Cynthia's Writing Archives - Wisdom Waypoints

Highlights of Cynthia’s Fall and Winter Teaching Schedule

Cynthia Bourgeault | July 12, 2023

I know that many of you are beginning to arrange your fall and winter schedules and are trying to figure out which on-the -ground CB retreats will work best with your particular interests and experience base. With that in mind, I thought I’d walk you through some of the highlights of my fall and early winter teaching schedule. Most of these events are now posted on both Wisdom Waypoints and cynthiabourgeault.org, but here’s the quick summary.

Holy Saturday: A Journey Through Holy Week

Cynthia Bourgeault | April 8, 2023

Passion Libretto Part V: Remembrance This is the final day of this six day Holy Week offering. On this Holy and still Saturday, in the Passion Libretto Part V: Remembrance, Cynthia reminds […]

Holy Friday: A Journey Through Holy Week

Cynthia Bourgeault | April 7, 2023

Passion Libretto Part IV: On the Cross This is day five of a six day free Holy Week offering. Cynthia speaks of this Holy Friday, in the Passion Libretto Part IV: On the […]

Maundy Thursday: A Journey Through Holy Week

Cynthia Bourgeault | April 6, 2023

Passion Libretto Part III: The Prince of this World This is day four of a six day free Holy Week offering. On this Maundy Thursday and beginning of the Easter Triduum, […]

Holy Wednesday: A Journey Through Holy Week

Cynthia Bourgeault | April 5, 2023

Passion Libretto Part II: Gethsemane This is day three of a six day free Holy Week offering. On this Holy Wednesday, in the Passion Libretto Part II: Gethsemane, Cynthia brings us to […]

Holy Tuesday: A Journey Through Holy Week

Cynthia Bourgeault | April 4, 2023

Passion Libretto Part I: The Farewell Discourse This is day two of a six day free Holy Week offering. On this Holy Tuesday, in the Passion Libretto Part I: The Farewell […]

Holy Monday: A Journey Through Holy Week

Cynthia Bourgeault | April 3, 2023

Welcome, this Holy Monday to the first of six emails you will receive, one per day from today through Holy Saturday. Every day will offer an invitation to each of us for reflection, prayer and meditation individually yet together in the heart of God. These daily emails will include written text, music, and a video commentary by our teacher Cynthia Bourgeault focusing on a five part libretto she put together back in 2004.

Farewell, beloved Snowmass…Adiós, Amado Snowmass

Cynthia Bourgeault | March 26, 2023

If I have not yet publicly commented on the apparently now-imminent closing of St. Benedict’s Monastery, it is not because I have no feelings on the matter. Quite the contrary, it’s because my heart is so flooded with feelings that I find myself really, for once, at loss for words. What can be said, except in the language of tears?

Cynthia’s Eastertide Message and Invitation

Cynthia Bourgeault | April 18, 2022

To all my beloveds, He is Risen! And has invited us now, in the spirit of St. Peter (“where I am going you cannot follow me now, but soon…”) to […]

My Sojourn with the Episcopal House of Bishops

Cynthia Bourgeault | April 5, 2022

In this very heartening account, Cynthia Bourgeault shares her personal experience having presented her teaching on “radical kenosis” at the annual meeting of the Episcopal House of Bishops in March […]