Lent Retreat

First broadcast Saturday 5 March

A moment to pause as the season of Lent begins. Watch this half-day online retreat from wherever you are in the world. In association with Church House Bookshop. Book a ticket below to access the event recording.

10am    Opening Worship
Richard Carter, Andrew Earis and the St Martin’s Voices

10.30    Passion in our Time
Andrew Nunn

11.00    Hidden Mysteries: Wilderness and Paradise Reconciled 
Guli Francis-Dehqani

11.30    Break

11.45    Physician Heal Yourself: Lent as the Time of Healing
Fr Luigi Gioia

12.15    Entering the Story of Holy Week
Paula Gooder & Ally Barrett

12.45    Closing Worship
Richard Carter, Andrew Earis and the St Martin’s Voices

About the contributors

Richard Carter is a priest at St Martin in the Fields in London’s Trafalgar Square, and founder of its contemplative Nazareth Community. He is the author of The City is My Monastery and In Search of the Lost.

Andrew Nunn is the Dean of Southwark and is much loved by his congregation which has grown internationally during lockdown. He is the author of The Hour is Come: The Passion in real time.

Guli Francis-Dehqani is the Bishop of Chelmsford. Prior to her ordination, she obtained a doctorate from Bristol University and worked as a BBC producer. She is the author of Cries for a Lost Homeland.

Fr Luigi Gioia is a freelance writer and speaker in theology and spirituality. His books include The Wisdom of St Benedict and Touched by God: The way to contemplative prayer.

Paula Gooder is one of the UK's leading biblical scholars. She is Canon Chancellor of St Paul's Cathedral, a Reader and the author of Women of Holy Week.

Ally Barrett is Chaplain at St Catharine's College in Cambridge. Her illustrations feature in Women of Holy Week.

Book tickets

Tickets are £10, or £5 for Church Times and magnet subscribers. Details of how to watch will be included on your ticket.

Questions? Contact events@hymnsam.co.uk.