic, we extend the ecumenical branch of peace, community and hospitality to all of our brothers and sisters in Christ who seek a place to stop and rest individually or as a group while on your journey.

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Friday, July 24, 2009

Retreat Season just around the corner

Pax et Bonum

Our fall season for open retreats begins with a weekend with Saint Francis and Saint Clare, "You can't have one without the other" on October 2-4. The weekend focus is who are Francis and Clare, then and now from several perspectives. Our focus as Brothers and Sisters of Charity will be from the book, The Lessons of St. Francis by our community founder Br. John Michael Talbot. We invite all Fransicans and those with a Franciscan heart to attend this joyous time of prayer, laughter, solitude, music, and liturgy as we celebrate these two uniquely gifted saints whose gifts keep on giving to us today.

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