A Deep Spirituality and Wisdom That Touches the Heart - by SC Skillman
Having just finished reading Joy Margetts' new book, The Healing , my mind is upon monasteries and abbeys. This post is not a review of Joy's beautiful book - my review will appear on my own blog at scskillman.com on 16th March 2021 - but I am reminded of how there is a great interest in two areas of spirituality today, associated with cathedrals, and with monasticism. Imagine you could step into a Monastery or Abbey right now – perhaps like the one which we saw in the 2005 TV series, or even the one in this image – and move apart from all the frantic busyness and stress and tension of your life - yes, even in the middle of the pandemic - and receive some deep healing. I feel we can receive something very similar at Quiet Days run by our local churches, and I remember one in the Coventry Diocese where I heard three talks from Bishop John Stroyan, Bishop of Warwick – a man imbued in the literature of some of the world’s greatest mysti...