Are you seeking support and enrichment for your daily prayer life? Join Shalem adjunct staff member Patience Robbins as she guides you through the use of lectio divina, walking meditation, the practice of gratitude, and intercessory prayers. Whether you feel like a beginner or want to deepen a particular prayer practice; whether you want to …
View course details “Online Class “Living Word, Living Way””

Presented by:  Anita Mascarenhas Cost: $65 (includes  lunch)\ What does Medical Science say about prayer – do prayers really work?  Come find out. Join us for a lively discussion on Covid-coping biblical-based strategies for the future.  

Does your heart long for a deeper connection to God in the midst of these turbulent times? Do you yearn to live from a place of calm and love instead of fear? Do you desire to journey together in a community of like-hearted souls? If so, join us for the eight-month program, Heart Longings: An …
View course details “Heart Longings: An Invitation to the Contemplative Path”

Circle of Trust® retreats with Kirkridge Director Jean Richardson and various other leaders through the Fall. These will continue our highly successful 90 minute retreats several times a month, exploring themes of compassion, peace, resiliency. Kirkridge Retreat and Study Center is offering these Circles of Trust® that are grounded in the principle that, without denying …
View course details “Circle of Trust® mini-retreats – Online”

Out beyond ideas of wrong-doing and right-doing, there is a field.   I’ll meet you there. — Rumi National Circle of Trust® facilitators and Kirkridge Courage Faculty, Caroline Fairless and Vicki Metzgar ,invite you into a four-day online and on-land retreat over the course of a month, to explore the space between Science and Spirit. …
View course details “Meeting in the Field: An Invitation to the Space Between Science and Spirit – Online”

Sat. November 7 9am – 3pm Led by: Fr. Chris Kulig O. Carm. This seminar will reflect upon chapters 23 through 31.  This third part of the Life explains the fruits of prayer in the life of Teresa.  It chronicles her extraordinary religious experiences.  We will study what prayer did for Teresa’s interior.

Sat. October 3 9am – 3pm Led by: Fr. Chris Kulig O. Carm. This seminar will reflect upon chapters 11 through 22.  This second part of the Life covers Teresa’s treatise on describing the four levels of prayer.  Although she is more well known for her image of the interior castle and its seven mansions, …
View course details “A Day with Teresa of Avila—The Book of Her Life, Part II—Degrees of Prayer”

  Led by Bishop Jenny Andison, the Area Bishop of York-Credit Valley and Suffragan Bishop of the Diocese of Toronto.