Retreat and Visitations
Building a Haven of Prayer and Peace
For nearly ten years, St Mary & Archangel Michael Monastery in Kooralbyn has served as a place of prayer, spiritual renewal, and refuge for countless visitors. This year, as the Monastery undergoes important renovations to better serve the community of nuns, the retreat area previously used for visitors is no longer available. With gratitude to God, we are now preparing to establish a dedicated retreat house, separate from the nuns’ residence, so that the peace and spiritual benefit of retreat may continue to be shared with all who visit the Monastery.
We are thankful to begin this blessed project, and with your prayers, love, and support, we hope to soon welcome visitors once again to a peaceful place of prayer, stillness, and spiritual renewal. Please visit the donation page for further information on how you may assist in this work.
During this period, overnight accommodation for retreat guests is unfortunately unavailable. We sincerely thank you for your patience, understanding, and continued prayers as we work towards completing the new retreat facility. Once completed, we look forward with joy to welcoming you again and will continue to keep you informed of our progress.
Overnight Spiritual Retreat:
The monastery welcomes all females desiring a time of silence, meditation, prayer and union with God in the serenity at the monastery. For all enquiries please call.
Dress Code on Retreat:
It is expected that those while staying at the monastery wear appropriate attire during their retreat. Head scarves are required during all services in the Chapel (Midnight Praises, Synaxis and the Divine Liturgy).
Visitations:
Day trips are welcomed with prior arrangement, please call in advance to gain the full extent the monastery can provide.
Statement of Faith:
Truly we believe in One God, God the Father, Almighty, Creator of Heaven and Earth, and all things seen and unseen. We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the Only Begotten Son of God, Begotten of the Father before all ages. Light of Light, True God of True God, begotten not created; Co-essential with the Father; by Whom all things were made; Who for us men and for our salvation, came down from heaven, and was incarnate of the Holy Spirit and of the Virgin Mary, and became Man. He was crucified for us under Pontius Pilate; suffered and was buried; and on the third day He rose from the dead, according to the Scriptures; and ascended to the heavens; He sits at the right hand of the Father; and He is coming again in His glory to judge the living and the dead; Whose Kingdom shall have no end. Yes, we believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the Giver of Life, Who proceeds from the Father, Who, with the Father and the Son, together is worshipped and glorified; Who spoke by the prophets. And in One, Holy, Universal and Apostolic Church, we confess one baptism for the remission of sins; we look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the age to come. Amen.