For a couple of years St Augustine’s has been running a series of audio retreats based on a weekly 20 minute downloadable audio with an accompanying work sheet (free and all welcome). See below for the programme for 2022-23 including registration details. A retreat at home is different. We do not leave behind work, family and four familiar walls. In one sense the experience is less intense and focused: there are more calls on our time than listening to God. And yet, a retreat at home is where we are: it reflects our reality. It also…

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An online reflective morning led by Kate Monkhouse “Love God, and love your neighbour as yourself” Jesus told us. What if our everyday encounters with other people were rooted and grounded in love (Ephesians 3:17)? Many of our spiritual traditions emphasize spending time alone with God as a source of refreshment and inspiration. What if God also longs to meet us in our daily dealings with others? Every day, in person and online, we are meeting people with different backgrounds, opinions and values. Many of us are doing our best to navigate fracture lines in…

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An online retreat based on weekly audios with accompanying prayer and reflection exercises February 6, 13, 20, 27, March 6 The Bible is a story of the relationship between a God who calls us into life, and vulnerable human beings who sometimes struggle to understand the invitation held out to them, and hesitate to respond.  In Inclining the ear of the heart we will reflect on the nature of God’s call to us: how do experience it and where might it lead us? Contemplating the experience of people of the bible will help us understand…

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This day retreat will now be a zoom retreat…. Saturday, 29th January, 10am to 3.30pm Cost £30. We also have a number of free tickets received from a very generous donor. To book your place: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/online-retreat-led-by-christopher-chapman-tickets-170315912479 Led by Christopher Chapman Send my Roots Rain will explore ways of allowing the life-giving water of the Spirit to soak down to the roots of those involved in ministry – whether lay or ordained. Our roots lie in our story, in our experience of calling, and above all in abiding in relationship with our life-giving God. With the…

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St Augustine’s is delighted to announce another series of audio retreats this year.  For further information see here <https://staugustinescollege.ac.uk/content/uploads/2021/09/St-Augustines-Audio-Retreat-Series-2021-22.docx.pdf> and a short introductory video here: <https://youtu.be/uif7oKEl9Hw> *    Seasons of the Spirit: exploring how God is active within the changing seasons of our lives (starting 26 September for 4 weeks) *    Inclining the Ear of the Heart: hearing and discerning God’s call and invitation (starting 6 February) *    Meeting Mystery: befriending the unknown; making room for awe and wonder (starting 1 May) As ever thanks for your donations as we are able to…

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For this retreat Chris Chapman will be joined by Dr Gemma Simmonds and Revd. Fabian Wuyts…. Each week will be a personal take on a Christian spiritual tradition or figure and the light they shed on relationship with God, our experience of life and our practice of prayer. Looking through these windows will challenge and refresh our usual ways of seeing.  For further details see here. Dr Gemma Simmonds belongs to the Congregation of Jesus. She is known internationally as a speaker and retreat-giver. Gemma is Senior Research Fellow and Director of the Religious Life…

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This week’s retreat is being lead by St Augustine’s Chaplain – Reverend Harriet Johnson.  Preview here. To login or register for the retreat see here.    

‘A Cloud of Witnesses’ What can we learn from the witness of people like Abraham and Sarah, Jeremiah, Job, Naomi and Ruth about the shape of God’s invitation to us?  Their journeys, struggles, hopes and prayers are not so different from our own. In this 5 week series we look back to faith journeys within the Jewish tradition – the rock from which our own religious traditions are hewn.  What wisdom might we discover for our own times?  To register of login see here: https://staugustinescollege.ac.uk/login. Introduction by the retreat leader, Chris Chapman, here.