22nd March – Revd Dr John Russell The Body and Prayer – An Experiential Session The Revd Dr John Russell is Acting Lead for Spirituality at London Jesuit Centre, where he runs the embody programme of breath and bodywork. This Lent Talk is a 60-minute online session of embodied prayer to encourage you to be ... Read more

15th March – Mark Russell-Smith Prayer Through Poetry Mark is a retired Anglican Priest and Missionary who is now finding poetry an increasingly exciting and challenging pathway for prayer. In this talk he will explore the poem The Flower by George Herbert, a poem about renewal – both in terms of one’s own spirit, but also in ... Read more

15th March – Mark Russell-Smith Prayer Through Poetry Mark is a retired Anglican Priest and Missionary who is now finding poetry an increasingly exciting and challenging pathway for prayer. In this talk he will explore the poem The Flower by George Herbert, a poem about renewal – both in terms of one’s own spirit, but also in terms ... Read more

8th March – Sr. Gemma Simmonds CJ Lent as a Time of Hope Sr. Gemma Simmonds is a well-known writer, broadcaster, theologian, academic, retreat giver and spiritual director. In this talk Gemma will explore how Lent can be experienced as a time of hope, in which God invites us to learn to ‘live differently’. Using ... Read more

1st March – Sr. Magdalen Lawler “And there were many other women there” – Mark 15:41 Sr. Magdalen Lawler is a well-known retreat leader with a particular interest in the relationship between spirituality and the visual arts. In this talk Magdalen will offer prayerful reflections with Scripture, Paintings and Poetry, on walking with Gospel Women ... Read more

As a new year begins, this quiet reflective day will create space at the threshold of a new year to pause and prayerfully reflect back over the year that has been and to creatively look forward to the year ahead.

As we enter the Season of Creation, this experiential workshop will introduce the practice of Sacred wandering as a way of aiding our reconnection to the Earth.

Three events: 20 November 2021; 19 February, 7 May 2022.