Services
Our Purpose
Are you like the Prodigal brother, too angry to receive the Father’s love? Or more like the Prodigal son, too ashamed to come home? Or maybe you are like the Prodigal father, hoping and waiting for the conversion of a loved one? Many of us spend a lifetime avoiding or “going around” our most difficult feelings. To grow in our spiritual life we must go through them to heal. The only way to truly heal from our wounds is to experience our anger, shame, sadness, abandonment, loneliness and more deeply with Jesus and allow Him to order the chaos and woundedness in our hearts.
Time praying with spiritual directors will help guide you through a process that will make lasting healing possible. Using the Feeling Prayer, you will have time and space to experience God’s healing in a profound way, from the inside-out.
Though the Prodigal retreat is primarily focused on our individual interior life, we also recognize the need for community through vulnerability and true Christian intimacy as men. For this, we will also spend time engaging in fellowship and activities.
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Meet
Our Retreat Team
Jonathan Little
Retreat Leader, Speaker
Speaker, podcast host, entrepreneur, musician.
Jonathan Little is a Nebraska native, father of seven amazing children and belongs to Ss. Leo & Martin Parish in Palmyra. He is an entrepreneur, co-founder of Barn Again Ministries, a Podcast host and published musician who has been involved in evangelization and ministry for over twenty years. He has appeared on EWTN’s Life on the Rock and travelled around the country sharing the Gospel at parishes and retreats. Most recently Jonathan has felt called to walk with men who struggle with addiction and his focus is on serving those who want to know and rest with the Father and who desire to enter into a deeper relationship with Him.
Fr. Chris Barak
Spiritual Director, Speaker
Ignatian retreat master, exorcist, chaplain, healing ministry.
Ordained a priest in 1987 for the diocese of Lincoln, Fr. Barak is chaplain of the Carmel of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph near Valparaiso, Nebraska.
Father Barak was raised in Council Bluffs, Iowa, and attended St. Albert High School there. He attended Benedictine College in Atchison, Kan., and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln before enrolling at St. Charles Seminary in Philadelphia.
In his ministry, he served as an assistant pastor at St. Wenceslaus Church in Wahoo and Blessed Sacrament in Lincoln. He also taught at Pius X and Bishop Neumann high schools. He pursued post-graduate studies in Rome before being named pastor of St. Francis Parish in rural David City; he also taught at Aquinas High School. In 1993 Father Barak was named pastor of St. Leo Parish in Palmyra, St. Martin Parish in Douglas and St. Michael Parish in Cheney. He has also served as administrator of parishes in Aurora and Giltner.
Fr Barak had served the Diocese of Lincoln as assistant director of the Family Life Office and director of religious education, he also helps with the Masses with Prayers for Healing ministry.
Fr. Ben Holdren
Spiritual Director, Speaker
St. Gregory the Great Seminary, spiritual director
Ordained a priest for the Diocese of Lincoln in 2007, Fr. Ben Holdren is the spiritual guide for MHSF. He is also director of the Propaedeutic Year for new seminarians at St Gregory the Great Seminary in Seward. Fr. Holden was previously pastor at St. Peter and St. Joseph churches in Bellwood and chaplain and religion teacher at Aquinas High School in David City.