The House of Prayer Programme 2026

The House of Prayer offers a breathing space and everything needed for a retreat. They offer to others a way of nurturing their relationship with God through prayer, meditation, spiritual retreats, and Christian education. Explore the programme brochure for 2026 here.

Let Him Easter in us
Saturday 25 April 2026
Led by Dr Antonia Lynn

The Feast of St Mark falls in Eastertide and we celebrate it today. This spring Saturday offers a chance to reflect on the Paschal Mystery through the lens of St Mark’s Gospel; a chance to experience Easter as a verb (as Gerard Manley Hopkins does in his poem The Wreck of the Deutschland, from which today’s title comes) — God’s work in progress in our lives. This is planned as a spacious day, with time to go at your own pace and enjoy reflection, rest and gentle creativity.

Cost: £35 / including B&B: £110

Longing for God: Individually Guided Retreat
Friday 1 – Sunday 3 May 2026
Led by the House of Prayer Team

A silent individually guided retreat for busy people, those who have not made a retreat before, or for anyone who simply needs time and space to stop, breathe, and pray. A trained spiritual director will be available for daily individual meetings to accompany you through the retreat. Above all, this retreat is a time of listening to God who is present in the experiences of prayer and daily living.

Cost: Standard: £230 / En-suite: £250

Contemplative Art
Thursday 7, 14, 21, 28 May & 4, 11 June 2026
Led by Cari Bridgen   

Creativity and art can help us connect more deeply with ourselves, God, and the world around us. This course offers an opportunity to explore contemplative art, and our creative expression and prayer. Over six mornings, there will be space to creatively respond to themes exploring the relationship between ourselves, God and creation, including our embodied nature; spirituality, theology and ecology; and our personal response to destruction and the present eco-crisis. Each session will include time for prayer, meditations on a weekly theme, music, practical creative time, and sharing. This course will meet on six Thursdays between 10am and 1pm.

Cost: £90

When the Saints go Marching in
Saturday 30 May 2026
Led by Anne Booth

When the Saints go marching in, do we really want to be in their number? In the Christian tradition we have the Saints, whose stories and images are so familiar that they can feel like our heavenly friends and family, yet sometimes their extraordinary examples of holiness can be hard to reconcile with our own more ordinary lives. How can we be inspired without being demoralised, and how is God inviting us to live out our own call to sainthood? This day will explore the stories of the saints and their spiritualities, and the fact and fiction which surrounds them. We will pray about and ponder the fact that they were real, imperfect people, and, using the Gospels, poetry and the writings of Thomas Merton, consider the part they can play today in inspiring us to love God with all our hearts, souls and minds, and our neighbours as ourselves.

Cost: £35 / including B&B: £110

Longing for God: Individually Guided Retreat
Friday 5 – Sunday 7 June 2026
Led by the House of Prayer Team

A silent individually guided retreat for busy people, those who have not made a retreat before, or for anyone who simply needs time and space to stop, breathe, and pray. A trained spiritual director will be available for daily individual meetings to accompany you through the retreat. Above all, this retreat is a time of listening to God who is present in the experiences of prayer and daily living.

Cost: Standard: £230 / En-suite: £250

Present Tents
Friday 19 – Sunday 21 June 2026  
Led by Mary Chamberlin

This weekend workshop/retreat is an invitation to rest in peaceful surroundings and recognise an internal space that is within us all. Inhabiting this prayerful place, we can reflect how God longs to lovingly envelop us and waits for our response. Over this mid-summer weekend, we will use art materials to make marks and/or build 3D images that assure us of God’s vital, constant, unconditional and eternal love. It is not necessary to have any artistic skill or to have had any previous art experience, you are just invited to reflect and respond visually noticing what might be emerging for you as you do so.

Cost: Standard: £240 / En-suite: £260 / Day guest: £125

Kairos Spirituality Centre Retreat Programme 2026

The Kairos Spirituality Centre has published its Retreat Programme for 2026, offering a wide range of opportunities for prayer, reflection and spiritual growth.

Rooted in the concept of Kairos – a “favourable time” or “graced moment” – the programme invites participants to step away from daily demands and enter a space of stillness, renewal and encounter with God.

The programme includes:

• Silent preached retreats led by experienced retreat directors

• Themed retreats and Holy Week retreat experiences

• Individually guided retreats with spiritual direction

• Weekend events and workshops, including leadership formation

• Day retreats and opportunities for young adults

A particular highlight this year is the weekend workshop The Awakened Leader, led by Fr Hugh Lagan SMA, taking place from 18th – 20th September 2026 at the Kairos Centre. This workshop is designed for those in Church leadership roles and is especially suited to leaders or those holding responsibility within Congregations, Communities, or at Diocesan level. It is also open to emerging leaders or those discerning future leadership roles.

Each retreat offers time for prayer, reflection, and rest, within a supportive and peaceful environment.

For full details, including dates, themes and booking information, please visit the Kairos website.

Click here to view the full programme and book your place.

Individually Guided Retreat in the Ignatian Tradition

The Monastery of Our Lady of Hyning invites guests to take time apart from the busyness of daily life for an Individually Guided Retreat in the Ignatian tradition, running from Friday 24th April to Sunday 3rd May 2026 (8 days) or Saturday 25th April to Saturday 2nd May 2026 (6 days).

These retreats offer the opportunity for a personal encounter and deepening relationship with God, supported by daily meetings with an experienced spiritual director trained in the Ignatian tradition. The week will be spent in silence, prayer, and reflection on Scripture, with the option to join the Bernardine Cistercian Sisters for Mass and the Divine Office.

Three guest directors will accompany retreatants:

• Linda Mary Edwards, retired Anglican priest and Jungian analyst

• Ginny Newsham, Ignatian spiritual director based in South Cumbria

• Donna Worthington, experienced retreat giver and regular retreat leader at Hyning

Accommodation is in comfortable single en-suite rooms, with access to lounges, a library, an art studio, and tranquil gardens set in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty near Carnforth.

Suggested donation:

• 8-day retreat (9 nights): £750

• 6-day retreat (7 nights): £620
  (£20 reduction for bookings before Christmas)

Places are limited to 12.

For further information and enrollment, contact Sr Mary Bernard at hyningbookings@yahoo.co.uk or call 01524 732684.

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Quiet Day at St Andrew's Lewisham

Saturday 15 June: Celtic wisdom

A quiet day based on the experience of a pilgrimage to Skellig Michael, with Kathleen O’Sullivan. 10 am for a 10.30 start until 4pm.

Friday 19 to Sunday 28 July: An Urban Oasis Silent Retreat

A silent retreat including personal accompaniment (IGR). 3 to 8-Day retreat. 2 nights minimum. Self-Catering only.

Click here for further information and bookings.