Easter Triduum service times in Boarbank Chapel Maundy Thursday 7.15 am Morning Prayer 11.50 am Midday Prayer 5 pm Mass of the Lord’s Supper Watching until midnight, finishing with Night Prayer Good Friday 6.50 am Office of Readings, followed by Morning Prayer 11.50 am Midday Prayer 3 pm Celebration of the Lord’s Passion Holy …
The Sisters wish you all a blessed Triduum and a very Happy Eastertide. Read More »
Anyone interested in looking after people’s health is warmly invited to join in this webinar. The Heart of Good Health: Supporting the Whole Person in Local Communities A Webinar hosted by the Las Casas Institute, Blackfriars, Oxford Thursday April 3rd 18.30-19.45 As the personal, social and economic costs of current approaches to healthcare rise, …
Rather belatedly, here is some for our Patronal Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, 11th February. We celebrated in the usual way, anointing the sick during Mass, sharing a little pilgrimage to the Grotto and ending the day with Compline and a renewal of our Act of Consecration. This year, however, we had a special …
Thinking Faith Lent Retreat: Good Friday in Poetry and Art. Time out for working Catholics. Zoom sessions, on Friday, Saturday and Sunday evenings only. If you are interested, please email Sr Margaret on margaret@boarbankhall.org.uk.
The Sisters wish all their staff, residents, family and friends a very blessed Christmas and a very happy New Year. Christmas Service are as follows: Christmas Eve Evening Prayer 3.30 pm Office of Readings 6.00 pm Mass 9.30 pm Christmas Day Morning Prayer 7.15 am Mass 10.00 am …
Our guest tutors for the weekend were Alison Samuels, a highly experienced Classics tutor, and her husband Robert, who lectures in music for the Open University. Alison led us with great imagination, clarity and humour through the Latin grammar of well known hymns to Our Lady, and Bob provided a superb history of musical interpretations …
1600 years after he wrote it, St Augustine’s Confessions remains an intriguing and inspiring text. A book-length prayer, a spiritual autobiography, a reflection on his own epoch, a study of timeless themes of philosophy and theology, a commentary on Scripture – it is all of these things and more. Sr Margaret Atkins will lead us …
St Augustine’s Confessions – 18th-22nd August 2025 Read More »
The new programme of residentials at Boarbank is now available. Several of our popular events are repeated: Thinking Faith, Two Wings & Some Prayers, and Our Lady in Latin. Celebrating Creation will be similar to this year’s Care for Creation. New additions include Magnificat!, a follow-up to a Our Lady in Latin, a Crafts & …
Following our successful series of Zoom weekends ‘Your Planet and Your Parish’, we decided to hold a residential week for anyone interested in caring for God’s creation together as a Church. The week was based on the themes of the chapters of Laudato Si’, with sessions entitled Gospel, Roots, Connections, Dialogue and Spirituality. Sr Margaret …
Theme: St Paul Time out for working Catholics. The summer residential week will be open to Catholics in their 20s to 40s (ish) What is Thinking Faith? A week of prayer, study, conversation, walks and fun, with a focus on exploring the letters of St Paul. We are a group of professional Catholics …
