Guided Retreats at Ampleforth Abbey

We are delighted to welcome you to our upcoming retreats. Whether it's your first time on a retreat or you've been staying with us for many years, we hope you find what you're looking for.

Please take your time to browse our diverse and unique programme...

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Fr Bede will take you on an early Advent opportunity to get to know some of the smaller Nativity figures as they respond to the offer of a lifetime or

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This retreat is aimed at the parents and carers of young Catholics. Imagine yourself in the footsteps and heartbeat of a group of year 9 students here

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What difference will Lent make to the way we live this time? The danger can be that we simply repeat the same old things and end up in the same old

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Many people fluctuate with either living in the past or worrying about the future. Jesus invites us to embrace the present moment, even if the

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The Gospel of John is the most openly theological of the four gospels, but also the most authenticated historically. In this retreat, Fr Henry will

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This is an early season opportunity to wrap up well and to meet for the first time, or to return again, to the stunning Yorkshire coast, to walk the

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Due to popular demand, Fr Chad has returned with two brand new walking retreats in May and October . A walking retreat, with three pilgrimages to the

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Tai Chi has been described as ‘meditation in movement’. Christian Meditation involves stillness. During this retreat we balance these paradoxical

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Parables were seemingly simple, yet powerful ways in which Jesus taught some very deep truths. Through prayerful reflection, the retreat will look at