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.
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!
Overnight, Silent, Directed Retreat
Christine Konopelski, SSJ and Margie Winters
August 8 - 9, 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.
Hope for the In-Between-Times A Retreat for Women Veterans
Maria DiBello, RSM
August 23, 2025
Cranaleith Spiritual Center
Late August bids us to linger in the liminal space between summer and fall. On this day, the wisdom of poetry, our own creative spirit and Cranaleith’s natural beauty will guide us. Most especially, the wisdom and beauty of our own hearts will hold us in courage.
From Garden to Table: Create Your Own Summer Bouquet
Jess Wszolek
August 27, 2025
Cranaleith Spiritual Center
Do you love the joy of coming home to fresh flowers on your table? Celebrate the beauty of summer with us by creating your own custom flower arrangement!
Art & Resilience: A Workshop in Drawing and Watercolor
Cathleen Cohen and Jeff Thomsen
September 11, 2025
Cranaleith Spiritual Center
Come as you are—and pick up a pencil and brush. In this gentle, joy-filled workshop, we’ll explore drawing and watercolor painting as pathways to resilience, reflection, and connection.
The Prophecy of the Four Crows: Walking Together in a Good Way
Barbara Bluejay Michalksi
September 13, 2025
Cranaleith Spiritual Center
Join Chief Bluejay as she breathes life into the ancient Prophecy of the Four Crows, a story that carries the deep wisdom and enduring strength of the Lenape people. She will weave together the hopes and struggles of her ancestors from the time of the first colonists to the challenges of today, offering a vision rooted in resilience.
What Now? Navigating Aging, Sorrow and Loss (4 part in-person series)
Marie Michele Donnelly, RSM
October 2 - 23, 2025
Cranaleith Spiritual Center
Have you found yourself whispering “What now?” in the quiet moments of your days? Maybe it followed the loss of a loved one, a life-changing diagnosis, a shift in relationships, or the weight of a world that feels uncertain. Join us for a series that looks at aging, sorrow and loss and offers possibilities of how to move through them.
Christ at the Kitchen Door (onsite program)
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.
Overnight, Silent, Directed Retreat November 7-8, 2025
Bernadette Rudolph and John Buettler
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 […]
Our Advent Journey of Hope (online)
Michael O'Neill McGrath, OSFS
December 3, 2025
Cranaleith Spiritual Center
Whether you care for the dying, are wrestling with grief, or are searching for deeper spiritual understanding, this book circle on While I Breathe, I Hope by RIchard Gaillardetz will invite you to reflect with others on hope, loss, gratitude, and the paschal mystery, in a space of wisdom and compassion.
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 Margie Winters
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.