Wellspring

Come to the well.
The well is deep.

Wellspring is a one-day retreat, offering some time apart: to be nurtured in silence; to engage with Scripture, healing prayer & mindfulness; to walk outside or snooze; to participate in guided reflections; to avail of one-to-one discussion with a spiritual director; or just take time to read.

We are offering WELLSPRING on Saturday, 21st May 2016 from 9.30am to 4.00pm in St Patrick’s Church, Harbour Road, Dalkey. St Patrick’s Church is in a lovely location, overlooking the sea, a short walk from Bullock Harbour, close to the DART and the town of Dalkey.

The facilitators will be Iva Beranek and Carol Casey. Suggested donation to CMH:I for the day is €20. Please bring your own sandwich for lunch and we will provide tea and coffee.

Please note that places must be booked in advance (hello@ministryofhealing.ie). 

Annual Thanksgiving Service & Gift Day

You are most welcome to join us at our Annual Thanksgiving Service & Gift Day, this year held in St Michan’s Church, at 3.00pm on Saturday, 16th April 2016. 

This is a Service of Wholeness & Healing with Holy Communion, and there will be an opportunity for prayer ministry with the laying on of hands and anointing with oil for those who desire it.  Our celebrant is the Rev Canon David Gillespie and our preacher is the Rt Rev Patrick Rooke.  

Everyone is invited to enjoy some light refreshments after the service. 

Getting to St Michan’s is easy. The Four Courts stop on the Luas Red Line is just opposite the church, and Dublin Bus no 83 stops right outside the building. Dublin Bus numbers 37, 39(a), 145, 25(a/b), 70, 66, 67, 79(a), 51d all stop along the quays, just a few minutes’ walk away. If you are planning to drive you can avail of Smithfield MultiStorey Carpark on New Church Street  or the Four Courts Carpark on Ussher’s Quay, both nearby.

We hope to see you there!

Wellspring

Come to the well.
The well is deep.

Wellspring is a one-day retreat incorporating Christian mindfulness and biblical reflection, to which all are welcome. It is a chance to spend some time apart from the noise of the world, to be fully present to yourself and to your communion with God, so that by the end of the day, you can re-enter the world refreshed.

A series of nurturing silences in which you can choose to pray, read, take a walk, or even have a little snooze will be interspersed with a few guided (and optional) reflections led by facilitators Iva Beranek and Carol Casey. There will also be an opportunity to avail of one-to-one discussion with a spiritual director.

This is our third Wellspring and it takes place in Spring, which in itself is a nurturing season. The day will begin at 9.45am at the Church of Ireland Theological Institute and conclude by 4.00pm.

Here is what some of the participants thought of a previous Wellspring: 

‘An incredibly sensitively and prayerfully planned day.’

‘I have come away reminded of the tools at my finger tips so to speak to deal with the many curved balls life seems to throw.’

The cost is €20, including coffee, tea and lunch. Places must be booked in advance (hello@ministryofhealing.ie). 

Forthcoming date for Wellspring:
Saturday, 21 May 2016

 

The power of Presence: God with us

“What would happen in a world like this if Christians were to become very still and quiet, creating oases of silence for people whose ears ache and whose heads hurt from all the noise?”
(Barbara Brown Taylor)

Join us in DCU as we explore the value of slowing down and tapping into the power of God’s presence in our daily lives. 

All are welcome.

Wellspring


Come to the well.
The well is deep.

Wellspring is a one-day retreat incorporating Christian mindfulness and biblical reflection, to which all are welcome. It’s a chance to spend some time apart from the noise of the world, to be fully present to yourself and to your communion with God, so that by the end of the day, you can re-enter the world refreshed.

A series of nurturing silences in which you can choose to pray, read, take a walk, or even have a little snooze will be interspersed with a few guided (and optional) reflections led by facilitators Iva Beranek and Carol Casey. There will also be an opportunity to avail of one-to-one discussion with a spiritual director.

This is our second offering of Wellspring and takes place as we’re beginning our Advent journey. Here are some things participants said of the last Wellspring in May:

‘Best of all were the thoughtful and well paced presentations which gave me a wonderful springboard for the times of silence.’

‘An incredibly sensitively and prayerfully planned day.’

‘I have come away reminded of the tools at my finger tips so to speak to deal with the many curved balls life seems to throw.’

‘A truly refreshing day.’

The day will begin at 9.45am at the Church of Ireland Theological Institute and conclude by 4.00pm.

The cost is €40, including coffee & tea, lunch and parking. Places must be booked in advance (hello@ministryofhealing.ie).

November Mini-Retreat

The Church of Ireland Theological Institute’s Lay Training programme is offering a 2-day mini retreat for commissioned lay ministers across the Church of Ireland. This includes commissioned prayer ministers and lay pastoral assistants, as well as lay readers.

This retreat will offer reflections upon our encounters with and responses to human suffering and will be led by the Rev Bruce Pierce, Director of Education at St Luke’s Home Education Centre, who brings a great deal of experience, wisdom and gentleness to the subject.

The retreat begins on a Friday evening, the 13th November, at 6pm, and ends Saturday, 14th November at 4pm in CITI, Braemor Park, Dublin 14. Both residential (€50/£40) and non-residential (€25/£20) places are available and must be booked by 12 noon on Friday, 6th November 2015.

All queries and bookings should go through David Brown, Director of Lay Training at CITI.

