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Join the monastic community of Ampleforth Abbey for Home Retreats that aim to provide reflection and insight from a home of prayer.
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This Home Retreat explores how we might come to find true rest in God.
I would like to reflect with you again on the message of Laudato Si on its 10th Anniversary – but from a different angle. Daniel O’Leary has written a book called An Astonishing Secret, using quotes from Laudato Si. It has 40 Chapters. I will probably not read all of them, but certainly the most relevant. The first is called: Loving the Earth – God’s Living Body. (Daniel wrote during Pope Francis’ Pontificate, so his words are in the present tense. I have not changed them!
Tomorrow is Pentecost or Whit Sunday, the celebration of the coming of the Holy Spirit on the apostles, all huddled together in fear in the Upper Room in Jerusalem. It transformed them from being wretched fugitives into being courageous missioners of the Good News..
Home Retreat 'How does the cross save us?' by Fr Richard
St Benedict’s approach to Lent is a paradox—while it calls for self-denial, it is also marked by joy. True joy, he teaches, comes from our renewed efforts in faith, as we set aside compromises and distractions to embrace a more intentional spiritual life. The journey begins with an honest examination of conscience, recognizing where we fall short and how we might grow in love and kindness. Throughout Lent, the Sunday Gospels guide our reflection, from Jesus’ testing in the desert to the Tran...
Home Retreat: 'The Message of Lourdes and the Jubilee' by Fr Oswald https://www.ampleforthlourdes.org.uk/
How might we invigorate our sometimes detached assent to the faith we profess? Without expecting some kind of unrealistic quick-fix, surely a quest for inspiration in the great Old Testament prophecies of the coming Messiah would be a good place to seek new fire and fervour. With Lent and Passiontide not so far off, we have a rich seam to explore.
The longer we live in this world, we’re forced to ask the question, ‘What makes so many people so mean? What creates mean-spirited people’? What is behind that hate and what I just called mean-spiritedness?’ Maybe that’s really what we see more often than overt hatred.
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