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Hilfield Friary Programme for Visitors
2011
Widening horizons and going deeper into faith and
action
18th - 21st November
Understanding Islam
with Chris Hewer. Dr hewer writes 'if you want to understand a faith
you need to see it through the eyes of those who follow it.'
This course covers: world-view, theology, practice, Muslims in Britain and relations with other faiths.
Accessible, informal with stimulating teaching and discussion.
26th November
A pre-Advent Quiet Day – preparing for
the season of Advent and getting ready to resist the Christmas rush! Led by a
brother. Tea and coffee provided; bring your own picnic lunch.
2 - 4th December
A Biblical Vision for the Environment led by
Margaret Barker. Until recently many held that the only important theme
of the Bible is the history of salvation - God's saving acts for his people,
culminating in his action to save us in jesus Christ, and that the scriptures
have little of substance to say about creation. Margaret Barker is one of those
who now see it quite differently - that the Bible gives us a way of looking at
creation which is of huge importance as we face the approaching environmental
crisis of our time. In this weekend at Hilfield Friary, itself a place where
ecology and theology come together, Margaret Barker will share some of the
insights she has written about in her book, 'Creation - A Biblical Vision for
the Environment' and will be helping us to
think what this means for our being Christians in the world today. Margaret Barker is
both a scholar and a great communicator. This is a weekend not to be
missed.
Hilfield Friary Programme for Visitors
2012
Dorset's Environmental and Spiritual
Olympics
3 - Sunday
5 February 2012
Folk Music Weekend - A Sense of Time and
Place - with Alan and Gill McIntosh.
A weekend of traditional and
contemporary folk music, focusing on people and places, now and in the past.
Come and join in, perform or just listen. Suggested donation for full board
£95.
Saturday 11 February
Our Daily Bread
led by Br Samuel.
In a world where millions go hungry because of an
insufficient diet and an almost equal number are struggling to cope with obesity
we urgently need to recognise some of the issues involved. This day wil explore
our relationship with food - where it comes from, how it is produced, how we can
feed a world population of more than seven billion and how we can adjust our
patterns of growing, preparing and eating. 10am to 4pm. A lunch of bread and
soup will be provided. Suggested donation £10.
Saturday 18
February
‘Water Springs in the Wilderness’ a Pre-Lent Quiet Day.
Individual and church groups are welcome. 10am to 4pm. Bread and soup
provided. Suggested donation £10.
Saturday 25 February
Snowdrop Day with Br Vincent.
Spend time exploring the
beautiful grounds of Hilfield Friary. Bring a packed lunch. Donations to the
National Garden Scheme.
Friday 2 - Sunday 4 March
‘Lord behold our family here assembled’ - Community and
Interconnectedness in the prayers of R. L. Stevenson led by Canon
Stephen Batty.
Stevenson’s prayer book, composed in the South Pacific,
offers us a means to explore these themes. A genuine opening out to God’s grace
surfaces in these brief late writings. They have a good deal to teach us about
what it means to live and work together through the agency of God’s grace.
Suggested donation for full board £95.
Tuesday 27- Saturday 31
March
Young and Contemplative 2012.
A retreat for 18 to 30s
focused on the practice of silent prayer in the community, drawing on the
Franciscan contemplative way, Christian meditation, Taize chanting and the
mystical tradition. This will be an unusual chance for younger people to live
alongside one another for a short time in the context of a monastic rhythm and a
shared understanding of the importance of stillness and silence. Led by Philip
Seal and Community members. Suggested donation for full board £95. Bursaries
available.
Sunday 1 - Sunday 8 April
Holy Week and
Easter.
Join the Hilfield Community in following the Way of the
Cross from Palm Sunday until Easter Day. There will be reflections on the
Passion during the first four days of the week and then the liturgy of Triduum -
the three days from Maundy Thursday until Holy Saturday. The celebration of the
Resurrection begins before dawn on Easter Sunday with the kindling of the New
Fire in the Friary cemetery and continues with the vigil and Eucharist in St
Francis Chapel. You are invited to arrive on Saturday 31 March and to depart
after Sunday lunch on 8 April.
