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News and events ...

Changes to times of services

Sunday 11th July Eucharist - Visit of the Benedictine Community at Broad Marston. The Eucharist will be at 11.30.

Coming Events ...

Associates Retreat

There will be a second retreat this year, conducted by our Warden the Revd Andrew Teal , to be held at Llangasty, Brecon on 14th - 18th July. This is already fully booked, but if you would like to be added to the waiting list, please refer to contact details on the retreat leaflet here: Retreat

 

Recent Events ...

June was a month when a lot happened! Sister Margaret Theresa attended the annual meeting for leaders of Anglican Religious Communities at Whitby. The conference programme included a visit to Rivievaulx and to the new Stanbrook Abbey at Wass.

Companions and Oblates

On 19th June a group of Companions came for a day of worship and conversation and the following week six Oblate sisters joined us to share our day-to-day life and have a chance to meet one another.

Open Garden

We were blessed with a warm sunny afternoon on which to invite our immediate neighbours, those who work for us, and some local friends to enjoy our garden. We hired a marquee in which to serve tea and cakes, and stocked stalls with handcrafts, plants, surplus books and bric-a-brac. Those visiting made donations to two local charities (Donnington Doorstep, a drop-in centre for children and their carers, and Maggie′s Centre, a resource at the Churchill Hospital for anyone affected by cancer) which came to over £550. Almost two hundred people came, the garden was looking its beautiful best, and everyone seemed to enjoy the event very much.

Photographs of Convent Garden

Local Scout Group Visit

On 24th April members of a local scout group visited the convent as part of their work towards their My Faith, World Faith and My Promise Badges. Sisters talked with them and answered questions. In chapel they saw Sister Barbara June wearing Eucharistic vestments; and Sister Eve showed them how we use incense.

Photograph of Scout Group Visit

 

Other news ...

SLG Press is delighted to have published another new title in June to add to its growing list of publications: Out of the Depths Encountering Depression by Gonville ffrench-Beytagh.

Also published in June was Augustine Baker Frontiers of the Spirit by Victor De Waal.

Other titles published this year are:

Learn to be at Peace: The Practice of Stillness by Andrew Norman, to be serialised by the Church Times in April and May;

From Holy Week to Easter: Following the God who is going before us by George Pattison;

Strength in Weakness: The Scandal of the Cross by John W Rogerson

and SLG Press has re-published one of its earliest short works, Aloneness Not Loneliness by Mother Mary Clare SLG.