Our Largest Audience

Schools have made this their retreat home for decades.

Mt. Carmel Academy. Brother Martin. Christ Episcopal. St. Martin's. Country Day. Southeastern. Tulane. Catholic, Christian, and independent schools across South Louisiana bring their classes to the Solomon Center year after year — for Junior and Senior retreats, Kairos, graduation celebrations, confirmation gatherings, faculty formation, ACTS, and weekend leadership programs.

What works: a chapel that supports liturgy, mass, and Eucharistic adoration. Dining service that handles full grade levels. Lodging that accommodates classes of 80, 100, 132 with room for chaperones and chaplains. 200 acres for the kind of unstructured time that lets teenagers actually open up. Distance from home that makes the retreat feel real — but close enough that parents are at ease.

Our staff has hosted hundreds of student retreats and dozens of ACTS and Kairos retreats. We know what works for sixth graders and what works for seniors. We know which spaces support which exercises. We've seen first-time visitors become institutional traditions.

What Schools Get

✓ Chapel access
✓ Mass & liturgy coordination
✓ Full-class lodging
✓ Chaperone & chaplain rooms
✓ Dining service
✓ Dietary accommodations
✓ Retreat program space
✓ Trail & lake access

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Every Tradition

A retreat home for every faith community.

The Solomon Center is, before anything else, a ministry of the Episcopal Diocese of Louisiana. EDOLA's clergy retreats happen here. Happening, the high school youth weekend, has met here for years. The women's and men's recovery communities return annually. The Conference on Ministry. The Racial Reconciliation Commission. Bishop's functions. Vestries. The deacons.

And the welcome extends well beyond the Diocese. Catholic parishes — St. Joseph, Mary Queen of Peace, Our Lady of the Lake — gather here. So do Baptist, Presbyterian, Lutheran, Methodist, and non-denominational congregations: Victory Fellowship, Church of the King, New Hope Baptist, Pentecostal pastoral retreats, charismatic fellowships, Reformed congregations, independent ministries. We actively welcome Jewish, Muslim, and other faith communities seeking a retreat home in South Louisiana.

The chapel is yours during your stay. Bring your worship leader, your band, your liturgy, your preaching, your tradition. Our staff manages logistics; you lead your people.

Women's and men's retreats are a particular strength. So are clergy and lay leader sabbaticals, marriage encounter weekends, vestry retreats, parish-wide weekends, and church staff planning gatherings.

From the Bishop of Louisiana

"The Solomon Center is more than a retreat property — it is part of how the Diocese of Louisiana lives out its mission of hospitality and renewal. Every group that gathers here is welcomed as the Body of Christ welcomes its own."

— The Rt. Rev. Shannon Rogers Duckworth, Bishop of Louisiana

Recently Hosted Traditions

Episcopal · Roman Catholic · Baptist · Presbyterian · Lutheran · Methodist · Pentecostal · Non-denominational · Bible churches · Charismatic fellowships · Reformed congregations · Independent ministries

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Strategic Off-sites · 9% of Annual Bookings

When the strategy session matters too much for a hotel ballroom.

Leadership St. Tammany has held cohort weekends here for years. So have Leadership Northshore, Leadership Lafourche, Leadership Terrebonne, and Leadership Acadiana. The Cardiovascular Institute of the South retreats here. The Jungian Seminar gathers here annually.

Why corporate and civic groups choose the Solomon Center over a downtown hotel: distance from distraction. Phones are put away here. The bar is closed. There's no TV in your room. Your team will spend the evening together because there's nowhere else to go — which is exactly what you wanted when you scheduled an off-site.

The infrastructure is real: primary conference room with dedicated AV, secondary conference room with dedicated AV, five additional breakout rooms, chef curated dining service, on-site lodging. You walk between sessions and meals on wooded paths. By Sunday afternoon, the team that arrived as a group of individuals leaves as something more.

Built For

✓ Annual planning retreats
✓ Leadership cohorts
✓ Board strategy weekends
✓ Executive team off-sites
✓ Sales kickoffs
✓ Industry symposiums
✓ Professional development
✓ Civic leadership programs

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Mission-Driven Organizations · 6% of Annual Bookings

A place of restoration for organizations doing the work of restoration.

Recovery programs gather here. Volunteers for America. Generation Hope. Southeastern Courage. The Solomon Center has, for decades, hosted the kind of work that requires safety, privacy, and a setting that signals: this matters.

For nonprofit boards: annual strategic planning retreats. For service organizations: volunteer training weekends. For ministries: sabbatical and renewal time. For civic groups: convening that brings stakeholders together away from the politics of the office.

On pricing: We honor the mission-driven nature of nonprofit work. Our pricing structure is designed to be accessible to organizations whose budgets are accountable to donors and grant-makers. Inquire for current rates and program-specific package options.

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Chapel of the Holy Cross — funeral and wedding ceremony venue

New for 2026 · Limited Dates

Small, sacred services.

For families and couples who want to mark life's most significant moments in a setting that means something, we now formally host funeral services and a small number of intimate weddings each year.

The Chapel of the Holy Cross seats 80. The lakeside gazebo holds outdoor ceremonies. The Lodge holds receptions and repasts. The whole property becomes yours for the time you need it.

We are particularly suited to Episcopal and Catholic ceremonies, but welcome any family or couple seeking a faith-rooted, intimate gathering. Funerals begin in 2026; formal weddings begin in 2027.

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