Stoke Poges Programme


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Stoke Poges Quiet Garden
Stoke Park Farm, Park Road, 
Stoke Poges, SL2 4PG
01753 644273
quiet.garden@ukonline.co.uk

Summer 2009

garden.jpg (6632 bytes)The Quiet Garden is open from 9.45 am to 3 pm for you to enjoy a day of reflection. The pattern of the day alternates between more formal input one week and a reflective morning the next.

You may like to read, walk in the garden, or visit the nearby church of St Giles where Thomas Gray wrote his famous Elegy. You are welcome to stay for the whole day. Hot drinks are available but do remember to bring lunch. For those who are able to make a donation, £5 per visit is very welcome.

Led Mornings and Quiet Afternoons
On these days we are guided by an invited speaker. The sessions begin in the Long Room promptly at 10 am and end at 12.30 pm. Then you are most welcome to stay on for the rest of the day.

Exploring Prayer Together
These guided sessions explore different ways of deepening our experience of prayer and meeting with God in the silence. Starting promptly at 10.00 am we end at 12.00 noon - again, you are welcome to stay on for the rest of the day.

Theme for this term: Listening through our Senses

God speaks to us in many ways through word and sacrament, through people and through our senses.  As we come together to share the silence we will take time in each session to listen through a different sense.
Each session, though linked to the theme, is complete in itself. See below for details.

 

7 May  10am-12.30pm

Seeking the Intimacy We Need  
This meeting will offer various aspects of prayer to find greater intimacy with God, based on suggestions from Richard Foster in his book Prayer.

 The Revd Tim Stacey, Rector of Chalfont St Giles

14 May
10am-12 noon

 Listening through our Senses 
Touched by His Love
God longs to reach out and touch us.

21 May
10am-12.30pm

 Prayer When the Well Runs Dry
We all know times when the living water within us seems to dry up.  What shall we do then?		 The Rt Revd John Pritchard, Bishop of Oxford

28 May 

Spring Bank Holiday Week - No Meeting 
4 June
10am-12 noon		 Listening through our Senses
Seeing through the Eyes of the Heart
‘Seeing we do not see’  -  sometimes we miss the obvious  -  allowing God to speak to us through the world around us.

11 June
10am-12.30pm

Three Stones
Creation, worship, redemption.

 The Revd Chris Mattock, Minister to Datchet Baptist Church, spiritual director and hospital chaplain
18 June
10am-12 noon		 Listening through our Senses
Hearing we do not hear
Sometimes we need to listen more deeply to the sounds around us in order to hear what God is saying.
25 June
10am-12.30pm		 The Love of God Compels Us
A brief walk with the Apostle Peter through St John’s Gospel  -  a journey of transformation.		 The Revd Mark Griffiths, Assistant Curate at St Giles and St Andrew’s, Stoke Poges
2 July
10am-12noon		 Listening through our Senses
Scatter the Fragrance
Perfumes often evoke memories, some pleasant, some less so.  This session we shall focus on our sense of smell.
9 July
10am-12.30pm		 Be Still and Know that I am God
Practising the presence and absence of God

We shall end with a Eucharist at 12 noon 
at which all are welcome.

The R Revd Edward Holland, former Chair of Trustees of The Quiet Garden Trust

 

Please note: after 9 July there will be a new pattern.  The Quiet Garden will be available on request from individuals and groups.  There will no longer be a formal programme.

 

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