Programs
Gift Certificates
Open Dates
Celebrate your loved one with the gift of a Cranaleith retreat or program!
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!
Claiming Our Joy: Isaiah Prepares Us for Christmas - on demand
Bernadette Rudolph
Open Dates
Give yourself the opportunity to be filled with joy! This time of reflection will open up passages from the prophet Isaiah to connect his hopeful message to your life today.
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.
Cranaleith Memorial/Commemorative Brick Interest
Open Dates
The Brick may be a Memorial Brick or a Commemorative/Celebratory brick (person is living). The first part of our Commemorative Brick Program will be replacing the bricks surrounding our Labyrinth. In the future, there will be opportunities for placing bricks in other areas of Cranaleith. Twice a Year, there will be a Brick […]
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).
Twilight of Giving: 2024 Luminary Fundraiser
October 29 - December 14, 2024
On Saturday December 21st, as dusk falls, luminaries will gracefully line the drive to Cranaleith's Mill-Rae historic house, creating a warm and inviting path for all who attend our "A Season of Light, Peace and Healing" program. Cranaleith warmly invites you to take part in a gesture of remembrance, to honor and memorialize your loved […]
The Invitations of Advent 2024: An Advent Retreat--Complete Series (online)
Leslye Colvin
December 3 - 17, 2024
Online
For centuries, the people awaited the birth of the Christ as foretold by Hebrew prophets. Two millennia later, we believe the prophecy was fulfilled with the birth of a poor child in a stable in a small town in an occupied land. With this belief, what invitations are before and within us in this season of waiting and preparing?
The Invitations of Advent 2024: An Advent Online Retreat: Session One (online)
Leslye Colvin
December 3, 2024
Online
For centuries, the people awaited the birth of the Christ as foretold by Hebrew prophets. Two millennia later, we believe the prophecy was fulfilled with the birth of a poor child in a stable in a small town in an occupied land. With this belief, what invitations are before and within us in this season of waiting and preparing?
Advent Contemplative Morning: The Love that Knows Our Name
Maria DiBello, RSM
December 4, 2024
Cranaleith Spiritual Center
During these few hours of quiet, we will hold a space for Love’s gaze that meets our own. With our world’s longing, we will keep vigil for the dawn, breaking upon us in the tender compassion of our God. Scripture, poetry and songs of hope will draw us into silence, where the cry of all earth’s children can find belonging.
The Heart Beneath: A Holiday Careshop for Grief
Naila Francis
December 8, 2024
Cranaleith Spiritual Center
The holiday season is undeniably challenging for anyone grieving the loss of a loved one. At a time when we gather in celebration and tradition, when we are surrounded by proclamations of joy and togetherness, when the tendency to keep going and doing is more ramped up and than ever, how do we make space for our grief?
The Invitations of Advent 2024: An Advent Retreat: Session Two (online)
Leslye Colvin
December 10, 2024
Online
For centuries, the people awaited the birth of the Christ as foretold by Hebrew prophets. Two millennia later, we believe the prophecy was fulfilled with the birth of a poor child in a stable in a small town in an occupied land. With this belief, what invitations are before and within us in this season of waiting and preparing?
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.
The Invitations of Advent 2024: An Advent Retreat: Session Three (online)
Leslye Colvin
December 17, 2024
Online
For centuries, the people awaited the birth of the Christ as foretold by Hebrew prophets. Two millennia later, we believe the prophecy was fulfilled with the birth of a poor child in a stable in a small town in an occupied land. With this belief, what invitations are before and within us in this season of waiting and preparing?
A Season of Light, Peace & Healing: Jazz Concert & Historic House Tour
Warren B. Cooper
December 21, 2024
Cranaleith and The Warren Cooper Jazz Consortium invite you to a holiday concert and historic house tour of Cranaleith’s Mill-Rae house on Saturday, December 21, from 4-7:15pm. Join us as we celebrate the season with a focus on non-violence, light and healing. This special program aims to bring our community together to find solace, hope […]
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 Inner Lines of the Enneagram (3 Week Series)
Nicholas Collura
January 22 - February 5, 2025
Online
Take a deep dive into the Enneagram and its “Inner Lines” with Nicholas Collura! The Enneagram, a system of nine archetypal personality structures and its accompanying diagram, contains "inner lines” speak to a mysterious and powerful reality: the fact that our own psycho-spiritual complexes are linked in a special way to those of another type.
Care of the Hopeful Heart: Resilience & Well-Being in the Healthcare Setting
Robert Wicks, PsyD and Gloria F. Donnelly, PhD, RN, FAAN, FCPP
March 9, 2025
Cranaleith Spiritual Center OR virtually via zoom
During this event, Drs. Bob Wicks and Gloria Donnelly will consider the general issues of resilience, self-care and secondary stress within the healthcare professions, pressures experienced in reaching out to others and maintaining a healthy perspective--essentially: the simple care of a hopeful heart. This event focuses on the spiritual care of the healthcare provider […]
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.