"Please support me with your prayer, and I will be happy to do the same in the recollection of the retreat, invoking divine power on each one of you, on your families and your communities."
-- Pope Benedict XVI, 25 Feb. 2007
3 retreats preached at Douai Abbey (Berks., UK) by Fr Armand de Malleray, of the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter1.
Advent Retreat (3 nights)
8-11 December 2008
Starts Monday 8th December 2008 at 2pm –
ends Thursday 11th December 2008 at 11am
Theme: "Our Lady and the Incarnation"
Retreat open to all
Cost: £137 - to cover:
1-Accommodation: single room with en-suite bathroom, full board. The Guest Master suggests a donation of £125 per person (individual discount granted on request)
2-Retreat Master’s expenses: a minimum £12 per person expected.
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2.
Vocation Retreat (2 nights)
7-9 January 2009
Starts Wednesday 7th January 2009 at 2pm –
ends Friday 9th January 2009 at 11am
Theme: "Ask the master of the harvest to send out labourers for his harvest." (
Mt 9,38)
Retreat for celibate men, age 16-40 [
Vocations video]
Cost: £70 - to cover:
1-Accommodation: single room with en-suite bathroom, full board. The Guest Master suggests a donation of £58.75 per person.
2-Retreat Master’s expenses: a minimum £11.25 per person expected.
N.B. special reduction for students: £45 everything included.
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3.
Lenten Retreat (4 nights)
2-6 March 2009
Starts Monday 2nd March 2009 at 2pm –
ends Friday 6th March 2009 at 11am
Theme: "By his wounds we are healed" (Isaiah 53:5)
Retreat open to all
Cost: £169 - to cover:
1-Accommodation: single room with en-suite bathroom, full board. The Guest Master suggests a donation of £155 per person (individual discount granted on request).
2-Retreat Master’s expenses: a minimum £14 per person expected.
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Schedule: Silent retreat (inside the premises); meals with table reading on the theme of the retreat or music; includes a one-hour conference in the morning and in the afternoon; coffee-break; walks around the Abbey; possibility of private meeting with the Retreat Master and of confession; daily Mass in the Extraordinary Form of the Roman rite; other devotions possible (Rosary, meditation).
Possibility of attending some of the monks prayers (Douai Abbey is a community of monks of the English Benedictine Congregation).
Location: Douai Abbey, Upper Woolhampton RG7 5TQ, Berkshire, United Kingdom (about 1 hour west from London). Website:
www.douaiabbey.org.ukBy car: Douai Abbey is situated 1 mile north of the A4 about half way between Reading and Newbury in Berkshire. The turn off the A4 is about 6 miles from M4 Junction 12.
By rail: the nearest station is called MIDGHAM, but it is actually in Woolhampton village: trains from London Paddington, Reading & Newbury. A lift from and to the railway station can be arranged directly with the Guest Master (tel.: 0118 971 5399).
The building is equipped for wheel chairs.
Booking and contact: Fr Armand de Malleray, FSSP, 179 Elgar Rd, Reading RG2 0DH, Berks – Tel.: 0118 987 5819 – E-mail:
malleray[at]
fssp.org. Website:
www.fssp.org.ukN.B. Your payment will take place at the Abbey during the retreat. Deposit has already been paid. No other payment required.
To make a donation to help others – especially students – attend the retreat: please use contact above (£ cheques made payable to
"FSSP England" – please mention then "Retreat Sponsoring". Thank you very much).
On 31 October 2008, the Rt. