Category Archives: The Living Well

Navigating Trauma – Recovering Hope

A 6-week course led by assistant chaplains,Hilary Hills and Rex MortonOn Tuesdays 31st Oct, 7th, 14th, 21st, 28th Nov and 5th Dec 2023, 1.30-3.30pm Please book via the administrator Suggested donation £35 for the 6 sessions The topics covered include:• What is a wound of the heart? – including grief and loss• What can help our… Read More »

Programme 2024

Our new programme for 2024 is now ready to download.  Whether you are visiting us for a deeper healing day, a themed quiet day, a resourcement day for clergy, readers or Anna Chaplains, a course, an individual or group day at the house, a prayer appointment or our weekly healing service (also streamed on Zoom… Read More »

Living Well Farewell

For a little while now I have felt God calling me in a different direction. I have sensed an invitation to focus and concentrate on Ignatian Spirituality. It was through the Ignatian Spiritual Exercises that I discerned my calling to the priesthood, some 30 years ago and remains at the core of my spiritual life.… Read More »

I have a hut in a wood

Dear friends, Pictured here is “The Hut” – amongst its companion cabins, Kairos, Trinity and Julian, now is always the moment to reach out, set aside, pray and find God. We look forward to seeing you over the summer and I hope you will enjoy these two old prayers – or are they prose? Every… Read More »

Waiting

So the Lord must wait for you to come to him    so he can show you his love and compassion.For the Lord is a faithful God.    Blessed are those who wait for his help.Isaiah 30:18 Sometimes it feels like it is all a waiting game in this life – waiting for things to improve, waiting for dreams to come true, waiting… Read More »

Easter Thoughts April 2023

This image is called Forgiven by artist Thomas Blackshear. It has been on my mind recently. Such a fabulous image of being rescued, salvaged – even from ourselves – note the hammer and nails that previously harmed and persecuted the very One who is now rescuing…. I was having a conversation this week with one… Read More »

Returning with the Snowdrops…. February 2023

It is always a pleasure to see the first snowdrops of Spring and to capture within your heart the purity, light and hope they yield in the midst of the dark, frosty cold of winter – minus 5 this morning! No wonder they are the simple flower linked with Candlemas. Celebrated on Thursday 2nd February,… Read More »

Christmas 2022

Dear All, The poet Gerard Manley Hopkins wrote that all things are charged with God, which gives off sparks that speak of Him. If only we knew how to touch them. Jesus knew the power of that touch and used it to heal so many. This Advent may we be connected to His coming with… Read More »