more news from Los Olivos

The last few weeks have been a mixture of sadness, joy and anticipation about the future. Our last retreat at the centre, led by John Bell, was a beautiful celebration of the diversity of gifts from the globe. The final service of thanksgiving for the...

Yesterday we had quite a nerve wracking time with the moving of the sculpture of St John of the Cross to his new home in Ubeda. We started by having to remove him from his spot here at Los Olivos. He was "glued" in, so this meant a crane having to nudge...

Today we have been preparing San Juan for his moving from the patio here at Los Olivos. We have had 2 specialist art removal men on site, preparing the box that will be used to transport San Juan to the Carmelite monastery in Ubeda.
A crane will come tomorrow to load the statue onto a lorry and then we will drive with San Juan to the city, and oversee the unloading and moving through the small medieval streets to the monastery. It's going to be quite an event....

He will be introducing us to Gifts from the Globe .. . ..
If God created and loved the whole world, perhaps it is time that Western Christians became aware of the poetry, theology, worship traditions and song from the Southern Hemisphere. It might save us from imagining God as an anglophone deity who sits on...