Retreat: Ash Wednesday Quiet Day Wednesday March 5 2025 at 9:30 AM

Begin this Lent with a day-long retreat (9:30am-3:30pm) at the Virginia Mae Center on the Cathedral grounds. Throughout the day enjoy opportunities for communal prayer and meditation guided by seasonal art, scripture and poetry. Savor reflection time on your own in the comfortable library or a settle into a cozy cloister nook.

Participants will attend the noon Ash Wednesday Service of Eucharist with Imposition of Ashes in the Cathedral. Coffee, tea, and water will be provided throughout the day. You are welcome to bring a bagged lunch and snacks. (Refrigerators are available to store any items that need to be kept cold.)

Registration is required and space is limited.
$40/regular; $30/seniors, students, limited income

Dr. Terri Lynn Simpson is a poet, retreat leader, and the coordinator for the Center for Prayer and Pilgrimage at Washington National Cathedral. Celtic spirituality is her path, writing is her practice, and inviting people into thin places where they may share their stories and experience the presence of the Holy is her work. In addition to having a graduate degree in theology and a doctorate in Spirituality and Story, Terri is a long-time student of Celtic spirituality. Grounded in the three-fold practices of prayer, pilgrimage, and poetry, she weaves strands of these Celtic influences into the retreats, pilgrimages, and workshops she leads.