Ampleforth Abbey Podcast

Episodes

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  Home Retreat: Fr Christopher - 'We Live in Each Other's Shadow' 10.10.2026 12m

  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
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  Home Retreat: Abbot Robert 'Places of Hope' 03.10.2026 9m
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  Home Retreat: Fr Oswald - 'Doing the Impossible...' 26.09.2026 21m
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  Fr Richard - 'Love, Authority and Confidence' 19.09.2026 17m
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  Home Retreat: Fr Henry ' 'St Augustine' 12.09.2026 15m

  '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.'
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  Home Retreat: Fr Cedd - 'Fear and Fear' 09.09.2026 18m

  Link to the Discourse of St Dorotheus of Gaza: https://www.ampleforthabbey.org.uk/sites/default/files/2026-09/dorotheus-discourse-4.pdf
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  Home retreat: Fr Bede "The only difference is that now I know the answer to the question.." the sting of Obedience 29.08.2026 29m

  Download the text of this Home Retreat: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QekKn_LA17OUOiI2CPje0jbaJA7DYjJ6/view?usp=drivesdk
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  Home Retreat: Fr Gabriel - 'Mary Queen of Heaven in the Glory of all the Saints' 22.08.2026 13m
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  Home Retreat: Fr Phillip - ' Too clever by half...or humbly wise?' 15.08.2026 11m

  Fr Phillip delivers this weeks Home retreat titled: ' Too clever by half... or humbly wise?'
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  Home Retreat: Fr Wulstan - ' Where is Life?' 08.08.2026 12m

  Fr Wulstan delivers this weeks home Retreat titled: ' Where is Life?'
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  Home Retreat: Fr Luke - 'The Annunciation' 01.08.2026 21m

  Fr Luke gives this weeks Home Retreat titled: 'The Annunciation' Reference picture: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AYfNVyRxz7wZyQKfj4IxESR1Yj_FXDxo/view?usp=sharing
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  Home Retreat: Fr Chad - 'The wedding homily never given' 25.07.2026 13m

  '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.'
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  Home Retreat: Fr Christopher - ' The Holiness of Falling in Love' 18.07.2026 14m

  '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’. ...
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  Home Retreat: Abbot Robert - 'Who do you think you are?' 11.07.2026 13m

  Abbot Robert gives this weeks Home Retreat titled: 'Who do you think you are?'
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  Home Retreat: Fr Oswald - 'Independence Day?' 04.07.2026 22m
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  Fr Richard - 'Thoughts on Magnifica Humanitas' 03.07.2026 19m

  On Monday 25th May Pope Leo released his first encyclical entitled: Magnifica Humanitas. In this Home Retreat Fr Richard shares his reactions.
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  Home Retreat: Fr Henry - 'The Lord's Prayer' 03.07.2026 14m
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  Fr Phillip 'Tales of the Unexpected' 31.01.2026 7m
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  Fr Wulstan 'To Prefer Nothing to the Love of Christ' 24.01.2026 7m

  The Passing of Our Holy Father St Benedict, as described by St Gregory the Great in his Dialogues, reminds us of what is central to our lives as Christians and specifically to any such life guided by the teaching of St Benedict, namely learning to prefer nothing whatever to the love of Christ, so that in purity of heart we might be brought to the vision of God.
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  Fr Abbot Robert 'A LIFE WORTH FIGHTING FOR' 20.12.2025 13m