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28th November 2021: First Sunday in Advent
Advent Retreats (from Catholic and Anglican Traditions)
Listed in chronological order

From 22nd November six video presentations will be available online from Tarsus Scripture School, which is headed by distinguished Bible scholar, Kieran O'Mahony, OSG. The presentations can be viewed in your own time.There will also be a live online webinar on 8th December and a guided meditation on 15th December.  Note: there is a charge of €20 for the course.
Click here for more information.

This year's Advent retreat by the two great Jesuit online resources, Pray As You Go in collaboration with Sacred Space, is entitled 'Stepping Beyond'. Advent is a time to help us prepare to welcome Jesus our Saviour, God made man in Bethlehem and to hear his call to step beyond ourselves.
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This year has continued to offer many challenges for us in the shadow of the global pandemic. Thankfully, however, many of us are now moving to brighter days and are called to step out again into the fullness of life and step beyond our isolated worlds.

This self-guided retreat scan be accessed here at any time. 

The Jesuit Loyola Press will spend a few moments each day of Advent on a Journey with St. Joseph. This series—coming at the end of the Year of St. Joseph—will explore Joseph as a man of courage, love, and acceptance. Featured authors include Bishop William D. Byrne, Barbara Lee, and Joe Paprocki. Sign up here to receive a daily email throughout Advent.

Centering Prayer is a receptive method of Christian contemplative prayer developed by the great Trappist teacher, Fr Thomas Keating. It is a prayer in which we can experience God’s presence within us, closer than breathing, closer than thinking, closer than consciousness itself. This online retreat is from the Contemplative Outreach San Antonio (COSA), Texas. It invites participants into an intentional Advent where they are invited to pause, listen, reflect, and be renewed in their relationship with the Indwelling Presence through prayerful, silence, solitude and community.
The retreat runs online from 2-5 December.
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The Sisterhood of St John the Divine, a monastic community within the Anglican Church of Canada, provides beautiful daily reflections for Advent to your inbox.
You can sign up for these here. 

Use these weekly videos and accompanying reflections to take a new look at this season of spiritual renewal through the lens of Ignatian prayer and sacred art. Click on the image above to access Week One.

Retreat House Chester in located in the grounds of Chester's magnificent Anglican Cathedral. Take a morning on 4th December to spend some online time with this special season. Gently shaped by the Advent theme,  we will take the rhythm of the morning hours and gather on Zoom for 15 - 20 minutes at the turn of each hour (10am, 11am, 12 noon, and 1pm), with time away from the screen in between, to spend with the material suggested or our own resources, as we choose.
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