Raise-the-Roof Work Week
Phase two of the new chapel timber framing will be done the week of August 20 – 24. The four top plate beams will be cut and set on the already erected partially complete walls. Come help Jay Budde and other volunteers for all or part of the week. We will need help raising the …
EDC Garden Work Day
The Ecosystems Discernment Committee is hosting a Garden work day to help with the harvest and putting the garden to rest for the winter. Come with gloves and hand clippers. Lunch will be provided. Please let us know by September 28 if you will be joining us.
Hermitage Way Retreat – Keeping a Personal Rule of Life
Gathering Room 11321 Dutch Settlement Road, Three Rivers, MI, United StatesHow do we keep a Rule of Life? What are the elements that make up a rule and what are some of the practices that help us to keep it? This retreat will be led by Mary Among-Knapp and Naomi Wenger. Join us if you are interested in learning more about The Hermitage Way or …
EDC Garden Work Day
The Ecosystems Discernment Committee is hosting a short Garden work day to help with putting the garden and flower beds to rest for the winter. Come with gloves and hand clippers. Lunch will be provided. Please let us know by November 2 if you will be joining us.
Hermitage Board Meeting
Regular Board Meeting
Advent Quiet Day Retreat “We are Pregnant and Waiting”
“We are Pregnant and Waiting” “It is Advent and we are a people, pregnant. Pregnant and waiting. We long for the God/Man to be born, and this waiting is hard. Our whole life is spent, one way or another, in waiting.” --Gertrud Mueller Nelson, To Dance With God This Advent retreat consider two questions: What …
Advent Quiet Day Retreat “We are Pregnant and Waiting”
“We are Pregnant and Waiting” “It is Advent and we are a people, pregnant. Pregnant and waiting. We long for the God/Man to be born, and this waiting is hard. Our whole life is spent, one way or another, in waiting.” --Gertrud Mueller Nelson, To Dance With God This Advent retreat consider two questions: What …
Hermitage Closed for Holidays
The Hermitage is closed for the holidays. See you in the new year.
Lent Retreat – “Holding On, Letting Go”
Gathering Room 11321 Dutch Settlement Road, Three Rivers, MI, United StatesLent is an opportunity to draw near to God as we meditate on the life of Jesus while discerning our lives and actions. The lectionary Scripture texts for this year encourages us to explore these two parallel invitations: 1) to hold on to what is most important, and 2) to let go of what is …
Pysanky Egg Decorating
Pysanky eggs are Ukrainian Easter eggs, decorated with traditional Ukrainian folk designs using a wax-resist method. The word pysanka comes from the verb meaning, “to write” or “to inscribe”, as the designs are not painted on, but written (inscribed) with beeswax. This process of decorating eggs can be a contemplative practice with multiple symbolic meanings in …