Bishop Lynch High School has a wonderful tradition of hosting annual grade-level class retreats to promote faith, fellowship, and fun. These retreats are required for students to attend, and after having attended each retreat, each BL graduate will have learned about and experienced the four pillars that define the Dominican charism: prayer, study, community, and service.
The Freshman Retreat introduces the pillar of prayer to the students, as relationship and conversation with God must be the basis for all that we do.
Prayer leads to study, and the Sophomore Retreat delves into this pillar, emphasizing how to find God in studies and all throughout our lives.
As, after Pentecost, all the believers “devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer” alongside one another, St. Dominic knew that relationship with God was important to have in community, the third pillar (Acts 2:42). The Junior Men’s and Junior Women’s Retreats center around this pillar.
Finally, having been built up by the foundational three pillars, last is service, where we share with others of the gifts we have received in relationship with God. The Senior Retreat is about service to God and to others.