Using Richard Carter’s new book The City is my Monastery: A contemporary rule of life, this year’s Lent Course at St Martin-in-the-Fields focuses on how we might deepen our lives of contemplation and action at the heart of the city. Charles de Foucault once famously remarked that if we need to go to the desert to find God, then everyone trying hard to survive in a bustling city would need to have a little strip of desert with them. We need he said ‘to create the desert in the heart of the city… contemplation in the streets that is our task.’ How can we become more attentive to the continuous presence of God and create the space to bring our lives before God? Over the seven weeks of Lent we will be exploring our own spiritual paths: the places of encounter, forgiveness, nurture, compassion, generosity and growing depth, and the challenging discovery of the Word made flesh in one another.
Each week will focus on a different chapter of Richard’s book:
- 26 February Ash Wednesday – With Silence
- 4 March – With Service
- 11 March – With Sacrament
- 18 March – With Scripture
- 25 March – With Sabbath
- 1 April – With Sharing
- 8 April – Staying With
‘This wonderful book is both recognizable and startlingly new. What we are given here is a workbook for living in and with meaning, Christian meaning, Jesus shaped meaning.’ Rowan Williams
Copies of The City is my Monastery (for those who do not have them) and Study Guides for the Lent course for everyone will be available from Sunday 16 February from the vergers vestry or collected after the Ash Wednesday Bread for the World at 6.30pm which this year will be the first week of our Lent Course.
The book is also available to purchase from St Martin’s Shop and the Online Shop.
‘The city is my monastery’ is an exhibition created by the artists and craftsperson’s group at St Martin-in-the-Fields that will be in the Foyer of the Crypt at St Martin's throughout Lent, from 26 February - 10 April.
St Martin-in-the-Fields is home to several commissions and permanent installations by contemporary artists. We also have an exciting programme of temporary exhibitions, as well as a group of artists and craftspeople from the St Martin’s community who show artwork and organise art projects on a temporary basis. One of the initiatives from this group is a changing display of work by the group members or artists linked to the group. Each month a different artist shows examples of their work, so, if you are able, do return to see the changing display.
For Lent 2020 the group have created to accompany the Lent Course at St Martin-in-the-Fields – ‘The Desert in the City.’ Using Revd Richard Carter’s new book ‘The City is my Monastery: A contemporary rule of life’ as its inspiration, this exhibition focuses on how we might deepen our lives of contemplation and action at the heart of the city. Through this exhibition the artists and craftspeople at St Martin’s are seeking to explore our own spiritual paths: the places of encounter, forgiveness, nurture, compassion, generosity and growing depth, and the challenging discovery of the Word made flesh in one another. The exhibition explores themes of: cities, monasteries, prayer, contemplation, community, silence, sacraments, study, sharing, service, steadfastness (staying with), and sabbath.
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Emmylou Harris - Darkest Hour Is Just Before The Storm.
Copies of The City is my Monastery (for those who do not have them) and Study Guides for the Lent course for everyone will be available from Sunday 16 February from the vergers vestry or collected after the Ash Wednesday Bread for the World at 6.30pm which this year will be the first week of our Lent Course.
The book is also available to purchase from St Martin’s Shop and the Online Shop.
‘The city is my monastery’ is an exhibition created by the artists and craftsperson’s group at St Martin-in-the-Fields that will be in the Foyer of the Crypt at St Martin's throughout Lent, from 26 February - 10 April.
St Martin-in-the-Fields is home to several commissions and permanent installations by contemporary artists. We also have an exciting programme of temporary exhibitions, as well as a group of artists and craftspeople from the St Martin’s community who show artwork and organise art projects on a temporary basis. One of the initiatives from this group is a changing display of work by the group members or artists linked to the group. Each month a different artist shows examples of their work, so, if you are able, do return to see the changing display.
For Lent 2020 the group have created to accompany the Lent Course at St Martin-in-the-Fields – ‘The Desert in the City.’ Using Revd Richard Carter’s new book ‘The City is my Monastery: A contemporary rule of life’ as its inspiration, this exhibition focuses on how we might deepen our lives of contemplation and action at the heart of the city. Through this exhibition the artists and craftspeople at St Martin’s are seeking to explore our own spiritual paths: the places of encounter, forgiveness, nurture, compassion, generosity and growing depth, and the challenging discovery of the Word made flesh in one another. The exhibition explores themes of: cities, monasteries, prayer, contemplation, community, silence, sacraments, study, sharing, service, steadfastness (staying with), and sabbath.
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Emmylou Harris - Darkest Hour Is Just Before The Storm.
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