Manresa House of Retreats
Manresa House of Retreats is a Roman Catholic church at 5858 LA 44 in Convent, LA 70723. It is one of 5 churches in Convent, and one of 2 Roman Catholic congregations in the city.
Manresa House of Retreats is a spiritual haven nestled in Convent, Louisiana, situated along the picturesque banks of the Mississippi River. This retreat center specializes in three-day preached retreats, steeped in silence, and rooted in the Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius Loyola.
5858 LA 44, Convent, LA, 70723Phone: +1 800-782-9431 · Website: https://www.manresala.org/
Manresa House of Retreats is part of the Catholic family of churches in The American Church Story. 577 congregations of the Catholic family gather across Louisiana — 19,012 across the United States on The Church Map.
From the Catholic Church the whole body received the canon of Scripture, the creeds still recited every Sunday in traditions that never look to Rome, and monasteries that kept learning and Scripture alive through a thousand unlit years. Its parishes remain the largest network of schools, hospitals, and shelters in America, most of them serving people who will never attend a Mass.
Ministries at Manresa House of Retreats
- Retreats
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The community around Manresa House of Retreats
It takes 4.3 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and about a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Obesity: 49.4%
- Food Insecurity: 32.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.7%
- Diabetes: 20.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 19.1%
- Social Isolation: 38.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 24.5%
- Depression: 23.4%
- Poverty Rate: 19.7% (9.1–30.3%)
- Transportation Barriers: 16.0%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Manresa House of Retreats
- Saint Paul Church — 1.1 mi away in St James, LA
- Saint Michael the Archangel Catholic Church — 1.2 mi away
- St Luke Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away in St James, LA
- Saint James Catholic Church — 2 mi away in Saint James, LA
- Burton Lane Church — 2.5 mi away in St James, LA
- Mt Bethel Baptist Church — 2.5 mi away in St James, LA
- Mount Olive Church — 2.7 mi away
- Sweet View Church — 3.7 mi away in St James, LA
- Highway Church — 4.3 mi away in Vacherie, LA
- St Matthew Baptist Church — 4.8 mi away in Paulina, LA
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- Saint James Catholic Church — 2 mi away in Saint James, LA
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- St Philip Catholic Church — 8 mi away in Vacherie, LA