Save The Date – Events for WCCM and Bonnevaux in 2023Ongoing
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January 2023
February 2023
Transformed by Silence – Intensive Silent Meditation Retreat
This retreat gently and silently leads us into the experience of metanoia, a deep and lasting conversion of heart that arises out of the practice of meditation and learning to be at ease with silence. ...
Deepen your roots – plant trees and meditate at Bonnevaux
Come and spend a week in nature with us on the beautiful grounds of Bonnevaux. ...
Renewal and Recommitment: Ash Wednesday Contemplative Mass from Bonnevaux
Join the Bonnevaux community and meditators from around the world as we enter the mystery of Lent. Laurence Freeman will lead us in the Ash Wednesday service and administer ashes both in-person and virtually. ...
March 2023
The Wisdom of the Desert: Freedom to Change – Lent Retreat
The season of Lent invites us to purify and let-go, which reminds us of an important lesson: we have the freedom to change. Join Laurence Freeman on this retreat as we explore this aspect of the Lenten season. ...
A Benedictine Wisdom School
The retreat offers balanced movement from prayer to work, from intellectual stimulation to silence—and back again. ...
April 2023
The Mystery of Easter is Being Remade – Holy Week Retreat
The mysteries of Holy Week allow us to enter into an ancient process of storytelling, ritual, and meaning-making. By sharing in the passion and death of Jesus, we also share in his resurrection, allowing our minds and hearts to be remade. ...
Easter Vigil
The long silence of Saturday ends with a succession of powerful ancient symbols in the Vigil service which begins with the lighting of the Easter Fire under the Easter Tree in the valley of Bonnevaux. ...
Easter Sunday Contemplative Eucharist
If you couldn’t come to the Vigil, you will be welcome to celebrate Easter with us at Bonnevaux today and sing the great Alleluia. ...
May 2023
Risking Delight
This retreat is an opportunity to contemplate what it means to rejoice always, living, working, leading and loving from a renewing and refreshing place—risking delight. ...
June 2023
Radical Regeneration: Christ Consciousness and Sacred Activism
This retreat offers the maps and the practices from the Christian, Hindu and Buddhist traditions which will demonstrate to the participants how much sacred power and illumination they always have at their disposal. ...
Protected: Reflect, Renew and Re-connect
A three day retreat in the beautiful Abbaye de Bonnevaux in France for the Alumni of the Georgetown Meditation and Leadership course. Led by Fr Laurence Freeman and Giovanni Felicioni. ...
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