On-Site Programs
Knit, Crochet, Pray Together: June 25 – September 24, 2024
Cathy Maguire RSM
June 25 - September 24, 2024
Onsite and online
This program offers a centuries-old tradition of blending creativity with reflection and sharing of life. Members work on their own projects or create projects for donation groups. In addition to Foster Care for Success Red Scarf Project, we also donate hats, scarves, and mittens to first-graders in a Philadelphia elementary…
Lenape History and Storytelling with Barbara Bluejay Michalski
Barbara Bluejay Michalksi
August 4, 2024
Cranaleith Spiritual Center
Join us for a family friendly program on the Lenape People led by Chief Barbara Bluejay Michalski.
Overnight, Silent, Directed Retreat
Christine Konopelski, SSJ and Maria DiBello, RSM
August 9 - 10, 2024
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.
The 19th Israeli-Palestinian Memorial Day Video Viewing
Rabbi Sheila Peltz Weinberg
August 23, 2024
Cranaleith Spiritual Center
Join us to view a special video of the joint Israeli-Palestinian Memorial Day Ceremony. This one-of-a-kind video was recorded and streamed worldwide on May 12, 2024. Rabbi Sheila Weinberg Peltz, one of the founders of the Philly chapter of American Friends of Combatants for Peace, a co-sponsor of the ceremony,…
Wonder Women: A Retreat Day for Women Veterans
Maria DiBello, RSM and Kelly Denton-Borhaug, PhD
August 24, 2024
Cranaleith Spiritual Center
On this day of storytelling, poetry, silence and a simple art expression, we will explore the wonders we share as women veterans. As we reverence the wonders of our resilient spirits, we will continue to illuminate the “moral injury” we hold with our dark-shadowed world.
Let Us All Breathe Together: A Reading and Reception with Rabbi Sheila Peltz Weinberg
Rabbi Sheila Peltz Weinberg
September 12, 2024
Cranaleith
Join us for an evening celebrating, author, poet, rabbi & teacher, Rabbi Sheila Peltz Weinberg, and her newest book, "Let Us All Breathe Together: Prose, Poems and Practices."
Making Conflict Count: A Marriage Retreat
Gerry and Carey Davis
October 12, 2024
Cranaleith Spiritual Center
With your partner, join us as we explore the value of conflict done well -- how to have it if you don't, and how to do it better if you do!
Preserving Minerva: (Re)Discovering the Work of Architect Minerva Parker Nichols
Molly Lester
October 17, 2024
Cranaleith Spiritual Center
Join architectural historian Molly Lester for a program about Minerva Parker Nichols who was the architect of Cranaleith's main house, and the first woman in the United States to practice architecture independently. Molly will give a talk about Minerva's life and work, and then lead a tour of the house.
Overnight, Silent, Directed Retreat
John Buettler and Maria DiBello, RSM
October 25 - 26, 2024
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.
How to Become a Synodal Parish: Level 100 Context and Practices (onsite)
Maureen O'Connell, PhD and Bernadette Rudolph
November 16, 2024
Cranaleith Spiritual Center
Are you aware that Pope Francis has set the entire Church on a four-year journey to become a more synodal Church? What does that mean and why should you care? In a synodal Church, we become a people characterized by participation, communion and mission. Everyone has a voice because we…
Overnight, Silent, Directed Retreat
John Buettler and Maria DiBello, RSM
December 13 - 14, 2024
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.
Overnight, Silent, Directed Retreat
Christine Konopelski, SSJ and Maria DiBello, RSM
January 17 - 18, 2025
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.
The Spirituality of Racial Justice
Lauren Brownlee
February 22, 2025
Cranaleith
Join us for a workshop where we will consider the patterns of bias, particularly around race, that show up in our spiritual communities and analyze how principles of racial justice reflect the principles of our own faith traditions.