Programs
Give a Gift Certificate
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A thoughtful gift to support their path of spiritual growth, connection, and renewal. Whether it’s for a program or an individual retreat, we have flexible options for everyone.
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!
Scholarship Request Form
Open Dates
Thank you for your interest in coming to Cranaleith. It is part of our mission to provide all persons, regardless of economic situation, access to spiritual renewal and contemplation. Please complete the request form and someone will get back to you shortly.
Solitude Day (self-catered)
Maria DiBello, RSM, Bernadette Rudolph, Mary Trainer, RSM and Margie Winters
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.
Volunteering at Cranaleith
Open Dates
Cranaleith Spiritual Center
Cranaleith offers many rewarding volunteer opportunities for individuals and groups. If you’d like to know more about volunteering at Cranaleith, please complete the interest form and a member of our volunteer team will contact you in the next few days.
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, Bernadette Rudolph and Margie Winters
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 (virtual)
Maria DiBello, RSM
September 8, 2025 - May 18, 2026
A simple time of quiet presence to the merciful heart of God within us and within our broken/blessed world
Knit, Crochet & Women's Wisdom: September 16 - December 16, 2025
Cathy Maguire RSM
September 16 - December 16, 2025
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.
Voices of Resilience: High School Spoken Word Exchange
October 17, 2025
Cranaleith Spiritual Center
Cranaleith will come alive with diverse voices of resilient youth from across the city! The showcase will feature 15 talented student acts chosen to represent youth programs from across the Philadelphia region.
Truth and Reconciliation: Bringing Together What’s Been Separated
Ellen Browning-Lafferty
October 18, 2025
Cranaleith Spiritual Center
We find ourselves in a current political, economic, and sociological climate of “us vs. them,” thinking steeped in division, fear, righteousness, and violence. According to Family Constellations, reconciliation is defined as “bringing together that which has been separated.” We’ll explore what can be done to bring together that which has been separated in our families, communities, countries, and within our own selves.
Legacy Letters & the "Alphabet Soup" of Giving
Stephen Pappaterra, Esq., Kathleen S. Burns, Esq. and Cyndy Pappaterra, M.A., LCADC
October 21, 2025
Cranaleith Spiritual Center
"For where your wealth is, there your heart will be also." - Matthew 6:21 Wealth comes in many forms; and wealth can be passed on in many ways. Wealth can refer to material possessions, but also to non-financial forms of wealth, such as a passion for social justice, appreciation for beauty in the arts, or […]
Christ at the Kitchen Door
Michael O'Neill McGrath, OSFS
November 1, 2025
Cranaleith Spiritual Center
In these turbulent times of unrest and anxiety it is important to remember that creativity and beauty will save us; that the peace of Christ is always in our midst, often in faces and places and circumstances where we normally don’t recognize Him.
Bearing Witness to Other's Pain with Compassion: A Reflective Day for Chaplains, Counselors, and Spiritual Directors
Jack Geracci
November 1, 2025
Cranaleith Spiritual Center
Come away for a day to reflect on your spiritual life and how it has been impacted by listening to the pain of others. This reflective day offers chaplains, counselors, and spiritual directors the space to pause, breathe, and acknowledge how the sorrows of others touch and shape their inner life.
Laudato Si’: Vision and Reality Ten Years Later
Bernadette Rudolph, Nicholas Collura, Marianne Comfort and Philo Morris, MMS
November 2, 2025
Cranaleith Spiritual Center
“What [we] need is an ecological conversion, whereby the effects of [our] encounter with Jesus Christ become evident in [our] relationship with the world around [us]. Living our vocation to be protectors of God’s handiwork is essential to a life of virtue; it is not an optional or a secondary aspect of our Christian experience.” […]
Overnight, Silent, Directed Retreat November 7-8, 2025
John Buettler and Bernadette Rudolph
November 7 - 8, 2025
Cranaleith Spiritual Center
Often life is so full, we cannot hear God. Or maybe we are busy, busy, busy and our spirits need some Sabbath rest. 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 retreat begins at 7 p.m. on Friday […]
A Spirituality of Aging
Marie Michele Donnelly, RSM
November 11, 2025
Cranaleith Spiritual Center
As we move through life, growth does not stop with age—it simply takes new forms. The later years invite us to reflect more deeply on meaning, connection, and the sacred. What dimensions of the spiritual life can nourish and sustain us in this season?
A Pilgrimage of Sorrow and Hope
Bernadette Rudolph and Margie Winters
November 11, 2025
Our lives are a pilgrimage: paths marked by heartbreak, but also by the stubborn, green leaves of renewal. In this program, we will invite you to travel — virtually, across continents and cultures — to places where grief is inscribed into land and story, and where hope is being born out of that very weight. […]
Intro to Family Constellations: Releasing Ancestral Burdens and Reclaiming Support
Ellen Browning-Lafferty
November 13, 2025
Cranaleith Spiritual Center
This workshop is an experiential introduction to Systemic Family Constellation work. This modality offers a systemic lens through which to understand both intergenerational trauma and intergenerational fortitude. In this live, interactive workshop, participants will have the opportunity to experience the process of Family Constellations for themselves.
Discovering our Soul: A Retreat Day for Women Veterans
Maria DiBello, RSM
November 15, 2025
Cranaleith Spiritual Center
Creation in November offers us the muted colors of acceptance and surrender. The trees intensify their witness of “letting go,” and invite us to do the same. As we reflect on the gifts of the journey, we reverence both the losses that have transformed us and the abundant harvest we have known.
The Abundance of Sunchokes: A Hands-on Harvest & Tasting Experience
Jess Wszolek
November 16, 2025
Cranaleith Spiritual Center
Ever dug for treasure in a garden? Come join us as we unearth the golden bounty of Jerusalem artichokes—also known as sunchokes—from Cranaleith’s lower garden!
Our Advent Journey of Hope (virtual)
Michael O'Neill McGrath, OSFS
December 3, 2025
Cranaleith Spiritual Center
The Gospel stories of the Advent and Christmas seasons will come alive in the colorful art of Brother Mickey. The Advent stories and images are a perfect time to reflect on the lives of those migrating to new lands and making their home among strangers.
An Advent Contemplative Morning: Mary’s Song ~ A Cry of Hope and Resilience
Maria DiBello, RSM
December 10, 2025
Cranaleith Spiritual Center
In the noisy hostility of our world’s chaos, come, rest in the silent wonder that unleashed Mary’s beautiful, prophetic song. On this simple morning of prayerful pondering, we will enter Mary’s heart. We will bring the surprise and unknown, the joy and ambiguity of our own hearts. Scripture, music and image will hold us in the quiet.
Women Waiting: An Advent Evening of Reflection (Virtual Program)
Christine Marie Eberle
December 12 - 16, 2025
Cranaleith Spiritual Center
During this Advent evening of prayer, we’ll keep company with several Biblical women who model the holy waiting to which we are called: a waiting with courage, patience, and trust in God’s promise.
Overnight, Silent, Directed Retreat December 19-20
Christine Konopelski, SSJ and Margie Winters
December 19 - 20, 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.
Overnight, Silent, Directed Retreat February 27,-28, 2026
Christine Konopelski, SSJ and John Buettler
February 27 - 28, 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.
Overnight, Silent, Directed Retreat June 5-6
Christine Konopelski, SSJ and Margie Winters
June 5 - 6, 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.