Calendar of Events
Summer Sale Individual Private Retreat (self-catered)
Flexible Dates
Cranaleith Spiritual Center
This retreat allows you to be by yourself throughout your stay and do your own cooking. Let Cranaleith's warmth and beauty provide a renewing space for you!
Knit, Crochet & Women's Wisdom: April 7 - June 16
Cathy Maguire RSM
April 7 - June 16, 2026
Cranaleith
Womens' Circles have been part of our culture and tradition since ancient times. A place for women to connect, share and celebrate. Join us as we knit and crochet projects each week, for various non-profit agencies. We have reflected on the words of Lisa Bogart (Knit, Purl, Pray), Joan Chittister (The Gift of Years), and currently on the words of Thich Nhat Hanh (Peace Is Every Step).
Sankofa Song: A Juneteenth Encore of A New Negro Spiritual for the I.C.E. Age
Warren B. Cooper
June 14, 2026
Cranaleith Spiritual Center
Join us for a Juneteeth Encore presentation of Warren B. Cooper's Sankofa Song: A New Negro Spiritual for the ICE Age. This immersive audio-visual musical journey through the history of the Negro Spiritual and its enduring relevance today. In a time when human rights and common decency are under threat, this presentation speaks prophetically beyond race and culture, offering a vision of a new face of freedom and a way forward for all.
Jesus’ Synodal Way of Being -3-Part Series (Online)
Bernadette Rudolph
June 15 - 29, 2026
Many people are wondering if there is a way to be in our society that is not divisive, but rather, unitive, a way that leads to everyone flourishing and not just a few winning. Synodality, an ancient Christian paradigm for community, can provide just such a way. This ground-breaking, three-part study will concentrate on the synodal way Jesus lived, exploring Jesus’ posture, practices and priorities through prayer, discussion, input, lectio and visio divina, and song.
Meditation in Movement: Sunset Qi Gong, Gentle Yoga, and Fellowship (Outdoors at Cranaleith)
Derek Dietz
June 15 - July 27, 2026
Cranaleith Spiritual Center
Step into a tranquil evening under the open sky where body, mind, and spirit come into harmony. Together we’ll explore Tai Chi Qi Gong (18 form), Slow Flow Yoga, and a guided practice of mindfulness meditation—each movement and breath offering a pathway to ease, balance, and presence.
Jesus’ Synodal Way of Being - Session 1 (Online)
Bernadette Rudolph
June 15, 2026
This ground-breaking, three-part study will concentrate on the synodal way Jesus lived, exploring Jesus’ posture, practices and priorities through prayer, discussion, input, lectio and visio divina, and song. Session 1: Synodality and Prayer
There Has to Be a Better Way: A Conversation about Polarity
Brenna McGinnis and Danny L. Thomas
June 18, 2026
Cranaleith Spiritual Center
This evening is an invitation to something radical: a shared conversation about polarity itself. If we want to heal our divisions, we need to first understand division itself.
Jesus’ Synodal Way of Being - Session 2 (Online)
Bernadette Rudolph
June 22, 2026
This ground-breaking, three-part study will concentrate on the synodal way Jesus lived, exploring Jesus’ posture, practices and priorities through prayer, discussion, input, lectio and visio divina, and song. Session 2: Synodality and Participation
Threads 250 at Cranaleith Spiritual Center
June 23, 2026
Cranaleith
Cranaleith Spiritual Center is thrilled to be part of this historic initiative and host this citywide project on Tuesday, June 23rd! Northeast 250 is a project of Mural Arts Philadelphia Tacony LAB Community Art Center as we recognize the Semiquincentennial Celebration of the birth of our nation. NE 250 is an event series to […]
Explore the Wisdom in Your Dreams (In person)
Julia McKeon
June 24 - July 29, 2026
Cranaleith Spiritual Center
In this engaging and supportive community experience, you’ll enter a shared space of curiosity and trust, where dreams become doorways to deeper self-understanding and spiritual insight. Together, we’ll gently explore the vivid, mysterious, and often surprising images that arise in our sleep, asking not just What do they mean? but What might they be inviting in us?
