WELCOME TO MARTHA MINISTRY OF SPIRITUALITY

The ministry offers a peaceful space of hospitality where people as individuals and community may experience with us the Mystery of God at the heart of all our lives and in all creation. Retreats, programs and soul space are provided to enhance this communion with the Sacred and to awaken people to new possibilities for spiritual growth and life.

The Center provides:

• programs
• space and time for prayer, quiet, rest and reflection for individuals and groups
• 2 hermitages for solitude and prayer immersed in nature
• opportunity for spiritual direction

Adjoining the Motherhouse of the Sisters of St. Martha, the center offers a tranquil environment of pastoral land, trails and gardens overlooking the Town of Antigonish.

A Change of Season

For everything there is a season,
and a time for every matter under heaven;
a time to be born, and a time to die;
a time to plant, and
a time to pluck up what is planted;...
a time to weep, and a time to laugh;
a time to mourn, and a time to dance;...
                                                   Ecclesiastes: 3: 1-2; 4

We are also coming into a new era at Bethany Center.  We have enjoyed and been blessed by many fruitful seasons, and graced by the presence of hundreds of people who have come to us. We who have ministered at Bethany Center have tried to be faithful to living out our Bethany Center Focus, which in part proclaims:

...The Center offers a peaceful space of hospitality where people, as individuals and community, may experience with us the Mystery of God at the heart of all our lives and in all of creation...

We are now answering the call to change, as do the seasons; we do so looking with faith into a future which is in the process of evolving.  We will continue to provide opportunities for people to come to us for prayer, retreat days and spiritual direction. 

After October 31, 2017 our venue will change, but our mission and focus will continue.