Enjoy a weekend of monastic hospitality, prayer and worship with the Community, including a visit to the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway on the Saturday. The colder weather of early March should create some good clouds of steam and smoke! A reasonable level of mobility is required for this excursion as there are steps in several places. Holy smoke on the Sunday. Participants are invited to bring along some railway-related pictures, books, stories or artefacts to share with the group
Leader: Br Philip CR
Cost: £160
In the Bible spiritual growth is likened to the natural development processes of plants, and the part played by gardeners, whether human or divine. Meeting God in the Garden will explore four recurring movements of this growth: becoming rooted and grounded in God; emerging into being in response to God’s invitation; struggling towards abundance through resistance; bearing fruit and being willing to fall. They are seasons that meet us afresh within a lifetime of growing, stirring us once more into abundant life.
Leader: Christopher Chapman, retreat leader, spiritual director and author of Earthed in God: Four movements of spiritual growth.
Cost: £250
The Psalms are full of praise for the mighty works of God – a closer look shows how much of this stands behind Jesus’s own message and journey, and continues on into the sacramental life of the Church, and our daily praying of the Psalms.
Leader: Fr George CR
Cost: £270
As Christians, we journey with Christ through the years of our life. Sometimes people leave their ordinary surroundings and make a special journey to spend time in the presence of God in a special place. Our Pilgrimage retreats are an invitation to come to such a place and stay with us for a short time – to worship, eat and talk with the brothers of Community; to explore faith together; and to see what the Rule of Benedict might have to say for your own daily living. Come and walk with us, wherever you are on your faith journey. Whether you come alone or bring a group from your parish you will find companions for that journey and experience the mystery of the Resurrection, the life-giving love of God at the heart of all things.
The cost for this retreat is £135
You will spend a week in personal prayer and reflection on scripture, sharing silence with the Community. There are no addresses as in other retreats. Rather, each person, meeting daily with an experienced guide, follows their own path as it seems God is leading them. The emphasis is on integrating body, mind and heart in faith.
Led by the Mirfield IGR Team
The cost for this retreat is £420
A Reflective Study Day
In recent years many archaeological discoveries have been made which together with early Christian texts give us insights into the life and worship of early Christian communities. In the light of these, how similar is the life and worship of their churches to those we know today. How true to life are the images we construct of the earliest Christians? Is there anything we can learn from them?
Saturday February 16th 2019
10.00am-3.30pm
Revd Dr Kenneth Carveley
£22.00 including lunch
To book or for more details, contact:
Beth Harper, The Mirfield Centre, Stocks Bank Road, Mirfield, WF14 0BW
Tel: 01924 481920 e-mail: bharper@mirfield.org.uk www.mirfield.org.uk
Director: Revd Canon June Lawson Administrator: Beth Harper
Flyer Early Christians 16.02.2019
Poster Early Christians 16.02.2019
A Quiet Day focusing on the purpose of the Church’s Year with special reference to Advent and listening to the voice of Isaiah in our Advent readings.
Saturday 8th December 2018
10.00am-3.30pm
Bishop John Flack
£22.00 including lunch
Advent QD 08.12.2018 poster
Advent QD 08.12.2018
To book or for more details, contact:
Beth Harper, The Mirfield Centre, Stocks Bank Road, Mirfield, WF14 0BW
Tel: 01924 481920 e-mail: bharper@mirfield.org.uk www.mirfield.org.uk
Director: Revd Canon June Lawson Administrator: Beth Harper
Peace, not as the world gives
In an uncertain and violent world, what is peace? Where do we search for it? How can we help others to search? and to find peace?
At the break of the church’s year, Fr Thomas reflects on the coming of our God and His peace.
