A retreat is your chance to step aside from life for a while, to rest and just 'be' in a welcoming, peaceful place.
Resources for Challenging times
Member Group resources and information
The Association for Promoting Retreats
The Association for Promoting Retreats have set up a page for support, encouragement, prayer, poetry, advice:
The Baptist Union
The Catholic Spirituality Network
The Catholic Spirituality Network have also set up a page:
Stay and Pray: resources for the COVID-19 Emergency
Linked to the above website is a list of resources from The Tablet:
Isolated but not alone: resources for Catholics
The Methodist Church
There are a number of resources on The Methodist Church home page
Online Retreats and Quiet Days
Individually Guided Retreat by arrangement – Holland House
Individually Guided Retreats – Loreto Centre
Living differently retreat – Retreat House Chester
Online quiet days and workshops Wisdom House
Online Retreats with the Carmelites at Boars Hill
Pilgrimage Retreat - Turvey Abbey
Quiet days at home – Los Olivos
Quiet days – the Oxford Centre for Spiritual Growth
Retreat in daily life (for those in the Anglican Diocese of Cyprus & the Gulf) - please email Maggie Le Roy: retreats@cypgulf.org
Silent Individually Guided Retreat with the Jesuits
Outreach
Resources
Prayer
A Novena: nine daily meditations – by Abbey of the Arts.
An introduction to meditation | Basic meditation – breath work - by the the Sacred Space Foundation.
Christ Covid Community providing support, prayer and inspiration
Christian Meditation with WCCM weekly
Meditation with young people – with WCCM
Pathways to God | Pray as you Stay | Self-isolation resources - from the Jesuits.
Reflections from Pentecost to Ascension
Seeking help
A contemplative path through the crisis – with WCCM
Church of England Daily Help phone line 0800 804 8044
Coronavirus and mental wellbeing
Coronavirus and the grief process
Government advice on accommodation providers
Helpline (shopping, advice, pastoral support)
How to self isolate: from those who know - introduced by one of our Patrons, Father Christopher Jamison OSB
Meditation when seeking guidance in time of difficulty
Prayer and discernment in lockdown
20 top tips for change amid crisis
Events, Talks & Podcasts
Online Celebration of Evelyn Underhill 14-18 June 2021
Christian Mystics – podcast series
Spiritual Enrichment lecture series
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