“Invitations into Wholeness”: our new online Lenten series

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You are warmly invited to join CMHI’s new online Lenten Series, Invitation into Wholeness, over four Wednesdays in March and April. It takes place at 7.30pm on the following dates:

  • March 19th
  • March 26th
  • April 2nd
  • April 9th

These will be gentle, reflective and nourishing sessions exploring the concept of wholeness in new ways. The sessions are intentionally short but brimming with visual beauty and gentle challenges to our perceptions of wholeness. There is time every week to settle, to rest and to pray, there is time for learning and wondering, and time for journaling or doodling. The course is specifically welcoming of people living with illness and open to all.

Sign up via Eventbrite.

Sample Itinerary

  • Welcome & Settling in Practise
  • Introduction of theme
  • Opening prayer
  • Meditative Presentation – slides with artwork, reflection & wondering questions
  • Time to sit with questions, pray, journal, doodle
  • Time to share
  • Pray together prayer on screen to close

Week 1: Brokenness and Newness

Week 2: Trees, Stone, Seas (notions of wholeness in nature)

Week 3: Sounding out the Heart and Trusting our Voice

Week 4: Joy & Sorrow on the Same Page

Main Facilitator:

Having studied literature and spiritual formation, Dr. Jessica Brown is a second-year ordinand in the Church of Ireland.

She also works in the creative writing field as a poet, novelist, singer-songwriter, teacher, mentor, and narrative practitioner.

She has led writing workshops at schools, prisons, festivals, and community events. Beyond academic publications and shorter works, Jessica has published two collections of poetry and two novels for children.

“Jessica was a guest contributor on our Advent Series. She showed photographs of ordinary spaces in an ordinary house and talked about grace to receive the given moment and the given day exactly as it is. When we did, we could see there was beauty in the ordinary and in the things undone and half done. Her reflection has stayed with me, and continued to teach me when I’m resisting how I am in the moment and how I think I should be. The fact that God’s grace is sufficient to meet me where I am and as I am has allowed me (when I remember!) to let go of the striving and grasping and unhelpful beliefs. I am learning to receive the gift of right now and the gift of God’s grace for me in the here and now.”

(reflection on Jessica’s facilitation by Lydia, CMH:I)