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We have many amazing weekend retreats, quiet Saturdays and special opportunities coming up!  

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Compassionate Chair Yoga

Monthly -

Alternate Tuesdays

This month:

Come for gentle Chair Yoga at 10:30 am, with:

Led by Barb Rosen , a certified Kripalu (Compassionate) Yoga teacher.

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Quiet Saturday

The Soil of Your Soul

Saturday, October 26

Anyone who has ever turned a shovel, planted a flower or vegetable, weeded a garden, or watered a wilting house plant knows that growing anything is part hard work, part nature, and a lot of hope and mystery.

During this quiet day you are invited to explore the soil of your soul. Where in your life are there rocky patches? Where are thorns threatening to overgrow what is good in your life? Where is your fallow ground, your quiet place? Do you believe that you are indeed good soil?

Explore these and other themes in this parable as we consider how God generously sows in our lives and our openness to receiving - or not – all that is offered.

Led by The Rev. Samantha Caravan , incumbent of All Saints Anglican Church, Peterborough

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Weekend Retreat

The Book of Esther

November 1 - 3

The book of Esther is a beautifully written story named after Esther, the young Jewish Queen who risked her life to save Jews from the decree of death orchesrated by the Hitler-like, anti-Semite Haman.

In spite of the book’s lack of religious language, it speaks powerfully into our modern context. We recognize similarities between our broken world and Esther’s world that is ruled by an impulsive,

egocentric tyrant, where God seems hidden, and God’s people are sidelined.

We will read this dramatic and inspiring book

together and explore its historical background, consider how our Christian forebears found food for the soul in Esther, and unpack its life-giving meaning for our lives as individuals and as the church today.

Led by Professor Marion Taylor , a Professor of Old Testament at Wycliffe College. She has published the award-winning Handbook of Women Biblical Interpreters and a number of other books that feature the writings of forgotten women interpreters of Scripture.

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Silent Directed Retreat

Tues November 12 to

Thurs November 14

Our God of love so desires to meet with you in the quiet of your heart. Carve out time to come aside and be still, to let your soul settle into the quiet of our Guest House, to be intimately present to yourself and to God.

A trained spiritual guide will meet with you twice during the silence and solitude of your retreat to help you listen for the movement of God in your prayer and life journey. Your spiritual guide can introduce you to ways of prayer and suggest scriptural or other prayer content, and you are welcome to bring your contemplative crafts and journal.

We will meet as a group at 6:45 pm on Tuesday evening to open the retreat and again at 3:30 pm on Thursday for a short closing prayer service.

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Quiet Saturday

Great Women of the New Testament

Saturday November 16

Josephine will lead you through a reflection on some of the women of the New Testament– Mary and Martha, the Woman at The Well, and Mary and Elizabeth – using Lectio Divina and Visio Divina.

Led by Dr. Josephine Lombardi, Associate Professor of Pastoral and Systematic Theology, Professor of Field Education, and Director of Lay Formation for St. Augustine’s Seminary in Scarborough, Ontario.

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