Praying the Psalms in Changing Seasons
Led by Megan Daffern
In tumultuous times as we have known in the last couple of years, it is too easy to forget to turn to our loving God whose very being is greater than all the changes we can imagine. Turning to him in prayer texts that themselves have endured through generations and millennia can grow stability and new life in us.
Megan will spend time with us thinking how we can know refreshment in our relationship with God through using the Psalms in our worship, prayer, and contemplation today. She will guide us in hearing in the Psalms
- the voice of God,
- the voice of Jesus Christ,
- our contemporary voices,
- the ancient voices of those who wrote, prayed, gathered, edited the Psalms through the centuries
and enable us to find and hear our own voice in new and life-giving ways.
The retreat will be held in silence with daily addresses and offices.
Megan Daffern Megan is a Tutor and Bye-Fellow at Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge University, and teaches Hebrew and Old Testament also for the Eastern Region Ministry Course; she balances her pastoral and teaching commitments with her own research in the Psalms and Hebrew Bible. Formerly Director of Ordinands and Vocations, she relished developing ministries in all shapes and sizes across the Diocese of Ely, after spending ten years as Chaplain of Jesus College in Oxford, during which time she completed her doctorate “The Psalms: Prayers for Remembering”. She was fully professed as a member of the Third Order of the Society of St. Francis in 2016. Her book “Songs of the Spirit: A Psalm a Day for Lent and Easter” was published as one of SPCK’s Lent Books 2018.
This event is open to everyone.
Arrival: 3 - 5pm
Mon 28th March
2022
Departure: 10am
Fri 1st April
2022
Residential - £500 (20% ministry discount)
