Abbey Retreat Programs

Retreat Programs for 2025

February

Believing All Shall Be Well with Julian of Norwich
(Cottages Weekend Retreat) 7-9 Feb 2025
What makes Julians most famous saying, “All shall be well,” more than a medieval “Don’t worry! Be happy”? That’s the question Julian herself wrestled with for twenty years.
Presenter: Sr Julian Grigor
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March

Metanoia: A change of heart
(Day Retreat) 8 Mar 2025
Join us this Lent for a day of reflection as we explore what it means to experience a genuine change of heart. “Metanoia” invites us to more than simple repentance – it calls us to transformation, to seeing our lives and our world with new eyes.
Presenters: Sr Magdalen Mather, Sr Veronica Chandler
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Hospitality: A versatile Charism
(Cottage Weekend Retreat) 14-16 Mar 2025
There is an invitation in these uncertain times to go deeper, a call to a deeper contemplative living which is rooted in the unconditionally hospitable embrace of God. From this place we are enabled to embrace ourselves with unconditional hospitality from which a natural flow extends to the embrace of the other – as our very self.
Presenter: Sr Magdalen Mather osb
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Oblate Weekend
(Cottage Weekend Retreat) 21-23 Mar 2025
A weekend retreat for Oblates of Jamberoo Abbey.
Presenter: Sr Hildegard Ryan
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May

Deep Calls to Deep
(Cottages Weekend Retreat) 23-25 May 2025
If you have a desire to go deeper in your prayer and relationship with God, this weekend retreat may be of help. It explores the foundation, method and practice of this simple, yet profound and transformative way of prayer.
Presenter: Sr Magdalen Mather
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June

Wisdom as a way of life
(Day Retreat) 7 Jun 2025
Presenter: Sr Mechtild Crawford
Cancelled

July

Benedictine Values: A fertile soil for integral ecology
(Cottage Weekend Retreat) 4-6 Jul 2025
Time is moving on and the cry of the earth and the poor is intensifying. The appeal of Pope Francis in “Laudato Si” and “Laudato Deum” is now an imperative. There is a wisdom in the Rule of St Benedict that can provide fertile soil for an integral ecology for our time.
Presenter: Sr Mechtild Crawford
Cancelled
Lectio Divina in the Benedictine Tradition
(Cottage Weekend Retreat) 18-20 Jul 2025
This weekend we will look briefly into the development of the lectio divina tradition. We will hear about and practise the process itself.
Presenter: Sr Antonia Curtis & Libby Denny
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August

A Circle of Women
(Day Retreat) 2 Aug 2025
It is a conversation around what helps us to heal. Some healing symbols will be explored ie. the labyrinth, the mandala, the circle. In this retreat we will affirm the wisdom of women who find their way through life’s pain with the help of each other and the Holy Spirit’s healing presence.
Presenter: Sr Veronica Chandler
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Praying and Playing with Holy Wisdom
(Cottage Weekend Retreat) 15-17 Aug 2025
What is it to live with wisdom? It is to live fully awake in the centre of the contradictions of our times while refusing to be defined. For when I am home with wisdom I can take my ease, for nothing is bitter in her company.
Presenter: Sr Magdalen Mather
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September

Feeling at home in the universe story
(Cottage Weekend Retreat) 5-7 Sep 2025
This will be a gentle retreat expanding our minds and hearts to the unfolding mystery of the universe and seeing our place as human beings in this sacred unfolding. There will be times for listening and learning, and times for personal reflection and creativity.
Presenter: Sr Mechtild Crawford
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October

Borrowing tomorrow: A Cry from the Earth
(Cottage Weekend Retreat) 24-26 Oct 2025
In this retreat, we will look honestly at the reality of the world we live in with its struggle to keep the beauty and richness of God’s creation alive.
Presenter: Sr Antonia Curtis & Dr John Lee
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November

Oblate Weekend
(Cottage Weekend Retreat) 7-9 Nov 2025
A weekend retreat for Oblates of Jamberoo Abbey.
Presenter: Sr Magdalen Mather & Sr Mechtild Crawford
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Contemplative Creativity
(Cottage Weekend Retreat) 14-16 Nov 2025
Creativity comes from the Creator, and is often born from our deep-hearted experiences. The essence of creativity is transformation; combining original elements to make a new thing.
Presenter: Sr Julian Grigor
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December

Taking time for Christ
(Day Retreat) 6 Dec 2025
Join us for this day retreat which invites us to pause and prepare our hearts and minds for Christ’s coming. Like preparing for the arrival of a child, we are called to make room spiritually—to clear space for deeper relationship with God.
Presenter: Sr Magdalen Mather, Sr Julian Grigor
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