Ampleforth Abbey Podcast

Home Retreat: Fr Luke 'Thirsting for Life'

Home Retreat: Fr Wulstan - ‘What to expect, and not, when answering God’s call’

This Home Retreat describes some experiences common to those who answer God’s call, not only the sense of expectation and hope of fulfilment that it offers, but also the centrality of the Cross and how being willing to embrace it strengthens faith and a sense of peace and vocation in a way that might not have been imagined.

Home Retreat: Fr Christopher - 'We Live in Each Other's Shadow'

Download the text for this Home Retreat: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vyV7rXZvJEOB4qX-ym4cQyEY1k9JG4Z3/view?usp=sharing Link to the website for Brian Swimme: https://storyoftheuniverse.org/videos/#cttc

Home Retreat: Abbot Robert 'Places of Hope'

Home Retreat: Fr Oswald - 'Doing the Impossible...'

Fr Richard - 'Love, Authority and Confidence'

Home Retreat: Fr Henry ' 'St Augustine'

'A retreat is always an invitation to conversion. It would be difficult to find a better guide on the way of conversion than the greatest of concerts, perhaps also the greatest of Christian theologians, St Augustine of Hippo.'

Home Retreat: Fr Cedd - 'Fear and Fear'

Link to the Discourse of St Dorotheus of Gaza: https://www.ampleforthabbey.org.uk/sites/default/files/2026-09/dorotheus-discourse-4.pdf

Home retreat: Fr Bede "The only difference is that now I know the answer to the question.." the sting of Obedience

Download the text of this Home Retreat: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QekKn_LA17OUOiI2CPje0jbaJA7DYjJ6/view?usp=drivesdk

Home Retreat: Fr Gabriel - 'Mary Queen of Heaven in the Glory of all the Saints'

Home Retreat: Fr Phillip - ' Too clever by half...or humbly wise?'

Fr Phillip delivers this weeks Home retreat titled: ' Too clever by half... or humbly wise?'

Home Retreat: Fr Wulstan - ' Where is Life?'

Fr Wulstan delivers this weeks home Retreat titled: ' Where is Life?'

Home Retreat: Fr Luke - 'The Annunciation'

Fr Luke gives this weeks Home Retreat titled: 'The Annunciation' Reference picture: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AYfNVyRxz7wZyQKfj4IxESR1Yj_FXDxo/view?usp=sharing

Home Retreat: Fr Chad - 'The wedding homily never given'

'Over the years I've preached homilies at about fifty weddings. There are things I've thought of saying, decided to avoid, but still saved. This is an attempt to bring all those together in one imagined homily.'

Home Retreat: Fr Christopher - ' The Holiness of Falling in Love'

'St Francis invites us to see nature as a magnificent book in which God speaks to us and grants to us a glimpse of his infinite beauty and goodness. Beyond the language of mathematics and biology he takes us to the heart of what it is to be human….. just as happens when we fall in love with someone.' - Laudato Si 12 Suggested Timetable: (But do make your own) 11.00 Talk – 11.30 Read through the talk again. 11.45 Coffee break 12.00 – 13.00 Remember a time you experienced ‘being in love’. How would it be to be in love with the natural world, or even a small part of it? 13.00 – 14.00 Lunch break 14.00 – 16.00 Siesta/Leisure/Gardening 16.00 Tea break 16.15 – 18.00 Go through Ps. 103/4 and either imagine or find pictures to illustrate it. 18.00 Vespers Live stream from the Abbey 18.30 Supper break 20.15 Compline Live stream from the Abbey

Home Retreat: Abbot Robert - 'Who do you think you are?'

Abbot Robert gives this weeks Home Retreat titled: 'Who do you think you are?'

Home Retreat: Fr Oswald - 'Independence Day?'

Home Retreat: Fr Henry - 'The Lord's Prayer'

Fr Richard - 'Thoughts on Magnifica Humanitas'

On Monday 25th May Pope Leo released his first encyclical entitled: Magnifica Humanitas. In this Home Retreat Fr Richard shares his reactions.

Fr Phillip 'Tales of the Unexpected'