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October Quiet Day: In the Footsteps of Thomas Merton – 20th-century monk, spiritual writer & prophet ***FULLY BOOKED***
Join us for a Quiet Day exploring the life, writings and contemplative vision of Thomas Merton (1915–1968), one of the twentieth century’s most influential Christian spiritual writers. Led by the Revd Canon James Shakespeare, the day offers space for reflection inspired by Merton’s enduring wisdom.
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Soul-Filled Meanderings
Why not take a couple of hours, put on your coat and boots and explore and experience God’s creation. This is an opportunity to stop, look and listen. Using all your senses to know and understand more about our Everlasting Father and Creator God.
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October Saturday Quiet Day – Walking in the Light **2 SPACES REMAINING**
How do we encounter God today when our lives are often full of activity and noise? How do we find the space, time and quiet to pay attention to the God who is within and around us so that we can hear what God is saying to us?
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Soul-Filled Meanderings
This is an opportunity to stop, look and listen. Using all your senses to know and understand more about our Everlasting Father and Creator God. Take a couple of hours, put on your coat and boots and explore and experience God’s creation.
£5 -
Soul-Filled Meanderings
Use all your senses to know and understand more about our Everlasting Father and Creator God. Take a couple of hours, put on your coat and boots and explore and experience God’s creation. This is an opportunity to stop, look and listen.
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November Quiet Day: ‘Choosing the One Thing that Matters’ ***FULLY BOOKED***
As we approach Christmas, we are invited to reflect on the tensions many of us feel between ‘doing’ and ‘being’, between prayer and action, between the demands of life and call of devotion to Christ.
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Beginners Retreat with the Launde Abbey Community **2 SPACES REMAINING**
The aim of this semi-silent retreat weekend is to help you enter the world of silent retreats gently and with plenty of support. There will be guidance on how to use the time; periods on your own and with the other retreatants, and the opportunity to share your experience with others if you wish to do so. Led by members of the Launde Abbey Community.
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An Advent Week with the Launde Abbey Community: A Season Of Longing And Waiting
We invite you to join the Abbey Community at the start of this Advent. Come as a resident or day guest and shape the retreat as suits you. Those journeying together for any part of this week will be provided with daily reflection themes and readings for this season of longing and waiting as well as there being a range of optional bookable activities to choose from. We invite you to come at your own pace.
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Painting as Prophecy: Advent Painting Workshop **2 SPACES REMAINING**
Explore how we might express with paint what we hear from God as we watch and wait for the Living Word in Advent. No prior experience or artistic talent necessary. All materials will be provided.
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Advent Soul-Filled Meanderings
At the start of this Advent season take a couple of hours, put on your coat and boots to explore and experience God’s creation. This is an opportunity to stop, look and listen. Using all your senses to know and understand more about our Everlasting Father and Creator God. Led by Jo De Graaf.
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Advent Quiet Day: Rumours of Angels **2 SPACES REMAINING**
Today, during Advent, we see angels on Christmas cards and gift wrappings. The angels that appeared when Christ was born were real, rebuking, informing, encouraging. Through this Quiet Day Revd Debbie Smith invites you to step back from the December rush…If we listen carefully, the angels may just have something to say to us.
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Saturday Advent Quiet Day: A Balanced Life – “I wish!” ***FULLY BOOKED***
“A balanced life – I wish!” If that’s your reaction, this Advent retreat offers an invitation to draw aside, rest and reflect. Using the season of Advent as a time of preparation, Rev. Andrew Hall explores what it means to welcome God’s love more deeply into our lives and to reimagine the rhythms of daily life with God.
£46