“He opened his arms on the Cross to embrace humanity”

The Way of the Cross is a walking path located in a cedar-grove garden that includes sixteen individual wayside chapel stations. Each station corresponds to a particular incident in the final hours of Jesus’ Passion and Resurrection. This active reflection on the Passion allows you to enter fully into the mystery of the Redemption. This prayer calls all of us to a better understanding of our own suffering and helps to work on overcoming remorse or resentment and be filled with love and gratitude for Jesus' example.

The walk through the Stations offers a spiritual pilgrimage of prayer focusing on the chief scenes of Christ's sufferings and death. You come to each Station, with certain prayers at each and follow with a devout meditation on the various incidents in turn. An inter-religious prayer format is being developed for all faiths so that all can have a meaningful spiritual experience in this environment. You can focus on one station or do as many as you feel necessary. There are benches at most stations for you to sit and reflect or journal your thoughts. The entrance is marked by a newly renovated information gazebo with sample Stations of the Cross.

From a place to store food to a space that captures the beauty of light and resonating sound, these silos remain an humble testimony to the presence of God. These renovated silos give one the feeling of how “large” God is. Just as the cathedrals of the world have their great domes over the altar, this simple farm structure now lends itself to the same use as a place of worship. Its new architectural elements allow the natural forces surrounding it to create its unique spiritual environment.

When you enter the enclosures during the day, the Sun passes through the stained glass windows to provide glorious light and soothing color. As your eyes look up, the blue or white sky becomes your canopy, with its greatness to contemplate. At night, the moon and stars provide views that are otherworldly. To sit still in its enclosure is to feel the nurturing of silence.

If you were to use vocal prayer or song inside the silo, a special effect is the reverberating sound that bounces off the sides of these slender structures to provide a feeling of immersion into its resonance. Both your body and soul can sense the absorption of word or music. Its environment is well suited to personal prayer, small group prayer and Taize worship services.

When Mary joined Jesus in Heaven, she was given her heavenly space. She has on many occasions appeared to some of us and given us glimpses of the heavenly splendor. She comes so that we may see and hear how the love of God is lived out in Heaven and what awaits us who wish and work for this loving environment on earth. One of these times she appeared to a peasant girl named Bernadette in Lourdes, France.

Our Grotto, which displays a recreation of the apparition of Our Lady of Lourdes, is an enclosure that invites you to visit with the Blessed Virgin Mary. As you pass through the gates, you enter a simple garden, just as Mary’s home would be like. She welcomes you in to talk and sit for a while. Her message calls us to a closer relationship with her son who came to show us all how to love.

This enclosed structure surrounded by a garden and overlooking a winding creek has benches for sitting quietly to pray or reflect on the peace which Mary has shown us is the promise of Heaven. It is ideal for praying the Rosary which is a meditation on the "Mysteries" or events of the life of Jesus. The garden space is large enough to also have group prayer.