The Skelligs. Image courtesy of Peter Cox Photography.
Retreats for Pandemic Times
Most of these online retreats are free. Where there is a cost, it is included in the description.
Most of these online retreats are free. Where there is a cost, it is included in the description.
18th to 21st January 2021: Midweek online retreat from the Jesuits at St Beuno's in North Wales. Each retreatant has their own retreat guide or ‘spiritual director’ with whom you meet each day via Zoom, and who will help you to reflect on your experience and discern. Cost is £100.
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Any time, online. Self-guided, but there is also an option to talk personally with a retreat guide as you make your retreat.
Hospitality, welcoming guests, is central to Benedictine life. Through the centuries monasteries have offered spiritual and physical support and sanctuary for travellers, seekers and pilgrims, and the English nuns of Turvey Abbey continue that tradition. Due to the current crisis they are not able to physically welcome guests. They have now started offering a variety of resources for online retreats and prayer, including the option to talk with a retreat guide digitally during a retreat. |
Any time, online, self-guided.
The worldwide Jesuit online prayer phenomenon that is ‘Sacred Space’ has a 14 day ‘Isolation’ retreat specifically for use during the Coronavirus crisis. According to Sacred Space:
We are built for communication with God, our creator and origin. Relating to God should be easy as it is an essential part of who we are. However, when we hit difficult moments such as the Coronavirus crisis, God seems to have abandoned us and prayer can seem impossible. Yet, given that we are created in the image of God, it is possible to live our lives close to God in a personal and intimate way. "God is closer to us than we are to ourselves" said St Augustine.
The retreat is designed to help us recognise where God is present in our everyday lives. This is an adventure into the unknown, where we can take some pointers from wise people who have gone before us, but it is also one where we have to trust our instincts and believe that God is offering us new opportunities. Make your prayers real, heartfelt and based on your experience, and step out to where God is waiting. Jesus Christ, be our light.
The worldwide Jesuit online prayer phenomenon that is ‘Sacred Space’ has a 14 day ‘Isolation’ retreat specifically for use during the Coronavirus crisis. According to Sacred Space:
We are built for communication with God, our creator and origin. Relating to God should be easy as it is an essential part of who we are. However, when we hit difficult moments such as the Coronavirus crisis, God seems to have abandoned us and prayer can seem impossible. Yet, given that we are created in the image of God, it is possible to live our lives close to God in a personal and intimate way. "God is closer to us than we are to ourselves" said St Augustine.
The retreat is designed to help us recognise where God is present in our everyday lives. This is an adventure into the unknown, where we can take some pointers from wise people who have gone before us, but it is also one where we have to trust our instincts and believe that God is offering us new opportunities. Make your prayers real, heartfelt and based on your experience, and step out to where God is waiting. Jesus Christ, be our light.
Any time, online, self-guided.
WITH JESUS IN THE DESERT
As the days draw in and so many countries are entering another time of lockdown, the Australian Jesuits offer a guided online retreat specifically aimed at people who have to isolate themselves during the Coronavirus pandemic. There are two sessions daily - morning and evening. The suggestions on how to pray the retreat invite you to imagine yourself in different Gospel stories. Each day also includes a way of reviewing your day and how your heart has been moved during that day. This can be especially helpful if you find the time of isolation wearisome and dispiriting. Briton Rivière's painting above vividly depicts Jesus' loneliness and lassitude in his 40 days' solitude. Knowing that he experienced, and triumphed over, a silent, barren time we take comfort in the knowledge that he is both the Way and the Wayfarer.
Access this excellent spiritual resource here.
WITH JESUS IN THE DESERT
As the days draw in and so many countries are entering another time of lockdown, the Australian Jesuits offer a guided online retreat specifically aimed at people who have to isolate themselves during the Coronavirus pandemic. There are two sessions daily - morning and evening. The suggestions on how to pray the retreat invite you to imagine yourself in different Gospel stories. Each day also includes a way of reviewing your day and how your heart has been moved during that day. This can be especially helpful if you find the time of isolation wearisome and dispiriting. Briton Rivière's painting above vividly depicts Jesus' loneliness and lassitude in his 40 days' solitude. Knowing that he experienced, and triumphed over, a silent, barren time we take comfort in the knowledge that he is both the Way and the Wayfarer.
Access this excellent spiritual resource here.
Any time, online, self-guided
Come to know a freedom and peace too often out of reach in the modern world.
Creighton University's 34-week guided online retreat is a way to make the movements of the Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius in the midst of a busy life. This self-guided journey has been made by hundreds of thousands of people – in six languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Arabic, Kiswahili and Chinese.
A simple Guide each week places themes, reflections, questions and desires into the background of our busy lives. We learn to find greater focus and to let one week build upon another.
You can begin the retreat at any time.
Come to know a freedom and peace too often out of reach in the modern world.
Creighton University's 34-week guided online retreat is a way to make the movements of the Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius in the midst of a busy life. This self-guided journey has been made by hundreds of thousands of people – in six languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Arabic, Kiswahili and Chinese.
A simple Guide each week places themes, reflections, questions and desires into the background of our busy lives. We learn to find greater focus and to let one week build upon another.
You can begin the retreat at any time.