Carmel Retreat Center welcomes...

• All faiths, religions and demoninations
• All not-for-profit groups
• All you seek God
• Students to mid-lifers to senior citizens
• Individual retreatants
• Groups from a few to as many as 75
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• To host your retreat program
• To host a conference, seminar or workshop
• For a personal retreat
• To attend retreat programs
• For spiritual direction
• For Training to become a Spiritual Director; Click for more info
• To get away from it all
• To encounter God to find oneself
• For an experience of peace
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• In northern New Jersey minutes from the New York border
• In the picturesque Ramapo River Valley
• On 30 forested and landscaped acres
• Only 20 miles from the George Washington Bridge
• Only 45 minutes from Mid-Town Manhattan
• With easy access to:
  • Newark Liberty Airport
  • bus and rail line
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• A mid-size retreat house and conference center
• One of three centers sponsored by the Carmelites - an 800-year old Roman Catholic religious order
• In its sixth decade of ministry
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... What one expects from a great retreat center.

• Superior meeting facilities
• A host of programs and services
• Hotel-like private rooms with private baths
• Overnight accommodations for up to 70
• Set within an elegant century-old country mansion
• Coffee, tea, fruit juices and snacks available 24 hours a day
• Full kitchens in all three houses
• Continental breakfast available in all three houses
• An intimate Chapel with hand crafted wooden paneling
• Quiet lounges for reading, writing and reflecting
• 100% air-conditioned
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• Excellent cuisine; varied menus; accommodating health related needs
• Incredibly beautiful valley location overlooking the Ramapo Mountains
• Thirty wooded acres, two gardens, miles of walking paths, quiet terrace with lawn seating
• Three miles north of I-287
• Four miles south of NJ Rt. 17
• Five miles from the New York Thruway I-87
• Spiritual direction, preaching and liturgy provided by Carmelites and Sisters of St. Joseph
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