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New Wine, New Skins – John Main Seminar and Meditation Retreat
September 11, 2023 - September 17, 2023
Hosted by the World Community for Christian Meditation at the Abbey of Bonnevaux, France
September 11-14: Why Practice Does Not Make Perfect – Pre-Seminar Meditation Retreat
With Laurence Freeman, Cynthia Bourgeault, Andrew Harvey and Giovanni Felicioni
This retreat is both for the beginning and ongoing meditator. There will be four periods of meditation a day to accommodate your level of practice.
September 14-17: New Wine New Skins – John Main Seminar 2023
Led by Cynthia Bourgeault, Andrew Harvey and Laurence Freeman
A wineskin was usually made of goat or sheep skin to store or transport wine. Putting new wine into old skins while it was still fermenting risked breaking the skin and losing the wine. Jesus uses the metaphor to illustrate the perennial freshness of the revolution he began and continues to drive – his empowering call to a renewed consciousness that will manifest new forms and structures of human life. Christians pray that this ‘reign of God will come on earth as in heaven’.