This reflection and meditation will draw on the encounters of a week in the centre of a city. It will explore how contemplation makes us more attentive to all that is around us and opens up our hearts to the lives of others. Drawing on 18 years of ministry in a church with an open door on the edge of Trafalgar Square with people from all walks of life, Richard will tell the story of some of the people he has encountered. He will explore the meaning of what it means to be present to one’s neighbour and alongside them and Christ even in situations of struggle where there are no easy answers. He reflects on what it means to make a place and a space for God and for our neighbour and within ourselves for the encounters which form us and change us.Â
Leader
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Revd. Richard Carter
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Richard is Associate Vicar for Mission at St Martin-in-the-Fields in Trafalgar Square. His ministry includes working closely with those who are homeless, and refugees and pastoral care of the many people who come through the doors of the church on the edge of London’s most public square. He is the founder and leader of the Nazareth Community whose members gather from everyday life to seek God in contemplation and to learn to live generously and compassionately learning from the diversity of all those they welcome. He is the author of The City is My Monastery: A Contemporary Rule of Life and most recently Letters from Nazareth: A Contemplative Journey Home. Books by Richard Carter: In Search of the Lost: The Death and Life of Seven Peacemakers of the Melanesian Brotherhood (Canterbury Press 2006). The City is My Monastery: A Contemporary Rule of Life (Canterbury Press 2019). Letters from Nazareth: A Contemplative Journey Home (Canterbury Press 2023). And Editor of: Who is My Neighbour? The Global and Personal Challenge, SPCK, 2018. For more information about the Nazareth Community See: www.nazareth.community
Register for the Full Series
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Register for full series (get 8 talks for the price of 7)
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Opportunity to meditate at the start of each session
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Time to interact with the speakers
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Unlimited access to recordings (single sessions registrations give 1 year access)
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Registration form at bottom of page
Q&A with the Speakers
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Meditate Together
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