Saturday Program
Winter Bereavement Retreat
With Fr. Demetri Belsito
December 14, 2024
How does one find strength in the midst of suffering? During this day-long retreat led by Fr. Demetri Belsito, a Deacon in the Greek Orthodox Diocese of North America with a PhD in Social Work, participants will discuss the answers to challenging questions that surround the suffering in their lives.
Finding Recovery Through Art
With Sue Ellen Landwehr
March 8, 2025
Enders Island
Using a variety of mixed media techniques such as collage, watercolor, and pen and ink, participants will create a 12 step art journal, combining the benefits of art and the exploration of their recovery through the 12 step journey.
Dating under God's Guidance
With Carol Vara
March 15, 2025
Come explore some tips and tools about dating with grace, confidence and faith. You may be single because of a breakup, divorce, or a death of your partner.... or it's just been a long time. Explore this process in a safe space and learn the best approaches to date with ease, positivity and faith. […]
Pysanky Workshop
With Father Paul Luniw
April 5, 2025
Join Father Paul Luniw, pastor of St. Michael’s Ukrainian Catholic Church in Terryville, CT. for an exciting day of creativity. Participants will decorate a pysanka (a Ukrainian Easter egg) in traditional Ukrainian folk design using a wax-resist (batik) method - taking home a beautiful masterpiece of their own. Lunch will be provided.
Pysanky Workshop
With Father Paul Luniw
April 12, 2025
Join Father Paul Luniw, pastor of St. Michael’s Ukrainian Catholic Church in Terryville, CT. for an exciting day of creativity. Participants will decorate a pysanka (a Ukrainian Easter egg) in traditional Ukrainian folk design using a wax-resist (batik) method - taking home a beautiful masterpiece of their own. Lunch will be provided.
Spring Bereavement
With Fr. Demetri Belsito
May 3, 2025
The structure of the day will struggle to weave time together with time being alone; the group will be encouraged to share on all levels of experience, allowing for individual reticence and respecting the desire for mutuality. Doubts, fears, uncertainties, worries, questions…all are welcome, and all are pertinent to the group’s quest.
Finding Recovery Through Art
With Sue Ellen Landwehr
June 7, 2025
Enders Island
Using a variety of mixed media techniques such as collage, watercolor, and pen and ink, participants will create a 12 step art journal, combining the benefits of art and the exploration of their recovery through the 12 step journey.
Panel Preparation and Gesso making for Egg Tempera and Icon Painters
With Marek Czarnecki
July 12, 2025
Enders Island
Egg tempera must be painted onto a stiff, inflexible panel, coated with an absorbent primer called “gesso”. In a one-day workshop, iconographer and instructor Marek Czarnecki will teach students the process of making true artists’ gesso with rabbit skin glue, chalk and marble dust.
Praying with a Brush
With Marek Czarnecki
August 16, 2025
Enders Island
Praying With a Brush is a one-day workshop for iconographers interested in learning the basic brush skills necessary to paint an icon. We start with a repertoire of basic calligraphic brush strokes and practice exercises using only ink and a brush. Using traditional, art historical Orthodox icons as models, students will be taught to make their own drawings. After an acetate transparency is placed over the model, we re-discover line by line, the icon’s inner geometry, balance, order and structure.
Finding Recovery Through Art
With Sue Ellen Landwehr
September 20, 2025
Enders Island
Using a variety of mixed media techniques such as collage, watercolor, and pen and ink, participants will create a 12 step art journal, combining the benefits of art and the exploration of their recovery through the 12 step journey.
The Power of Gratitude and How It Can Lead to Greater Holiness in Your Marriage
With Pat and Mary-Jo McLaughlin
October 18, 2025
This enrichment focuses on the benefits and value to couples of practicing gratitude in their relationship. It will give them practical tips on how to cultivate an ‘attitude of gratitude’ in their relationship and deepen their call to holiness in their marriage.