Leigh Murray
Leigh feels so honored to accompany sincere seekers on their interior journey to know themselves and God. She trained as a contemplative spiritual director at the Kairos Spiritual Direction
program in Lancaster, PA. She leads retreats and has a particular interest in esoteric teachings and mysticism, offering experiential journeys into the teachings of the Christian Mystics.
She has also completed St. Raphaela Center’s 19th Annotation Retreat Practicum in leading the Ignatian Spiritual Exercises. She feels so privileged to direct this rich and transformational experience with those that are called to it.
Leigh is also a wife and mother of two wonderful college-bound daughters. She is available for both individual and group direction.
Events with Leigh Murray
Spiritual Exercises in Daily Life InquiryPackage Dates
The 19th Annotation This retreat follows the entire 30-day Spiritual Exercises retreat, but is adapted to be made during “daily life”, that is, without taking a month off of work or studies or family. Retreatants meet once a week with their spiritual director to review their prayer and to receive material for the following week of prayer. It is expected that the retreatant would set aside 1 hour of prayer a day, plus 15 minutes for the examen at the end of the day. While it is usually better to begin this retreat in the early fall so that the…
May 21, 2024
The Spiritual Directors Circle of the Philadelphia Region presents, St. Teresa of Ávila – The Journey to the Beloved Saint and mystic, St. Teresa of Ávila understood the process of soul transformation through direct experience in her own life. In her spiritual masterpiece, The Interior Castle, St. Teresa, using the metaphor of a crystal castle as the soul, writes about how a person can enter their own soul, and proceed through succeeding mansions, toward intimate union with the Beloved. St. Teresa’s descriptions of the seven mansions offer clear direction on how a soul can continue toward union, and what one…