Tuesday 24 - Friday 27 April
‘Franciscan Basics’ led by Br John SSF and Br Samuel SSF.
An
introduction to the life and spirituality of St Francis of Assisi, exploring his
significance for us especially in holding together both contemplation and action
in today’s world. Suggested donation for full board £105.
Friday
27 - Sunday 29 April
Growth Rings led by Jason Morgan.
A
practical weekend learning to use a pole lathe using greenwood from our own
woodlands. You will have the opportunity to make something to take home.
Suggested donation for full board £95.
Tuesday 8 - Thursday 10
May
Mindfulness Retreat – run by Susan Howse.
Mindfulness is a
form of meditation that will enable you to cultivate awareness of the present
moment, rather than a tendency to dwell in the past or worry about the future,
whilst participating in Community, Ethos and Rhythm of daily life at Hilfield.
This retreat offers mindfulness practice through creativity, with space to play
and explore with various materials , allowing you to respond to the natural
environment through your senses. Suggested donation for full board
£95.
Friday 11 - Sunday 13 May
Circle Dancing weekend
- led by Miggy Scott. A weekend of sacred circle dancing for those with
some experience. Suggested donation for full board £105.
Saturday
12 and Sunday 13 May
Open Garden Days.
A chance to visit ‘The
Secret Garden’ with its speciast coecton of rhododendrons and camellias, to meet
with Br Vncent and have tea at the Friary Al proceeds go to the National Garden
Scheme and its charities.
Wednesday 16 May
Rogation
Day.
Beating the bounds of the Friary land and asking God’s
blessing on our land, our crops and our animals. At the same time we will be
marking Christian Aid Week, working for a more just system of farming and trade
for the world’s poor.
Saturday 19 May
‘Free to be true’
Contemplative Prayer Day – run by Maggie Hooper & Lin Burton.
A
day of meditation, time together and individual reflection. For anyone drawn to
finding the time to ‘just be’ in their busy lives and walk with Christ.
Suggested donation £25 to include soup and bread
lunch.
Friday 25 - Sunday 27 May
Kick Your Shoes Off -
An exploration of God’s creation led by Sir Ghillian Prance, Andy
Lester and Br Samuel.
Sir Ghillian is the current Chair of the Eden Project
and a world authority on the Amazon Rainforest. Andy Lester is the Conservation
Director of Arocha, the worldwide Christian environmental organisation with
which we at Hilfield are linked. This weekend is a chance to stop, reflect on
God and enjoy some of Dorset’s finest wildlife found within the grounds of the
Friary. Suggested donation for full board £95.
Saturday 2 June
Open Day at the Friary to celebrate World Environment Day.
Come
and visit the Friary, meet the Community and explore the beautiful grounds.
Enjoy our exhibition, talks and BBQ. 11am to 4pm, no need to
book.
Friday 22 - Sunday 24 June
into Practice with
Richard Thornbury and Br Giles SSF.
An exploration of how the way we grow
our vegetables, care for our animals and undertake our conservation work at
Hilfield Friary is an expression of our Franciscan spirituality. See the
practical steps we take in our relationship with creation, and reflect its
pertinence to our modern lives. Suggested donation for full board
£95.
Tuesday 10 - Friday 13 July
Hopeweavers Art and Craft
Retreat run by Jaqui Lea.
A reflective and creative retreat based
upon St Francis’ Canticle of the Creatures using a range of creative media
including: claywork, painting, weaving, collage, drawing and calligraphy.
Suggested donation for full board £105.
