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St Bede's Pastoral Centre

Contact Details

Contact Name:

Fiona Hill

Email:

Telephone:

01904 464900

Retreat Centre Description

A non-residential Pastoral Centre in York next door to the Bar Convent.

 

St Bede's is a charitable work of the Congregation of Jesus and offers a wide range of events, courses and retreats both in centre and online.

 

Honouring the uniqueness of each person and rooted in the Christian Wisdom and Ignatian traditions, we seek to meet all those we welcome wherever they are on their spiritual journey and to accompany and nurture them into greater wholeness and fulness of life.

 

The main Ignatian courses offered are a 2 year Personal and Spiritual Development Course, a 1 year Training in Spiritual Conversation Skills Course and a 2 year Training in Ignatian Spiritual Accompaniment Course.

 

We offer a varied programme of quiet days and workshops in centre and online. Again, this year we focus on some contemporary wisdom figures and many other varied themes.

 

Room Hire

Please note that we also offer a variety of different sized rooms for hire with a discount available for small charities.

 

Contact

Full details of our Programme which runs from September to July can be found on our website www.stbedes.org.uk

For more information or to book please contact Fiona Hill, Centre Manager on 01904 464900 or email fiona@stbedes.org.uk

 

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Accommodation on Offer

Non-residential Pastoral Centre

Chapel

Lending Library - our growing collection of spirituality books can also be viewed online through our website

Conference Room and Annexe (combined capacity 45)

Creative, Art & Wellbeing Space (Meeting Room capacity 25)

Counselling Rooms with a special rate for counsellors and spiritual accompaniers

2 other Meeting Rooms (capacities 10 and 20 people)

Annexe (informal Meeting Room capacity 7)

Coffee Lounge

Small Courtyard Garden

 

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Retreat Centre Facilities

Please see website for retreat centre facilities

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Types of Retreat Offered

Please see website for retreats offered

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2025 Events 

Online

All Year

Silent Individually Guided Retreats

January weekly

Guided Prayer

March

13, 20, 27, Lent Talks

April

03 Lent Talk

 

In Centre

All Year

Retreats in daily life

Praying through poetry

Together in meditation

Taizé prayer

Wellbeing sessions

Creative space

January

13 To bless the space between us

22 Etty, a very modern mystic

February

01 Tai Chi and meditation day

15 Belonging, remembering ourselves home

26 Lent workshop series

March

05, 12, 26, Lent workshop series

April

02 Lent workshop series

08 Spiritual audit for Lent

10, 17, 24, 31 Living Word: Lent

May

04 Tai Chi and meditation day

07 Mary Oliver

09-11 Whitby retreat - In harmony with creation

17 Return from exile

June

27-29 Whitby retreat - Rewilding the heart

July

Summer School Icon painting - dates to be confirmed

 

Retreat Centre Location

21 Blossom St, York YO24 1AQ, UK

2026 Events 

2026 Events

A wide selection of online and in centre short courses and events including:

Monthly Taizé prayer, Wellbeing and Praying Through Poetry; weekly Online Guided Prayer; Short courses on Christian Classics, The Great Search and the Enneagram; Tai Chi and Meditation Days; Body Prayer; Online LentTalks; Days and half days on Thomas Merton, Mary Ward, John O'Donohue, The Lord's Prayer, Sand Play, St Francis and St Clare, Lazarus and Wondering our way into the future; Themed weekend residential retreats in Whitby; A Summer School 'The Widsom Years'with Margaret Silf.

St Bede's Pastoral Centre

21 Blossom St, York YO24 1AQ, UK

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