SpiritualiTEA Registration

Please come and join us on Sunday June 1st, 2025
 from 2pm – 5pm as we host:
"Spirituali-TEA”,  an afternoon of Tea, Talks & Time with God

We'll explore some of the dimensions of friendship as a spiritual virtue – friendship an essential part of our flourishing as a person and as a faith community, friendship as love in the particular.

In separate presentations, we will spend time looking at two models of friendship: from Scripture, the tender friendship between Mary and Elizabeth; and then the contemporary story, not well known, of a holy friendship among Mother Teresa, Dorothy Day, and Eileen Egan. We will share in time for personal reflection and a walk on our beautiful grounds.

Linda Baratte is a popular presenter and retreat leader, serving parishes and communities of faith in Northern New Jersey. She has a commitment to accompanying adults in their faith journeys, with a special focus on women’s spirituality.  An RCIA ‘graduate’, she served as the Director of the Center for Theological and Spiritual Development at Saint Elizabeth University in Morristown, New Jersey until her retirement in 2010.

Linda has a Masters in Pastoral Ministry from Boston College and a Doctorate in Religious Education from Fordham University.  She is a member of the Loyola Jesuit Center Board of Directors, where she chairs the Mission Committee and offers Days of Prayer. Linda and her husband Jim are members of  the Christian Life Community, a lay Ignatian intentional community, and Notre Dame Parish of Mount Carmel in Cedar Knolls.