Friday 20 - Sunday 22
July
Walking and Prayer Weekend - led by Viv Stacey and Jonathan
Herbert. This weekend will consist of a mixture of walking, and group and
individual meditations. Participants should be fit enough to take part in a 6
mile walk to the coast via the ancient pilgrimage shrine of St Witte. We shall
be addressing the theme ‘pi grmage is extroverted mysticism and mysticism is
introverted pilgrimage’. Suggested donation for full board
£95.
Tuesday 24 - Sunday 29 July
A Working week for Young
People at the Friary.
Live alongside the Friary Community and share
in prayer and worship whilst enjoying different Friary tasks for which some
degree of physical robustness is necessary. There will be the chance to meet
Community members to discuss issues arising from the experience of being with
us. No cost as your work will be the donation for your
stay.
Sunday 29 July - Sunday 5 August
Hilfield Families
Camp.
A week sharing the life of the Friary with worship and
prayer, fun activities for all, reflection and discussion, and time just to sit
around with friends.
Sunday 12 - Sunday 19 August
Hilfield
Youth Camp.
A week based at the Friary for young people from aged
15 upwards. Both groups and individuals are welcome.
Tuesday 4 -
Thursday 6 September
‘What does it mean to be a Creature’ - Theology for
Young People led by Rev’d Dr Lincoln Harvey.
Theology is the joyful
task of discovering who God is and what he is up to. We will explore the basic
building blocks of Christian theology and seek to apply them to our day-to-day
living and our emerging future. For those aged 18 to 30. Suggested donation for
full board £60.
Friday 7 - Sunday 9 September
Shakespeare`s
King Lear and the Nature of Our Nature led by Dr Elizabeth Cook.
To
an exceptional degree this play tests what matters: who we are, what we can
endure, what our real needs are, and the extent and nature of our
responsibilities towards other members of the human family. We will see how
profoundly and subtly Shakespeare has anticipated the most urgent conversations
of our own time. Suggested donation for full board £95.
Saturday
15 September
The Hilfield Stigmata Festival.
The major
Franciscan festival which celebrates St Francis receiving the marks of the
crucified Lord. A midday Eucharist followed by an afternoon with the Hilfield
Friary Community and ending with tea and Evening Prayer.
Friday
21 - Sunday 23 September
The Cost of Creation - Explore our relationships
with land, place and other creatures with ecologist and Anglican priest
Canon John Rodwell. Sharing the Franciscan life and liturgy amongst the living
and dying of the Dorset countryside, we shall ponder together the price God paid
to make all things from the beginning, to make us new in Jesus Christ and the
price we must pay to do justice to his creative generosity. Suggested donation
for full board £95.
Friday 26 - Sunday 28 October
Making
Friends with Sister Death - led by Rev’d Jonathan Still.
Francis
related to each entity, animate and inanimate as Kin within the Kin(g)dom of
God, including the threatening and the fearful. He befriended the leper and
embraced opposites - Br Fire, but also Sister Cold. In our own time he can help
us to embrace that which we most fear, even Sister Death. On the way he leads us
into new relationship and personal integration, knowing, embracing and
overcoming our fear. Suggested donation for full board
£95.
Tuesday 27 - Friday 30 November
Crafts in
Advent with Monica Fowler and Suzi Herbert. Learn textile crafting and
Pergamano amongst other skills to create something special for Christmas.
Suggested
Donation for full board £105.
Saturday 1 December
‘Watching and Waiting’ - A Pre –Advent Quiet Day. A day preparing
for the beginning of the Advent season led by a member of the Community.
Suggested donation £10.
We offer these events as residential or day courses with
all meals included. The Friary guest accommodation consists of single and
twin and one double room which are all well-appointed. Two of the rooms
which are on the ground floor are en-suite and are available for those with
particular needs.
During these weekends you are welcome to share in the regular Services in the
Community Chapel - although there is no requirement for you to do
so.
Please
contact the Guest Brother at the Friary for further information and
bookings:
Telephone 01300 341741
Email: hilfieldssf@franciscans.org.uk
Please also visit our website: www.hilfieldfriary.org.uk.