Franciscan Friars of the Atonement

World Labyrinth Day on the Holy Mountain
2025-05-03 10:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Our Lady of the Atonement Chapel, 40 Franciscan Way, Garrison, NY, 10524, United States
Join us for
World Labyrinth Day on the Holy Mountain
Saturday, May 3, 10 AM – 1 PM
Our Lady of the Atonement Chapel
40 Franciscan Way
Garrison, NY
Free will offering

Walk the canvas labyrinth in prayerful meditation indoors at Our Lady of Atonement Chapel.
Drop in any time during the session and learn about this powerful tool from expert Lynn Brown, no experience necessary.
A free will offering will be collected. Groups welcome!
Outside the chapel you can visit the site of the new Graymoor labyrinth soon to be under construction.
Stay for lunch at 12 noon in the dining hall. $25 – register in advance.
For more information or to register please email HMFRC@atonementfriars.org.

Truly, Our Sister - Mary of Nazareth
2025-05-03 10:00 - 14:00 | HOLY MOUNTAIN FRANCISCAN RETREAT CENTER, 40 Franciscan Way, Garrison, NY, 10524, United States
Join us for a day of prayer and reflection
Truly, Our Sister – Mary of Nazareth
Saturday, May 3, 2025
10 am – 2 pm
Cost: $50 – Lunch included

Holy Mountain Franciscan Retreat Center
40 Highland Turnpike

Join Sister Peggy Murphy for day of prayer and reflection on the one witness to the entire life of Jesus. Mary, the first disciple of Christianity, is our companion and a model of trust and courage on our spiritual journey.
Sr. Peggy Murphy, OP has worked in the field of Counseling and Education in New York City, Puerto Rico and Orange and Sullivan Counties in New York. Sister is a New York Certified Addiction Counselor and has worked in inpatient treatment at Villa Veritas and Pius XII Adolescent Center, in Downstate and Fishkill Correction Facilities and in Outpatient treatment with Children of Alcoholics. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Education from St. John’s University, a Master’s degree in Pastoral Counseling from Iona College Graduate School and a Master’s degree in Clinical Social Work from Yeshiva University (Manhattan) and a Doctorate in Theology from Drew University in Madison, New Jersey. She served as Chairperson of the Division of Philosophy and Religious Studies, at Mount Saint Mary College (Newburgh, New York) where she is currently a Professor Emerita of World Religions.
For more information or to register please contact Kacey Morabito-Grean at Kacey@atonementfriars.org.

Blessing of the Labyrinth on World Labyrinth Day
2025-05-03 12:00 | Our Lady of the Atonement Chapel, 40 Franciscan Way, Garrison, NY, 10524, United States
Join Fr. Tom Orians, SA and Richard Ferrara for the
Blessing of the Labyrinth on World Labyrinth Day
Saturday, May 3, 12PM
Our Lady of the Atonement Chapel
40 Franciscan Way
Garrison, NY
See the newly planted site of the Graymoor Labyrinth – a place for peace and reflection.
For more information please email HMFRC@atonementfriars.org.

Mother Daughter Weekend Retreat
2025-05-09 - 2025-05-11 | HOLY MOUNTAIN FRANCISCAN RETREAT CENTER, 40 Franciscan Way, Garrison, NY, 10524, United States
Bring Mom to Graymoor for a scenic and peaceful
Mother Daughter Weekend Retreat
Friday, May 9th – Sunday, May 11th
Holy Mountain Franciscan Retreat Center
40 Franciscan Way
Garrison, NY
Fee: $305 per person (Friday dinner, through Sunday breakfast)

Spend the weekend on the Holy Mountain in this self-guided pilgrimage amid the shrines and chapels.
Tour the grounds, meet with the Friars, peruse the bookstore too.
You’ll enjoy meals in Graymoor’s 5th floor dining hall surrounded by beautiful views of the Hudson Valley.
Attend a special Mother’s Day Mass on Sunday at 11 AM.
For more information or to register please call 914 323 8343 or email Kacey@atonementfriars.org.

