The New York Times columnist David Brooks recently confessed to having two burning questions that come to mind as he reflects upon the current state of affairs in our country and world: “Why are people so sad?” and “Why are people so mad?”
Come away to a quiet place to rest and renew. We offer these five day retreats as an opportunity to disconnect from the busyness of life and reconnect with Divine Wisdom. Come home to yourself and remember who you really are.
Come away to a quiet place to rest and renew. We offer these five day retreats as an opportunity to disconnect from the busyness of life and reconnect with Divine Wisdom. Come home to yourself and remember who you really are.
Join us for this weekend retreat, where we carve out time to settle the mind and nervous system and relax into the comfort and beauty of the Wisdom House.
Come away to a quiet place to rest and renew…
We offer these five day retreats as an opportunity to disconnect from the busyness of life and reconnect with Divine Wisdom. Come home to yourself and remember who you really are.
Come away to a quiet place to rest and renew.
We offer these five day retreats as an opportunity to disconnect from the busyness of life and reconnect with Divine Wisdom. Come home to yourself and remember who you really are.
Come away to a quiet place to rest and renew.
We offer these five day retreats as an opportunity to disconnect from the busyness of life and reconnect with Divine Wisdom. Come home to yourself and remember who you really are.
We offer these quiet days as an opportunity to disconnect from the busyness of life, and to settle into the silence. These quiet days are self-directed.
Altar Camp is a form of ongoing prayer, where spirituality and creativity join together for a memorable and deeply meaningful time of communion.
This workshop is designed to introduce the concept of legacy letters.
This workshop is designed to introduce the concept of legacy letters.
The final segment of this year’s Thomas Merton’s 55th Anniversary series will focus on Merton’s personal growth through his interaction with the 20th Century.
Recognizing that so many of the issues of Merton’s time surrounding love are, sometimes frustratingly so, still our issues today, we will discuss how Merton’s work helps us to see through a lens of grace, allowing us to access love for ourselves, for others, and even for the impossible world.
Join us in person at Wisdom House for a quiet day where we will contemplatively spend time exploring the thoughtful ways of Oliver’s poetry alongside poems from some of her influential idols.
We offer these quiet days as an opportunity to disconnect from the busyness of life, and to settle into the silence. These quiet days are self-directed.
Come away to a quiet place to rest and renew. During the time of a retreat week, you will meet each day with your spiritual companion, Lisa Hudkins, who will walk with you and guide you on your spiritual journey.
Come away to a quiet place to rest and renew. During the time of a retreat week, you will meet each day with your spiritual companion, Lisa Hudkins, who will walk with you and guide you on your spiritual journey.
Come away to a quiet place to rest and renew. During the time of a retreat week, you will meet each day with your spiritual companion, Lisa Hudkins, who will walk with you and guide you on your spiritual journey.
During the time of a retreat week, you will meet each day with your spiritual companion Sr. Pat Torre, DW, who will walk with you and guide you on your spiritual journey. The restful setting of the Litchfield Hills will allow you to appreciate and be embraced by the healing effect of God in the silence.
During the time of a retreat week, you will meet each day with your spiritual companion Br. Mark D’Alessio, who will walk with you and guide you on your spiritual journey. The restful setting of the Litchfield Hills will allow you to appreciate and be embraced by the healing effect of God in the silence.
During the time of a retreat week, you will meet each day with your spiritual companion Sr. Ann Casagrande, DW who will walk with you and guide you on your spiritual journey. The restful setting of the Litchfield Hills will allow you to appreciate and be embraced by the healing effect of God in the silence.
Laudato Si’: On Care for Our Common Home, the 2015 encyclical letter of Pope Francis shares a compelling vision of a new relationship of humans with Earth, our common home.
Welcome to a day of prayerful reflection on the experience of the Divine in the Jewish, Christian and Muslim faith traditions and how that experience is reflected in their life and prayer.
World Labyrinth Day is a worldwide labyrinth walk held each year on the first Saturday in May. Come join us to create a rolling wave of peaceful energy across the globe.
Brian Doyle was an American spiritual writer who left behind a body of work unparalleled by other writers of faith. No experience with Doyle’s work is necessary, just a desire to be moved by brief, tender stories of the “ordinary”.
Wisdom House is pleased to partner with The Center at Mariandale and welcome Sr. Ilia Delio, OSF, for its St. Catherine of Siena Environmental Summit.
This is a lyrical presentation of joyful heritage whose influence can be seen in our spirituality today.
We will learn to practice the ancient Toltec wisdom to guide us out of suffering and return us to our true nature. Learn to break free from fear based, past agreements that limit creativity and deplete energy. By enacting the agreements we live optimally, honoring our authentic nature.
In this workshop, we will consider the miracle of the loaves and fishes, and use it as a lens to see how it can illuminate the gifts in our own lives today.
Zentangle is an American method for drawing, which not only promotes concentration and creativity but at the same time increases personal well-being. Zentangle was invented by a monk named Rick Roberts and an artist named Maria Thomas. With Zentangle they created a combination of meditation and art.
What is Your Story Of Forgiveness? Let’s gather and share the journeys we have taken from sorrow to freedom. Life coach Eileen Epperson will review the ground we covered in Part One for prior participants and for new attendees. The stories will continue! You are the gift! Come and just listen or share how you released some painful experience.
Celebrating Ash Wednesday begins with the reminder to “Remember you are dust, and to dust you will return”. Thus a new Lenten season starts. What are your favorite memories of Lent?
Remembering Thomas Merton. An American Trappist monk, writer, theologian, mystic, poet, social activist, and scholar of comparative religion.
Psalm 23 & Me is an interactive workshop that opens up the psalms’ beauty, range, and personal usefulness.
What does it mean to be related to matter and life at such fundamental levels of existence? What difference does it make to think of reality as being or as process or as energy?
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Join us to explore the wisdom we have garnered and claim our power as elders. We will explore our acceptance of the seasons of life and holy resilience.
In this retreat day, the Three Amigos will offer insights about Judaism, Christianity and Islam and on such topics as who God is, their sacred texts, how they come to know God, and how their beliefs influence the ways they live their lives, celebrate their holy days and pray.
World Labyrinth Day is a worldwide labyrinth walk held each year on the first Saturday in May. Come join us to create a rolling wave of peaceful energy across the globe.
Mary Oliver’s poetry has been a source of inspiration for many on the spiritual path. Join us for a quiet day where we will contemplatively spend time exploring Oliver’s invitations to poetry as spiritual practice. Using Devotions: The Selected Poems, we will pray and meditate, journal, and practice lectio and visio divina with some of her most essential poems.
