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Love in the Time of War

Laurence Freeman

Leader

Laurence Freeman

Laurence Freeman is a monk of the Benedictine Congregation of Monte Oliveto. He is the Director of Bonnevaux and of The World Community for Christian Meditation.

Other Leaders

Sarah Bachelard
Sarah Bachelard

Revd Dr Sarah Bachelard is a theologian and leads the Benedictus Contemplative Church in Canberra, Australia. She studied theology at Oxford with Rowan Williams. She is a leading teacher with the WCCM and gave the John Main Seminar in 2019, A Contemplative Christianity for Our Time (2020, Medio media) which is the title of her most recent book.

Herman van Rompuy
Herman van Rompuy

Herman van Rompuy is een Belgisch politicus die premier van België was en later de eerste permanente voorzitter van de Europese Raad, van 2009 tot 2014. Hij wordt erkend als een wijs en ervaren staatsman van formaat. Hij draagt ook bij vanuit zijn contemplatieve ervaring in regelmatige gesprekken met zijn mede-mediteerders in de WCCM. Vanuit zijn contemplatieve ervaring draagt hij bij aan regelmatige gesprekken met zijn WCCM-mede-mediteerders.

Fr. Anastasiy Danylevsky
Fr. Anastasiy Danylevsky

Fr. Anastasiy has served the WCCM community for many years as an oblate and leader of the Kherson meditation group. Father Anastasiy spent several months under Russian occupation, experienced a dangerous journey to the territory controlled by Ukraine, and during this time had gained a deep spiritual experience. At this meeting he will share his reflections which were born during the last meetings of the meditative group in the Ukrainian city of Kherson, already occupied then by the Russian army.

Maria & Albert Zakharovy
Maria & Albert Zakharovy

Maria and Albert are National Coordinators in Ukraine and WCCM Oblates. They are responsible for developing the Ukrainian WCCM communities over the past 10 years. Both are focused on mystical contemplative Christian tradition and interfaith theology. They make a living working in the field of graphic design and enjoy making contemplative electronic music as a hobby. Before the Russia attack on Ukraine, for many years they tried to establish friendly relations between the spiritual seekers of both countries with the help of meditation.

A day of meditative dialogue about love, war and meditation

Date

Nov 09 2024

Time

CET
9:30 am - 5:00 pm

Location

Online

Conducted via Zoom or live-stream.

Category

This special event will explore how, even whilst living in the epicenter of the violence of war, the practice of meditation can support both our mental and spiritual health, and help us not to lose the inner light of humanity within us. We find we are able to experience a radical spiritual transformation during the most difficult times we face.

The speakers at the meeting will be meditators from Ukraine who have come to visit Bonnevaux to share their unique experience of meditation during the war.

This international dialogue will encompass those issues and values that are universal to all of humanity.

The Ukrainian community will be represented by Orthodox priest Fr. Anastasii Danilevsky, who survived the Russian occupation as a refugee, and Irina Kokovska, a young meditator from Lviv.

The meeting will also be joined online by Revd Dr Sarah Bachelard (Anglican priest and theologian),  Herman Van Rompuy (President Emeritus of the European Council) and Maria and Albert Zakharovy (WCCM National Coordinators, Ukraine).

Schedule (CET- France)

Saturday, 9 November
09:30 – 09:45Opening words by Maria and Albert Zakharovy
09:45 – 10:00Film about Younger Meditators from Ukraine about their experience (10 min)
10:00 – 10:30Fr. Anastasiy “Creation, the Flood and the rainbow of unity” (1. Personal experience)
10:35 – 11:05Laurence Freeman talk
11:05 – 11:35Sarah Bachelard talk
11:35 – 12:00Meditation
12:00 – 12:30Open space for Q&A, extra sharing and reflections
 Lunch pause
14:00 – 14:30Talk led by Herman Van Rompuy
14:35 – 14:50Meditation led by Irina Kokovska
14:55 – 15:25Fr. Anastasiy “Creation, the Flood and the rainbow of unity” (2. Divine-Human experience)
15:30 – 15:55Albert and Maria – presentation of the forthcoming book “War & Inner Peace”
16:00 – 16:30Open space for Q&A, extra sharing and reflections by Anelya Buss
16:30 – 17:00Final words and closing by Laurence Freeman

Please go to www.worldtimebuddy.com to work out the time in your country. 

