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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
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 out more. So we are offering a few days to combine the two. Open to …
