Attending a Catholic retreat can be immensely rewarding. It provides an opportunity to strengthen one’s spiritual connection and faith. Lent and the Easter Season are especially powerful times to go on retreat. Malvern Retreat House, the nation’s oldest lay-owned Catholic retreat center is one of the best places in[...]
Malvern Retreat House is specially dedicated to the care of St. Joseph. The property is often called “St. Joseph in the Hills.” Tradition holds it was St. Joseph’s intervention over 100 years ago which brought the Laymen’s Retreat League to the Cox Mansion in Malvern. Saint Joseph stands as[...]
In 1921, John Cabrey and Richard McSorley were tasked with finding a site better suited to the League’s retreats. After viewing more than 100 locations, the two were inspired[...]
In 1923, Malvern Retreat House, also dubbed St. Joseph’s-in-the-Hills, acquired 50 additional acres of land. This purchase was made possible through a donation from Lowell Gabble and his wife.[...]
In 1938, William Lennox and Matthew McCloskey were tasked with the creation of a new hall that would allow St.-Joseph’s-in-the-Hills to accommodate additional retreatants. They hired John Neeson as[...]
