A Service of Silence & Beholding

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

8am

Sunday 24th January

St. Mary's Church, Sullington

All are welcome

We come just as we are

All one in Christ Jesus 

The Beloved One

Peace be with you

For reflection in the midst of challenges - this wonderful poem ... 

We're all in winter's grip,

but even more caught is the person who loves

because they are held by Love's power.

If anyone is bold enough and strong enough

to risk everything in an adventure - 

welcome the sweet and the bitter - 

they should send Love an invoice.

then they'll touch Love 

with total tenderness.

Hadewijch, Poems in Stanzas

translated by Carmen Butcher

In This Birth ...

In this birth

         you will discover 

         all blessing.

But neglect this birth

and you neglect 

all blessing.

      Tend only to this birth in you

and you will find there

all goodness and all consolation,

all delight,

all being and all truth...

from 'Meditations with Meister Eckhart' 

a centering book by Matthew Fox 

Wherever you are in what ever circumstances you find yourself, 
may you know the eternal birthing of Christ within your soul.

All are welcome to join us for Still Waters on January 2nd, 8.30am - 10am for a simple Christmastide meditation and silence at Wild Fortune. 

Peace be with you. 

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

A Service of Silence & Beholding

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

Sunday 25th October

8a.m.

St. Mary's Church, Sullington, 

West Sussex RH20 4AE

'... if we are willing to be fully who we are in the equipoise of solitude, in the Silence of God, each of us is testing the edges of darkness, of unknowing, of death, testing the edges because only there is life. Faith is not assent to doctrines or surrounding ourselves with props and propositions. It is trust that God - as Christ shows us - has been there before us, goes within us, waits to find us beyond the edges of utter dark. And, found by God, we become aware that God is closer to our being than we are ... We find ourselves free-falling in eucharistic ungraspingness; and in faith we choose to continue to go on disturbing the universe, co-creating with God by our life and by our death become prayer in the mystery of grace.'

Maggie Ross

Pillars of Flame: Power, Priesthood, and Spiritual Maturity

Peace be with you. 

October Stillness

Sheer Silence: Still Waters

Saturday 3rd October 2015

St. Mary's Church, 

Sullington

8am -10am

You are warmly invited to gather this Saturday up at St. Mary’s Church, Sullington, for shared contemplative practice. Again we shall be trying a slightly different format. From 8am until 8.50, following the briefest of welcomes, there will be a time of ‘Sheer Silence’ with the singing bowl sounding at intervals to bring us back to our breath or to shift our posture. We shall have some quiet music playing between 8.50 until 9 whilst we either arrive, leave or stay put!  Then at 9am Meg will be leading us for ‘Still Waters’, with an introduction, a time of quiet, finishing with a brief time of plenary for any shared insight that people would like to offer. The session ends at about 10am. From November until March, for the winter months, our Saturday morning contemplative practice will be at our home, Wild Fortune, in the prayer loft.  More details to follow in due course.

 Peace be with you.