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Hope and Comfort in these Times: An Advent Retreat

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

This Advent season will be like no other with quarantine restrictions; altered holiday celebrations; inability to be with loved ones; and continued economic and political turmoil. How does the Rule of Benedict help us to find hope, peace and even joy during these times? Join us for a virtual retreat, including a livestreamed concert of Advent hymns and carols and a Taizé service; workshops on Waiting, Hope and Praying with Mandalas plus opportunities for integration or lectio divina via Zoom; and a Zoom social hour. This retreat is open to oblates and the public. Retreat leaders Concert: Sherri Hansen & ...

$60
Event Series Sunday Assembly

Sunday Assembly

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

Experience inclusive, ecumenical worship at Sunday Assembly Each Sunday, we gather for worship as a community. Through scripture readings, prayer and sharing the Bread of Life around a common table, we respond to Jesus’ invitation, “Do this in memory of me.” Our Assembly shares concern for social justice and peace; we embrace works of charity and care for the earth. For example, we serve dinner at Luke House, a community meal program, on the second Tuesday of the month and donations are collected on the third Sunday of the month for the Vera Court Food Pantry. Please note: Sunday Assembly worship does not ...

Event Series Sunday Assembly Childcare Ministry

Sunday Assembly Childcare Ministry

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

We are happy to announce that we will be offering a childcare ministry, typically on the 1st and 3rd Sundays of the month, during the Sunday Assembly liturgy. Adult care takers and teenage helpers will provide care for infants and toddlers in the hospitality room.

Event Series Benedictine Spirituality: An Introduction

Benedictine Spirituality: An Introduction

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

Program full – we will offer again in 2021 Are you hungering for spiritual conversation? Do you have a general sense of what Benedictine spirituality is and where it comes from but are curious to know more? Join us for Holy Wisdom Monastery’s first completely virtual class. We will meet online weekly for one month, take a two-week break for reflection and integration, then pick up again for four more weeks. Topics covered include Benedict and his ‘little Rule for beginners,’ silence, listening, prayer, humility, scripture and more. Each class will include prayer, readings, discussion, a spiritual practice and Q ...

Free
Event Series Children’s Liturgy of the Word

Children’s Liturgy of the Word

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

All ages are welcome to participate—little ones with a parent, and older students as readers and helpers with the teachers. Children’s Liturgy of the Word is usually scheduled on the 2nd and 4th Sundays of the month. Students are dismissed from worship to hear and learn about the scripture readings at their level. The children return later in the liturgy to receive communion.

Event Series Social Justice Group

Social Justice Group

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

The Social Justice Group shares information on many concerns: prison reform, immigration, health care, racism, hunger, poverty, and others.  The focus is to identify ways we can help and support others to be restored to equality and wholeness.  Meetings will be after worship on the second Sunday of the month and we welcome all who are interested to attend. 

Event Series Evolutionary Consciousness 1.0 +

Evolutionary Consciousness 1.0 +

Virtual Event takes place online, WI

Virtual retreat This 4-part series will address the BIG questions participants bring about evolution, evolutionary consciousness, how the universe unfolded and continues to unfold.  How do the Book of Nature and the Book of Scripture together inform us?  Together we will read Making All Things New: Catholicity, Cosmology, Consciousness by Ilia Delio.  The author shares that catholicity (small c) is a conscious awareness of how everything, all organisms from the single-celled to homo sapiens, forms one whole; catholicity is whole-making.  We will also explore Laudato Si, by Pope Francis; Caste by Isabel Wilkerson, and writings of Teilhard de Chardin, to ...

$100

Benedictine Spirituality: An Introduction

Zoom Connect to the program with computer or phone., WI

Are you hungering for spiritual conversation? Do you have a general sense of what Benedictine spirituality is and where it comes from but are curious to know more? Join us for Holy Wisdom Monastery’s first completely virtual class. We will meet online weekly for one month, take a two-week break for reflection and integration, then pick up again for four more weeks. Topics covered include Benedict and his ‘little Rule for beginners,’ silence, listening, prayer, humility, scripture and more. Each class will include prayer, readings, discussion, a spiritual practice and Q & A. As this is our first time to ...

Free

Benedictine Spirituality: An Introduction

Zoom Connect to the program with computer or phone., WI

Are you hungering for spiritual conversation? Do you have a general sense of what Benedictine spirituality is and where it comes from but are curious to know more? Join us for Holy Wisdom Monastery’s first completely virtual class. We will meet online weekly for one month, take a two-week break for reflection and integration, then pick up again for four more weeks. Topics covered include Benedict and his ‘little Rule for beginners,’ silence, listening, prayer, humility, scripture and more. Each class will include prayer, readings, discussion, a spiritual practice and Q & A. As this is our first time to ...

Free

Benedictine Spirituality: An Introduction

Zoom Connect to the program with computer or phone., WI

Are you hungering for spiritual conversation? Do you have a general sense of what Benedictine spirituality is and where it comes from but are curious to know more? Join us for Holy Wisdom Monastery’s first completely virtual class. We will meet online weekly for one month, take a two-week break for reflection and integration, then pick up again for four more weeks. Topics covered include Benedict and his ‘little Rule for beginners,’ silence, listening, prayer, humility, scripture and more. Each class will include prayer, readings, discussion, a spiritual practice and Q & A. As this is our first time to ...

Free

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4200 County Road M
Middleton WI 53562
608-836-1631, x100
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