Participants will be led in the practice of holy seeing, and understanding sight as a vital spiritual act, a Franciscan virtue that allows us to encounter our world with tenderness and empathy. Through group discussions, silent contemplation, and guided exercises in writing, drawing, or photography, participants will experience holy seeing as a way to open eyes and hearts to beauties that are often overlooked, and to scenes of suffering from which eyes are instinctively averted.

Margaret (Peggy) Adams Parker is a longtime liturgical artist and theological educator.