This is the opening retreat for a Franciscan Personal Finance Cohort led by Fr. Bob Menard, OFM, and Greg Little, in partnership with Francesco Collaborative. Between June and December 2026, we will journey as an intergenerational group of people who want to follow Jesus in their relationship with their money and their stuff. We will ask questions like:

What is enough? How can we proclaim the dignity of the human person and the reality of the common good through the way we spend, save, invest, and give? How can we foster a renewed Christian imagination around household finances and cultivating honest spaces of dialogue, discernment, reflection, and practice? 

This cohort is an invitation to live these questions together - in all their layers of complexity. The witness of St. Francis ushers us into a contemplative and communal approach to our financial lives - we want to accompany one another in living out this witness today. The cohort will gather three times in person, and the space will include formation, mutual accompaniment and concrete application, with themes such as: 

• Our money stories and scripts

• Wisdom from the saints + Catholic Social Teaching + the Franciscan charism

• Exploring the question of ‘what is enough’

• An economics worthy of the human person and our common home - focusing on consumption and investment

• Case studies and invitations to concretize our learnings, crafting a financial rule of life

Retreat Schedule

• Opening Retreat: Saturday, June 6, 2026

• Mid-point Weekend Retreat: September 18-20, 2026

• Closing Retreat: Saturday, December 5, 2026