Seeing with the Eyes of the Heart: Contemplative Photography retreat on the Isle of Iona, 15-19 September 2025

Join us on the beautiful island of Iona for a time of contemplative practice as we learn to see with the eyes of the heart.  We will use our cameras (a camera phone is fine) to ‘take a long, loving look at the real’ as one definition of contemplation describes it.  It will be a time of slowing down and learning to pause and gaze with compassion and tenderness on what we behold.  In the process we will connect with ourselves, with one another and with God who speaks to us at the level of the heart.

We will also learn how to pray with our images in the practice of Visio Divina.

No photographic skill is required, just a heart open to God at work all around and within us.

To book please contact: Jane Kindlen Tel: 01681 700369 or email: mail@catholic-iona.com www.catholic-iona.com/

 

'An Intimate Sharing Between Friends' - a Retreat Day with St Teresa of Avila: Saturday 29 November 2025 at the House of Prayer, East Molesey, Surrey

Guided by this great Doctor of the Church, we will learn how it is ‘important not to think much but to love much’ and to entrust everything to the One whom we knows dwells within us and delights in us.  We will learn that prayer is not complicated but an exercise in love and friendship, embracing both the contemplative and apostolic dimensions of life.

For further information and to book see https://www.christian-retreat.org/our-programme/an-intimate-sharing-between-friends