From the Margins to the Mainstream: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam in Conversation
2025-05-12 18:30 - 20:00 | Cathedral of St. John the Divine, 1047 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY, 10025, United States
Join us for a Dialogue on Divinity
From the Margins to the Mainstream: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam in Conversation
featuring Rabbi Dr. Burton Visotzsky, Emre Celik, and Rev. Eva Suarez in conversation with the Very Rev. Patrick Malloy
Monday, May 12th, 2025
6:30-8:00 pm Eastern
Cathedral of St. John the Divine
1047 Amsterdam Avenue
New York, NY 10025
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Graymoor Ecumenical & Interreligious Institute is a co-sponsor of the 2024-2025 “Dialogues on Divinity” series, hosted by the Cathedral of St. John the Divine and the Community at the Crossing (an ecumenical program for spiritual formation in the heart of New York City).
On May 12th, the Cathedral will welcome three leaders in interreligious dialogue for a panel entitled “From the Margins to the Mainstream: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam in Conversation.”
The tragic events of October 7th and their aftermath have catapulted the engagement of Judaism and Islam into the center of dialogue with Christianity. Is it still possible to maintain good relations or are the three Abrahamic religions doomed to be locked in a widening gyre of enmity? Can the center hold? The conversation promises to be a meaningful exploration of the intersection of tradition, contemporary challenges, and shared values in a world that increasingly calls for interfaith cooperation.
The speakers will be:
Rabbi Dr. Burton Visotzky, scholar of Midrash and Interreligious Studies at the Jewish Theological Seminary where he serves as director of the Milstein Center for Interreligious Dialogue and as the Louis Stein Director of the Finkelstein Institute for Religious and Social Studies.
Emre Celik, Executive Director of the Peace Islands Institute New York and a Leadership Fellow at the Interfaith Center of New York.
The Rev. Eva Suarez, Canon for Community Engagement at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine.
Day-of student rush tickets will be available in person at the time of the event.
Purchase tickets here!

Meditation on the Holy Mountain
2025-05-15 18:15 - 19:15, 2025-06-19 18:15 - 19:15, 2025-07-17 18:15 - 19:15 | Our Lady of the Atonement Retreat Center, Old Highland Turnpike 41, Philipstown, NY, 10524, United States
Join us for
Meditation on the Holy Mountain
3rd Thursday of the Month
6:15 – 7:15 PM
Our Lady of Atonement Retreat House (Meeting Room)
41 Old Highland Turnpike
Garrison, NY 10524
Fee: $15 (no registration required)

Every 3rd Thursday of each month, join teacher and guide Larry Epstein for Meditation on the Holy Mountain.
No experience is necessary for this monthly drop-in class held from 6:15 – 7:15 PM in the Meeting Room of Our Lady of Atonement Retreat House. No registration required. You may bring a mat or bolster or use the chairs provided.
For more information please call 914-323-8343 or contact Kacey Morabito-Grean at Kacey@atonementfriars.org.

Holistic Spirituality: Living Your Life as Spiritual Practice
2025-05-23 - 2025-05-25 | HOLY MOUNTAIN FRANCISCAN RETREAT CENTER, 40 Franciscan Way, Garrison, NY, 10524, United States
Holistic Spirituality:
Living Your Life as Spiritual Practice
Friday, May 23 – Sunday, May 25
Fee: $330 two nights, five meals, private rooms.
Spirituality is not merely an aspect of Christian life. It encompasses the full range of human experience. We do not separate and make rivals of soul and body, spirit and flesh, church and world, sacred and profane. If something is good for my soul, then it is also ultimately good for my body, and vice versa.
Today, Christian spirituality is Christian life in the Spirit, being conformed to the person of Christ and being united in communion with God and others through all that we say and do. Health means wholeness. It must include the physical, emotional, spiritual and social dimensions of personhood.
This weekend will be presented by guest lecturers, offering sessions in mindfulness, yoga, meditation, and sound. There will also be time in nature, time in the chapels, and time with the Friars.
For more information or to register please contact Kacey Morabito-Grean at Kacey@atonementfriars.org.

