Programs
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Spiritual Direction Interest
Open Dates
Our spiritual directors offer gentle encouragement to open fully to God’s loving presence and to discern the action of the Spirit around and in you.
Individual Virtual Directed Retreat
Maria DiBello, RSM, Mary Trainer, RSM and Bernadette Rudolph
Open Dates
Online
Stay at home or bring your retreat experience to the beach, mountains or wherever you are!
Solitude Day (self-catered)
Maria DiBello, RSM, Bernadette Rudolph and Mary Trainer, RSM
Open Dates
Cranaleith Spiritual Center
Seeking a hermitage experience? 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!
The Enneagram: A Tool for Spiritual Growth - on demand
Nicholas Collura
Open Dates
In this first part of Cranaleith’s Enneagram series, learn about the nine personality structures in ways that are enlightening both to beginners and to those with knowledge of the Enneagram.
Converting Vice to Virtue with the Help of the Ennegram - on demand
Nicholas Collura
Open Dates
In this second part of Cranaleith’s Enneagram series, learn spiritual practices to move you beyond the "stuck place" that keeps you from living fully.
Intimacy and Inspiration in the Psalms - on demand
Bernadette Rudolph
Open Dates
Soak in the psalmists’ vivid expressions and tease out how they can take your relationship with God deeper. Let the Psalms also serve as inspiration for your own prayers to God.
Spiritual Cataracts and New Horizons: The Holy Ideas of the Enneagram - on demand
Nicholas Collura
Open Dates
The wisdom of the Enneagram reveals how our ego’s particular pattern creates a specific “cataract” that clouds our vision of the divine nature. Learn about these cataracts and the process that moves us beyond them.
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!
Individual Directed Retreat (self-catered)
Maria DiBello, RSM, Mary Trainer, RSM and Bernadette Rudolph
Flexible Dates
Cranaleith Spiritual Center
For some, retreat time includes the joys of cooking for oneself! The beauty, rest and solitude of Cranaleith await you. Meet daily with a spiritual director during your stay.
Evenings of Contemplative Prayer (online)
Maria DiBello, RSM
September 9, 2024 - May 19, 2025
A simple time of quiet presence to the merciful heart of God within us and within our broken/blessed world
Knit, Crochet & Womens' Wisdom: October- December 2024
Cathy Maguire RSM
October 1 - December 17, 2024
Onsite and online
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).
Making Conflict Count: A Marriage Retreat
Gerry and Carey Davis
October 12, 2024
Cranaleith Spiritual Center
We invite couples to join us as we explore the value of conflict done well -- how to have it if you don't, and how to do it better if you do!
Preserving Minerva: (Re)Discovering the Work of Architect Minerva Parker Nichols
Molly Lester
October 17, 2024
Cranaleith Spiritual Center
Cranaleith’s historic house comes with a legacy of empowerment, spiritual transformation and social justice. Join us for an evening of discovery and celebration of the “domestic church” of Mill-Rae, its iconic female architect, Minerva Parker Nichols, and our newly awarded Mill-Rae grants.
Earth Hospice Rites for All
Alison Cornish and Trebbe Johnson
October 24, 2024
Something very dear to us humans is dying, and that is our relationship with the seasons, plants, animals, and waters as we know and love them. In many ways, we are called to offer Earth practices similar to that which hospice offers to our friends and family as they end their physical lives amongst us. In this workshop, Trebbe and Alison will offer an exploration of how Earth Hospice Rites can be utilized in participants’ own settings, both online and in-person.
Overnight, Silent, Directed Retreat
John Buettler and Maria DiBello, RSM
October 25 - 26, 2024
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.
The 19th Israeli-Palestinian Memorial Day Video Viewing
Rabbi Sheila Peltz Weinberg
November 3, 2024
Cranaleith Spiritual Center
Join us to view a recording of the joint Israeli-Palestinian Memorial Day Ceremony. This one-of-a-kind event was streamed worldwide on May 12, 2024. Rabbi Sheila Weinberg Peltz, one of the founders of the Philly chapter of American Friends of Combatants for Peace, a co-sponsor of the ceremony, will join us for comments and conversation following the showing.
The Earth is Our Mother
Michael O'Neill McGrath, OSFS
November 7, 2024
Online
Women mystics and saints, the Earth as Mother, and Gardens as places of Hope, Beauty and Connectedness! Join Artist and Storyteller, Brother Mickey McGrath, as he breaks open the wisdom that our hearts are gardens and Christ is the Gardener! We will explore our desperate need to be better nurturers of creation and leave Mother Earth a better place for future generations.
How to Become a Synodal Parish: Level 100 Context and Practices (online)
Bernadette Rudolph
November 9 - 10, 2024
If you are part of a Catholic leadership or ministry team in a parish, you and your team could become equipped to bring synodality to life for the people you serve. Discover what God is dreaming of for the Church!
How to Become a Synodal Parish: Level 100 Context and Practices (onsite)
Maureen O'Connell, PhD and Bernadette Rudolph
November 16, 2024
Cranaleith Spiritual Center
Are you aware that Pope Francis has set the entire Church on a four-year journey to become a more synodal Church? What does that mean and why should you care? In a synodal Church, we become a people characterized by participation, communion and mission. Everyone has a voice because we acknowledge that the Holy Spirit […]
Overnight, Silent, Directed Retreat
John Buettler and Maria DiBello, RSM
December 13 - 14, 2024
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.
Overnight, Silent, Directed Retreat
Christine Konopelski, SSJ and Maria DiBello, RSM
January 17 - 18, 2025
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.
The Spirituality of Racial Justice
Lauren Brownlee
February 22, 2025
Cranaleith
Join us for a workshop where we will consider the patterns of bias, particularly around race, that show up in our spiritual communities and analyze how principles of racial justice reflect the principles of our own faith traditions.
7-Day Directed Silent Retreat 2025
Maria DiBello, RSM and Mary Trainer, RSM
July 18 - 25, 2025
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.