Advent Stillness

Still Waters - this has been cancelled

Saturday 5th December 8.30-10am at Wild Fortune

8.30am – Gathering in quiet in the prayer loft;

9am – Short introduction and some input from Mike Howard, followed by companionable silence & meditation of about 25 minutes;

9.45am – Optional sharing of insight;

10am -  Circle of blessing

There is room for everybody, but please let us know beforehand if you are coming, so we can set out enough chairs/cushions. The prayer loft, above the garage, is a shoe free zone; do bring slippers if you like warm feet. You are welcome to park on the drive.  

This will be our only gathering during December, as the house and Quiet Garden remains closed for urgent repairs to the house roof. We shall resume with Still Waters on 2^nd January here at Wild Fortune and A Service of Silence & Beholding will be on 24^th January at Sullington Church.  

Prayer for Syria & France

Over every living thing which is to spring up, to grow, to flower, 

to ripen this day  say again the words: 

This is my Body. 

And over every death-force which waits in readiness to corrode, 

to wither, to cut down, 

speak again your commanding words which express the supreme mystery of faith: 

This is my Blood. 

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The Mass on the World

Next Sunday, 22nd November there will be 

A Service of Silence & Beholding 

an unhurried time in which to dwell at the heart of the Eucharist

8am

St. Mary's Sullington

 with readings 

from the Syrian mystical tradition & from

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin & Therese of Lisieux 

For we are all one in Christ

Whoever you are, wherever you find yourself today,

Peace be with you

Still Waters at Wild Fortune

This Saturday, 7^th November is the first of our winter sessions of Still Waters at our home, Wild Fortune. Timings and format are a little different to allow for the darker and possibly frosty mornings and to offer an optional extension to the morning should anybody wish to stay on in the quiet of the house, garden and woods.

8.30am – Gathering in quiet in the prayer loft;

9am – Short introduction followed by companionable silence & meditation;

9.45am – Optional sharing of insight;

10am -  Circle of blessing  

From 10am you are very welcome to either leave, taking the quiet with you into the day, or to stay on for an extended period of quiet, in the prayer loft, the house, the garden or the woods, concluding with prayers for peace in the prayer loft at 12 noon, finishing about 12.15.  Tea and coffee will be in the kitchen on a self-serve basis. As with our Quiet Garden mornings there is no charge, but donations are welcome towards the work of the Quiet Garden Trust.

If you are hoping to join us from 8.30am on Saturday, please let us know. Please note the prayer loft is upstairs and that it is a shoe free zone – so do bring woolly socks or slippers if you wish! You are welcome to use the drive for parking, though if you think you might like to stay for the whole morning, it might be better to park in the next road along and walk through the twitten into our lane.

Other dates are 5^th December, 2^nd January, 6^th February, 5^th March. If you’d like to know more or get directions, please do be in touch via this blog or email.

Peace be with you. 

Tessa & Mark