This year's talks will focus on the Retreat's Jubilee Year theme, Christ: Transmitter of Hope. Each will be livestreamed and available on playback on our YouTube channel.
Find out a little more about what to expect, as well as the times of each live broadcast below.
‘Introduction: A Liturgy of Hope’ by Fr Oswald
Thursday 17th April at 7.15pm
In one of the great Easter Prefaces, we address Christ as “the Priest, the Altar and the Lamb of sacrifice”. In a very real sense, that is precisely what we celebrate at each Triduum. In this first talk, Fr Oswald will seek to explore these themes in the Triduum liturgies, so that walking with Jesus through these holy days we may truly become Pilgrims of Hope.
‘Why Should We Hope’ by Fr Gabriel
Friday 18th April at 10am
How can the brutal and lonely death of Jesus on the cross, which we commemorate on Good Friday, give us hope? In this talk I will look at the answer that St Paul gives to this question in his letter to the Romans, chapter 5 verses 1-11, seeing how the points he makes are also reflected in St Luke’s account of the Passion of the Lord, notably in Luke 23 verses 32-49.
‘Suffering: A doorway to Hope’ by Fr Bede
Saturday 19th April at 10am
“There is headroom in the cave of Bethlehem for all who know how to stoop”. The beginning of the pilgrim journey began with the ‘no vacancies’ sign on the door of the inn and progressed through a series of doorways of Hope towards the soon-to-be-discovered stone, rolled away from the cave of the tomb. We speculate on the code words enabling Mary Magdalen and her companions to gain entry, whilst authorisation for Peter and the ten is delayed.
