Seeing as a Spiritual Practice

With Margaret (Peggy) Adams Parker

July 18 - 20, 2025

Time Details: Check-In begins at 3:00 pm. The program begins with dinner at 6:30pm and ends with lunch on Saturday.

Address: 46A Elm Street, Byfield, MA, USA

Program Cost: Fee includes lodging (except for commuters), meals and program fee

Registration Help: Laura Landry reservations@adelynrood.org or 978-462-1589 ext. 107

Single Room – $634.00
Double Room – $574.00
Serene Meadows – $704.00
Emilie Hurd Cottage (Pet Friendly) – $724.00
Commuter – $484.00

Margaret (Peggy) Adams Parker will lead us in the practice of Holy Seeing. In this weekend retreat she will invite us to understand 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, we will experience holy seeing as a way to open our eyes and hearts to beauties that we often overlook, and to scenes of suffering from which we instinctively avert our eyes.

About the Leader

Margaret (Peggy) Adams Parker

Margaret (Peggy) Adams Parker is a longtime liturgical artist and theological educator. A Senior Lecturer at Virginia Theological Seminary since 1991, she is co-author of Who are you, my daughter? Reading Ruth through Image and Text and Praying the Stations of the Cross – Finding Hope in a Weary Land (which features her woodcut Stations […]

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