The Priory Spirituality Center is the perfect place to enhance your knowledge and gain a deeper understanding of many topics. Learn new artistic and meditative skills, attend transformative healing workshops and spend time walking in the footsteps of celebrated historical figures through experiential retreats.
We are always adding classes and workshops, so be sure to check back soon.
NOTE: Some of our programs and retreats are being offered IN PERSON as well as via ZOOM, and many are a HYBRID of the two. At this time, we do not require COVID vaccination.
Click on a program or retreat name below for more information and to register.
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The Priory Spirituality Center is the perfect place to enhance your knowledge and gain a deeper understanding of many topics. Learn new artistic and meditative skills, attend transformative healing workshops and spend time walking in the footsteps of celebrated historical figures through experiential retreats.
We are always adding classes and workshops, so be sure to check back soon.
NOTE: Some of our programs and retreats are being offered IN PERSON as well as via ZOOM, and many are a HYBRID of the two. At this time, we do not require COVID vaccination.
Click on a program or retreat name below for more information and to register.
(Need help with ZOOM? Click here for instructions. Go to Zoom.us to download the Zoom app.)
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Ongoing program OASIS 2025-2026
With Paz Vital, OSB, PhD, Monika Ellis, OSB, MA, Education, Anna-Camille Wooden, OSB, Sonja Weber, OSB, Laura Swan, OSB and Julian Cleary OSB
Intensive Silent Centering Prayer Retreat
With Anna-Camille Wooden, OSB and Michele Jankanish
Fall P.A.U.S.E. retreat: Christian Contemplative Prayer, Well-Being, and Embodiment
With Kathy Holley, PhD
Contemplative Writing
With Marcia McLaughlin, OblSB
Zoom: Just This…a Retreat for Caregivers
With Evelyn Gerardo Challis
Hybrid: Continuing Contemplative Rest (Monthly on First Saturdays)
With M Freeman
Zoom: Know Your Type: An Introduction to the Enneagram
With Jeffrey King
Hybrid: Contemplative Rest Winter Series
With M Freeman*
SISTERS SPEAK: OUR BLOG
Sisters post on our Blog weekly on Fridays. See what our Sisters have to say about living Monastic Life in the 21st Century.
NRVC VOCATION RETREAT FOR WOMEN
SR. LAURA ON YOUTUBE
See Sr. Laura’s youtube channel for some of her work in “restoring women to the stories we tell.”
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Ongoing program OASIS 2025-2026
September 18, 2025 - March 20, 2026
Intensive Silent Centering Prayer Retreat
November 9 - 14, 2025
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