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Divine Will – 2025
Friday, Jul 4, 2025 - Sunday, Jul 6, 2025
5:00 pm - 12:00 pm
Malvern Retreat House
Our Lady's Hall & St. Joseph Hall & Corrigan Hall
315 S. Warren Avenue
Malvern,
PA
19355
610-644-0400
Retreat Director and Speakers Fr. B. Thomas Celso, B.D.V.
$325.00 Overnight
Join us this July 4th weekend for a spirit filled weekend directed by Fr. Thomas Celso based on the Divine Will. The retreat will include conferences, Mass, Eucharist, Confessions, Adoration, and time for reflection, on the beautiful grounds of Malvern Retreat House.
This is a coed Retreat which will be held in Upper McShain Hall.
Registered retreatants will be housed in Our Lady’s Hall, St. Joseph’s Hall or Corrigan Hall in single rooms with shared bathrooms on each floor (dormitory style). Men and women will be roomed on different floors.
If you have any special needs please be sure to include with your registration, we will try to accommodate as many special requests as possible.
Please note: The McShain-Horstmann Family Life center is NOT available for this retreat, so we are unable to room spouses together or on the same floor.
Retreat Directors and Speakers
Retreat Director
Fr. B. Thomas Celso, B.D.V.
Born in Newark, NY, Fr. Tom Celso entered St. Bernard Seminary in 1974 and was introduced to the Divine Will during Clinical Pastoral Study in 1976. Ordained to the Holy Priesthood in 1979, he faithfully served parishes throughout upstate New York. In 1994, Fr Celso was given permission to work with the Secretariat of the Cause in Italy for the promotion of the Servant of God, Luisa Piccarreta. He was present for the opening of the Cause of Luisa in 1994. In 1996, he was asked to help to copy the original writings of Luisa in the Secret Archives of the Vatican, under the Direction of then-Cardinal Ratzinger. He also attended the closing of the Cause of Luisa Piccarreta in 2005, in which the Diocese of Trani asked the Vatican for approval to have Luisa Canonized.
Fr. Celso gives Retreats and days of Recollection throughout the US and Europe focusing on the Servant of God, Luisa Piccarreta and the Divine Will. He became a Third Order Benedictine Oblate of the Divine Will in 2016. Now a retired senior priest, he helps out weekly at local schools in East Rochester, NY, offering Holy Mass and Confession for faculty and students.
