Our popular Home Retreats will continue into 2024 as the community provide reflective and insightful discussions every Saturday at 11.00.
Home Retreats can be watched on our YouTube channel or listened to on our podcast.
See below which monks are taking part this January and what topics will be explored:
‘What’s in a blessing?’ by Abbot Robert
Saturday 6th January
Is it true that Pope Francis is now allowing the blessing of same sex couples? What did he really mean and how are we to interpret the latest document from Rome. What does it mean to bless. Tune in to find out.
'St Benedict’s use of Psalm 118 in his Rule’ by Fr Gabriel
Saturday 13th January
St Benedict quotes from and alludes to the psalms more than any other book of the Scripture. In this retreat I want to speak about the importance of the longest psalm 118 for St Benedict. He assigned it to the Little Hours for Sunday and Monday. He also drew from it something about the structure of liturgical prayer and more importantly still it played a part in his thinking about monastic vocation, formation and profession.
No Home Retreat
Saturday 20th January
'St Benedict and Care for the Sick' by Fr Oswald
Saturday 27th January
In our society, and perhaps especially since the Pandemic, care of the sick is becoming a part of everyday life - whether it is parents caring for young children or children coping with elderly parents. In today's Home Retreat, we will reflect a little on St Benedict's thoughts about care of the sick in the monastery, to see what lessons we might draw from his wisdom.