The Two Thomases: Spiritual Masters of Earth and Soul

With Sr. Kathleen Deignan, CND

​​Friday, November 6 – 8, 2026

$490 Single, $450 Double  
(includes an ensuite bathroom and all meals from Friday dinner through Sunday breakfast)  
$290 Commuter
(includes Friday dinner, Saturday lunch & dinner) 

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​​​​​About this offering

“The Two Thomases,” spiritual Giants of our era, at once mystics and prophets for our age, continue to offer guidance and healing in their illuminating teachings. Thomas Berry, spiritual master for a time of ecological crisis, offers a revelatory worldview that grounds us at once in the cosmos and in the Earth through the glorious revelation of divine “inscendence.” Thomas Merton, contemplative teacher of the many sacred pathways, has mentored countless generations in contemplative wisdom that still reverberates with transforming insight about our capacity for divine intimacy, the greatest potential  of our human nature. These “Two Thomases” await a close encounter with you, to offer their healing, their guidance, and their transforming grace.

Join us for a weekend to meet these spiritual masters once again for the first time to be blessed by their empowering wisdom and be quickened by their vibrant poetics of Earth and Soul.

About the presenter

Kathleen Deignan, CND, will be the animator for this encounter. Dr. Deignan is professor emerita of Religious Studies at Iona University, where she founded the Deignan Institute for Earth and Spirit. A long-time student of Thomas Berry and disciple of Thomas Merton, she is the author of “Thomas Berry: A Book of Hours,” “Thomas Merton: A Book of Hours,” “Teilhard de Chardin: A Book of Hours,” and “When the Trees Say Nothing: Thomas Merton’s Writings on Nature.”  She is composer in residence with Schola Ministries where her rich collection of original contemplative songs can be found for free use. www.ScholaMinistries.org