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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!

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.

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

Jenny Pacanowski, Corinna Louise Brown and Women Veterans Empowered & Thriving

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: A Juneteenth Encore of A New Negro Spiritual for the I.C.E. Age

Warren B. Cooper

June 14, 2026
Cranaleith Spiritual Center
Join us for a Juneteeth Encore presentation of Warren B. Cooper's Sankofa Song: A New Negro Spiritual for the ICE Age. This 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,…

Jesus’ Synodal Way of Being – Session 1 (Online)

Bernadette Rudolph

June 15, 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 1: Synodality and Prayer

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…

There Has to Be a Better Way: A Conversation about Polarity

Brenna McGinnis and Danny L. Thomas

June 18, 2026
Cranaleith Spiritual Center 
This evening is an invitation to something radical: a shared conversation about polarity itself. If we want to heal our divisions, we need to first understand division itself.

Jesus’ Synodal Way of Being – Session 2 (Online)

Bernadette Rudolph

June 22, 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 2: Synodality and Participation

Threads 250 at Cranaleith Spiritual Center

June 23, 2026
Cranaleith
Cranaleith Spiritual Center is thrilled to be part of this historic initiative and host this citywide project on Tuesday, June 23rd!   Northeast 250 is a project of Mural Arts Philadelphia Tacony LAB Community Art Center as we recognize the Semiquincentennial Celebration of the birth of our nation. NE 250…

The Embodied Spiritual Exercises: Incorporating the Wisdom of the Body into the Spiritual Life(6 Online Sessions)

Bethany Weed

June 24 - July 29, 2026
Online
Through this program, you will be introduced to embodiment perspectives to consider and/or apply to each of Ignatius’s weeks in the Spiritual Exercises. Join us as we explore ways of integrating the body into our spiritual practice.

Explore the Wisdom in Your Dreams (In person)

Julia McKeon

June 24 - July 29, 2026
Cranaleith Spiritual Center
In this engaging and supportive community experience, you’ll enter a shared space of curiosity and trust, where dreams become doorways to deeper self-understanding and spiritual insight. Together, we’ll gently explore the vivid, mysterious, and often surprising images that arise in our sleep, asking not just What do they mean? but…

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.

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.

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.