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Prayer & Contemplation

Regular times of shared silence and times for contemplative prayer are an important part of our life as a community, including Simple Quiet Days and our Quiet Place (In the Eye of the Storm) meetings .   We see the desire for social justice and actions of solidarity as profoundly connected with contemplation, reflection and imagination.
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For a reflection on the value of silence, click here
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A Quiet Place 
How do people struggling against injustice and violence – either in their personal lives or as activists in wider social movements – find support, solidarity  and renewal?  How do we encounter our own anger and that of others, without being overwhelmed?

Many faith traditions, including the Christian tradition of contemplative prayer, offer resources of silence and solidarity.
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These sessions are intended to offer an inclusive space for people from all faith traditions or none.  The intention is to create space for contemplative conversations where we listen to ourselves and each other, and to offer a time of shared silence.

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The sessions will take a simple format of up to an hour reflecting together on the situation we are currently in and the many crises affecting the world and our own lives, followed by silent prayer.
Simple Quiet Days
These days are intended to provide you with the space to “be” before God; to relax, reflect and pray and so to renew your spiritual resources. The space available will be kept as quiet as possible.
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Upcoming sessions

All the sessions below are open to all, whatever your first language or your level of experience of Church.  We will enable discussion to take place in Farsi or other mother tongues if that is needed in sessions, and will involve interpreters where possible. We are also listing some other linked events of interest happening during this time.

4th September Simple Quiet Day for the Creation Season, praying with St Francis in response to the Climate Emergency.
The pandemic shows us that “we have not heard the cry of the poor and our seriously ill planet” warns Pope Francis, describing this as "a time to choose what matters and what passes away". (Urbi et Orbi, 2020)
We will make available the resource produced by CAFOD: Nine brief reflections asking St Francis of Assisi to pray with us and  for our world, based on his beautiful Canticle of the Sun.
This ‘novena’ (nine moments of prayer)  is a song of penitence and praise, guiding us to care for the earth and for our most vulnerable sisters and brothers.
The day will start with a Eucharist at 10am and finish at 3.00pm with an evening office. You are free to come for the whole or part of the day, and to come and go.

Weekend of September 11th/12th                
The Green Christian Pilgrimage from London to Glasgow for the Climate Conference in November (COP) passes through Manchester.  Sunday 12th event in Alexander Park with a Speaker’s Corner.

16th September Quiet Place Conversations 6.15-7.15pm  
Theme:  Homelessness and Housing in Fallowfield and the city of Manchester, with local Fallowfield Councillor Jade Doswell.
The purpose of these sessions is to enable a quiet, contemplative conversation to people of all faith traditions or none about difficult troubling matters in our parish, city and world.  To offer ‘A Quiet Place (in the eye of the storm).’  
From 7.15pm to 8.00pm church remains open for prayer/meditation/stillness, or it is possible to join the Eucharist at 7.30pm in the small chapel.

9th October Simple  Quiet Day
The day will start with a Eucharist at 10.00am and finish at 3.00pm with an evening office. You are free to come for the whole or part of the day, and to come and go.

14th October Quiet Place Conversations   Jenny Daggers will introduce the first of a number of  planned conversations on the theme of British responses to the Black Lives Matter movement.

17th October 2pm  ‘Circles of Love’ event in Alexandra Park, Whalley Range being organised by Greater Manchester Faith in Black Lives Matter ‘to express solidarity with those experiencing racism and express commitment to anti-racism’.
Upcoming dates

Looking ahead, save the date:
3rd November  The refugee puppet Amal walking from Turkey to Manchester arrives in Manchester.
1st December  Advent Course on Prayer starts
4th December  Advent Poetry Day
8th December Advent Course on Prayer
15th December Advent Course on Prayer & Quiet Place Conversation Prayer and Social Justice
22nd December Advent Course  Contemplative Prayer
 
And in 2022:
13th January  Quiet Place Conversation
5th February  Simple Quiet Day
17th February  Quiet Place Conversation  
5th March  Quiet Day  (Lent themed); 
From 5th March and before 17th April  Course on Liturgy  Hilary Jones co-ordinating and to propose dates
7th May  Quiet Day
13th May  Quiet Place Conversation
4th June  Quiet Day
16th June  Quiet Place Conversation
holyinnocentsff@gmail.com
0161 224 0535
Wilbraham Road
Fallowfield
Manchester M14 6JZ

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​Sunday 10.00 Sung Eucharist
Monday 19.30 Eucharist
Thursday 19.30 Eucharist

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  • About Us
    • History >
      • St James Birch
      • Holy Innocents Fallowfield
      • Birch with Fallowfield
    • Meet the congregation
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    • St James School
    • Mission Community
  • Services
    • Sermons
    • Prayer and Contemplation
    • Children
    • English-Farsi Eucharist translation
    • Service Archive
    • Monthly Leaflet
    • February 5th 2023 3 before Lent
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