Keeping the record straight on Benedict and the crisis

Keeping the record straight on Benedict and the crisis

HOW I GAVE UP BREATHING

I gave up breathing about twenty years ago. That is, I stopped thinking of breathing as something I needed to do in order to survive. The simple truth that came to me then, is that there is nothing I needed to do about the breath -- except relax and allow myself to be breathed. To find out more, put the following link into your space bar:

www.bodymindmeditation.ie/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=104:how-i-gave-up-breathing-&catid=50:healing&Itemid=79

ADDITIONAL MEDITATION DAY AT THE SANCTUARY

     The Meditation Day, March 5 on The Art of Allowing  at the Sanctuary, Dublin has been fully booked for some time, and with a waiting list. An additional day has now been arranged for Saturday, May 21, 2011.

     The Sanctuary is a tranquil and beautiful oasis of peace, established by Sister Stanislaus Kennedy at Stanhope St in Dublin's North inner city. To have a virtual tour go to http://sanctuary.ie. Tel: 01-6705419; email: enquiries@sanctuary.ie.

SIX-DAYS OF QUIET AND MEDITATION

View of Garden at Glencomeragh Retreat Centre

This Summer I will be leading two six-day meditation programmes, both based on my book The Art of Allowing. These retreats will be an occasion for relaxing and meditating in beautiful surroundings. An atmosphere of silence is encouraged. And because the group will not be too big, there will be opportunities for individual guidance on the breath and meditation.

People who have done these retreats in the past have made comments like, “It made me aware that breathing is natural and does not need any effort on my part”; and, “The actual process of letting the breathing just be is symbolic for me of how life can be if I just trust that God is with me”.

There are two of these residential retreats:

1. July 10 – 16, 2011 at Glencomeragh House, Kilsheelan, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary; Tel: 052-33181; Fax: 052-33636; email: theglen@rosminians.iol.ie. See www.glencomeragh.ie
2. 2. August 22 - 29, 2011 at Myross Wood, Leap, West Cork; Tel 028-33118; email: mscmyross@eircom.net. Web: www.myrosswood.ie

   

   Rolling Field at Myross Wood

   
   
   
   

MEDITATION DAY IN COUNTY KILKENNY

Next Saturday, January 22, I will be offering a guided meditation retreat based on at the Integritas Centre in County Kilkenny. Participants will be helped to become more deeply aware of the ways in which the breath moves within them and to recognize and respond to the particular difficulties they may encounter in breathing – and to experience where all of this leads us spiritually.

To book, contact Integritas, Ennisnag, Stoneyford, Co. Kilkenny. Tel 056-7728902; Fax 056-7728903; email: patrickrtreacy@eircom.net; http://www.integritas.ie

NEW WEBSITE IS NOW OPEN

My renewed website is now open - though it still remains a work in progress. It can be accessed via bodymindmeditation.ie OR artofallowing.ie OR breathoflife.ie OR louishughes.ie.
This site was designed in Poznan, Poland by Bogna Bialecka. I got to know Bogna in the 1990s through her involvement in the international Dominican Youth Movement at that time. She created the  beautiful design for the original Body-Mind Meditation website in 2001. Because of her deep understanding of this spirituality, as well as her artistic gifts, she was the person I most wanted to re-design the site to incorporate The Art of Allowing. Thank you Bogna for a job well done! Thanks also to Ciaran O'Shea, who provide crucial technical assistance and who also provided maintenance for the site in recent years.

Black Abbey Novena

     Today the Annual Novena in honour of Saint Martin de Porres begins in the Black Abbey. Over the next nine days the dim interior of this beautiful medieval pillared church will be illumined and warmed by thousands of candles and night-lights. The highlight will be next Sunday's mid-afternoon Mass, when the Sacrament of Anointing will be given to the sick. This service will be presided over by our visiting preacher, Fr. John Littleton.

NOVENA TIMETABLE
Tuesday, October 26 to Saturday, October 30 inclusive: Mass at 10.30.
Sunday, October 31: Mass of the Sick at 3.30 pm
Monday, November 1: Masses at 10.30 am and 6 pm.
Tuesday, November 2: Masses at 10.30 am and 7.30 pm
Wednesday, November 3: Closing Mass at 10.30 am