Pre-Easter retreat: one for you and one for a friend

A little act of kindness can go a long way to making someone’s day special. Treat yourself to this retreat and receive one for a friend for free.

Reflections for Holy Week Retreat

Share this special pre-Easter retreat and give yourself and someone else a sweet moment, some special ‘me-time with the Lord.’

Simply purchase ONE online retreat and then email me the name and email address of your chosen friend and you will each receive the retreat FOR FREE!

I’ve created this special reflection time for you to use either by yourself or with a friend or family member, to think about the three special days of Holy Week. Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter Saturday. An hour for each.

You might spend an hour each day using the relevant materials. Or you might take 3 hours, perhaps on Good Friday during the hours on the Cross (12-3) or late Saturday night, and do all three sections together.

Whichever you do, you’ll have:

  • 3 x 1 hour sessions, each with a Youtube video. These each include reflections and readings, contemplative prayer, times of quiet, ideas for your own prayers and thoughts.

  • Resources and Information Booklet

  • downloadable journal

  • forever access to the materials so that you can use them at a time that works for you.

To purchase your retreat, click here. It’s just £8, including a FREE one for you to gift to a friend.

What others have said after Advent and Lent retreats:
Such a good idea and this and the Advent online resources you put together are HUGELY appreciated, thank you 😊 - Jo

I want to thank you for Saturday morning. It feels as though words aren't going to be sufficient, that time and space transcended words as only time with God truly can. But you put the event together, led us through the morning and took us all together to receive from Christ. It was a truly wonderful morning, thank you, thank you. I sat in my drawing room on a very comfy sofa, the sounds of outside disappeared, the light was tranquil and the space was stilled. As with the August course you took each of us together but individually to sit with Christ, to receive His comfort and encouragements and just bathe in His presence. It was so very special. - Isobel

Thank you Penelope. I was wondering how I would cope with three hours of zoom but the time has gone too quickly and so peacefully and prayerfully a truly beautiful time with the Lord. Thank you so much. - Fran

Thank you so much for the Lent retreat on Saturday. It was a real gift (and so are you), and a gift that keeps on giving as I reflect on the resources section. - Rev C.H.

Register NOW to get this special offer and make someone’s day special!

Purchase the retreat HERE and then EMAIL ME your friend’s email address and you’ll each receive everything you need for your special retreat, sent to you personally.

You can register here

May you know the power of the Cross and the joy of the Resurrection this Easter


How to Feast and Fast during Lent


Forty days to go deeper.

Apparently it takes 21 days to confirm a new habit and 42 days to make it a lifestyle.

What new, or re-newing, lifestyle would best help your current walk with the Lord?

What might help you to go deeper in a relationship with him?

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LENT.

A few weeks without chocolate.
And maybe alcohol.
A few weeks of abstinence. 
Of giving up things we like.

Or maybe for Lent this year - just giving up.

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Hurry up, Easter. And spring. And chocolate eggs.

But maybe there's another way.
A way of feasting as well as fasting.


A way of drawing near to the Lord in and through it all. 


FASTING & FEASTING
Fast from a gloomy outlook on life
Feast on what is bright and cheerful.
 
Fast from always being right
Feast on seeing another's point of view.
 
Fast from always pointing out differences
Feast on what unites us all.
 
Fast from words that pollute
Feast on those that purify.
 
Fast from complaining
Feast on appreciation.
 
Fast from self-pity
Feast on goodness in others and self.
 
Fast from self-concern
Feast on going out to others.
 
Fast from overdoing
Feast on time for prayer.
 
Fast from worry
Feast on God's love.


(Father Kerry: Our Lady Queen of Angels
bulletin Lenten Reflection: Feb 2010.)


Come swiftly O Lord, to the dark moments when we are lost.
Make us aware of your presence.
Strengthen us to resist the urges and pulls to deeper darkness.
Stir us to move away from the dark moments of sinfulness
towards the light of your forgiveness.
Come quickly O Lord as we call – or forget to call – and
keep close to us and keep us close to you this day and night,
and as far as the days and nights stretch before us.
Through Jesus Christ our Lord,
Amen.

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