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Aug
23
10:00 AM10:00
Victoria

‘The slow transforming power of Christian meditation.’ A Community Day, with AGM, facilitated by Clare Boyd-Macrae.

Saturday 23 August – ‘The slow transforming power of Christian meditation.’ A Community Day, with AGM, facilitated by Clare Boyd-Macrae. $20 donation.

St Peter’s Eastern Hill, cnr of Gisborne and Albert Streets, East Melbourne. 10am-3pm. Please bring some lunch to share.

Clare will be reflecting on her insights and the things she has learnt as a long-time meditator. A former nurse, Clare became a writer in the 1990s. She has had over 200 articles published in The Melbourne Age, and she had a monthly column with The Melbourne Anglican for many years. She has also had three book-length non-fiction collections published.

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Oct
4
10:00 AM10:00
Victoria

‘Meditation and caring for creation’. A quiet day facilitated by Richard Arnold.

Saturday 4 October – ‘Meditation and caring for creation’. A quiet day facilitated by Richard Arnold.

St Stephen’s and St Mary’s Anglican Church, 383 High Street Road, Mount Waverley. 10am-3pm. BYO lunch. $20 donation.

Richard will draw on his booklet ‘A Daily Thanksgiving Greeting to the Universe’ to reflect on creation as God’s project, how an understanding of being part of God’s Project might take root in our hearts and minds, and how an ever-deepening love for creation can awaken within us.

Richard is ordained in the Uniting Church as a Deacon and has been a meditator for many years. He holds a Certificate in Guiding Meditation in the Christian Tradition from ACU and is a Spiritual Director. Richard has a keen interest in caring for creation and currently convenes the Uniting Church Assembly’s “Net Zero Emissions Steering Group”. He is particularly interested in linking meditation and caring for creation.

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Nov
21
to Nov 26
National, Victoria

Advent six-day silent retreat: “And the song remains beautiful”: The HeartWork of Love in Turbulent Times - led by Dr Mark S. Burrows Ph.D.

Advent six-day silent retreat: 21-26 November - led by Dr Mark S. Burrows Ph.D.  Beginning Friday 21 November at 4pm, and finishing at 2pm on Wednesday 26 November. Cost TBA.

 Holy Cross Centre, 207 Serpells Road, Templestowe.

“And the song remains beautiful”: The HeartWork of Love in Turbulent Times

 This contemplative retreat, which Mark also led at Bonnevaux last year, draws on the witness of those who glimpse the “whole” in the tumble of this fragmented and broken world. We’ll explore what it means to risk living into wholeness amid the turmoil of our times. Our guides: Hildegard, Meister Eckhart, and Julian of Norwich from the Middle Ages; Rainer Maria Rilke, Hilde Domin, Rosemerry Trommer and others among the moderns.

 What joins such varied voices is their conviction that “when we awaken to the call of beauty, we become aware of new ways of being in the world,” as poet John O’Donohue once put it. Despite the turbulence in our world and the fragmentation in our lives, “the song remains. . .beautiful”, Rilke wrote. Discover what Rilke called the “heartwork” that grounds us in “the Whole”, in such unsettling times.

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May
31
10:00 AM10:00
Victoria

‘Learning to see – again, and again’. A community day facilitated by Dr Ros Harris

Saturday 31 May – ‘Learning to see – again, and again’. A community day facilitated by Dr Ros Harris.  

 St Peter’s Eastern Hill, cnr of Gisborne and Albert Streets, East Melbourne. 10am-3pm. Please bring some lunch to share. $20 donation.

 Last year, Ros spent six weeks on the road with her adult son, whose intellectual disability dictated much of where she could go and what she could do. Ros will reflect on this experience and invite us to join her in learning to see what is before us, right here and right now.  

Ros is long-time meditator who has for the past two years co-led the national WCCM online Essential Teaching Weekends. She hopes to complete her studies to be an accredited lay preacher in the Uniting Church this year.

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Nov
29
to Dec 1
Victoria

Advent Weekend Retreat

Friday 29 November-Sunday 1 December at Pallotti College, led by Penny Sturrock.

