Marywood offers a variety of online and onsite programs which can add to your spiritual journey. Topics include spirituality, personal growth, Franciscanism, art, creation, church history, and much more. These programs are available to everyone at any place on their spiritual journey. 

Take a look at our current offerings and email us to register today. 

Upcoming Programs

Lenten Reflections at Marywood

Tuesdays during Lent (February 20-March 26) From 1:00-2:00 p.m.

Free will offerings are appreciated

Join us as we explore the transformative experience of Lent through the wisdom of a variety of presenters and a variety of topics. Wendie Libert, Tammy Barthels, and Lori Everson will guide you as you turn toward new understandings of who you are and who you are becoming during this Lenten season.

March 12: Living by the Light with Tammy Barthels

 

Book Discussion Group: Do I Stay Christian?

March 5-26, 2024 from 2:00-3:30 pm

$50 for the series – Zoom

Are you seeking answers about what it means to be Christian in the 21st century or whether

your spiritual understanding still fits within the Christian experience? Sign up for a discussion of Brian McLaren’s thought-provoking book Do I Stay Christian?

Contact Marywood for the Zoom link. Please purchase books through your favorite bookseller or visit your local public library.

Returning to Joy Grief Support Book Club

Dates: Thursdays March 7-28

Time: 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

Place: Marywood Franciscan Spirituality Center

Investment: $60.00 (includes the book for those who register by February 22)

This four-week-long group is intended for people who have experienced a loss of any kind and are ready to navigate toward renewed joy. During this season, when frozen water starts to thaw and flow and the daylight grows with the return of the sun, join us beside Trout Lake as we seek together a fresh path to a life of greater joy.

Our journey in March will be guided by the book The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief by Francis Weller. Sessions will be facilitated by Amy Kitsembel of Aspirus Palliative Care, Wendie Libert of Marywood, and retreat facilitator Mary Anne Smrz.

Braiding Sweetgrass

by author Robin Wall Kimmerer

Thursday, March 14 from 5:30-7 p.m. Central

Book Group Discussion (online via Zoom)

Registration Deadline: March 7

Investment: $5

(please purchase book on your own)

Facilitators include a collaboration of partners in mission from the Franciscan Spirituality Center, Marywood Spirituality Center and Prairiewoods Spirituality Center.

Drawing on her life as an indigenous scientist and as a woman, author Robin Wall Kimmerer shows how other living beings―asters and goldenrod, strawberries and squash, salamanders, algae, and sweetgrass―offer us gifts and lessons, even if we’ve forgotten how to hear their voices. In reflections that range from the creation of Turtle Island to the forces that threaten its flourishing today, she circles toward a central argument: that the awakening of ecological consciousness requires the acknowledgment and celebration of our reciprocal relationship with the rest of the living world.

Contact Marywood to register if you are interested.

A Retreat in Celtic Tradition:

Karen Kappell and Pat Pintens

Dates: Friday, March 8 at 5PM to Friday, March 15 at 10AM

Celtic Spirituality values poetic imaginatiion, artistic creativity and close relationship with Earth and others. We will tap into some of the richness of vision which developed in response to a deep human need for God in the early Celtic tradition and continued in Celtic Christan Spirituality.

Each day we will pray, reflect using Celtic sources. We will use poetry, art, prayer and story telling around the following themes strong in the Celtic tradition:

*Love and respect for physical environment

*Appreciation of the ordinary in life

*Innate yearning to explore the unknown

*Love of silence and solitude

*Belief in the value of kinship

*Sense of time

Cold Wax Painting with Oils: 
April 22-24, 9-3 each day
Karen Kappell FSPA

Cold wax medium is applied to oil paints which increases transparency and workability. The process allows one to build up texture effects and transparent layers. In addition to the instructor fee and facility, the workshop will provide all materials at an added cost of $10.00 each day paid to Karen at the time of the workshop.  We will create abstracts and landscapes as we learn to paint with wax and oil (encaustic Painting).  

Workshop fee: $45.00/day or $120 for all three (instructor and facility and $ 10.00 for all materials each day.  Bring a lunch.

Contact Marywood for registration information.

Two Medieval Mystics:
Different Spiritual Traditions: Similar Message
April 8 & 9 from 9am-12pm
Karen Kappell, FSPA

Both of these mystics lived in a time of social change, and listening to their music, poetry, and universal spiritual insights gives us wisdom of living in the world today.

Register by Thursday, April 4
Fee $25 for a day, $40 for both

Hildegard of Bingen
Monday, April 8

12th Century German Benedictine abbess and a woman of great and varied learning. A writer, composer, mystic in the Christian tradition. She is one of the best known composers of sacred music and scholar of natural science.

Contact Marywood for registration information.

Two Medieval Mystics:
Different Spiritual Traditions: Similar Message
April 8 & 9 from 9am-12pm
Karen Kappell, FSPA

Both of these mystics lived in a time of social change, and listening to their music, poetry, and universal spiritual insights gives us wisdom of living in the world today.

Register by Thursday, April 4
Fee $25 for a day, $40 for both

Jalaleddin Rumi
Tuesday, April 9:

13th Century poetic genius, spiritual guide and founder of Sufi order in the Muslim tradition.

Contact Marywood for registration information.

Additional Art Workshops and Retreats in 2024

Fiber/hand-painted paper on canvas: May 9, 10, 11
Vacation with a Purpose: Ink and Watercolor Combo: May 27-31
Pastel Painting: June 17-19
Vacation with a Purpose: Fluid Acrylics and Brusho: July 1-5
Paper Bowls: August 12&13

Contact Marywood for registration information.