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