Contemplation in Action

To help awaken connection to one’s purpose and meaning, to one another and to the Divine,  Cranaleith’s process of reflection and transformation encourages participants to explore four dimensions of their spiritual well-being:  beginning in heightened awareness of experience (in the discipline or nature), incorporating methods of reflection through mediation, prayer, art, music; identifying connections to the wisdom of community, family, cultural or faith traditions, resulting in personal and communal commitments to possible actions.

Catherine McAuley, the founder of the Sisters of Mercy, used the compass as a metaphor for spiritual life. She said, “We should be as the compass that goes round its circle without stirring from its center. Our center is God, from whom all our actions should spring as from their source.”

We have made a lot of progress, but our mission is never done.  If anything, society has become more polarized, less empathetic, more distrustful.  Drawing upon the healing power of Mercy, we seek new ways to help those in need.