Married for 41 years, we’ve often taken the opportunity to go on retreats to recharge our batteries as a couple or as individuals, to take a step back and revitalise our sacrament of marriage.
For us, the Sophie Barat Centre in Joigny is one of the best places to do this, alone or as a couple.
By allowing ourselves to be led by the meditations offered day after day based on the Word of God, in the spirit of the exercises of Saint Ignatius, we gradually allow a path to take shape and grow stronger within us. The different places to pray (we’re so lucky to have four oratories with different atmospheres where we can retreat according to our mood!), the gardens with their particular atmospheres that the rooms look out onto when they don’t open onto the quiet little streets of Joigny… the surrounding countryside: vineyards, woods, meadows, orchards with a view over the valley or right on the banks of the Yonne… everything encourages us to rest, meditate, pray and calm down.
We also enjoy sharing times of prayer and the Eucharist with the community of the Sisters of the Sacred Heart.
Isabelle and Jérôme
