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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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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!

Meditation in Movement: Sunset Qi Gong, Gentle Yoga, and Fellowship (Outdoors at Cranaleith)

Derek Dietz

June 15 - July 27, 2026
Cranaleith Spiritual Center
Step into a tranquil evening under the open sky where body, mind, and spirit come into harmony. Together we’ll explore Tai Chi Qi Gong (18 form), Slow Flow Yoga, and a guided practice of mindfulness meditation—each movement and breath offering a pathway to ease, balance, and presence.

Jesus’ Synodal Way of Being -3-Part Series (Online)

Bernadette Rudolph

June 15 - 29, 2026
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…

Jesus’ Synodal Way of Being – Session 3 (Online)

Bernadette Rudolph

June 29, 2026
This ground-breaking, three-part study will concentrate on the synodal way Jesus lived, exploring Jesus’ posture, practices and priorities through prayer, discussion, input, lectio and visio divina, and song.  Session 3: Synodality and Boundaries

Rediscovering Your Well of Spiritual Wisdom: A Retreat for Chaplains

Jack Geracci and Bernadette Rudolph

July 18, 2026
Cranaleith Spiritual Center
Find your way back to the spiritual wisdom that filled your heart when you began your chaplaincy – and that remains with you today. Enjoy a day to rediscover the wisdom in you, your peers and your communities.

Book Club: The Future is Peace: A Shared Journey Across the Holy Land (Online)

Georgina Dietz

July 23 - August 13, 2026
Online
Join us for a 4 week book club as we delve into the New York Times bestselling book The Future is Peace by Aziz Abu Sarah and Maoz Inon.

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.

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

Michael O'Neill McGrath, OSFS

August 5, 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…

Overnight, Silent, Directed Retreat August 7-8

Christine Konopelski, SSJ and Margie Winters

August 7 - 8, 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.

Wise Enough to Play the Fool: A Series for Chaplains, Session 1 (online)

Jack Geracci and Bernadette Rudolph

October 6, 2026
Join this community of chaplains as we reclaim our status as professional humans and reconnect with our sense of being Beloved.  Session 1: Naming the experience of walking in a liminal space

Wise Enough to Play the Fool: 3-Part Series for Chaplains (online)

Jack Geracci and Bernadette Rudolph

October 6 - 20, 2026
Embrace the role of the Wise Fool in the life of the chaplain.  Join this community of chaplains as we reclaim our status as professional humans and reconnect with our sense of being Beloved. 

Wise Enough to Play the Fool: A Series for Chaplains, Session 2 (online)

Jack Geracci and Bernadette Rudolph

October 13, 2026
Join this community of chaplains as we reclaim our status as professional humans and reconnect with our sense of being Beloved.  Session 2: Celebrating this liminal role through story-telling and wisdom-gathering

Wise Enough to Play the Fool: A Series for Chaplains, Session 3 (online)

Jack Geracci and Bernadette Rudolph

October 20, 2026
Join this community of chaplains as we reclaim our status as professional humans and reconnect with our sense of being Beloved.  Session 3: Owning and leaning into the role to strengthen our practice and improve the care seeker’s experience

Unpacking Significant Spiritual Experiences in Your Work as a Chaplain

Jack Geracci and Bernadette Rudolph

November 21, 2026
Cranaleith Spiritual Center
Name and celebrate two meaningful spiritual experiences from your work as a chaplain: an experience of loss and an experience of receiving. Savor memories, share stories and harvest the wisdom in each experience through art, ritual and discussion.