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Reflections on a Contemplative Ecology Event

Holy Wisdom Monastery* 4200 County Road M, Middleton, WI, United States

Reflections on a Contemplative Ecology Event This public conversation with Douglas Christie culminates the retreat led by him, Cultivating a Sense of Place: The Practice of Contemplative Ecology, and as such widens out the conversation about contemplation as a way to respond to environmental issues and concerns. Douglas, an academic theologian, writer and contemplative explores the historical roots of the Christian contemplative tradition, engages Benedictine spirituality more deeply, teaches and leads practices and invites participants to lean into the power of a contemplative ecology for our shared life together and shared commitment to care for the earth.       ...

$20

Labyrinth

Walking the Sacred Path of the Labyrinth

Holy Wisdom Monastery 4200 County Road M, Middleton, WI, United States

  Walking the Sacred Path of the Labyrinth - Labyrinths are sacred geometric forms and structures, appearing across time and cultures for at least 4,000 years, ancient symbols of wholeness, growth, and transformation. Today the labyrinth offers a visual, kinesthetic, and physical experience of the Christian articulation of the spiritual path. As we walk in and out of the labyrinth, we are guided through release, illumination, and a return to the world as new beings. This retreat will include presentations about the history and symbolism of the labyrinth, opportunities to walk it – alone and with other oblates, and also ...

Dinner & Dialogue: Food for the Journey

Holy Wisdom Monastery 4200 County Road M, Middleton, WI, United States

Are you curious about what goes on in a monastery? Are you searching for a place to share questions of meaning and spirituality with other women? Would you like to know more about the practice of receiving ashes on Ash Wednesday? If you aren’t familiar with the sisters at Holy Wisdom Monastery, come to the Ash Wednesday liturgy and dinner at the monastery. Explore how the monastery can support you in your faith journey and offer spiritual practices as you strive for balance in your life. Schedule 5:00 pm – Arrival and Welcome 5:30 pm – Ash Wednesday Liturgy 6:30 ...

An Evening with Kaitlin Curtice

Holy Wisdom Monastery 4200 County Road M, Middleton, WI, United States

An Evening with Kaitlin Curtice invites us into Kaitlin’s complex and compelling personal story – as an enrolled citizen of the Potawatomi Citizen Band and as a Christian. Her passion for truth and justice, her deep grounding in Indigenous and Christian traditions promise to catalyze individual and communal reflections on identity, activism and spirituality. Kaitlin will give her presentation, take questions and then be available for a book signing. Her books will be available for purchase.

Writing Workshop with Kaitlin Curtice

Holy Wisdom Monastery 4200 County Road M, Middleton, WI, United States

The Writing Workshop with Kaitlin Curtice invites writers of any kind, journalists, bloggers and poets to engage in creative writing as a way to process the ideas and questions Kaitlin has opened to them in her writing and speaking. Kaitlin will wear her writer’s cap this morning, offering one or more themes for reflection and conversation. There will be small breakout groups followed by time in and around the monastery for individual writing. The workshop concludes with a time to share each other’s work.

Community & Belonging: Women’s Retreat

Holy Wisdom Monastery 4200 County Road M, Middleton, WI, United States

Are you seeking community? In this women’s retreat find community with other women as you share stories and questions from your spiritual journey. Spend 24 hours in the company of women in the rhythm of prayer, reflection and sharing. Includes an overnight, lunch and dinner on Saturday and lunch on Sunday, communal prayer, Ecumenical Eucharist and lectio divina (prayerful reading of Scripture). You will have time for yourself and time for group sharing. Leave with a sense of belonging. Schedule Saturday10:00 am – Arrival & Welcome10:30 am – Sharing12:00 pm – Lunch | Personal Time | Sharing4:00 pm – Lectio ...

Free

Dinner & Dialogue: Food for the Journey

Holy Wisdom Monastery 4200 County Road M, Middleton, WI, United States

Are you curious about what goes on in a monastery? Are you searching for a place to share questions of meaning and spirituality with other women? Would you like to know more about the practice of receiving ashes on Ash Wednesday? If you aren’t familiar with the sisters at Holy Wisdom Monastery, come to the Ash Wednesday liturgy and dinner at the monastery. Explore how the monastery can support you in your faith journey and offer spiritual practices as you strive for balance in your life. Schedule 5:00 pm – Arrival and Welcome 5:30 pm – Ash Wednesday Liturgy 6:30 ...

Free

Event Series Advent Series: The Word Dwells in Us

Advent Series: The Word Dwells In Us

Holy Wisdom Monastery 4200 County Road M, Middleton, WI, United States

In Advent we anticipate – with hope, ache and longing – some refreshed or renewed experience of divine presence in our hearts, in our lives. It is a time when we return to scripture’s birth stories of Jesus because they have a 'thin place' quality to them. We return to the beginning when the promise of divine presence seems strongest, brightest, purest. We start at the beginning so that we might also begin again. This season we turn to the beginning verses of John's Gospel – a 'birth narrative' of a very different sort. We find neither Mary nor Joseph, ...

$25

Event Series Go Without Hesitation: Lent Series

Go Without Hesitation: Lent Series (Online)

Holy Wisdom Monastery 4200 County Road M, Middleton, WI, United States

Go Without Hesitation: Lent Series with Pam Shellberg (online) This online series is full. There is still room in the in-person series on Tuesdays from 10:00-11:30 am. Register below. Join us for a 5-week study of a gripping tale from the New Testament book of Acts where Peter, Jesus' disciple, and Cornelius, a Roman centurion, present us with a historical diorama of conflicts mirroring back to us how perceiving God's will and knowing how to respond is rarely straightforward. The story guides us in the ways of discerning God's purposes, asking us to bravely sit with questions we might have ...

$25

Holy Week Silent Retreat

Holy Wisdom Monastery 4200 County Road M, Middleton, WI, United States

Join us for an extended silent retreat in which people have opportunities to: Attend the Holy Week liturgies with the sisters and others. Explore the theme of ‘they hear my voice’ through optional meetings for lectio divina (prayerful reading of scripture) and other contemplative engagements with the texts, liturgies and prayers of the week. Rest in the freedom from social expectations to speak or otherwise be engaged. Share a depth experience of the mysteries of Holy Week in a community of people seeking the same. Facilitator Pam Shellberg is the director of spiritual nourishment at Holy Wisdom Monastery and facilitates ...

$340

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