The first J2H Retreat

From Friday 31 October to Sunday 2 November 2025, the first Journey to Holiness Retreat was held in Singapore, at the San Damiano Franciscan Centre on Bukit Batok East Avenue 2, beside Bukit Batok Nature Park.

The venue was chosen for its quiet. With only eight rooms, in a cosy and homely setting apart from a large church, it offered a place for the solitude and silence that a large retreat cannot give. Retreatants were encouraged to keep contact with family and the world to a minimum, so as to be more conscious of the Lord.

“Silence is not just the absence of sound but an intentional pause to hear more clearly God's call to be holy, as He is holy.”— Noel Goh, from the welcome letter in the retreat handbook

The programme

The four J2H sessions were each given in three parts, and a fifth session — a two-hour prayer watch — was added on the Sunday morning. A Zoom briefing was held a week before the retreat.

Read more

• Come apart and rest awhile — the welcome letter from the retreat handbook
• Keeping a two-hour prayer watch — the fifth session

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