Matt Talbot #9
2025-05-23 - 2025-05-25 | HOLY MOUNTAIN FRANCISCAN RETREAT CENTER, 40 Franciscan Way, Garrison, NY, 10524, United States
Led by Joseph Tucker, this retreat is designed to support men in all stages of their recovery from alcohol abuse. All are encouraged to share in prayer & reflection to help further open their spiritual path to recovery. This retreat is based upon the spirituality of Alcoholics Anonymous. Come renew your spirit and your commitment at this Matt Talbot Retreat.
COST: $285 per person, single occupancy.
Fees includes 2 overnight accommodations and 5 meals.
Call Mr. Tucker for more information at 914 523 2265.
Register via email at HMFRC@AtonementFriars.org.

"That All May Be One" Prayers for Unity
2025-06-05 19:00 - 20:00 | St. Francis Convent Chapel, 41 Old Highland Turnpike, Graymooor Garrison, NY, United States
Please join the Franciscan Sisters of the Atonement to pray for world peace and unity
“That All May Be One”
Thursday, June 5, 2025
7 – 8 pm
Chapel of St. Francis Convent

On the first Thursday of every month, please join the Franciscan Sisters of the Atonement to pray for world peace and unity. Through quiet prayer and reflection, intercessory prayer and music, you are invited to participate in our mission, “That All May Be One” – a worldwide mission of Unity that began at Graymoor in 1898. People of all Faiths are welcome.

Slogans: Tools for Recovery
2025-06-07 09:30 - 11:00 | Graymoor, 40 Franciscan Way, Garrison, NY, 10524, United States
Join Sister Peggy Murphy for
Slogans: Tools for Recovery
Saturday, June 7th
9:30 AM – 11 AM
Spellman Library 5th Floor
Cost: $20 at the door
Sister Peggy Murphy, Certified Addiction Counselor, will lead a workshop for all people in recovery.
The slogans and phrases of recovery have stood the test of time because of the story they tell and the support they offer to everyone living a life of recovery.
Spend the morning “trudging the road to happy destiny” in this energizing workshop.
For more information or to register please contact Kacey Morabito-Grean at HMFRC@atonementfriars.org.

A Mass, A Meal and A Meeting
2025-06-07 11:00 | Graymoor, 40 Franciscan Way, Garrison, NY, 10524, United States
In honor of the 100th Anniversary of Matt Talbot’s passing
and the 90th Anniversary of AA
Graymoor welcomes you to
A Mass, A Meal and A Meeting
Saturday, June 7th
Mass at 11 AM – Our Lady of Atonement Chapel.
Lunch in the Dining Room on the 5th floor at 12 noon.
A Meeting in the 3rd Floor Seminar Room at 1 PM.
A free will offering will be collected.
For more information or to register please contact Kacey Morabito-Grean at HMFRC@atonementfriars.org.

Summer Songs & Picnic Celebration
2025-06-28 14:00 | Our Lady of the Atonement Chapel, 40 Franciscan Way, Garrison, NY, 10524, United States
Join the Franciscan Friars of the Atonement for
Summer Songs & Picnic Celebration
Saturday, June 28th
2 pm
Our Lady of Atonement Chapel

Hudson Lyrica Opera presents a lively concert of popular tunes. The Friars will supply fruit and cool refreshments as we celebrate the first day of summer on the Holy Mountain. You are also welcome to come early and bring a picnic lunch to our pavilion.
The concert starts at 2 PM inside Our Lady of Atonement Chapel (Pilgrim Hall). Feel free to sing along and dance in the aisles!
Walk the labyrinth too!
Appropriate for all ages. A free will offering will be collected.
For more information or to register please contact Kacey Morabito-Grean at HMFRC@atonementfriars.org.

