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Fresh Perspectives on the Christian Mystic Way
Programme for 2013

All events are on Saturdays from 10.00am - 1.00pm (unless indicated)
in North London. Advance booking is recommended

‘To be contemplative as Christ is contemplative is to be open to all the fullness that the Father wishes to pour into our hearts. With our minds made still and ready to receive, with our self-generated fantasies about God and ourselves reduced to silence, we are at last at the point where we may begin to grow. And the face we need to show to our world is the face of a humanity in endless growth towards love, a humanity so delighted and engaged by the glory of what we look towards that we are prepared to embark on a journey without end to find our way more deeply into it, into the heart of the Trinitarian life. St Paul speaks (2 Cor 3.18) of how ‘with our unveiled faces reflecting the glory of the Lord’ we are transfigured with a greater and greater radiance. That is the face we seek to show to our fellow human being. And we seek this not because we are in search of some private ‘religious experience’ that will make us feel secure or holy. We seek it because in this self-forgetting gazing towards the light of God in Christ we learn how to look at one another and at the whole of God’s creation’.

 

Dr Rowan Williams address,
Rome, October 2012
www.archbishopofcanterbury.org/articles

Silence should teach you how to love. It is the road to communion as well as its fruit. By it you will learn how to agree with your brothers and sisters and find satisfactory balance between a life henceforth hidden with Christ in God, yet shared as the first way of expressing your mutual love…silence will teach you to build up the inner self which must each day be renewed in the image of its Creator. When you are troubled, tempted or tired, silence will set things right. It will teach you self-control, restraint, self-mastery….….in the crucible of silence you will learn holiness, since silence is the door to humility, contemplation and mercy. By leading you to self-forgetfulness, silence will allow you to discover God, and in the heart of God you will rediscover the world by God’s light.

 

Rule of Life, 33, 36 and 37, Communities of Jerusalem
www.jerusalem.cef.fr

 

   Contemplative School of the Heart Printable leaflet

 

 

 12th January

Exploring Psyche and Eros in the Christian Contemplative Tradition

Allyson Davies, Spiritual director

 

 Starting Friday
 18th January

Art and Contemplation (10.30am - 4.30pm)

Imagination And Creative Vision - A Drawing And Painting Course
with Clare Barton Harvey, Julienne McLean and Judy Barber

Four day workshops on Fridays:
January 18th, February 22nd, March 22nd, April 12th

 

 23rd February

The Flowering of Mysticism and Charity in 17th Century France

Brother Patrick Moore, Sarum College,Salisbury

 

 7th-10th March

Caverns of the Heart Retreat
At the House of Prayer, East Molesey

Julienne McLean, and Viv Stacey

 

 23rd March

Quiet Day (10 – 3pm)

With reflections from the French Saints

 

 18th-24th April

 

Abiding in the Radiance of the Heart
at the Centre for World Peace and Health
Holy Island, Scotland

Julienne McLean, Viv Stacey, Judy Barber, Rev Michael Gartland

 

 Starting
 4th May

Movements in the Soul Towards Union

Day workshops at the House of Prayer, East Molesey on May 4th, June 15th, July 13th, September 21st, October 12th, November 16th

Julienne McLean and Viv Stacey

 

 10th-18th May

Windows Into the Heart

A sacred space of threshold and creativity in the Tea Factory
104 Endwell Road, London, SE4 2LX (see below)
from 12 - 6pm
Friday 10th May to Saturday 18th May, 2013

The Tea Factory is near Brockley Station (see Directions to the Tea Factory). Train services to Brockley are excellent and frequent and most of the streets surrounding the Tea Factory are car parking friendly.

 

 11th May

The Song of Songs - God's Passionate Love

At the Tea Factory, 104 Endwell Road, London, SE4
11am-4pm

Rev. Graeme Watson , Anglican Priest, author

 

 25th May
 10am-4pm

Interfaith Forum

A Sufi Scholar reading Thomas Merton
Dr Sara Sviri
, Sufi Scholar, Israel

 

 17th-23rd June

Art and Contemplation

Contemplative Art Exhibition
House of Prayer, East Molesey.

Julienne McLean, Viv Stacey, Judy Barber,
Sister Melanie, Helen Overell

   Printable leaflet

 

 1st-9th July

Spanish School of Spirituality Study Retreat
CITES Retreat Centre, Avila, Spain

Dr Peter Tyler, Julienne McLean, Viv Stacey, Father Michael Kirwan,

 

 Wednesday
 3rd July
 6.30-8.30pm

Book Launch: Towards Mystical Union
by Julienne McLean

At the London Centre for Spirituality

   Printable leaflet

 

 7th September
 10.30am-4pm

Contemplative School of the Heart
Retreat Day

 

 Starting Friday
 13th September

Art and Contemplation (10.30am - 4.30pm)

Imagination And Creative Vision - A Drawing And Painting Course
with Clare Barton Harvey, Julienne McLean and Judy Barber

Four day workshops on Fridays:
September 13th, October 18th, November 15th, December 13th

 

 14th September
 10am-3.30pm

The Body at Ceaseless Prayer -
Real Union with Christ according to St Maximus the Confessor and St Gregory Palamas

Father Maximus Lavriotes

 

 5th October
 10.30am-4pm

Contemplative School of the Heart
Retreat Day

 

 2nd November
 10.30am-4pm

Contemplative School of the Heart
Retreat Day

 

 7th December
 10.30am-4pm

Contemplative School of the Heart
Retreat Day

 

 

For more information, booking and directions to venue, please contact us.

The sessions begin with a period of silence at 10am and the talk at 10.15am. Donations are welcome.