A Benedictine Monastery
ICONOGRAPHY WORKSHOP THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT Monday, June 27 – Sunday, July 3, 2022 This intensive icon painting workshop will provide an opportunity to experience the process of icon painting. Patricipants will learn traditional iconographic techniques, working with egg tempera on gesso and the Byzantine four-color (tetra chrome) palette. This practical instruction will be […]
This retreat is for oblates and those interested in Benedictine monastic spirituality. This year's focus will be on the virtue and the practice of humility in one's daily life, utilizing Chapter 7 and other texts of the Holy rule and the monastic tradition. Although Benedict's words and emphases may not strike many as relevant or […]
In this workshop we will both study the ancient history, and practice together the monastic art of lectio divina, reflecting on its value as a model of spiritual progress.
TRANSFORMATION FOR A NEW CREATION Monday, July 18– Friday, July 22, 2022 This retreat will consider the 5 "circles of mysticism" through which Teilhard de Chardin, French Jesuit and scientist, passed during his years as a stretcher bearer on the French-German front during the First World War. We will consider a few mystical experiences […]
Adrienne von Speyr was a Swiss convert to the Catholic faith. She was a medical doctor, a wife, mother, mystic, and author of over sixty books on spirituality and theology. She shared a profound friendship with the famous Hans Urs von Balthasar , who was deeply influenced by Adrienne's spirituality and mystical experiences. As in […]
SUMMER DANCE WORKSHOP: Dancing the New Season of Life 2022 Only a Few Spaces Left! Thursday, July 28 – Sunday, July 31, 2022 Come and choreograph movements, write poems, sing music and build stories for a 3-part setting, a triptych of your life’s experience: (1) The Memory of Life before it was paused; 2) Reflections […]
We give them, we suffer them, our bodies hold on to them for years: Wounds. We can imprison ourselves in them and wither emotionally far too long without the transforming power of forgiveness. It is Divine Love that liberates us from resentment, self-pity and isolation. The love that forgives opens a path to inner freedom. […]
Matthew 7:7