Words to Ponder from Thomas Berry

"Human technologies should function in an integral relation with earth technologies, not in a despotic or disturbing manner or under the metaphor of conquest, but rather in an evocative manner. The spontaneities of nature need to be fostered, not extinguished. Nature has, during some hundreds of millions of years through numberless billions of experiments, worked out the ecosystems that were flourishing so abundantly when humans and human civilizations emerged into being. It is a brash and destructive thing for humans to intrude on this system without carefully observing just how these ecosystems function and humans are best present within this context."

-- Thomas Berry, The Dream of the Earth

As we enter the season of gratitude, we invite you to join us at TBP on Tuesday, November 1 for our monthly day of prayer!

Join with the Thomas Berry Retreat Team as we continue to cultivate an Attitude of Gratitude! The cost for this retreat is $50 per person.

Please make your reservation before October 25th

by clicking the button to the left or logging on at www.ThomasBerryPlace.org.

The Thomas Berry Retreat Team invites you to come away to a place of healing and restoration, as we know what it is like to wait in anxious times. 

We begin Friday evening at 7 PM. The weekend includes conferences, Mass, the sacrament of reconciliation on Saturday and sacred silence from Saturday evening ending at morning prayer and breakfast on Sunday morning. 

The cost is $300 per person for Friday evening through Sunday morning. Saturday only program and lunch is $65 per person. 

Reservations are required -

rooms will book quickly!

Click below or call 929-357-6700 x205

to reserve your spot!

Registration for these events will open later this Fall!

Watch your email for details!

Spiritual direction is “help given by one Christian to another, enables that person to pay attention to God’s personal communication to him or her, to respond to this personally communicating God, to grow in intimacy with this God, and to live out the consequences of the relationship.”

(William A. Barry and William J. Connolly, The Practice of Spiritual Direction)

Spiritual direction focuses on religious experience. It is concerned with a person’s actual experience of a relationship with God. Spiritual direction is about a relationship. The religious experience is not isolated, nor does it consist of extraordinary events. It is what happens in an ongoing relationship between the person and God. Most often this is a relationship that is experienced in prayer.

The real spiritual director is God. God touches the human heart directly. The human spiritual director does not “direct” in the sense of giving advice and solving problems. Rather, the director helps a person respond to God’s invitation to a deeper relationship.

For more information contact Sr. Mary at 929-357-6700 x 203 or srmary@thomasberryplace.org.

Season of Creation

Listen to the Voice of Creation:

We celebrate the Feast of St. Francis with one of his more famous prayers, the "Canticle of Creation."  While the Season of Creation formally ends this day, we know there is so much work to be done in transforming our minds and hearts to be in full harmony with the earth that sustains us.

TBP Conference Center & Retreat Amenities

We welcome churches, professional groups, schools, civic organizations and businesses to utilize our space for half-,

full- and multi-day meetings and events. Located in the heart of Jamaica, we offer a quiet oasis amidst the busy world around us!

For information on scheduling your event with us, please call Kelli at 929-357-6700 x205 or send an email to Kelli@ThomasBerryPlace.org.

Our prayer is that Thomas Berry Place will be, first and foremost, A Place that people might call home; a place of reflection and prayer, a place of forgiveness, healing and restorative justice. It will be, as Thomas Berry might have put it, a place to come away for a while to brood and to chat. Here, we will encounter the Peace of Christ, a peace that will bring comfort. But that may also disturb us, moving us out of our comfort zone and compelling us into action. With mission-aligned partners, TBP will be a place where we can encounter the other in a deep way and consider the really important questions and challenges of our day.