Retreats provide sacred time for stepping away from the busy pace of students' daily lives to reflect on God's presence with them in all things. Retreats also give students the opportunity to build a strong sense of community and belonging among classmates.

Magnificat's retreat program meets the spiritual and personal needs of our students as they grow and mature during their time in high school by offering a variety of retreat formats.

Freshman Heritage Day

Freshmen Year

As a class, the freshmen travel to Villa Maria, Pennsylvania to spend the day at the Community Center of the Congregation of the Humility of Mary, founders and sponsors of Magnificat High School. This "Heritage Day" provides the freshmen with an opportunity to learn about the history and identity of the school and the Sisters of the Humility of Mary, while fostering camaraderie and friendship among classmates

Sophomore Year

Students spend a day of reflection and prayer together, contemplating the call for justice inherent in the Gospel and articulated in Catholic Social Teaching


During junior and senior year, students choose from a variety of smaller, more personal retreats. Students are required to make one Magnificat sponsored retreat in either their junior or senior year.

Time for solitude on the Art retreat Kairos retreat group Overnight Nature group in Hocking Hills

Art Retreat
Held at Magnificat with visits to Huntington Beach, this retreat guides students to explore their faith and contemplate their relationship with God creatively through the medium of art.

Film Retreat
This is an overnight retreat at the St. Leonard Youth Retreat Center in Avon in which students will explore spiritual themes and questions through watching, talking about and reflecting upon contemporary movies.

Kairos
A Greek word meaning "the Lord's time," Kairos is an overnight retreat held at the Villa that invites participants to explore God's presence in their lives through personal sharing and attentive listening.

Literature Retreat
This retreat explores spiritual themes and questions through reading, discussing, and reflecting upon a shared book.

Nature Retreats
These retreats allow students the opportunity to contemplate the presence of God through their experience enjoying the awe and wonder of nature. The overnight nature retreats are held at Hocking Hills State Park. The day nature retreat is held at Holden Arboretum.

Service Retreat
This is a new retreat offering in which students will spend three days in Cleveland to learn from and serve our sisters and brothers in Christ. Time will be spent working with different agencies that address issues in our city such as homelessness, poverty, and domestic violence.





In the second semester of their junior year, students are invited to apply to participate in a summer immersion retreat. During the summer of 2011, Magnificat offered immersion experiences in Cleveland, Ohio, Immokalee, Florida, and Duran, Ecuador.

These retreats challenge students to immerse themselves in the complex realities of injustice and poverty and to recognize God's presence in the midst of such realities, both in the people they meet and in one another. The summer immersion retreats involve a commitment for student participants that begins upon their selection and continues through the following summer and their senior year. Ongoing processing and reflection are a critical part of the immersion retreat as students strive to integrate their experience into their daily lives in meaningful and lasting ways.

Immokalee Immersion

Cleveland Immersion