"That All May Be One" Prayers for Unity
2025-07-03 19:00 - 20:00 | St. Francis Convent Chapel, 41 Old Highland Turnpike, Graymooor Garrison, NY, United States
Please join the Franciscan Sisters of the Atonement to pray for world peace and unity
“That All May Be One”
Thursday, July 3, 2025
7 – 8 pm
Chapel of St. Francis Convent

On the first Thursday of every month, please join the Franciscan Sisters of the Atonement to pray for world peace and unity. Through quiet prayer and reflection, intercessory prayer and music, you are invited to participate in our mission, “That All May Be One” – a worldwide mission of Unity that began at Graymoor in 1898. People of all Faiths are welcome.

"That All May Be One" Prayers for Unity
2025-08-07 19:00 - 20:00 | St. Francis Convent Chapel, 41 Old Highland Turnpike, Graymooor Garrison, NY, United States
Please join the Franciscan Sisters of the Atonement to pray for world peace and unity
“That All May Be One”
Thursday, August 7, 2025
7 – 8 pm
Chapel of St. Francis Convent

On the first Thursday of every month, please join the Franciscan Sisters of the Atonement to pray for world peace and unity. Through quiet prayer and reflection, intercessory prayer and music, you are invited to participate in our mission, “That All May Be One” – a worldwide mission of Unity that began at Graymoor in 1898. People of all Faiths are welcome.

Women in Recovery Retreat Weekend
2025-08-08 - 2025-08-10 | Our Lady of the Atonement Retreat Center, Old Highland Turnpike 41, Philipstown, NY, 10524, United States
Join us for a
Women in Recovery Weekend Retreat
August 8 – August 10, 2025

Our Lady of the Atonement Retreat House
41 Old Highland Turnpike
Garrison, NY
Cost: $285 (Two nights and 5 meals.)
Retreat Leader Anne Scherer will lead a weekend of introspection and celebration for all women in recovery. This retreat will take place at Our Lady of Atonement Retreat House, Old Highland Turnpike in Garrison, NY. The cost is $285, payable on arrival, and includes two nights and 5 meals in a private room.
Private chapel, peaceful grounds to explore, fellowship, and support.
For more information or to register, please contact Kacey Morabito-Grean at HMFRC@atonementfriars.org.

Pope Leo XIV: Inside the Conclave and the Dawn of a New Papacy
2025-08-13 19:00 | HOLY MOUNTAIN FRANCISCAN RETREAT CENTER, 40 Franciscan Way, Garrison, NY, 10524, United States
Join us for a book talk and reception with Author Chris White
Pope Leo XIV: Inside the Conclave and the Dawn of a New Papacy
Wednesday, August 13, 2025
7 PM

Holy Mountain Franciscan Retreat Center
Spellman Library

Just weeks after the Pope’s election, author and journalist Chris White has published a book on this new era in the Catholic Church.
A free will offering will be collected.
For more information or to register please contact Kacey Morabito-Grean at HMFRC@atonementfriars.org.

A Special Initiative Roundtable Deportations and Assaults on Human Dignity: Catholic Principles, Human Costs, Pastoral Challenges
2025-09-11 18:00 - 19:30 | Cardinall Spellman Library
Join us for
A Special Initiative Roundtable Deportations and Assaults on Human Dignity: Catholic Principles, Human Costs, Pastoral Challenges
September 11, 2025
6:00 – 7:30 pm
Cardinall Spellman Library
5th Floor, Pius X Building at Graymoor
Join us for a roundtable discussion that will take place at Georgetown University, but we’ll join via livestream from Graymoor. Participants will examine how the mass deportations happening in our country are an offense against human dignity and how we should respond. Learn more about the event here.
For more information or to register, please contact Kacey Morabito-Grean at HMFRC@atonementfriars.org.

