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Dear Friends, Hello! I have always enjoyed reading the quarterly Newsletter of our community. I think we owe a great debt of gratitude to Margaret Comerford who has fulfilled the

At our recent UK Oblate Retreat at the Kairos Centre, we received four Novices, Jan Bundy, Sharon, Moira Whelan, and Anne Jaxa Chemiec as full oblates and welcomed Robert Mc

The Voice of this Calling:Listening to the voice of our souls in a confusing world.Speaker: Bridget HewittFriday 20th Sept. – Sunday 22nd Sept. 2024At the Ammerdown Centre A Transformative Experience:

Sally Walters, Contact for Nailsea Meditation Group Team writes: I feel ‘full to the brim’, overflowing with thankfulness for our pilgrimage. Our Bishop and missional priest for youth and young

Lucy Blows became curate in the Benefice of Pill, Easton in Gordano and Portbury a year ago. She has set up a new meditation community starting with a 6-week Introductory

May I share my experience of plucking up courage to introduce meditation in my local Anglican church. To start a regular meditation group in my village felt like a gift

The WCCM theme for 2025 is The Risk of Living Together. I thought to myself how appropriate a theme this is – given all the riots that have sadly erupted

It was an absolute privilege and delight to host Sarah Bachelard on her visit to the UK in the summer of 2024 and to spend time talking with her about

Here in the UK we are fortunate to have committed Special Interest Coordinators working to explore Outreach and highlighting the potential that is on our doorstep. Outreach to children, to

The experience of the ‘Pools of Grace’ Gathering at Minsteracres planted many important ideas concerning shared Meditatio/WCCM UK residential events in the future. It is very important to listen to

At the beginning of 2023 the UK leadership team started discussions on how the WCCM in the UK might look going forward. We wanted to address the many changes that

Readers may recall that a request for a new editor for the newsletter went out last year and I am happy to say that we now have one to take

‘Pools of Grace’ at Minsteracres Retreat Centre In early June, Dr Sarah Bachelard arrived from Australia to lead ‘Pools of Grace’ the ‘Gathering’ at Minsteracres. The weekend was enriched for

Caroline Price, who died in October 2023 at the age of 72, was a wonderful lady who is sorely missed by her friends in the Bristol/Bath meditation community and by

When my daughter asked me why I was going on a silent retreat as she gave me a lift to the station, my answer was ‘I don’t know’. I knew

Autumn in The School… Four-Day Silent Retreat: 19-22 November 2024 Designed as a ‘stepping-stone’ experience for those unsure of committing to our full Seven-Day Silent Retreat. Each of the two

We have always been here; a human being is God’s being, temporarily clothed in human attributes. In silent prayer, we journey through layers of experience—thinking, feeling, relating—until we reach our