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
(Cottage Weekend Retreat) 6-8 Jun 2025
Presenter: Sr Mechtild Crawford
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July

Benedictine Values: A fertile soil for integral ecology
(Cottage Weekend Retreat) 4-6 Jul 2025
Presenter: Sr Mechtild Crawford
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Lectio Divina in the Benedictine Tradition
(Cottage Weekend Retreat) 18-20 Jul 2025
Presenter: Sr Antonia Curtis
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August

Day retreat with Sr Veronica
(Day Retreat) 1 Aug 2025
Presenter: Sr Veronica Chandler
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Praying and Playing with Holy Wisdom
(Cottage Weekend Retreat) 15-17 Aug 2025
Presenter: Sr Magdalen Mather
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September

Feeling at home in the universe story
(Cottage Weekend Retreat) 5-7 Sep 2025
Presenter: Sr Mechtild Crawford
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October

Borrowing tomorrow: A Cry from the Earth
(Cottage Weekend Retreat) 24-26 Oct 2025
Presenter: Sr Antonia Curtis
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November

Oblate Weekend
(Cottage Weekend Retreat) 7-9 Nov 2025
Presenter: Sr Hildegard Ryan
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Contemplative Play
(Cottage Weekend Retreat) 14-16 Nov 2025
Presenter: Sr Julian Grigor
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Taking time for Christ this Advent
(Day Retreat) 30 Nov 2025
Presenter: Sr Magdalen Mather, Sr Julian Grigor
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