Retreat Day Timetable
For those who join us live via Zoom
Please feel free to join in as little or as much as you are able.
From 9.45 connect via Zoom to begin at:
10.00am LIVE Opening prayers and introduction.
AM VIDEO REFLECTIONS – Watch at your own time (website).
12.00 noon LIVE Connecting together with Zoom for final thoughts, conversation and closing prayer to finish by 13.00
Wherever a saint has dwelt, wherever a martyr has given his blood for the blood of Christ,
There is holy ground, and the sanctity shall not depart from it
Though armies trample over it, though sightseers come with guide-books looking over it;
From where the western seas gnaw at the coast of Iona,
To the death in the desert, the prayer in forgotten places by the broken Imperial column,
From such ground springs that which forever renews the earth
Though it is forever denied.
From: Murder in the Cathedral:
“How should we be able to forget those ancient myths that are at the beginning of all peoples, the myths about dragons that at the last moment turn into princesses; perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
So you must not be frightened if a sadness rises up before you larger than any you have ever seen; if a restiveness, like light and cloudshadows, passes over your hands and over all you do. You must think that something is happening with you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand; it will not let you fall. Why do you want to shut out of your life any uneasiness, any miseries, or any depressions? For after all, you do not know what work these conditions are doing inside you.”
from Letters to a Young Poet
35 Nothing therefore can come between us and the love of Christ, even if we are troubled or worried, or being persecuted, or lacking food or clothes, or being threatened or even attacked. 36 As scripture promised: For your sake we are being massacred daily and reckoned as sheep for the slaughter. 37 These are the trials through which we triumph, by the power of him who loved us. 38 For I am certain of this: neither death nor life, no angel, no prince, nothing that exist, nothing still to come, not any power, 39 or height or depth, nor any created thing, can ever come between us and the love of God made visible in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 8
“Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares” Hebrews 13:2
'Angels Unawares' by Timothy P. Schmalz in St Peter's Square.
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