Matt Talbot #9
2025-09-12 - 2025-09-14 | HOLY MOUNTAIN FRANCISCAN RETREAT CENTER, 40 Franciscan Way, Garrison, NY, 10524, United States
This retreat is designed to support men in all stages of their recovery from alcohol abuse.
All are encouraged to share in prayer & reflection to help further open their spiritual path to recovery.
This retreat is based upon the spirituality of Alcoholics Anonymous.
COST: $285 per person, single occupancy.
Fees include 2 overnight accommodations and 5 meals.
When registering, please let us know if this is your first Matt Talbot #9 Retreat.
For more information and to register, please contact Joseph Tucker at (914)-523-2265 or joseph.tucker30@aol.com

Parables of the New Testament
2025-09-13 10:00 - 14:00 | HOLY MOUNTAIN FRANCISCAN RETREAT CENTER, 40 Franciscan Way, Garrison, NY, 10524, United States
Join the Franciscan Friars of the Atonement for
Parables of the New Testament
September 13, 2025
10:00 am – 2:00 pm
Holy Mountain Franciscan Retreat Center
(John 23rd Parlor on the 5th floor)
$55 per session – Lunch included
These teaching stories used by Jesus were drawn from nature or familiar circumstances and used to convey profound lessons on love, redemption, and mercy. Come to Graymoor for this one-day seminar with lunch and explore how these stories can enrich your life today. Come early and stay late to enjoy the chapels and grounds.
Presenter: Sr. Margaret “Peggy” Murphy, OP
Sr. Margaret “Peggy” Murphy, OP, a recently retired professor of Religious Studies at Mount Saint Mary College, a Dominican Sister of Hope, and a former SUNY Orange Foundation Board member, earned the prestigious Anne Bushnell Memorial Award for Special Achievement from the New York Community College Trustees (NYCCT) in November.
The Bushnell Award is the highest accolade that NYCCT awards to a trustee. It recognizes extraordinary leadership and achievement to the trustee’s local college or the community college system.
Sr. Murphy served the Mount community for two decades – from 1999 to 2019 – and has been a Dominican sister since 1962. She’s been involved in the fields of counseling and education, has been a national conference speaker on child development and mental health issues, and is a New York State Certified Substance Abuse Counselor.
At the Mount, she was the well-liked and enthusiastic leader of the college’s Heritage Tour for many years and taught hundreds of students, faculty, and staff about Dominican spirituality, world religions, and more.
Sr. Murphy earned a bachelor’s degree in Education from St. John’s University and a master’s degree in Pastoral Counseling from Iona College. She also completed a Master of Clinical Social Work degree from Yeshiva University and a Doctorate of Ministry from Drew University.
She has always been heavily invested in her community, volunteering with many groups and organizations in an effort to improve the lives friends, neighbors, and strangers.
In the past, Sr. Murphy received the Orange County Woman of Achievement Award, the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Civil Rights Award, and the New York State Senate Woman of Distinction Award.
For more information or to register please contact Kacey Morabito-Grean at HMFRC@atonementfriars.org.

Artmaking as a Spiritual Path
2025-09-14 10:00 - 15:00 | HOLY MOUNTAIN FRANCISCAN RETREAT CENTER, 40 Franciscan Way, Garrison, NY, 10524, United States
Join the Franciscan Friars of the Atonement for
Artmaking as a Spiritual Path
August 10, September 14, October 19
10 AM – 3 PM
Holy Mountain Franciscan Retreat Center (Library)
$75 per session – Lunch included
Engage the sacred through artistic creation during this etching series.
Experience the move from darkness to light.
Enter the process of spiritual transformation as you recreate masterpieces from art history in a simple etching process.
Presenter: Joy Pellegrino MS, MA, MS
Art Therapist and Spiritual Direction.
A different etching will be created in each Sunday session August 10, September 14 and October 19, 10 AM – 3 PM.
For more information or to register please contact Kacey Morabito-Grean at HMFRC@atonementfriars.org.

