Ampleforth Abbey Podcast
Join the monastic community of Ampleforth Abbey for Home Retreats that aim to provide reflection and insight from a home of prayer.
Ampleforth Abbey Podcast
Home Retreat: Fr Christopher - ' The Holiness of Falling in Love'
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'St Francis invites us to see nature as a magnificent book in which God speaks to us and grants to us a glimpse of his infinite beauty and goodness. Beyond the language of mathematics and biology he takes us to the heart of what it is to be human….. just as happens when we fall in love with someone.' - Laudato Si 12
Suggested Timetable: (But do make your own)
11.00 Talk –
11.30 Read through the talk again.
11.45 Coffee break
12.00 – 13.00 Remember a time you experienced ‘being in love’.
How would it be to be in love with the natural world, or even a small part of it?
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch break
14.00 – 16.00 Siesta/Leisure/Gardening
16.00 Tea break
16.15 – 18.00 Go through Ps. 103/4 and either imagine or find pictures to illustrate it.
18.00 Vespers Live stream from the Abbey
18.30 Supper break
20.15 Compline Live stream from the Abbey