Once you register for any of the online retreats, you will have access to all the material. You can do the retreat at your own pace. It doesn’t have to be completed within a specified timeframe.
If you are experiencing financial difficulties and wanting to register, please contact us at onlineretreat@jamberooabbey.org.au.
Upcoming Retreat
Bearing the Unbearable
The whole world seems to be at crisis point and none of knows how it will pan out. We are living on the edge, teetering between the known and the unknown. It can be terrifying. Our darkness in this unknowing is truly dark. In this retreat, Bearing the Unbearable, we will be looking at how we can live the unbearable in a way that would be life giving and life changing.
Open for registration on 24 May 2025
Other Retreats
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Borrowing Tomorrow Pope Francis in his encyclical letter Laudato Si’ concerns himself with the state of the heart of humankind as he reflects on the desecration of our planet. Using the teachings of Laudato Si,’ we will be examining our lives and asking hard questions of ourselves in relation to how we care for our own heart first which is reflected in how we care for our earth.
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Christ and Crisis The world as a whole and millions of individuals are in crisis. Perhaps you, too, are in crisis? The crisis of crisis is that we do not understand crisis. We do not understand it as something on the brink of giving birth. Is there a meaning to be found in crisis? Let’s find out.
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Desert Wisdom for Daily Living Explore and pray within the perennial wisdom tradition, through the lens of the wisdom teachings of Jesus and the wisdom he embodied, the teachings of the desert mothers and father and other early and late wisdom teachers. |
High Horses, Scapegoats and Donkeys: This retreat takes us into the realm of tears, the tears of compunction that St Benedict talks about in his chapter on Reverence in Prayer (RB 20). It is a calling forth of ourselves to a new and more authentic living; |
Hospitality: A Versatile Charism Welcome in this new year exploring, deepening and praying with the Benedictine charism of hospitality |
Into A Strange Land In this 5 weeks retreat we will be walking the arduous and sometimes lonely journey from unforgiveness to forgiveness: the journey that has the possibility of leading to joy and peace of soul that remains elusive, until we are able to let go and forgive. |
Leading Strings of Love Register for this retreat if you would like to know more about living the Benedictine Promises in the world today. These will be your leading strings of love during the retreat. |
Mary and Eve: The Prodigal Mother and Daughter The word “prodigal” can mean extravagant and lavish and it can also mean undisciplined and wasteful. This retreat will open up for us a way to learn more about our own conflicting prodigal tendencies. Maybe there is a Mary and an Eve within ourselves. What might that mean for our spiritual lives? |
Meet Me In The Middle: This retreat is based on Charles Peguy’s Little Girl Hope from the book: “The Portal of the Mystery of Hope.” |
Remembering Holy Saturday Explore the mystery of Holy Saturday. What it means to live in “in-between” times, liminal times. Give ourselves to the transformative work of the tomb and the possibilities of new life born out of a dying. |
Sacred Connections Join Theresa Ardler and Sr Antonia Curtis in this unique retreat where we will be pondering the values of Silence & Listening, Reverence and Community, all of which are integral to both Aboriginal Spirituality and the Rule of St Benedict. These two spiritualities embody an extremely ancient wisdom, Aboriginal spirituality developing over thousands and thousands of years and the Benedictine tradition from the 5th century and the earlier traditions of the desert mothers and fathers. |
