There are some stories that are heard and passed on superficially, without entering us and becoming part of our life and way of seeing everything.
This is true of the story we re-tell dramatically in Holy Week. Its mysterious presence touches and transforms us each time. This effect can happen to those who have faith in it and those who are encountering it like this for the first time. The meditation times of the retreat make the story and ritual more freshly powerful. This story of Jesus’s passion for life, truth, love reveals the connection between death and resurrection that transmits the gift of hope.
How to Create Your Own Retreat
This online retreat is designed to be flexible around your daily life and time zone. Please visit here where we provide support on creating a rhythm and structure to your retreat: how much silence you would like, meditation times, reading of sacred texts, practicing yoga and more, plus other suggestions to help you embody the retreat and stay off-line as much as possible.
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Schedule
| Palm Sunday, 29 March | |
| 11.15 | Procession with palms |
| 12.00 – 13.30 | Contemplative Eucharist |
| Monday to Wednesday, 30 March – 1 April | |
| 11.00 | Conference |
| 12.15 | Midday prayer and meditation |
| 16.30 | Satsang |
| 18.00 | Evening prayer and meditation (Contemplative Eucharist on Tuesday) |
| Holy Thursday, 2 April | |
| 11.00 | Session led by Fr. Laurence Freeman |
| 12.15 | Midday prayer and meditation |
| Good Friday, 3 April (Recorded Content Only) | |
| 12.15 | Midday meditation |
| 15.00 | Veneration of the Cross and meditation |
| Holy Saturday, 4 April – Day spent in silence and solitude | |
| 12.15 | Midday prayer and meditation |
| 22.00 | Lighting of the Easter Fire and Easter Vigil |
| Easter Sunday, 5 April | |
| 12.00 | Easter Sunday Eucharist |
Leader
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Laurence Freeman
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Director of WCCM. Benedictine Monk. Author of a number of books on Christian Meditation.Oxford University. Laurence Freeman OSB is an English Benedictine monk and Catholic priest. He is the director of the World Community for Christian Meditation (WCCM), prior of its Benedictine Oblate community and director of Bonnevaux, the international centre of the WCCM in France. Freeman’s work also involves encouraging the teaching of meditation to children and university students. In 2005 he founded the John Main Centre for Meditation and Inter-Religious Dialogue at Georgetown University
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Contribution
This event is held online. Registrations give 1 year access to recordings.
Contribution is £50 (concession price £40).
The prices reflect the need to achieve self sufficiency.
Therefore if you’re able to give a little more we would be very grateful.
Please, click here to donate.
We do not turn anybody away for lack of resource.
Please, click the email address <support@wccm.org> to contact us if you need further financial assistance to join this event.
This event is held online. Registrations give 1 year access to recordings.
Contribution is £25 (concession price £20).
The prices reflect the need to achieve self sufficiency.
Therefore if you’re able to give a little more we would be very grateful.
Please, click here to donate.
We do not turn anybody away for lack of resource.
Please, click the email address <support@wccm.org> to contact us if you need further financial assistance to join this event.
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Registration
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