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26/11/2024

Boarbank Hall programme of events - December 2024 - December 2025

13/03/2024

13/03/2024

On Tuesday 9th April, 2024, "The Roman Catholic Bishops of Lancaster" by Dr Paul Severn is being launched at Boarbank Hall.

The day begins with Mass at 10am with Bishop Paul Swarbrick as chief celebrant followed by a talk by the author and ending with a buffet lunch.
Cost £10.

Booking is essential by contacting p.severn@freeuk.com.

This is one of the events to mark the centenary of Lancaster Diocese.

28/10/2023

Hope in Health Advent Weekend

When? 8th-10th December 2023

Where? Boarbank Hall, Cumbria, LA11 7NH

Who? For anyone who is caring for others, professionally or personally, and who feels the need of physical, emotional and spiritual refreshment.

How much? Our standard Guest House fee is £80 per day (three hot meals included). You may if you wish add a donation for the course as you are able.

What happens? The weekend will include talks by Sr Margaret Atkins, a member of the Community and Fr Richard Taylor, a resident priest at Boarbank. There will also be plenty of time for private and shared prayer (Mass and sung Prayer of the Church with the Community) and for exploring our lovely gardens and local area.

For more about Boarbank and the area see www.boarbankhall.org.uk.

For more information or to book, contact Sr Margaret Atkins on margaret@boarbankhall.org.uk.

A Catholic community of sisters providing hospitality and nursing care in a friendly prayerful setting

28/10/2023

Thinking Faith: Time Out for Working Catholics 2023-2024

We are a group of professional Catholics who meet together on zoom and live retreats hosted by Sr Margaret Atkins, and Augustinian Sister at Boarbank Hall, Cumbria and Fr Richard Finn, a Dominican at Blackfriars, Oxford (and at times other Dominicans).

Our Thinking Faith summer weeks began for Catholic students and young professionals nearly 20 years ago. They have grown and developed into something that provides for that ‘post-youth’ group who are trying to live out their Catholic faith in responsible positions at work and also perhaps in their families. At the same time, a regular core of participants has developed, who meet at Boarbank for the residential summer week and keep in touch with zoom retreats in between.
We warmly welcome anyone who might enjoy either the zoom or the residential week to get in touch. You can just dip your toe in by joining either our Advent or our Lent retreat. If you are looking for friendly, fun but also serious and thoughtful support from fellow-Catholics in living out your faith in daily life, this could be for you. And you might get a week’s break in Cumbria into the bargain!

For more information, contact Sr Margaret on margaret@boarbankhall.org.uk, or visit our website www.boarbankhall.org.uk.

This year’s programme:

Advent Zoom Retreat:
15-17 December 2023. Evening sessions only. Theme: Comfort and Joy

Lent Zoom Retreat:
8-10 March 2024. Evening sessions only. Theme: Fasting and Feasting

Summer Residential:
Date 27th July - 3rd August 2024. Theme: What Catholics Really Believe

A week of prayer, study, conversation, walks and fun, exploring the basics of Catholic faith with the help of books by G.K. Chesterton and Fr Richard Conrad OP.

A Catholic community of sisters providing hospitality and nursing care in a friendly prayerful setting

11/08/2023

Programme for Groups 2023-24

We are delighted to announce that we are restarting our programme of group events. So far we have planned for the next year or so:

Hope in Health: Rest for your Souls, 8-10th December 2023.
Two days of R&R rooted in Matthew 11.25-30. Would especially suit healthcare workers, chaplains, hospital volunteers or those caring for family or friends.

Thinking Faith: See below for dates.
Time out for working Catholics. Our Advent and Lent retreats give you a chance to meet the core group and taste what is on offer. You may then be interested in joining us for our summer residential week.

Advent Zoom Retreat:
15-17 December 2023. Evening sessions only. Theme: TBC

Lent Zoom Retreat:
8-10 March 2024. Evening sessions only. Theme: TBC

Summer Residential:
27th July - 3rd August 2024.
Theme: Exploring our Catholic Beliefs.

Two Wings and A Prayer: a mix of retreat and birdwatching. 13th-18th May 2024.
Enjoy walks and talks and join us for Mass and the Prayer of the Church. Suitable for birding beginners (includes the basics of learning birdsong).

11/08/2023

BOARBANK 300 CLUB - NUMBERS AVAILABLE!

There are still some numbers available in the 300 Club, now starting its 48th year.

If you are interested in joining in the fun, or in holding more numbers than at present, then please email Sheila on sricketts503@btinternet.com.

The 300 Club raises over £2,000 for Boarbank each year. It also gives you two chances of winning £10 once a week and a chance of winning £100 every 8 weeks!

The cost is just £13 a year, beginning in September.

25/10/2022

Thank you from the Sisters to all who have expressed their sympathies.
We are very grateful to you all for your thoughts, prayers and support which are helping us as we grieve the loss of Fr John. We are grateful to have had Mass here today and some of us will be attending his requiem
in St Anne's, Crumpsall tomorrow. May he rest in peace.

04/10/2022

The Sisters are very sad to share the news of the death of their Chaplain, Fr John Mackie of Salford Diocese. May he rest in peace.
He died in Furness General Hospital early on Monday morning, 3rd October.
We offer our deepest sympathies to his sister Helen, her husband Joe and their family

27/06/2022

Thinking Faith - The gift and work of peace...
When: 30th July - 6th August 2022

The week will be open to Catholics in their 20s to 40s (ish)

This will be the first of our courses for two years. We're really looking forward to welcoming you back!

What is Thinking Faith?
It began in 2005 and is led by a group of Catholic friends, Augustinian and Dominican, religious and lay, with a wide range of personal and professional interests and experience.

Come and walk, talk and pray!

We will also be joined by members of the community at Boarbank, whose warm hospitality makes Thinking Faith possible.

This will be the first of our courses for two years. We're really looking forward to welcoming you back!

PRICE: Flexible
A small number of places still available, don't delay!

Who are we?
Speakers and organisers:
This is provisional only at this time, more information soon

Sr Margaret Atkins taught for ten years at Trinity and All Saints College in Leeds before joining the Boarbank Community in 2005. She is interested in philosophy, ethics and environmental issues and is a translator and writer. Recently she spent some months on the staff of the English College in Rome.

Fr Richard Finn OP is a Dominican friar at Blackfriars, Oxford, where he teaches the history of early Christianity and runs the Las Casas Institute for Social Justice.
He is the Thinking Faith chaplain.

Prayer & Liturgy
Daily Mass, Morning, Evening and Night Prayer from the Prayer of the Church

Opportunities for quiet reflection

For more information please contact Sr Margaret Atkins:
margaret@boarbankhall.org.uk

03/04/2022

I have passed on all the lovely messages of condolences to the SIsters.
Sr Eileen has asked me to post a heartfelt thank you, the kind messages have been a great consolation to the SIsters.

22/03/2022

The Sisters are sad to announce the death of Sr Mary Benedict Bermingham. She died peacefully on the evening of March 19th, the Feast of St Joseph. We ask your prayers for the repose of her soul, and for her family, friends and all of us who mourn her. Requiescat in Pace. More details to follow.