Upcoming Programs &
Directed Retreats

March 31 - 2, 2025
9:00 am - 3:00 pm

Join us March 31-April 2, 2025 to start or continue watercolor learning! This three day workshop will run from 9-3 each day and be focused on essentials in watercolor painting, exercises in the basics such as brush handling, control of lights and darks and learning controls with water and paint.   Bring your own watercolor supplies: tube…

April 8, 2025
10:00 am - 12:00 pm

“Living as a mystic means orienting the whole of yourself toward the sacred…of purposely looking through the lens of love…The universe responds to your willingness to behold the holy by revealing almost everything as holy…This is what it means to be a mystic. To show up for what is, to be present to all that…

April 10, 2025
10:00 am - 11:30 am

Gratitude is the essential foundation for happiness and spiritual growth. Join Joan Meeder, AFSPA, as you explore the simple yet powerful gratitude practices that can easily be woven into your daily routine, and see how they can help cultivate a more positive and joyful approach to life. Embracing a sense of gratitude, even in the…

April 10, 2025
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm

Gratitude is the essential foundation for happiness and spiritual growth. Join Joan Meeder, AFSPA, as you explore the simple yet powerful gratitude practices that can easily be woven into your daily routine, and see how they can help cultivate a more positive and joyful approach to life. Embracing a sense of gratitude, even in the…

April 11, 2025
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm

Spring is a turbulent, messy season during which the frozen earth begins to thaw, to soften and heal from the stresses and wounds of the past growing season and the long winter. This is also the time of our spiritual spring when, having journeyed through the winter experience of going within, of deep examining and…

April 15 - 17, 2025
9:00 am - 3:00 pm

It is so much easier and more satisfying to start a pastel painting with an underpainting applied to the working surface!  Join us April 15-17, 2025, from 9-3 as we will explore a different underpainting method daily. Tuesday: Pastels over a dark underpainting Wednesday: Pastels over a multi-toned colored underpainting Thursday: Pastels over a pre-planned…

April 22, 2025
10:00 am - 12:00 pm

“Living as a mystic means orienting the whole of yourself toward the sacred…of purposely looking through the lens of love…The universe responds to your willingness to behold the holy by revealing almost everything as holy…This is what it means to be a mystic. To show up for what is, to be present to all that…

April 26, 2025
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Are you one of the many people today seeking to meet your need to nurture your spiritual self through connections with a respectful community? Join us at Marywood Franciscan Spirituality Center on March 22 and April 26, 2025 from 1:00 to 3:00 pm for a group spiritual exploration experience. Spiritual directors Wendie Libert and Karl…

May 1 - 3, 2025
9:00 am - 3:00 pm

Painting with a Large Brush is one of the best ways to get a dramatic look to a painting is by using a large brush in applying the paint because one is concentrating on the large brush strokes the painting develops quickly. Brusho paints are colorful particle pigments that will be used with the big…

May 6, 2025
9:00 am - 12:00 pm

We each are members–bodies–who are broken and part of the whole. Join author Julia Walsh FSPA for a time of reflection centered on exploring the sacredness of brokenness and gain insights into how our beautiful brokenness can serve the common good. Participants will receive a signed copy of Sister Julia’s spiritual memoir, For Love of the Broken Body. …