Ruth Holgate - The Spirituality of Silence (N41)
Nomad Podcast
Tim Nash
4.7 • 658 Ratings
🗓️ 10 January 2012
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Tim's leaving Dave at home for this episode and heading north with Hannah to Loyola Hall for a 5-day silent retreat. We know what you're thinking, a 5-day silent retreat might not make the most engaging podcast! But Tim will be recording a daily reflection on his experiences and then at the end of the retreat will interview Ruth Holgate, the director of the centre, about the spirituality of silence.
“Ignatian spirituality is very much about being contemplative in action, so the purpose of the contemplation is in order to act in the world; in order to hear what God is saying and where God is drawing me, rather than as an end in itself.” - Ruth Holgate
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Nomad, Christian community, mission and the future of the church. |
| 0:16.1 | Hello and welcome back to Nomad podcast. My name is Tim Nash and this isn't Dave Ward. Hello. |
| 0:24.4 | Does anyone out there recognise that voice? You haven't heard it for quite a few months. It is the voice of my wife, Hannah. |
| 0:31.4 | Hi there. After I have to say, Hannah doesn't always sound like she's a 1920s BBC news reporter. It's only when she knows she's |
| 0:40.0 | being recorded. I can't help it. I don't know why. I'll try and stop. We are off to Loyola Hall |
| 0:48.7 | for the next week. I don't know where Dave is. It's probably in A&E, having lost another fight with a horse |
| 0:56.0 | or something. |
| 0:57.0 | So it's me and Hannah and we're going to Loyola Hall for a five-day silent retreat. |
| 1:02.0 | Yeah, silent. |
| 1:04.0 | Not quite the romantic holiday I promised Hannah, but... |
| 1:08.0 | So Hannah, how do you feel about that five days of silence? |
| 1:10.0 | Who do you think will co best you or me with five days of silence? |
| 1:15.2 | I don't know. |
| 1:18.9 | I have a suspicion that you think you're going to cope better. |
| 1:22.0 | I almost certainly will cope better. |
| 1:24.2 | Because I know I like talking. |
| 1:26.1 | You like talking. |
| 1:26.7 | You're an external processor. I'm an internal processor. That's why I think I will co-de-beso. |
| 1:31.3 | That is true, yeah. |
| 1:33.3 | So what we're going to do is I'm going to record a little daily reflection to let you know how we're getting on. |
| 1:39.3 | And then I'm going to interview the director, Ruth Holgate, and talk to her all about spirituality |
| 1:45.1 | of silence. |
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