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 …
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. Chesterton’s Orthodoxy and Richard Conrad OP’s The Catholic Faith. Themes included God & Creation, Sin …
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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.
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 be opportunity to: * Join Mass and sung Prayer of the Church with the Community …
Celebrating Creation – 27th-31st May 2025; 4th-10th October 2025 Read More »
It has been a busy few months since our last web news! As usual we have had the delight of welcoming lots of guests to the Community. These have included: a group of young French volunteers who help the work of the Sisters in Thibermont, along with Sister Jean Thérèse ; John and Gaby for …
