Please save the dates for the six-part ASE series called “Living from the Inside Out: Mystics as Models”. The series begins on April 12 at 9:30 in the Community Room and is on second and fourth Sundays as follows: 4/12, 4/26, 5/10, 5/23 or 24 (Spring Retreat weekend), 6/14 & 6/28. Join us as we explore those with inspiration direct from the source they define and see how we can look at these models for inspiration in our own lives. Childcare will be provided upstairs in the nursery.
Are you being led to set aside a time of retreat in the new year?
Catherine Cox (RFM Fall Retreat leader) and Rita Willett will be leading a small Quaker contemplative retreat at Holy Cross Abbey in Berryville VA on February 7 to 9.
This retreat is a program of the School of the Spirit Ministry. Information and registration at http://www.schoolofthespirit.org/virginia-retreat/
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Quakers and non-Quakers are welcome – feel free to pass this information along or come with a friend.
The brochure and flyer are attached.
Note: This contemplative retreat was inadvertently scheduled the same weekend as BYM Women’s Retreat – some Friends are already committed that weekend.
If you are not attending the BYM retreat, consider this opportunity to enjoy a quiet weekend of reflection in the Abbey’s retreat house.
Join us on March 10, at 9:30 am, when we will share poems and hot chocolate together. ASE will supply the hot chocolate and you will bring a poems to share.
The Adult Spiritual Education committee will host a one-hour Bible Workbench on Sunday, March 3, starting at 9:30 a.m. in the Community Room. We will discuss Luke 9: 28-36, 37-43: times of preparation, confirmation, commitment and (again) confirmation. Liminal spaces. Here is a question from the materials we use (from The Education Center’s “Reading Between the Lines”): “What is it to be weighed down with sleep, but still awake? What things might one see, hear, say or do in this state that one might not when fully awake?” Depending on the context, what are both the costs and/or the gifts of being in this state? You don’t have to read the scripture in advance in order to participate.
Please join us on Sunday morning, February 24th at 9:30 for the next ASE session focused on writing: The Body and the Lyric.How does reading a poem out loud deepen and extend our understanding of it? What happens if we “speak” the poem as if we had “written” it–or as if it were something inside of us that we’re discovering consciously by speaking it out loud? What are the differences–and similarities–between an “author” and a “speaker?” Facilitated by Leslie Shiel, we’ll hear, read, speak, and discuss several poems published by a variety of poets.