Penny has been meditating in the Christian tradition for nearly 30 years, and is an experienced retreat leader. She is also the National Co-ordinator of Meditation with Children, and a former WCCM international Co-ordinator of Meditation with Children and Young People. She is also the NSW Coordinator of the School of Meditation and a Benedictine Oblate with the WCCM. The theme for the retreat, as well as further details, will be confirmed later.

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Oct
5
10:00 AM10:00
Victoria

Quiet Day

A quiet day of silence, stillness and simplicity - a time for spiritual nourishment, growth and renewal - reflecting on John Main’s teachings ‘Transformed in Christ’ from Word Made Flesh. Pallotti College, Saturday

5 October, 10am-3.30pm. BYO Lunch.

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Aug
24
9:30 AM09:30
Victoria

Community Day with AGM

An introduction to Visio Divina with icons (Facilitator: Frank Daniels. Frank is an experienced retreat leader, Spiritual Director, and teacher at the Living Well Centre for Christian Spirituality.).

Saturday 24 August at St Peter’s Eastern Hill. BYO Lunch.

In Lectio Divina (literally divine reading), we are invited to “listen with the ear of the heart” to the words being read. In Visio Divina (literally ‘divine seeing’) we are invited to “see with the eyes of the heart” the image or icon before us. It follows a similar process to Lectio Divina of meditation, prayer and contemplation, while using a visual medium rather than text.

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May
25
10:00 AM10:00
Victoria

Community Day

Introduction to the sacred art of Lectio Divina (Facilitator: Roland Ashby).

Saturday 25 May at St Peter’s Eastern Hill, 15 Gisborne Street, East Melbourne. 10am-3pm. BYO Lunch.

Lectio Divina (literally divine or sacred reading) is an ancient Benedictine practice of reading and praying the Scriptures and other sacred texts by listening with the “ear of the heart” for the gentle stirrings of the Spirit, and for a life-giving or life-transforming word God is offering us for our life today.

Abbess Christine Valters Paintner, author of Lectio Divina – The Sacred Art, describes Lectio Divina as “being present to each moment in a heart- centred way. When we pray Lectio we see sacred text as God’s living words being spoken to our hearts in the moment. The practice allows us to encounter God in an active and intimate way. The invitation of Lectio Divina, therefore, is to cultivate a heart-centred intimacy with the sacred texts ...  Lectio asks us to listen, savour and respond – not simply understand their meaning.”

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Mar
16
10:00 AM10:00
Victoria

Quiet Day

An eco-spirituality meditation and mindfulness quiet day at Pallotti College, Millgrove, near Warburton, on Saturday 16 March, 10am-3.30pm.

To be facilitated by Roland Ashby.

BYO Lunch.

The focus is on contemplation in nature. The day starts at 10am and finishes at 3.30pm. The day consists of times for silent meditation, as well as the option to choose from several guided practices for contemplation in nature, including the Dadirri practice of deep listening, walking the labyrinth, contemplative walking and contemplative photography. 

Email Roland Ashby if you would like to attend: editor@thelivingwater.com.au

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Jun
17
10:00 AM10:00
Victoria

Regional and Melbourne Community Day

Yarraville: Pilgrim Uniting Church, Cnr of Bayview Rd and Montague St, Yarraville

Lilydale: St Patrick’s Community Centre Lilydale

Regional:

Sale: Delbridge Hall St Paul’s Cathedral Sale 149 Cunningham St, Sale

Bendigo: St Mary’s Anglican Church 154 High St, Bendigo

Details: 10am – 2pm

Bring own lunch, water bottle, cup. Coffee/ tea provided.

Suggested donation: $20

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Apr
15
10:00 AM10:00
Victoria

Community Day Walk

Royal Botanical Gardens, Visitors Centre

Enter through main gate

10am – 2.30pm (approx). Bring own lunch, water bottle, any medication, snacks, you may need. Walking shoes and appropriate clothing for a slow walk of 1.2 km approx.

Light folding chair. Wet weather cover if necessary.

Cost: $35.00 (Could be a little more, depending on numbers coming.)

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