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  • Dinner & Dialogue: Food for the Journey

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

    Are you curious about what goes on in a monastery? Are you searching for a place to share questions of meaning and spirituality with other women? Would you like to know more about the practice of receiving ashes on Ash Wednesday? If you aren’t familiar with the sisters at Holy Wisdom Monastery, come to the Ash Wednesday liturgy and dinner at the monastery. Explore how the monastery can support you in your faith journey and offer spiritual practices as you strive for balance in your life. Schedule 5:00 pm – Arrival and Welcome 5:30 pm – Ash Wednesday Liturgy 6:30 ...

    Free

  • Advent Series: The Word Dwells In Us

    Advent Series: The Word Dwells in Us
    Holy Wisdom Monastery 4200 County Road M, Middleton, WI, United States

    In Advent we anticipate – with hope, ache and longing – some refreshed or renewed experience of divine presence in our hearts, in our lives. It is a time when we return to scripture’s birth stories of Jesus because they have a 'thin place' quality to them. We return to the beginning when the promise of divine presence seems strongest, brightest, purest. We start at the beginning so that we might also begin again. This season we turn to the beginning verses of John's Gospel – a 'birth narrative' of a very different sort. We find neither Mary nor Joseph, ...

    $25

  • Go Without Hesitation: Lent Series (Online)

    Go Without Hesitation: Lent Series
    Holy Wisdom Monastery 4200 County Road M, Middleton, WI, United States

    Go Without Hesitation: Lent Series with Pam Shellberg (online) This online series is full. There is still room in the in-person series on Tuesdays from 10:00-11:30 am. Register below. Join us for a 5-week study of a gripping tale from the New Testament book of Acts where Peter, Jesus' disciple, and Cornelius, a Roman centurion, present us with a historical diorama of conflicts mirroring back to us how perceiving God's will and knowing how to respond is rarely straightforward. The story guides us in the ways of discerning God's purposes, asking us to bravely sit with questions we might have ...

    $25

  • Holy Week Silent Retreat

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

    Join us for an extended silent retreat in which people have opportunities to: Attend the Holy Week liturgies with the sisters and others. Explore the theme of ‘they hear my voice’ through optional meetings for lectio divina (prayerful reading of scripture) and other contemplative engagements with the texts, liturgies and prayers of the week. Rest in the freedom from social expectations to speak or otherwise be engaged. Share a depth experience of the mysteries of Holy Week in a community of people seeking the same. Facilitator Pam Shellberg is the director of spiritual nourishment at Holy Wisdom Monastery and facilitates ...

    $340

  • The Quest for Healing and Home – The Great Search 2

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

    The Quest for Healing and Home – The Great Search 2 We hope you can join us at Holy Wisdom Monastery for The Quest for Healing and Home – The Great Search 2 from May 9-11, 2024. In 2022 John Philip Newell began a second series of annual retreats to address the deep spiritual yearnings of this moment in time and to help give birth to new beginnings in our lives and world.  The Great Search 2 is the second of a three-part series of annual retreats led by the Celtic teacher John Philip Newell and his colleague Cami Twilling ...

    $340

  • Summer Stewards

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

    Are you worried about climate change but don’t know what to do? Would you like time away for reflection, discernment and prayer? Do you want to deepen your spirituality in a setting that connects your faith with care for the earth? Be a Summer Steward at Holy Wisdom Monastery for six days in July. Live the monastic rhythm of prayer, work and rest in a progressive, inclusive community whose mission includes being in right relationship with the earth and one another. Join us for prairie and oak savanna restoration, gardening, reading and spiritual conversation. Share your experiences, reflections and questions ...

    $200

  • Conversations about Our Benedictine Life – Stability

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

    Stability You are invited to attend Conversations about Our Benedictine Life – Stability, starting in September 2024. These events will provide opportunities to talk with others about the value of stability and to learn a bit about stability as a feature of Benedictine spirituality. Each gathering will be a time to share reflections on our ideas, experiences, and beliefs about stability, Benedict's teachings, and what spiritual gifts are to be discovered in a life where a practice of stability is central. The gatherings will be between 60 and 90 minutes in length. They will include time for reflections, for the ...

  • Conversations about Our Benedictine Life – Stability

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

    Stability You are invited to attend Conversations about Our Benedictine Life – Stability, starting in September 2024. These events will provide opportunities to talk with others about the value of stability and to learn a bit about stability as a feature of Benedictine spirituality. Each gathering will be a time to share reflections on our ideas, experiences, and beliefs about stability, Benedict's teachings, and what spiritual gifts are to be discovered in a life where a practice of stability is central. The gatherings will be between 60 and 90 minutes in length. They will include time for reflections, for the ...

  • Conversations about Our Benedictine Life – Stability

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

    Stability You are invited to attend Conversations about Our Benedictine Life – Stability, starting in September 2024. These events will provide opportunities to talk with others about the value of stability and to learn a bit about stability as a feature of Benedictine spirituality. Each gathering will be a time to share reflections on our ideas, experiences, and beliefs about stability, Benedict's teachings, and what spiritual gifts are to be discovered in a life where a practice of stability is central. The gatherings will be between 60 and 90 minutes in length. They will include time for reflections, for the ...

  • Conversations about Our Benedictine Life – Stability

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

    Stability You are invited to attend Conversations about Our Benedictine Life – Stability, starting in September 2024. These events will provide opportunities to talk with others about the value of stability and to learn a bit about stability as a feature of Benedictine spirituality. Each gathering will be a time to share reflections on our ideas, experiences, and beliefs about stability, Benedict's teachings, and what spiritual gifts are to be discovered in a life where a practice of stability is central. The gatherings will be between 60 and 90 minutes in length. They will include time for reflections, for the ...