Advent Retreat at the Royal Foundation of St Katharine
6 December @ 10:00 - 7 December @ 16:00
The Christian year begins not with the great feasts of Christmas, Easter or Pentecost but with waiting. Advent is in many ways a stark season – a time to be in touch with our deepest desires and needs. It is a season of longing directed towards Christ, revealed as God-with-us, Emmanuel. Advent is a season of waiting, but in hope and in expectation.
Christopher Chapman is an experienced retreat leader and spiritual director. is an experienced retreat leader and spiritual director. He is a guest director at St. Beuno’s Jesuit Retreat Centre and an associate tutor at St. Augustine’s College of Theology. He is the author of Seeing in the Dark, Earthed in God and Send My Roots Rain. Christopher is a guest director at St. Beuno’s Jesuit Spirituality Centre and an associate tutor at St. Augustine’s College of Theology.“Be still and know.”
This retreat is about helping you to more habitually find a place of calm within you that has you able to be less reactive and more aware of your choices in life. Run over 2 days for small groups of up to 8 people and facilitated by 2 experienced coaches, it will give you the opportunity to find real space in your life, to reconnect to what really matters to you and equip you with simple everyday practices that help you strengthen and maintain an inner peace and stillness in the face of whatever life throws at you.