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“Curing Solitude”? Retreats and the Experience of Solitude in Community – Celebration of Evelyn Underhill on the Eightieth Anniversary of Her Death – Authentic Prayer and Authentic Leadership: Reflections on Bishop Frank Griswold’s talk on Evelyn’s Day 2021 – Evelyn Underhill and Jacopone Da Todi

Evelyn Underhill and a Decade of Student Research - Evelyn Underhill, Baron Friedrich von Hügel, and the Journey of Spiritual Formation - Review of The Spiritual Formation of Evelyn Underhill - Evelyn Underhill's Prayer Book - Our "Spiritual War-Work" in the Age of COVID-19 - Church of the Ascension and Saint Agnes

International Conference on Jacopone da Todi - Selections from Presentations by Dana Greene and Aindrias ó hAilpin - In Memoriam: Milo Coerper - A Different Kind of Christmas List by Catherine Ann Lombard - Mystical Concepts, Artistic Contexts by Michael Stoeber

Evelyn Underhill: The Hidden Life by Deborah Smith Douglas - Reflections on the Underhill Prayer Book by Ann Loades and Carol Poston - Three Evelyn Underhill Anthologies Reviewed by Carl McColman - Pioneers of Modern Spirituality by Jane Shaw - Into the Reign of Awe: The Mysticism of C. S. Lewis Reviewed by Ron Dart

In This Newsletter: Evelyn Underhill’s Prayer Book Robyn Wrigley-Carr Is it Possible to be a “Do It Yourself” Christian Mystic? Carl McColman Life as Prayer: The Development of Evelyn Underhill’s Spirituality Todd Johnson The 2017 Underhill Quiet Day Retreat and Lecture Offerings on Evelyn Underhill YouTube Resources on Evelyn Underhill New and Noteworthy Scholarship on Evelyn Underhill

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Annual Quiet Day 2017

The Homely Ways of the Spirit: A Day of Quiet Reflection with Evelyn Underhill

Leader: Bishop Frank T. Griswold, former Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church

Saturday, June 17, 2017,  9:30-3:30
Nourse Hall, St. Albans Parish
Next door to the Washington National Cathedral
3001 Wisconsin Ave NW
Washington DC 20016

As he prepares to be our guide for this year’s annual Quiet Day, Bishop Griswold writes “I was introduced to Evelyn Underhill at the age of 16, by a priest who lent me a copy of Light of Christ. From that day on, Underhill’s practical, “homely” and no-nonsense approach to the inner life has been both an invitation and a steadying guide across the seasons of my life. As I look toward our day together, I am drawn to … Read more

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EVELYN UNDERHILL QUIET DAY

Saturday, June 18, 2016 9:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Sayre House, Washington National Cathedral

“The Spirituality of Risk”
Directed by Donyelle McCray
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“Real prayer begins with the plunge into the water.” Evelyn Underhill makes this observation in a 1928 retreat and repeatedly affirms that risk is an essential component of healthy spirituality. She attributes much of the beauty of Christian life to the interplay of risk and trust and warns against an insistence on constant comfort. During our time together we will explore the role of risk in Evelyn Underhill’s life: What were the great risks in her life story? Why did she see risk as so pivotal in the lives of the saints? How does risk-taking anchor our spiritual thriving today?

Donyelle McCray is Assistant … Read more

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Annual Day of Quiet Reflection

Saturday, June 13, 2015 9:30am – 3:30pm

Sayre House
The Washington National Cathedral

“The Mastery of Time”
Directed by Donna Osthaus

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“He that believeth shall not make haste.” Isaiah 28:16

A lately discovered article by Evelyn Underhill from a time near the end of her life (and the beginning of World War II) will bring us to contemplate this very contemporary issue of our time. We will explore the subject through Underhill’s essay, through a scriptural reference to Jesus’s attitude toward his use of time (Matthew 15:21-28), and briefly through the references to the subject of time in the contemporary poetry of her colleague and friend, T. S. Eliot.

The Quiet Day will be directed by Donna Osthaus, formerly Director of Program at the College … Read more

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Annual Day of Quiet Reflection

Saturday, June 21, 2014 9:30am – 3:30pm
Sayre House
The Washington National Cathedral

“The Poet as Mystic; the Mystic as Poet”

Directed by Kathleen Staudt
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In Essentials of Mysticism, Evelyn Underhill writes that “Poetry ever goes like the royal banners before ascending life; therefore man may safely follow its leadership in his prayer.” Underhill was always reserved about reporting the details of her own spiritual experience, but her poetry, published early in her career, gives us glimpses into the intensity of the life of prayer and the ardor of her early quest for God. In this day of quiet reflection, we will let the langue of Underhill’s poetic writing invite us to a deepening of our own life of prayer, as we listen for … Read more

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Part 1 – Roundup of 100th Anniversary of Mysticism – Noteworthy News – “My Journey with Evelyn Underhill” by Kathy Staudt

Part 2 – “Evelyn Underhill’s Developing Spiritual Theology: A Discovery of Authentic Spiritual Life and the Place of Contemplation” by John R. Francis

Part 3 – Dana Greene Research Collection on Evelyn Underhill

Part 4 – “Reflections on the Inter-Faith Conversations of Evelyn Underhill: Symbolic Narratives of Mysticism” by Michael Stoeber

Annual Day of Quiet Reflection

Saturday June 15, 2013
“Becoming the Parent of New Life”

Sayre House
The Washington National Cathedral

Directed by Merrill Ware Carrington

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During her lifetime, Evelyn Underhill was admired and appreciated for her personality as well as for her ideas – for her groundedness and integrity, for her humor, for her transparency as a … Read more