Dayspring Events
Quiet Day- Non Member
Each Quiet Day will open with Dayspring Community Prayers from our Prayer Book. Some readings and activities are suggested but for most or all of the retreat participants are welcome to follow their own program if desired. You are invited to Eucharist at 12.30pm followed by a BYO lunch.
This event is free if you are a member of Dayspring, all you need do is email us at info@dayspring.org.au to register.
Held on the 2nd Tuesday of the month (during school terms) at Nathaniel's Rest, Mundaring
9.30am-12.30pm
Care of the Soul 101
These sessions are intended as an introduction to or refresher in the contemplative skills that we need for a rich and rewarding contemplative life in God and with each other. They will be co-facilitated by Ruth Vertigan and John Clapton and conducted at the Star Street Uniting Church in Carlisle, where Ruth is the Minister.
Our first session will introduce you to the practice called Lectio Divina, or sacred reading, and the practice of Journalling. Future sessions will look at Silent Meditation, Contemplating Creation, Praying with Icons, walking the Labyrinth and using Prayer Beads.
Sessions are from 9.30am -12.30pm
This event is free if you are a member of Dayspring, all you need do is email us at info@dayspring.org.au to register.
New Norcia Springtime Retreat 2022
Retreat led by John Auer
2nd -4th September 2022
New Norcia
(Please contact us if you have any queries about accommodation or travel)
An Invitation:
Flame-dancing Spirit, come,
sweep us off our feet and dance us through our days.
Surprise us with your rhythms, dare us to try new steps,
explore new patterns, new partnerships.
Release us from old routines,
to swing with abandoned joy and fearful adventure.
And in the intervals, rest us in your still centre. ~ Ann Lewin
The theme for our weekend is exploration – an invitation to become more open and aware of the Creator’s loving presence in the world around us and within us.
What better season than Springtime – a time of new life, of exuberant growth and transformative opportunities – as we are embraced and held in the warm, wonderful
and peace-filled space of the monastery.
I invite you to come alive to what resonates in your heart as you engage with the beautiful garden that is New Norcia in and through the wisdom of our Christian contemplative tradition.
God’s Word is in all creation, visible and invisible.
The Word is living, being, spirit, all verdant greening, all creativity.
The Word manifests every creature.
Now this is how the spirit is in the flesh – the Word is indivisible from God.
~ Hildegard of Bingen
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