In November, the month of Chester’s Literature Festival, join us for conversation about ‘The City is my Monastery’ by Richard Carter.

‘Richard Carter swapped a life of simplicity with an Anglican religious order in the Solomon Islands for parish ministry in one of London's busiest churches, St Martin-in-the-Fields.

Seeing a need for monastic values in the centre of the city, he founded the Nazareth Community. Its members gather from everyday life to seek God in contemplation, to replenish stressed lives, to acknowledge their dependence on God's grace and to learn to live generously.

Part story, part spiritual meditation, The City is My Monastery offers spiritual wisdom for daily life rooted in the Nazareth Community's seven guiding principles: Silence, Service, Scripture, Sacrament, Sharing, Sabbath Time and Staying.‘

Canterbury Press

This book is a little more expensive than our usual choices - but it seems especially meaningful for Retreat House Chester - and it’s a while since we read a book together!

Friday 4 November

10.30am - 12 noon

9 Abbey Square

free: donations are warmly welcome and encouraged when you book - thank you

To book, please go to our Ticketsource page by clicking here.