Parish Retreat

Parish Retreat 2024

The Rev. Chris Thompson

While Advent is coming upon us, it is not too early to consider Lent. No, I am not talking about what to give up. I am hoping that it will be something you take on.

On the weekend of February 16-18, Brother Luke SSJE will be with us for a parish retreat. The particulars have not been finalized yet, but it will be Friday evening starting with dinner, continuing Saturday and coming to an end with Brother Luke preaching on Sunday.

Please put these dates on your calendar now. Sign-ups and more information will be coming in January.

Note about the Society of Saint John the Evangelist. SSJE was founded in 1866 at Cowley, Oxford, England, by Richard Meux Benson, Charles Chapman Grafton, and Simeon Wilberforce O'Neill. Known colloquially as the Cowley Fathers, the society was the first stable religious community of men to be established in the Anglican Communion since the English Reformation.

In 1870 the society came to Boston, Massachusetts, where it became part of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America. The members of the North American congregation live in a monastery designed by Ralph Adams Cram in Cambridge, near Harvard Square.