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When: Sunday 2nd June 2024 11.15 – 15.00   High quality flowers, shrubs will be on sale as well as a wide range of fiction and non-fiction books. All welcome! For further information please contact us

When: 25th May – 1st June 2024 Theme: Revisiting the Basics.   A week to explore how to live out Laudato Si’ fully in our personal lives and within the Church. All welcome.   To book or for further information please contact SR MARGARET

Theme: Why Leo? Time out for working Catholics.   Do you want a holiday? And a retreat? And stimulating conversation? And some fun? With only one week to spare? Thinking Faith offers a rich mix of social activity, prayer and...

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...

Content A week to explore how to care for creation joyfully in our personal lives and within the Church. We will be using Pope Benedict’s book In the Beginning as a starting point for talks and discussions.      There will...

Event facilitators: Eleanor Petch, a regular visitor to Boarbank and amateur sewer, and Sr Margaret Atkins, of the Boarbank Community.   Content: Bring your own handcraft or art projects to work on together in the beautiful surroundings of Boarbank Hall...

Content We have a lot of visitors to the Guest House who are interested in sharing our life of prayer, and also in birdwatching.  Quite a few are just starting to be interested in birds and would like to find...

Thinking Faith Advent Retreat: Time out for working Catholics. Zoom sessions, on Friday, Saturday and Sunday evenings only. NEW DATES: 20th-22nd December 2024. If you are interested, please email Sr Margaret on margaret@boarbankhall.org.uk.

Our annual Thinking Faith residential week began on 27th July, on the theme ‘Exploring our Catholic Faith’. Sr Margaret and Fr Richard led most of the sessions, with some shared group explorations. We used two books as our starting-points: G.K....

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...

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.

In the light of exciting recent events, we have decided to update the them of our Thinking Faith week to ‘Why Leo?’ The week will explore the background of Pope Leo XIV and his choice of name. Topics will include...