Day Program

Sponsored or Personal Day of Prayer

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We have one day set aside each month for individuals to come and enjoy the peace and quiet of the Center. The retreat begins with a common opening prayer to set the tone for the day, after which retreatants are free to spend their time in personal prayer or quiet reflection.  The Center is also […]

Centering Prayer

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We have one day set aside each month for individuals to come and enjoy the peace and quiet of the Center. The retreat begins with a common opening prayer to set the tone for the day, after which retreatants are free to spend their time in personal prayer or quiet reflection.  The Center is also […]

Handmaid Feast Days

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Desert Day

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We have one day set aside each month for individuals to come and enjoy the peace and quiet of the Center. The retreat begins with a common opening prayer to set the tone for the day, after which retreatants are free to spend their time in personal prayer or quiet reflection.  The Center is also […]

Saved by Beauty: Making Art in the Easter Garden

With Brother Mickey McGrath, OSFS

May 4, 2025
St. Raphaela Center

What connects us as one human family? Our intrinsic creative urge to SEEK, MAKE, and SHARE BEAUTY! Join Brother Mickey McGrath as he shares his own ART and STORIES celebrating Wise Saints and Talented Prophets of Beauty who inspire us to live in HOPE not despair, and in LOVE not fear. Dorothy Day's life motto […]

Spiritual Directors Circle: Grace and Grief

With Nancy Santamaria

May 6, 2025

The Spiritual Directors Circle of the Philadelphia Region presents, Grace & Grief You are warmly invited to a gathering to focus on our practice of spiritual direction when Grief is present. Our experience affirms that Grace is present there too. How can we best create an expansive space for grief and grace during these times? […]