Rooted & Rising: Garden Gathering in Support of Cranaleith
Dawn Hayward, Maria DiBello, RSM, Bernadette Rudolph and Margie Winters
June 24, 2026
Cranaleith Spiritual Center, education & conference building
Join us on Cranaleith's beautiful grounds, (we will move inside in the case of inclement weather), for a morning rooted in the values that shape everything we do: reflection, connection, and the belief that transformation is possible for ourselves and society. This is an invitation to experience Cranaleith, not just learn about it. The morning […]
The Embodied Spiritual Exercises: Incorporating the Wisdom of the Body into the Spiritual Life(6 Online Sessions)
Bethany Weed
June 24 - July 29, 2026
Online
Through this program, you will be introduced to embodiment perspectives to consider and/or apply to each of Ignatius’s weeks in the Spiritual Exercises. Join us as we explore ways of integrating the body into our spiritual practice.
Finding Peace through Story and Song: An Afternoon of Music with HMS
Stephen G. Hart and HMS Acoustic Band
June 28, 2026
Cranaleith Spiritual Center
Why write songs? For me, songwriting is how I find peace. Each song begins in the unfinished places: a lingering question, a tender memory, a quiet ache for meaning. Each song is a journey—an unfolding that moves from restlessness toward resolution, from searching toward a kind of gentle peace. I warmly invite you to join us at Cranaleith for an intimate afternoon of original music woven together with the stories that gave each song life.
Jesus’ Synodal Way of Being - Session 3 (Online)
Bernadette Rudolph
June 29, 2026
This ground-breaking, three-part study will concentrate on the synodal way Jesus lived, exploring Jesus’ posture, practices and priorities through prayer, discussion, input, lectio and visio divina, and song. Session 3: Synodality and Boundaries
Rediscovering Your Well of Spiritual Wisdom: A Retreat for Chaplains
Jack Geracci and Bernadette Rudolph
July 18, 2026
Cranaleith Spiritual Center
Find your way back to the spiritual wisdom that filled your heart when you began your chaplaincy – and that remains with you today. Enjoy a day to rediscover the wisdom in you, your peers and your communities.
Book Club: The Future is Peace: A Shared Journey Across the Holy Land (Online)
Georgina Dietz
July 23 - August 13, 2026
Online
Join us for a 4 week book club as we delve into the New York Times bestselling book The Future is Peace by Aziz Abu Sarah and Maoz Inon.
7-Day Directed Silent Retreat 2026
Maria DiBello, RSM and Mary Trainer, RSM
July 24 - 31, 2026
Cranaleith Spiritual Center
In sustained stillness, silt has time to settle and the water becomes clear. Rest can mend the tired mind and bones. Like Elijah, you can at last hear God in the still, small whisper. Come away and be with the Spirit for awhile.
Being and Loving Who You Are: An Online Retreat with Brother Mickey McGrath
Michael O'Neill McGrath, OSFS
August 5, 2026
Online
Mature and lively faith requires not just the acceptance of who we are- in all our blessed uniqueness - but the loving embrace of our true selves. After all, we are made in the image and likeness of a God who doesn’t dwell on our failings and sinfulness, but rather loves us with our warts as well as our wonders. Must be true because all the great mystics and saints have said so!
Overnight, Silent, Directed Retreat August 7-8
Christine Konopelski, SSJ and Margie Winters
August 7 - 8, 2026
Cranaleith Spiritual Center
What might happen if you took twenty-four hours to enter into the quiet and stillness with God? Allow yourself the opportunity for spiritual renewal.
Unpacking Significant Spiritual Experiences in Your Work as a Chaplain
Jack Geracci and Bernadette Rudolph
November 21, 2026
Cranaleith Spiritual Center
Name and celebrate two meaningful spiritual experiences from your work as a chaplain: an experience of loss and an experience of receiving. Savor memories, share stories and harvest the wisdom in each experience through art, ritual and discussion.