Monthly Enrichment Saturdays, October through April, 9 am to 3 pm
Third Saturday of each month excepting April
Where: Benedictine Sisters, St. Walburga’s Monastery, 851 North Broad Street, Elizabeth, NJ 07208
Ample parking is available. We hope to offer the programs via Zoom at the same time as the in-person presentations.
Format: Periods of Centering Prayer, conferences from the present, and small group discussion. Please bring your lunch. We will not offer shared food as part of the COVID-19 procedures. Coffee/tea will be available.
Theme for the Year: Each presenter was asked to address this question: “How has your passion moved you in your spiritual journey?”
Please register and pay online to minimize contact on site.
Registration: Please register online here for any and all sessions through March: https://tinyurl.com/35zmm24u and here for the April session https://tinyurl.com/k8b8mmmy.
Fee: We ask $20/session or $115 for all 7 sessions. All are welcome regardless of ability to pay. No fee is requested from members of vowed religious communities. The requested fee applies for in-person and virtual participation as the chapter incurs costs for each offering. As we are still working on the logistics of offering simultaneous virtual participation, those who plan to participate online only may wish to delay payment.
Please provide payment online through PayPal. You do not need a PayPal account to use this service. If you prefer to pay by postal mail, please send the check to Barbara Sherry, 1189 Kennedy Blvd, Bayonne, NJ 07002.
Enrichment Day Offerings
October 16, 2021
Finding Presence in Drumming Chanting, Barbara Woodzell
November 20, 2021
Jesus of History Research, Yoga and Meditation Prayer, and Compassionate
Unity of Humankind, Fr. Anthony Randazzo
December 18, 2021
Advent Day of Prayer, Fr. Carl Arico
January 15, 2022
Twelve-Step Spirituality, Gina and Tommy Rourke
February 19, 2022
“Yes/And” Spirituality and Improvisation, Carol Schindler
March 19, 2022
Celtic Spirituality and Song, Sr. Peggy Murphy
April 23, 2022
Working with Divine Energy Within and Around Us, Sr. Anita Constance
For the safety of all, we are implementing these precautions for in-person participation:
- Those participating in person must display proof of vaccination the first time they join us.
- Masks and social distancing are required indoors.
- By joining in person, you attest that you have not knowingly been exposed to COVID-19 infection within the prior 14 days and do not have symptoms of COVID-19 infection listed here: https://tinyurl.com/xubej7ax.
- Hand sanitizer will be available.
- No shared food will be available. We ask that there be no food sharing except among those in the same household
Monthly Mini-Intensives on Zoom
First Saturdays through May 2022, 8 am to 9:15 am
2021: October 2, November 6, December 4
2022: January 1, February 5, March 5, April 2, May 7
Please enter in silence, with volume muted.
Format: Two 25-minute prayer times separated by time for an optional meditative walk, followed by Lectio Divina with Guidelines for Christian Living, Father Thomas Keating
Registration is not required; link to join is the same for each session.
Link to join
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8898551069?pwd=bFVSZFptcUZRcGpuRCtBVVZiR2YzZz09
Meeting ID: 889 855 1069
Passcode: 601121
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“Within the stillness of silence, God speaks to the heart”
–sign at St. Joseph’s Abbey, Spencer, MA