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Resting in God and from Self – Fr Kelvin Ekhoegbe, OCD
Saturday 5th February 2022 – 10am- 12 noon – in person lecture Boarshill
“Come to me all you who are tired and are carrying heavy loads and I will give you rest“
Matthew 11:28
“When night comes and you look back over the day…. Just take everything exactly as it is, put it into God’s hands and leave it to Him…then you will be able to rest in Him, really rest, abd start the next day as a new life.“
St. Edith Stein
This weekend’s theme will explore the idea of ‘rest’ and it’s importance for a way of life that is attentive to God. This idea is rooted in the spirituality of the Sabbath in the scriptures and which is essential for the self-disclosure of God as well as growth in self-knowledge which St. Teresa defines as living in the truth. It will address the reality of the ‘restlessness’ of the human heart and the remedy revealed in scripture and in the Carmelite tradition.
You’ll discover that God wishes to be totally involved in our lives as much as he wants us to be completely involved in his; that this is the basis of the first covenant of the Spirit and of the new covenant in the blood of Christ; that our ‘restlessness’ is a response to the invitation to return to where we can find true rest (cf. Songs 2:10&12), Carmel’s own response to the call by way of pondering the Word of God which in Carmelite spirituality is the place where we get to know God and as such is vital for developing intimacy with God whose voice addresses us personally through the pages of the Bible; appreciate the need for a ‘Sabbath time’ in your weekly schedule as a special time for the renewal of our love relationship with God.
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• two hours of live presentation.
• a month’s access after the live-presentation of the recorded video.
Fr Kelvin Ekhoegbe, OCD
Fr Kelvin Ekhoegbe, OCD is a Carmelite priest and is involved in the retreat work at the priory. He holds degrees in Philosophy and Theology from The Dominican Institute, Ibadan and Institut Catholique de Toulouse (Catholic University of Toulouse), respectively
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