A Week in the Life

#EverydayPrayer

Our Daily Rhythm of Life is punctuated with prayer. We pray three offices each day in our chapel; Morning Prayer, Lunch Time Prayer and Compline.

On a Friday we pray non-stop (24-7 prayer style) for 8 hours from morning prayer at 8:30am to Community Eucharist at 4:30pm

Monday: Study

You’ll be enlarged as you learn to think Biblically and reflect theologically.

Morning Bible teaching and opportunity to engage with the monastic traditions and time for private study in the afternoon.

Study sessions are led by our team, specialist guest speakers, and both new and old monastic practitioners.

Tuesday: Missional Placement

You’ll be stretched by serving in social action projects with some of the most vulnerable in our city.

We work in partnership with a range of social action projects in the City and county, including The Centre Project, The Reality Bus and One Roof Leicester.

Wednesday: Quiet Day

You’ll be deepened as you learn to face yourself in community and in the silence of solitude.

Desert Morning provides space for solitude and the practice of spiritual exercises such as Lectio Divina, centring prayer and imagination.

A weekly Community Forum is followed by a community listening exercise. All members will be part of a fortnightly listening group and will have a person they meet with for regular spiritual accompaniment. This person will be from outside the community and trained in Spiritual Direction.

Thursday: Missional Placement

You’ll be challenged as you engage in mission with a local churches and organisations.

We work in partnership with Churches, Charities and Organisations in both the city and county, including The St Philips Centre, Leicester Hospitals and The Well Community Cafe.

Friday: Prayer & Preparation

You’ll be provoked to pray for people and place and asked to participate in preparations for Sabbath.

We pray, non-stop, from early to Eucharist, whilst preparing well and completing all our chores ready to celebrate our Sabbath Community Meal.

Saturday: Sabbath

A day off to re-energise. Explore the city or take a country walk. Catch a movie, grab a coffee or curl up with a book in the library.

Sunday: Worship

Become part of the regular worshipping life of a Church in Leicester.

There’s also time for private study, reflection and Spiritual reading.