Vigil for Peace

The refugee crisis in Europe has escalated to a very worrying degree that we can no longer ignore it. Many of us were at a loss when thinking how to respond. Recently we encouraged everyone to pray for the refugees, trusting that our prayer is effective even when we do not know its direct fruit. In this way we welcome people in need into our hearts, as we offer their need to God in prayer.

The Church’s Ministry of Healing: Ireland was looking for ways to further our call to prayer and so we decided to organise a Vigil for Peace. We would like to invite you all to join us.

The Vigil will take place on Thursday 8th October 2015 in the Nave Chapel, Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin. It will start at 10am with Morning Prayer and conclude with Choral Evensong at 6pm. Various contributors will give prayerful reflections on the hour. The schedule is as follows:

10.00 Morning Prayer
11.00 Linda Chambers from the United Society
12.00 Carmelite Friars (OCD) from Clarendon Street
12.45 The Eucharist with prayers for healing. The celebrant is the Very Rev Dermot Dunne, Dean of Christ Church Cathedral
14.00 Lydia Monds from the Bishops’ Appeal
15.00 Greg Fromholz on the experience of refugee camps in Lebanon
16.00 Church’s Ministry of Healing: Ireland
17.00 Stephen Collins from the Irish Refugee Council
18.00 Choral Evensong, Emma Lynch from Tearfund Ireland 

You will be welcome to light a candle and say a prayer all throughout the day.
There will be opportunity to donate to the Bishops’ Appeal. Donations will continue to be directed to the needs of 12.2 million people in Syria and 4 million refugees in neighbouring Iraq and Lebanon as well as to NGOs and community initiatives responding to the needs in EU countries.

We hope you will join us in this day of prayer for peace and the refugees.
All are welcome to attend.

 

 

Writing for Healing Workshop with Maureen Ryan

The Very Rev Maureen Ryan is a priest, writer, psychologist, and experienced workshop leader. The workshop will explore writing as a spiritual discipline that helps us celebrate the sacred ordinary, promoting healing and growth especially in times of loss, illness and distress. During the workshop, we will experience the power of writing together in silence, and suggestions with exercises will be provided for establishing the practice subsequently at home.

Absolutely everyone is welcome; there is no requirement of talent or experience. This is writing as a spiritual practice, and no one will be asked to read aloud from their writing.

The day will begin at 10.15am at the Church of Ireland Theological Institute and conclude by 4.30pm. Admission for the day-long event is €40, which includes lunch, coffee & tea, and free parking. The numbers are limited, so booking is essential. Please email hello@ministryofhealing.ie to secure your place. 

 

Wellspring


Come to the well.
The well is deep.

Wellspring is a one-day retreat incorporating Christian mindfulness and biblical reflection, to which all are welcome. It’s a chance to spend some time apart from the noise of the world, to be fully present to yourself and to your communion with God, so that by the end of the day, you can re-enter the world refreshed.

A series of nurturing silences in which you can choose to pray, read, take a walk, or even have a little snooze will be interspersed with a few guided (and optional) reflections led by facilitators Iva Beranek, Carol Casey, and Jessica Stone. There will also be an opportunity to avail of one-to-one discussion with a spiritual director.

CMH: Ireland is offering Wellspring for the first time on the weekend of Pentecost, an apt time to bring our attention to the Breath of God within us. The day will begin at 9.45am at the Church of Ireland Theological Institute and conclude by 4.00pm.

The cost is €40, including coffee & tea, lunch and parking. Places must be booked in advance (hello@ministryofhealing.ie).

Forthcoming dates for Wellspring:
Saturday, 5 December 2015
Saturday, 5 March 2016
Saturday, 21 May 2016

Forgive Us: Confessions of a Compromised Faith

The Church’s Ministry of Healing: Ireland is delighted to welcome Lisa Sharon Harper to speak to us on the subject of forgiveness on Saturday, 6th June 2015.

Currently Sojourners’ Senior Director of Mobilising, Ms Harper is a speaker, activist, author, award-winning playwright and poet. Her writing has been featured in The National Civic Review, God’s Politics blog, The Huffington Post, Relevant Magazine, Patheos.com, Urban Faith, and Prism where she has written extensively on tax reform, comprehensive immigration reform, health care reform, poverty, racial and gender justice, and transformational civic engagement.

 Ms. Harper’s faith-rooted approach to advocacy and organising has activated people of faith across the US and around the world to address structural and political injustice as an outward demonstration of their personal faith.

Her most recent book is Forgive Us: Confessions of a Compromised Faith, in which she and three other authors confess the church’s public failings and call their fellow believers to re-engage the surrounding culture in a new and better way.

We expect Ms Harper to challenge us and to inspire us as we seek to be agents of healing in our world today, and we welcome people of every denomination to participate. This event will take place in the beautifully refurbished Music Room of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, at 2.00pm on Saturday, 6th June, and The Book Well will be making copies of Forgive Us available for purchase on the day.

Admission is €20/£15, and booking is essential. To book your place, please email hello@ministryofhealing.ie.

After a reception of light refreshments, you are also invited to attend our Annual Service of Thanksgiving, to be held in the cathedral where there will be opportunity for special prayers for healing with the laying on of hands and anointing with oil for those who desire it. This is a Church of Ireland Service of Wholeness and Healing with Holy Communion, and everyone of any denomination is warmly welcome.