Laurence Freeman

Leader

Laurence Freeman

Laurence Freeman is a monk of the Benedictine Congregation of Monte Oliveto. He is the Director of Bonnevaux and of The World Community for Christian Meditation.

Other Leaders

Sarah Bachelard
Sarah Bachelard

Revd Dr Sarah Bachelard is a theologian and leads the Benedictus Contemplative Church in Canberra, Australia. She studied theology at Oxford with Rowan Williams. She is a leading teacher with the WCCM and gave the John Main Seminar in 2019, A Contemplative Christianity for Our Time (2020, Medio media) which is the title of her most recent book.

Herman van Rompuy
Herman van Rompuy

Herman van Rompuy is een Belgisch politicus die premier van België was en later de eerste permanente voorzitter van de Europese Raad, van 2009 tot 2014. Hij wordt erkend als een wijs en ervaren staatsman van formaat. Hij draagt ook bij vanuit zijn contemplatieve ervaring in regelmatige gesprekken met zijn mede-mediteerders in de WCCM. Vanuit zijn contemplatieve ervaring draagt hij bij aan regelmatige gesprekken met zijn WCCM-mede-mediteerders.

Fr. Anastasiy Danylevsky
Fr. Anastasiy Danylevsky

Fr. Anastasiy has served the WCCM community for many years as an oblate and leader of the Kherson meditation group. Father Anastasiy spent several months under Russian occupation, experienced a dangerous journey to the territory controlled by Ukraine, and during this time had gained a deep spiritual experience. At this meeting he will share his reflections which were born during the last meetings of the meditative group in the Ukrainian city of Kherson, already occupied then by the Russian army.

Maria & Albert Zakharovy
Maria & Albert Zakharovy

Maria and Albert are National Coordinators in Ukraine and WCCM Oblates. They are responsible for developing the Ukrainian WCCM communities over the past 10 years. Both are focused on mystical contemplative Christian tradition and interfaith theology. They make a living working in the field of graphic design and enjoy making contemplative electronic music as a hobby. Before the Russia attack on Ukraine, for many years they tried to establish friendly relations between the spiritual seekers of both countries with the help of meditation.

Register for the Online Retreat

Free
  • Opportunity to meditate
  • Unlimited access to recordings
  • Registration form at bottom of page

This retreat is offered by WCCM for free and requires a registration. We would appreciate any donation.  

Image by Albert and Maria Zakharov

Laurence Freeman

Leader

Laurence Freeman

Laurence Freeman is a monk of the Benedictine Congregation of Monte Oliveto. He is the Director of Bonnevaux and of The World Community for Christian Meditation.

Other Leaders

Sarah Bachelard
Sarah Bachelard

Revd Dr Sarah Bachelard is a theologian and leads the Benedictus Contemplative Church in Canberra, Australia. She studied theology at Oxford with Rowan Williams. She is a leading teacher with the WCCM and gave the John Main Seminar in 2019, A Contemplative Christianity for Our Time (2020, Medio media) which is the title of her most recent book.

Herman van Rompuy
Herman van Rompuy

Herman van Rompuy is een Belgisch politicus die premier van België was en later de eerste permanente voorzitter van de Europese Raad, van 2009 tot 2014. Hij wordt erkend als een wijs en ervaren staatsman van formaat. Hij draagt ook bij vanuit zijn contemplatieve ervaring in regelmatige gesprekken met zijn mede-mediteerders in de WCCM. Vanuit zijn contemplatieve ervaring draagt hij bij aan regelmatige gesprekken met zijn WCCM-mede-mediteerders.

Fr. Anastasiy Danylevsky
Fr. Anastasiy Danylevsky

Fr. Anastasiy has served the WCCM community for many years as an oblate and leader of the Kherson meditation group. Father Anastasiy spent several months under Russian occupation, experienced a dangerous journey to the territory controlled by Ukraine, and during this time had gained a deep spiritual experience. At this meeting he will share his reflections which were born during the last meetings of the meditative group in the Ukrainian city of Kherson, already occupied then by the Russian army.

Maria & Albert Zakharovy
Maria & Albert Zakharovy

Maria and Albert are National Coordinators in Ukraine and WCCM Oblates. They are responsible for developing the Ukrainian WCCM communities over the past 10 years. Both are focused on mystical contemplative Christian tradition and interfaith theology. They make a living working in the field of graphic design and enjoy making contemplative electronic music as a hobby. Before the Russia attack on Ukraine, for many years they tried to establish friendly relations between the spiritual seekers of both countries with the help of meditation.

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