Retreats

Optional

This multi-day program for rising seniors has taken place each summer since the 1970s. Students learn effective leadership strategies from alumni and faculty who speak about their own experiences as leaders in the community. Through team building activities, service projects, and prayer, seniors learn about themselves and strengthen the bonds they share with their Prep brothers. We are grateful to the many faculty members and administrators who set aside this week during the summer to share the PLI experience with our incoming seniors. Filled with laughter, sharing, and fellowship, many seniors mark this as one of the highlights of their St. John’s Prep experience. 

Optional

Similar to PLI in the High School, PMLI is is a multi-day leadership retreat program for rising eighth graders, during which they reflect on their Middle School years, bond with their classmates, and learn leadership skills that will set them up for life.  

Optional

This day-long program is many Middle School students’ first introduction to retreats. Led by campus ministers, this retreat explores the Xaverian spiritual values through small-group activities, discussions, and team-building activities. 

Optional

Seventh graders have the option to participate in our annual seventh grade retreat, which invites students to  "The Call of Servant Leadership," invites seventh grade students to reflect servant leadership and empowers students to be servant leaders at St. John's Prep and beyond. 

Optional

"Appreciation: Past, Present and Future," is for the entire eighth grade class. This retreat encourages students, as they prepare to transition to high school, to reflect on their life journey through 8th grade, and to consider the opportunities they have in the present moment and the opportunities they'll have in high school. A segment of this retreat will also encourage students to appreciate diversity and difference.

Mandatory

This one-day retreat is led by members of the junior class, who help freshmen reflect on their transition to St. John's and build a strong sense of community. For many who enter St. John’s in ninth grade, this is their first retreat experience and an excellent opportunity to meet new friends. 

Required

Held on campus, this overnight retreat program is led by seniors who encourage students to reflect on their relationships with themselves, God, and others through large group talks, small group discussions and team building activities. Attending this retreat is a graduation requirement. 

Optional

Based on the story of the disciples encountering Christ on the road to Emmaus, this retreat is a chance for juniors to explore relationships with themselves, others, and God through an experience over three days in a community-based setting with classmates and a team of faculty and staff.

Optional

Open to all members of the senior class, this retreat takes place every winter. This three-day overnight spiritual retreat at Craigville Beach Conference Center on Cape Cod focuses on the upcoming transition from high school to college.

Optional

Open to rising sophomores and their fathers or father figures, this retreat is held over the summer. A mix of outdoor activities, shared meals, small group reflection time, and personal prayer create a meaningful experience for fathers/father figures and sons. 

Optional

One of our most popular retreats, this is an opportunity for mothers and mother figures to spend quality time with their sons in an off-campus, multi-day setting. Students may participate in the fall of their sophomore year.