We warmly invite guests who wish to seek Christ to come and share our life. Situated on a spacious acreage amid the rolling hills of Eastern Nebraska the retreat house offers a peaceful atmosphere of prayer and recollection. The facility includes fifty single rooms each with a private bath. It is a facility of the Diocese of Lincoln. The retreats at Our Lady of Good Counsel are silent, directed retreats providing the retreatant guidance in prayer as well as ample opportunity to be alone with God.
Hospitality maintains a prominence in the living monastic tradition.
As outlined in St Benedict's Rule for Monasteries, the guest represents Christ and has a claim on the welcome and care of the community. Communing with the Lord requires a measure of solitude, a stillness and an emptiness, a waiting on and attending to the Spirit. Silence fosters and preserves the climate of prayer and is thus a fundamental part of the Gethsemani experience. Always be prepared to make a defense to any one who calls you to account for the hope that is in you, yet do it with gentleness and reverence. It is vitally important to ensure that among these many messages the word of God is heard.