St. Francis Day
2025-10-04 10:00 - 15:00 | Our Lady of the Atonement Chapel, 40 Franciscan Way, Garrison, NY, 10524, United States
Join us for
St. Francis Day
Saturday, October 4 2025
10 am – 3 pm
Our Lady of the Atonement Chapel,
40 Franciscan Way, Garrison
Garrison, NY 10524
Pop-up vendors: Graymoor Book and Gift Center and Auntie Liana’s Made with Love will be outside Our Lady of Atonement Chapel
Mass at 11 am.
Blessing of the Animals at 2 pm
Visit St. Francis Chapel to see the altar from Assisi, Italy
Meet Farmer Bob and tour San Damiano Farm
Please bring pet food to be donated to Philipstown Pantry
For more information please contact Kacey Morabito-Grean at HMFRC@atonementfriars.org.

Dialogue on Divinity: Conflict and the Healing of Hatred
2025-10-19 13:00 - 14:30 | Cathedral of St. John the Divine, 1047 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY, 10025, United States
Conflict and the Healing of Hatred:Insights from Israel/Palestine
Sunday, October 19, 2025
6:00-7:30 PM, Cathedral of St. John the Divine
1047 Amsterdam Avenue
New York, NY 10025
Register Here
John Munayer is a Palestinian Christian, who studied for his Master’s in Theology and Religious Studies: Interreligious Studies at VU Amsterdam.
Enduring cultural or political conflict, between neighbors who become trapped in cycles of resentment or outright violence, can have a corrosive effect on the consciousness and identity of the people involved. For those who come to understand themselves primarily as people opposed to a hostile, threatening other group of people, it becomes difficult to imagine any alternative to one or the other side being destroyed or expelled.
Few organizations are better equipped to understand and intervene in such imprisoning conflicts than the Rossing Center for Education and Dialogue, in Jerusalem—where years of violent conflict and the fear it engenders have left both Israelis and Palestinians emotionally and spiritually traumatized. Hatred of the “Other” is regarded as a normal response to the ongoing situation. Each side is increasingly isolated and embittered and this in turn only leads to the creation of further suspicion and fear.
Hana Bendcowsky is the Program Director of the Jerusalem Center for Jewish-Christian Relations (JCJCR).
Join us at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine as Dean Winnie Varghese joins in conversation with Hana Bendcowsky and John Munayer, peacemakers and program staff from the Rossing Center, about their unique, trauma-informed methodology for addressing conflict at its deepest level, based on tools for spiritual counseling. They will discuss how peace education has made a difference in the Israeli/Palestinian context, why such processes are so important, and what light this model may shed on the intensifying conflict environment in the USA.
This dialogue is co-sponsored by the Graymoor Ecumenical & Interreligious Institute, the Community at the Crossing, and the Milstein Center for Interreligious Dialogue (at Jewish Theological Seminary).

For more information and to register, visit the Cathedral website.

Joy in Every Measure - Putnam Chorale - Free Holiday Concert
2025-12-19 19:00 | HOLY MOUNTAIN FRANCISCAN RETREAT CENTER, 40 Franciscan Way, Garrison, NY, 10524, United States
Putnam Chorale’s Winter Ensemble Holiday Concerts
Joy in Every Measure
Friday, December 19 – 7 PM

Kick off your holidays with the joyous sounds of the Putnam Chorale’s Winter Ensemble!
Join us for an unforgettable concert featuring a vibrant blend of classic and contemporary choral music that will lift your spirits and delight the whole family.
Their festive compilation of songs, from Verdi’s Gloria to dazzling new takes on Deck the Halls and Jingle Bells, is sure to make your spirits soar and bring a smile to every face.
Perfect for all ages, bring your family and friends, and start your holiday.

Community Watch Party: Installation of Archbishop Ronald A. Hicks
2026-02-06 13:30 - 15:30 | Cardinall Spellman Library
You are invited to join us for a watch party at Graymoor to view the installation of Archbishop Ronald A. Hicks as the new Archbishop of New York.
EVENT DETAILS
What: Installation Watch Party for Archbishop Ronald A. Hicks
Date: Friday, February 6, 2026
Time:
• 1:30 p.m. — Arrival (juice and cookies will be available)
• 2:00 p.m. — Livestream of Installation Mass
Location: Graymoor, 40 Franciscan Way, Garrison, NY (5th Floor, Cardinal Spellman Library)
