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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 **MORE SPACES ADDED**
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 ***FULLY BOOKED***
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 ***FULLY BOOKED***
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.
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2027 Archway Association of Retreat Houses Annual Conference: ‘How Lovely Is Your Dwelling Place?: The Role Of Retreat Houses In The Ecology Of The Church’
When was the last time you attended a retreat as a guest rather than facilitated one? Designed especially for those who spend much of their time crafting retreats for others, the Archway 2027 Conference combines time for renewal and opportunities for learning and the sharing of ideas. Be re-envisioned and re-ignited in your work once more.
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January Quiet Day: Wells of Salvation – Finding the places from which life rises ***FULLY BOOKED***
Start 2027 with a day to pause and discover what might renew you, through scripture, silence, people, and place. A spiritual MOT for the New Year. Led by The Venerable Aly Buxton.
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Be Joyful. Keep the Faith. Do the Little Things
Join Catherine Williams in a quiet, spacious retreat shaped around St David’s famous words. St David doesn’t offer complicated strategies, grand plans, or even great vision. Instead, he takes us back to three foundations: joy, faith and small acts of love. Together, these form a gentle, grounding and sustaining rule of life.
£474