Faith on Fire Retreats

Advent Retreat 2024

We are blessed! Our 2nd annual Faith on Fire Advent Retreat on December 6th-8th at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Camp was a peaceful and spiritual success!

This weekend was filled with opportunities for prayer, Eucharistic Adoration, awesome talks and testimonies, hiking, and more! Mark 1:11! Live differently! Shut up and listen to the Lord! Looking forward to next year!

Check out the photo album here! FoF Advent Retreat 2024 Album

Advent Retreat

The Catholic Young Adult Lenten Silent Retreat, held March 28-30, 2025, at the tranquil Villa Maria in Pulaski, PA, was an electrifying escape into silence and faith! Kicking off with pizza and a plunge into silence on Friday, the weekend pulsed with prayer—Compline, all-night adoration, and talks by Fr. Dan Kushner—while Saturday hummed with confession, Mass, and chanted Vespers. Silence shattered Sunday morning, culminating in a final Mass and heartfelt sharing of graces, sending retreatants home transformed and buzzing with God’s presence—check out the FoF Lenten Silent Retreat 2025 Album for the stunning highlights!

Lenten Silent Retreat

We are hoping in the next several years to expand our retreat offerings for Young Adults in the Pittsburgh area including but not limited to a Fall Retreat and a Summer Mission/Service Trip! Join our GroupMe to stay up to date on our different retreat and event offerings

  • "I had such a faith filled experience. I was genuinely inspired by the attendees. The entire weekend was memorable and beneficial in many ways...even meeting my girlfriend!"

    Tony B

  • "The Faith on Fire Advent Retreat was the perfect opportunity to prepare for the season of Christmas. The retreat provides the environment and opportunity to draw closer to God in a very personal way. Meeting and interacting with other young adult Catholics only enhances the experience. I walked away with several new friends, renewed faith and a motivated spirit."

    Advent Retreatant 2024

  • "This retreat was everything I had hoped it to be. Not only did I connect with my fellow Catholics, but I also connected closer with God. It was an experience I’ll cherish for the rest of my life!"

    Mac S

  • "Attending the Advent retreat has done wonders for my faith! I left with a transformed heart and soul. Now I am ready to do God’s will and trust Him to lead me where He wants me."

    Samantha D

  • "I have experienced a very trying year with health issues and work, it was so good to come without any expectations and dig deep into the theme that God is all I need. I also got to celebrate my birthday morning with silence into morning prayer and receiving God in the sacraments?! What a dream. Thank you sincerely to everyone who helped put this all together and for the kind generosity of financial assistance, it was such a relief to come with an open heart with absolutely no worries on my mind."

    Liz Velasquez

    (Lenten Silent Retreat 2025)

  • "I’m thankful for this retreat because it did allow me to spend time in adoration. Being able to detach on my phone was God’s blessing. “It was enough to be there with the Lord”"

    CMG

    (Lenten Silent Retreat 2025)