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Omega Institute for Holistic Studies is a non-profit educational retreat center located in Rhinebeck, New York. Founded in 1977 by Elizabeth Lesser and Stephan Rechtschaffen, inspired by Sufi mystic, Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan and his ecumenical spirituality, today it offers classes to over 25,000 people a year, at the 190-acre (0.77 km 2) campus.
Monastery of the Dormition, Stavropegial Convent of the Dormition Novo-Diveevo, Nanuet, New York. Superior: Abbess Makaria. Convent of the Great Martyr Catherine, Sonora, California. (Formerly St Silouan the Athonite). Consecrated in 2015. Superior: Abbess Catherine. Convent of St Elizabeth, Mohawk, New York. Superior: Mother Elisabeth. Home
It operated as a seminary until 1985, after which it became a center for meetings and spiritual retreats for the people of the Hudson Valley in New York. In 2012, the Mount St. Alphonsus Retreat Center was purchased by the Bruderhof Anabaptists who renamed the building as The Mount Community and started The Mount Academy , a parochial school ...
The Bruderhof (/ ˈ b r uː d ər ˌ h ɔː f /; German for 'place of brothers') is a communal Anabaptist Christian movement that was founded in Germany in 1920 by Eberhard Arnold.The movement has communities in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Austria, Paraguay, and Australia.
Young monk in meditation retreat, Yerpa, Tibet in 1993 A retreat can either be a time of solitude or a community experience. Some retreats are held in silence, and on others there may be a great deal of conversation, depending on the understanding and accepted practices of the host facility and/or the participant(s).
In 1960, Elsie Powell donated residential property to New York Yearly Meeting. [2] The annual meeting decided to establish a retreat center on the property. Powell House celebrated its 40th anniversary celebration in 2000. During 2008 and 2009, the Anna Curtis Center underwent renovations. [3]
Robin Bruce Lockhart, Half-way to Heaven: The Hidden Life of the Sublime Carthusians (London: Thames Methuen, 1985); Nancy Klein Maguire, An Infinity of Little Hours: Five Young Men and Their Trial of Faith in the Western World's Most Austere Monastic Order (roman à clef, = novel based on real-life stories) (New York: PublicAffairs Books 2006, a division of Perseus Publishing, ISBN hardback ...
The Abbey of the Genesee is a community of more than two dozen contemplative monks located near Piffard in the town of York, New York. They are a member of the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance, commonly known as the Trappists. They were founded from the Abbey of Gethsemani in Bardstown, Kentucky in 1951. The Abbey of the Genesee is ...