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Laurence Freeman
December 28, 2025
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The Future of Religion - our 2026 theme
Remembrance of John Main: 30 December
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Remembrance of John Main
Our Remembrance of John Main will be transmitted from Bonnevaux on 30 December at 5.00pm CET
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December 25, 2025
The importance of preparation
We need therefore to insert a period of quietening down, to create a pocket of external silence, especially just before our period of meditation in the evening.
December 26, 2025
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Bonnevaux Retreat Programme
Our new programme features a variety of retreats – liturgical retreats to support your spiritual journey through prayer, worship, and reflection during Holy Week and Advent led by our spiritual guide Laurence Freeman OSB;  a Deep Silent Retreat to join with others to go to a deeper and simpler place in solitude; retreats for those who’ve just started their personal journey with meditation and retreats to deepen your meditation practice. We will also have a special retreat for the younger meditators which will be an opportunity to reflect on and deepen our self-care so that we can better care for others. Â
Join us in the peaceful and beautiful surroundings of Bonnevaux for a unique retreat experience to discover the transformative power of meditation and connect with a community of like-minded meditators.Â
Contemplative Eucharist
We offer a weekly live session of Contemplative Eucharist and meditation every Sunday at noontime (French time)
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Into the Mystics Part I now available on WCCM+
What do the mystics, those who made the pursuit of the presence of God central to their lives, have to say to us today? Many of the mystics lived centuries ago in ages and circumstances so far different from ours that it is hard for us to understand their problems and their answers. Even those who lived during the past century did not experience the dizzying developments we struggle with today (no internet? no devices? no constant electronic impingement on life?) How did they live?
We are growing as a community of meditators in more than 100 countries, committed to developing a contemplative Christian life for our time and to dialogue between religion, science, business and art, body and mind. At the heart of this community is the meeting of many weekly groups, both physically and online, which introduce the essential teaching of meditation and help to deepen the inner journey. Personal transformation leads then to social and global transformation.
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Returning to the Center: Contemplation and the Future of Religion
We are starting a series of conversations with meditators from our global community about the WCCM theme for 2026, The
Mass at Bonnevaux with Bishop Jérôme Beau
On the evening of Thursday 11 December, in the small chapel of Bonnevaux located by the river, we attended a
The Future of Religion
WCCM Theme for 2026 I believe that one of the most important question for our time is – what is