Resurrection Beholding - continued...

This coming Saturday, 2nd May, is an opportunity to gather for another Contemplative Fire session of Still Waters: a time to enter silence, still the mind and encounter the present moment in quiet. 

Our focus will continue with 'Resurrection Beholding', on this occasion using a seven-step movement, developed by Revd Philip Roderick and which I have used on my own, with small groups and with too many to count of all ages at Greenbelt, the Christian music and arts festival. It is a wonderful contemplative exercise, very stilling, insightful and fun! 

We shall begin at 8am up at St, Mary's, Sullington and repeat the session at 9am. You are welcome to come for an hour at either 8 or 9, or to stay for the whole time - it's interesting how the second session is never the same as the first!  No booking required and all are welcome. Look forward to seeing you. 

'You are the deep innerness of all things,

the last word that can never be spoken.'

Maria Rainer Rilke

Peace be with you

Tessa

Resurrection Beholding of the Deep Innerness of all Things

As the season of Eastertide deepens, all are welcome to our monthly Service of Silence & Beholding at St. Mary's Sullington, this Sunday 26th April at 8am. Weather permitting, there will be an opportunity to be outside for a while during our shared liturgy of silence, stillness and reflection, before gathering again inside for the breaking of bread and sharing of wine. 

You are the deep innerness of all things,

the last word that can never be spoken.

Maria Rainer Rilke

Peace be with you

Easter Meditation ...

The Rose Within (detail)

Tessa Holland

You are the future,

the red sky before sunrise

over fields of time.

you are the cock's crow when night is done,

you are the dew and the bells of matins,

maiden, stranger, mother, death.

You create yourself in ever-changing shapes

that rise from the stuff of our days - 

unsung, unmourned, undescribed,

like a forest we never knew.

You are the deep innerness of all things,

the last word that can never be spoken.

to each of us you reveal yourself differently:

to the ship as coastline, to the shore as ship. 

Rainer Maria Rilke

translated by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy

Peace be with you.

'absence that is like a presence ...'

Still Waters returns to St. Mary's Church, Sullington, from April until October.  We begin at 8am with a short introduction leading into shared silence of about 35 - 40 minutes, followed by a repeat at 9am. You are welcome to come for an hour, or to stay for the whole time.    

Saturday, 4th April 2015

8-10am

St. Mary's Church, Sullington. RH20 4AE

It will be what some call 'Holy Saturday', which concludes the season of Lent. For me this is a pivotal day, one with its own significance, often overlooked with business, following Good Friday the day before and anticipating the celebrations of Easter Day. So it will be a time of watching and waiting, emptying into the silence, bringing our loving attention to what the poet R. S. Thomas described as 'this great absence that is like a presence'.

Peace be with you.