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A year of resilience

In a world heavy with uncertainty, Cranaleith Spiritual Center creates a space to pause, reflect, and rediscover the deep strength and interconnectedness that sustain us. This year, we focus on sharing stories and practices of resilience—to help us move through adversity, challenge, and into renewal. Cranaleith’s programs, events and retreats invite you to walk mindfully in nature and along the labyrinth’s path, participate in prayer and panel discussions, and discover creative connections. When drawing from these deep wells, we find ways to bend without breaking, to find hope in struggle, and to rise renewed. More than endurance, resilience comes as a spirit of transformation, nourished by connection with the sacred, with one another, and with all of creation. This is the healing our broken and hurting world longs for. Come to Cranaleith this year and be transformed.

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Online Programs

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On Demand Programs

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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.

Wednesday Contemplative Prayer at Noon (virtual)

Maria DiBello, RSM

February 25 - June 4, 2026
Join us as we pray in solidarity with the Interfaith Prayer Vigils for Immigrant Justice that are being held at the ICE Office in Philadelphia. This will be a simple time of quiet presence to the merciful heart of the Spirit within us and within our broken/blessed world.  We will share…

Knit, Crochet & Women’s Wisdom: April 7 – June 16

Cathy Maguire RSM

April 7 - June 16, 2026
Cranaleith
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…

2026 Pentecost Novena for Racial Healing: New Encounters

May 16 - 24, 2026
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Join New Encounters: Catholics Confronting Racism as they celebrate Pentecost Novena from Saturday, May 16th through Sunday, May 24th. Receive daily posts for 9 consecutive days to Pentecost - the birthday of the Church as the Body of Christ made up of people of every race and ethnicity!  

Bearing the Light in Unbearable Times: A Conversation with Jan Richardson (Virtual or Join our Watch Party at Cranaleith)

Jan Richardson

May 16, 2026
Online or Watch Party Onsite
Join us for a conversation with Jan Richardson—acclaimed artist, writer, and ordained minister in the United Methodist Church whose work has guided countless people through seasons of grief, uncertainty, and renewal. Through her powerful poetic blessings, Jan offers language and imagery that help us face hard realities with courage, compassion,…

Memorial Day Death Wail Ceremony

Jenny Pacanowski

May 25, 2026
Cranaleith Spirtual Center
Join veterans Chris Antal and Jenny Pacanowski for a time of remembrance,  mourning, and release on the contemplative sanctuary grounds at Cranaleith Spiritual Center. We will build our capacity to both care about the human and environmental costs of US wars, and care for ourselves, veterans and other after war…

Being and Loving Who You Are: An Online Retreat with Brother Mickey McGrath 

Michael O'Neill McGrath, OSFS

June 3, 2026
Online
Mature and lively faith requires not  just the acceptance of who we are- in all our blessed uniqueness - but the loving embrace of our true selves. After all, we are made in the image and likeness of a God who doesn’t dwell on our failings and sinfulness, but rather…

Rooted & Rising: Garden Gathering in Support of Cranaleith

June 4, 2026
Cranaleith Spiritual Center
Come, be part of something new!   Join us for our first ever donor brunch outdoors on the beautiful grounds of Cranaleith as we gather to share stories, reflect together, and notice what is growing here. We’ll explore how your generosity helps sustain and deepen the work of cultivating wholeness…

Toll the Bell Day

Maria DiBello, RSM and Margie Winters

June 5, 2026
Cranaleith Spiritual Center
Join us as we toll our historic bell in solidarity with efforts to end gun violence in our neighborhoods and invite all who hear to respond to the call.

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.

Paths of Peace: Stories of Courage and Empowerment: Ritual Storytelling by Military Veterans and their Families

Jenny Pacanowski

June 6, 2026
Cranaleith Spiritual Center
Cranaleith invites you to a transformative community storytelling experience, where the voices of veterans open a path toward healing, connection, and renewal. In a setting rooted in quiet reflection and shared presence, this gathering offers space for stories to be spoken, received, and gently held in community. This unique performance…

Sankofa Song Encore: A New Negro Spiritual for the I.C.E. Age

Warren B. Cooper

June 14, 2026
Cranaleith Spiritual Center - Conference Room
Join us for an immersive audio-visual musical journey through the history of the Negro Spiritual and its enduring relevance today. In a time when human rights and common decency are under threat, this presentation speaks prophetically beyond race and culture, offering a vision of a new face of freedom and…

Jesus’ Synodal Way of Being

Bernadette Rudolph

June 15 - 29, 2026
Cranaleith Spiritual Center
Many people are wondering if there is a way to be in our society that is not divisive, but rather, unitive, a way that leads to everyone flourishing and not just a few winning.  Synodality, an ancient Christian paradigm for community, can provide just such a way.  This ground-breaking, three-part…

Finding Peace through Story and Song: An Afternoon of Music with HMS

Stephen G. Hart and HMS Acoustic Band

June 28, 2026
Cranaleith Spiritual Center
Why write songs? For me, songwriting is how I find peace. Each song begins in the unfinished places: a lingering question, a tender memory, a quiet ache for meaning. Each song is a journey—an unfolding that moves from restlessness toward resolution, from searching toward a kind of gentle peace. I…

7-Day Directed Silent Retreat 2026

Maria DiBello, RSM and Mary Trainer, RSM

July 24 - 31, 2026
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. Come away and be with the Spirit for awhile.