Supporting the Cloisters
Your Goodwill Ensures the Future
Sustaining a sacred space for silence, prayer, discernment, and deeper relationship with God.
The Cloisters on the Platte was established to provide a space of silence and prayer – a place where individuals can step away from the noise of the world, encounter God more deeply, and gain clarity through the Ignatian Spiritual Exercises. For many, the Cloisters has been a place of profound renewal and transformation. It is a gift received – and a gift we are called to pass on.
Through the Caring for the Cloisters Annual Operating Appeal, your generosity helps sustain this ministry and ensures that others may experience the peace, grace, and spiritual renewal found here.
When you give to Caring for the Cloisters, you help preserve this sacred refuge for all who are called here. You make it possible for others to practice Ignatian Spirituality to encounter God in a quiet, profound, and lasting way. You pay it forward to fellow Cloisters community members.
May the grace found at the Cloisters continue to bless many more – and may your generosity become part of that blessing.
Where Your Gift Makes a Difference
Give the Gift of Retreat
Help ensure that financial limitations never prevent someone from encountering Christ in the retreat experience. A gift of $2,500 makes it possible for nearly three people to attend a retreat who otherwise could not. A gift of $5,000 opens the door for five members of our community to step away from the noise of daily life and enter into prayer, healing, and spiritual renewal.
Care of the Stations of the Cross
The Stations of the Cross are a sacred cornerstone of the prayer experience at the Cloisters. Preserving their beauty and integrity requires ongoing care and thoughtful stewardship. A gift of $10,000 allows for maintenance of multiple Stations and a gift of $25,000 provides for the full annual maintenance of the Stations, ensuring they remain a place of reverence, reflection, and encounter for every retreatant who walks this sacred path.
Spiritual Excellence
A transformative retreat experience depends on both exceptional hospitality and faithful spiritual leadership. Support for retreat programming helps underwrite clergy stipends and travel, allowing us to welcome gifted retreat leaders from across the world. A leadership gift of $150,000 sustains these essential elements, ensuring every retreat is rooted in theological depth, pastoral care, and spiritual excellence.
Preserving Contemplation, Beauty, and Welcome
Every detail of the Cloisters experience is designed to foster silence, prayer, and encounter with God. Support for the overall retreat experience sustains the behind-the-scenes essentials that make this possible—including kitchen operations, hospitality services, and the preservation and maintenance of our sacred campus and facilities. These investments ensure that every guest is welcomed with excellence and able to fully enter into the peace and beauty that define the Cloisters.
The Cloisters on the Platte and Stations of the Cross were constructed as a gift to the community. Sustaining both will require generous contributions from the community of people who wish to preserve this truly unique spiritual experience.
Checks can also be sent to the Cloisters on the Platte at the following address:
The Cloisters on the Platte Foundation
23332 Fishery Road
Gretna, NE 68028
Stations of the Cross Patron Supporters
Benefits for all 2024 Memberships
- Unlimited visits to walk the Stations of the Cross.
- 10% gift store discount. This does not apply to online gift store purchases. Some exclusions may apply.
- Complimentary Stations of the Cross Prayer booklet with photos of the statues.
- 24-hour early bird notice to all events hosted by the Cloisters on the Platte.
2024 Patron Supporter Levels
$60 Individual: Benefits for one listed member.
$100 Couple: Benefits for two listed members; or one listed member and one guest.
$130 Family: Benefits for two listed members; or one listed member and one guest. Also includes six children (ages 1 – 18)
Patron Supporter benefits are non-refundable and non-transferable. As a 2024 patron, you will be asked to present your active Patron Supporter Card and a valid I.D. 2024 Patron Supporter Cards expire 12/31/2024.
Three days of silence,
a lifetime of transformation
Experience a weekend at
The Cloisters on the Platte.