The retreat will be lead by Brother Christopher who is guestmaster at Douai Abbey and has an MA in Ethics from Louvain and an MA in Christian Spirituality from Heythrop College, London. Gervase Holdaway has an MA in Theology from the Univeristy of Louvain, Belgium, and is Oblate Director, and Pastoral Programme Director at Douai Abbey.

Gervase Holdaway OSB is Oblate Director and editor of Oblate Life (2009). Christopher Greener OSB is Guestmaster and recently obtained an MA Christian Spirituality at Heythrop, where he compared and contrasted the Jesuit and Benedictine approaches to spiritual direction.

Fodhla works as a teacher and trainer in interpersonal communication skills, she is an oblate of St Benedict (a lay person who follows the Rule of St Benedict in daily life).

• Redundant ?
• New Job ?
• Retiring ?
• Promotion ?
• Marriage ?
• Bereavement ?
• Illness ?

For 12 years this retreat has had very positive feedback. It is unusual by combining reflective spirituality with art forms in which you can engage without intrusive demands. You have the support of taking part in a small group yet retain quietness and privacy. No special talents or faith required.
Options: attendance at monastic office; one-to-one spiritual direction; reflexology.
Limited to 18 people.

Further details, or chat without obligation: bernardkilroy@uk2,net tel/fax 01252 843133

Pamela Lee, during a varied and enjoyable career as an Officer in the Women’s Royal Army Corps and in the Foreign Office, lived in the Far and Middle East. She then married and had two sons and worked as a teacher in Adult Education. She help to found the National Eczema Society in Sussex and to develop an HIV/AIDS Drop-in Centre in Brighton. Pam has been a Franciscan Tertiary novice and has trained in Ignatian Spirituality, Spiritual Direction and New Testament Greek. She is also a Christian meditator. She works as a spiritual companion in Weeks of Guided Prayer and gives retreats and quiet days. Pam has made many painful transitions in her life after her own illnesses and close bereavements, particularly of her son in his 30s following a brain tumour, and her Husband in August 2008 after suffering Alzheimer’s disease. Yoga, friends, the internet and her grandchildren, alongside her spiritual accompaniment keep her in the present.

Bernard Kilroy, following a career in community work and social housing in politicised inner London and with Shelter, and later as a tutor in MBA management development, is revisiting as a facilitator an old dream of ministry. He and his wife, Janine, have one con, now 30, after two miscarriages which had the effect of consolidating their marriage. Bernard spends two months a year in an Indian ashram researching Indian Christian Spirituality for a doctorate, leads village tours in India and organises Cre-Asian Movement in UK schools with Kàlai Kàviri dancers from S India. He uses his training in counselling and spiritual direction to help others (and himself sometimes!) to realise their own true vocation, especially through making the most of their work and life relationships. He is qualified in both massage and reflexology. He feel that the bosy’s ‘pairing’ sustems (eg. Biceps and triceps in tandem oppositions) offer a model for living with change: the challenge of moving on, balanced by the need for healing and support.

The retreat will be lead by Brother Christopher who is guestmaster at Douai Abbey and has an MA in Ethics from Louvain and an MA in Christian Spirituality from Heythrop College, London. Gervase Holdaway has an MA in Theology from the Univeristy of Louvain, Belgium, and is Oblate Director, and Pastoral Programme Director at Douai Abbey.

During the fifteen years of Mothers Prayers. there have been a great many wonderful answers to prayers. We have found that in coming together and acknowledging that we have a mighty God who can, and does change things, our families are restored and refeshed.

Veronica founded 'Mothers Prayers in 1995, and has organised the movement since then. She has given retreats and spoken about the movement in several countries.