Contemplative Fire Recommends:

We would encourage the Contemplative Fire community to attend a Retreat Day organized by Christ's Church Cathedral Called:

Thin Places - Where the Divine Breaks Through
This will be an exploration of Celtic Spirituality at:
Canterbury Hills (in Ancaster, ON)
Saturday, 14 May 2011 from 10 am to 3 pm
Cost: $40 (includes Lunch)

Register by email to Rosemary by clicking here.

Photo Credit: Alan Cleaver 

For as long as people have drawn breath, they have sought to encounter the divine in daily life. Sacred places, once established, have been built upon time and again, even by successive religions. Stonehenge, Iona and Lindisfarne remain places of pilgrimage to this day.

The Celts especially saw evidence of the Sacred in nature, and exemplified it in their art and in their music. Druid priests were seen as those who had a special knowledge of the Divine, and were experienced as conduits between the sacred and ordinary people.

Photo Credit: A.G. Armstrong on Flickr.com

Christianity was within itself a mystical tradition where the Divine breaks through into the ordinary in terns of laces, art, and sacred objects, music, writings, and people. We can express this as "thinness", where the veil hiding the divine from us is briefly blown aside and we encounter the Godhead.

At Canterbury Hills, itself a "thin place", we will spend a day and explore our spirituality, and our relationship with God. We will find that special place where we feel in communion with the Divine all around us. We will experience in music, that "thin" quality which transports us from the ordinary into the Divine. We will discover the special people in our own lives who seem to posses spiritual qualitites, and look at how Jesus exemplefied the ultimate "thinness" in his work and ministry.