With All Your Heart: a retreat in preparation for Lent

Saturday 14 February | 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Join us for this online retreat in preparation for Lent with Malcolm Guite, David Ford, Carys Walsh, Julia Golding, and Simon Horobin, and with worship from St Martin-in-the-Fields, led by Richard Carter with the St Martin’s Voices.

Lent is a time for leaving the familiar and entering the wilderness where, free of distractions, we discover more about ourselves and encounter God more deeply. It can be disorienting and our Lent retreat offers a wealth of refreshing wisdom from scripture, and the writings of priest-poet Malcolm Guite, Gerard Manley Hopkins, C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and their companions, the Inklings.    

Our speakers:

Julia Golding is a multi-award-winning novelist for adults, young adults, and children. More than one million of her books have been published in more than 20 languages.

Malcolm Guite is a bestselling poet and singer-songwriter and is greatly in demand as a speaker and performer.

Simon Horobin is Fellow and Tutor in English at Magdalen College, the position C.S. Lewis held at the same college.

Together, the three authors have written Wardrobes and Rings: through Lenten lands with the Inklings. 

David Ford is Regius Professor of Divinity Emeritus in the University of Cambridge whose most recent book is Meeting God in John – the SPCK Lent book.

Carys Walsh is an Anglican priest and the author of Dappled Beauty: Through Lent with Gerard Manley Hopkins

Programme

10.00-10.05    

Welcome and Introduction

10.05-10.30    

Opening worship from St Martin-in-the-Fields, led by Richard Carter

10.30-11.00    

Carys Walsh, Bringing the whole of ourselves to God: through Lent with Gerard Manley Hopkins

11.00-11.30   

David Ford, Meeting God in John: Feasting in Lent

11.30-11.45   

Break

11.45-12.20

Julia Golding and Simon Horobin, Come through the wardrobe this Lent: thoughts from Narnia and Middle-earth

12.20-12.45

Malcolm Guite, A spell for the refreshment of the spirit

12.45-13.00

Closing worship from St Martin-in-the-Fields led by Richard Carter

Online Bookstall

Visit our online bookstall to find discounted books by the speakers: https://chbookshop.hymnsam.co.uk/features/lent-retreat-2026

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