Programs
Cranaleith Memorial/Commemorative Brick Interest
Open Dates
The Brick may be a Memorial Brick or a Commemorative/Celebratory brick (person is living). The first part of our Commemorative Brick Program will be replacing the bricks surrounding our Labyrinth. In the future, there will be opportunities for placing bricks in other areas of Cranaleith. Twice a Year,…
Spiritual Cataracts and New Horizons: The Holy Ideas of the Enneagram – on demand
Nicholas Collura
Open Dates
The wisdom of the Enneagram reveals how our ego’s particular pattern creates a specific “cataract” that clouds our vision of the divine nature. Learn about these cataracts and the process that moves us beyond them.
Intimacy and Inspiration in the Psalms – on demand
Bernadette Rudolph
Open Dates
Soak in the psalmists’ vivid expressions and tease out how they can take your relationship with God deeper. Let the Psalms also serve as inspiration for your own prayers to God.
Converting Vice to Virtue with the Help of the Ennegram – on demand
Nicholas Collura
Open Dates
In this second part of Cranaleith’s Enneagram series, learn spiritual practices to move you beyond the "stuck place" that keeps you from living fully.
Volunteering at Cranaleith
Open Dates
Cranaleith Spiritual Center
Cranaleith offers many rewarding volunteer opportunities for individuals and groups. If you’d like to know more about volunteering at Cranaleith, please complete the interest form and a member of our volunteer team will contact you in the next few days.
The Enneagram: A Tool for Spiritual Growth – on demand
Nicholas Collura
Open Dates
In this first part of Cranaleith’s Enneagram series, learn about the nine personality structures in ways that are enlightening both to beginners and to those with knowledge of the Enneagram.
Claiming Our Joy: Isaiah Prepares Us for Christmas – on demand
Bernadette Rudolph
Open Dates
Give yourself the opportunity to be filled with joy! This time of reflection will open up passages from the prophet Isaiah to connect his hopeful message to your life today.
Solitude Day (self-catered)
Maria DiBello, RSM, Bernadette Rudolph, Mary Trainer, RSM and Margie Winters
Open Dates
Cranaleith Spiritual Center
Seeking a hermitage experience? 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!
Scholarship Request Form
Open Dates
Thank you for your interest in coming to Cranaleith. It is part of our mission to provide all persons, regardless of economic situation, access to spiritual renewal and contemplation. Please complete the request form and someone will get back to you shortly.
Individual Virtual Directed Retreat
Maria DiBello, RSM, Mary Trainer, RSM and Bernadette Rudolph
Open Dates
Online
Stay at home or bring your retreat experience to the beach, mountains or wherever you are!
Spiritual Direction Interest
Bernadette Rudolph, Maria DiBello, RSM, Mary Trainer, RSM and Margie Winters
Open Dates
Our spiritual directors offer gentle encouragement to open fully to God’s loving presence and to discern the action of the Spirit around and in you.
Give a Gift Certificate
Open Dates
A thoughtful gift to support their path of spiritual growth, connection, and renewal. Whether it’s for a program or an individual retreat, we have flexible options for everyone.
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!
Individual Directed Retreat (self-catered)
Maria DiBello, RSM, Mary Trainer, RSM, Bernadette Rudolph and Margie Winters
Flexible Dates
Cranaleith Spiritual Center
For some, retreat time includes the joys of cooking for oneself! The beauty, rest and solitude of Cranaleith await you. Meet daily with a spiritual director during your stay.
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.
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.