Bridgefolk is a movement of sacramentally-minded Mennonites and peace-minded Roman Catholics who come together to celebrate each other's traditions, explore each other's practices, and honor each other's contribution to the mission of Christ's Church. Together we seek better ways to embody a commitment to both traditions. We seek to make Anabaptist-Mennonite practices of discipleship, peaceableness, and lay participation more accessible to Roman Catholics, and to bring the spiritual, liturgical, and sacramental practices of the Catholic tradition to Anabaptists.

Holiness the Road: Saints and the Spirituality that Sustains Them

The meeting of saints Scholastica and Benedict

Bridgefolk 2008
Saint John's Abbey, Minnesota
July 24-27, 2008

Next summer's Bridgefolk conference will focus on the example of saints and forerunners in the lives of Christian disciples and peacemakers. Sessions will include multiple stories of saints and forebears in both the Catholic and Anabaptist-Mennonite tradition who have stayed with their churches in difficult times, who haven't been perfect, who have lived apparently ordinary lives, and who have made peace.

Registration now open! Click here for more information.

Call for Sermons, Homilies, Poetry and Art

Bridgefolk invites you to submit sermons and homilies as well as poetry and art that reflect on the relationship between eating together at the Lord’s Table and our life of Christian peacemaking. Submissions will be considered for publication in a new book, We Are Each Other’s Bread and Wine: Mennonite and Catholic Reflections on Eucharist and Peacemaking. For more information, click here.

Bridgefolk Stories