• The Mystical Path to a Joyful Life: Centering Prayer Retreat

    Internet - Online

    Carl McColman will present on our topic interspersed with periods of group Centering Prayer and a few breakout discussions for those interested. We will gather 7-8:30 pm Central Time on 8/4/23 and 9 am - 3 pm Central Time on 8/5/23. We will record the presentation sessions in case you have to miss one. Contact

    $49
  • The Power of Story: Exploring Hasidic Tales as a Path to Blessing

    Holy Family Passionist Retreat Center 303 Tunxis Road, West Hartford, CT, United States

    Contemplative Enrichment Day of Interfaith Understanding with Rabbi Rami Shapiro Humans are by nature storytellers, and we often become the stories we tell. One of the greatest and most liberating stories we tell is God calling Avram and Sarai to leave the conditioning of country, kin, and family to be a blessing to all the

  • United in Prayer, United in Spirit

    St. Mary on the Lake Peace and Spirituality Center 1663 Killarney Way, Bellevue, WA, United States

    Seeking to build on Father Thomas Keatings' work in interfaith spirituality and dialogue, Contemplative Outreach of Puget Sound North will again offer an interfaith version of United in Prayer as an in-person day retreat. Participants will be guided by presentations and periods of contemplative prayer/meditation consonant with the faith traditions of Christianity, Judaism, Islam and

    $35.00
  • Contemplative Christianity at the Dawning of the Second Axial Age

    Holy Family Passionist Retreat Center 303 Tunxis Road, West Hartford, CT, United States

    Annual Day of Reflection with The Rev. Matthew Wright Many thinkers today believe we are entering a "Second Axial Age" -- a great shift in consciousness and spirituality equal to that which produced the headwaters of our great religious traditions between roughly 800-200 BCE. This next shift is related closely to the process of globalization,

  • Beyond Theology: The Interspiritual Wisdom of Roshis, Rebbes, and Holy Rascals – in person and online

    Holy Family Passionist Retreat Center 303 Tunxis Road, West Hartford, CT, United States

    From the moment theologians seek to tame God with names and adjectives, mystics step into the wilderness to reveal the God beyond naming, and the ethical challenge to which this God calls us. Drawing on the wisdom and practices of the Hebrew and Greek Bibles, Kabbalists and Hasidim, Zen Roshis and Holy Rascals, Fr. Michael

  • The Way of Love: An Interspiritual Convergence

    Holy Family Passionist Retreat Center 303 Tunxis Road, West Hartford, CT, United States

    Each of the Abrahamic traditions—Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—has at its core a commitment to step onto the Path of Love. When we delve deep into our diverse spiritual practices, it shows us hints of our true identity and glimpses into Unity consciousness. This retreat will explore the Way of Love woven through the mystical heart

  • Spiritual Radicals: Interspiritual Wisdom from Franciscan and Buddhist Spirituality – in person and online

    Holy Family Passionist Retreat Center 303 Tunxis Road, West Hartford, CT, United States

    The parallel teachings of Christ and the Buddha find a home in the spacious minds and inclusive hearts of Franciscan and Buddhist spirituality. During this contemplative day, we’ll explore how Christian saints Francis and Clare of Assisi, and Buddhist Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh, invite you into the interspiritual sense that love and compassion, lifelong

  • OPENING TO THE UNIVERSAL CHRIST: THE INTER-SPIRITUAL INVITATION OF CENTERING PRAYER

    Mercy Conference and Retreat Center 2039 N. Geyer Road, St. Louis, MO, United States

    Howard Thurman wrote: “In the Presence of God there is neither male nor female, white nor black, Gentile nor Jew, Protestant nor Catholic, Hindu, Buddhist, nor Muslim, but a human spirit stripped to the literal substance of itself before God.” Are you looking for a break from the busyness of life to rest in stillness

    $500
  • InterSpiritual Praxis in Community: Charis Meditation and Charis Circles

    Holy Family Passionist Retreat Center 303 Tunxis Road, West Hartford, CT, United States

    Charis Circles are small communities of interspiritual practice. We will introduce interspirituality and Charis Meditation, developed for interspiritual settings. The day is for those who embrace one religious tradition, more than one tradition, or are "spiritual but not religious.” As the Quaker Rufus Jones noted, “I pin my hopes to quiet processes and small circles,

  • From the Heart of Yeshua: Following the Path of the Aramaic Jesus

    Holy Family Passionist Retreat Center 303 Tunxis Road, West Hartford, CT, United States

    Neil Douglas-Klotz, a renowned Aramaic Jesus scholar and teacher, dedicated over 40 years uncovering the original meanings of Jesus's teachings and their modern relevance. His studies reveal deeper meanings and