Join us for a Lenten Retreat with author Sr. Laura Morgan

Saints Behind Bars

Saturday, March 8, 2025
10 am – 2 pm

Our Lady of Atonement Retreat House
21 Old Highland Turnpike
Garrison, NY

Fee: $45 (includes lunch)

Spend a day at Graymoor at this Lenten Retreat at the Our Lady of the Atonement Retreat House. Join with Sr. Laura Morgan as we grow closer to God and each other. Lunch is included as is time for quiet mediation in a beautiful Shrine. $45.00
Copies of the book will be available for purchase: Saints Behind Bars – Sister Laura Morgan, FMSC

Franciscan Sisters were called by the Lord to bring “little bits of light” into the darkness of prison cells. Saints Behind Bars challenges us to spend holy time in the “tomb” of a state correctional facility and to encounter the crucified Jesus, himself, present in the inmates, waiting to be loved. — Fr. Rick Martignetti, OFM, author of Perfect Love: 40 Stories & Reflections inspired by Saint Bonaventure”

Visit the imprisoned! This very clear and direct mandate is at the heart of the Gospel. We are all imprisoned in one way or another, ways in which we are not free. To visit those in prison is not to visit the other but rather to see a reflection of our own brokenness.

About the Presenter: Sister Laura was born in East Paterson, NJ and entered the Peekskill Franciscan Sisters in September of 1970. She received a BA in English/Elementary Education from Ladycliff College, an MA in Theology from St. Bonaventure University, certification in Montessori Education from St. Nicholas Training Center in London, England, and certification in Bereavement Counseling from the Archdiocese of NY. Sister has been a Montessori Teacher, High School teacher, a Hospital Chaplain and a Pastoral Associate. In 2015, she was elected Provincial Superior of the American Province of the Franciscan Sisters. Sister volunteered in the New York State prison system from 1980 – 2015, working with men, women, and inmates with AIDS and has worked on many retreats for teenagers, inmates, and adults.

For more information or to register please contact Kacey Morabito-Grean at Kacey@atonementfriars.org.