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 St Augustine’s Rule, the Augustinian Friars, missionary life in Peru, Pope Leo the Great, Pope …
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.
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 …
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 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 …
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 – sewing, knitting, drawing, or whatever. We can also provide some materials if you want …
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 …
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 …
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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 discussion, hosted in our comfortable Guest House and beautiful grounds, on the doorstep of the …
