Events

Teach Us to Pray

October 2, 2025 – August 6, 2026

We all want to learn more about how to pray. Each month for a year, practitioners of a variety of prayer styles, mostly from the Catholic tradition but also from other traditions, will demonstrate prayers in their particular style.

Opening the Holy Door: Meditations for the Jubilee Year

October 28, 2025 – November 18, 2025

Using scripture and images from the bronze door on the north side of St. Peter’s Basilica, the Jubilee Door, Fr. Ron Will guides us through a series of lectio divina and visio divina meditations.

The 5 Love Languages: Book Study for Couples

September 8, 2025 – October 6, 2025

Discover simple, effective, and immediate ways to strengthen the relationship with your loved one. Lucia and Michael will lead discussions of Dr. Gary Chapman’s “5 Love Languages” approach to showing and receiving love and revolutionize how you communicate and experience love in your relationship.

Study Richard Rohr’s new book ‘The Tears of Things’

June 17, 2025 – August 5, 2025

Discuss Richard Rohr’s newest book. In The Tears of Things: Prophetic Wisdom for an Age of Outrage, Rohr finds lessons in the Jewish prophets for living compassionately in a time of violence and despair.

God Chose You for Me: A Prayer Experience for Married Couples

April 26, 2025

Worldwide Marriage Encounter is offering this seven-hour experience designed to deepen the spiritual connection of married couples. The program is guided by a priest or deacon, a married couple, and a widow or widower who will share their personal experiences of building strong spiritual foundations within marriage.

Bread Making Retreat

April 5, 2025

A hands-on, heart-in community retreat for bakers of all ages, with or without breadmaking experience. A great activity for parents or grandparents and children, teens or couples. Inspired by Acts 2:42.

A Place at the Table

April 6, 2025

Are you or someone you know feeling disconnected? Precious Blood Renewal Center and Precious Blood Spirituality Institute invite you to help create a space for community and conversation.

Thomas Merton’s Contemplative Living

March 17, 2025 – May 5, 2025

Join a journey of spiritual transformation with Monk Thomas Merton. Over eight sessions we will learn how to use our own life experiences and contemplative living as the primary tools for spiritual growth guided by Merton and other spiritual masters.

He Loved Us … Pope Francis’ reflections on the Sacred Heart of Jesus

March 11, 2025 – April 8, 2025

In his latest encyclical letter, Pope Francis reflects on the Sacred Heart as a symbol of how much God loves us; he invites us to experience that love, and then share that love in our various personal living situations. We will study this encyclical on Tuesdays of Lent.

8th Annual Iftar Dinner with the Dialogue Institute of Kansas City

March 12, 2025

Iftar is the meal that breaks the daylong fasts Muslims practice during their holy month of Ramadan. Join us this night for a meal hosted by our Muslim friends, sharing traditional Iftar foods.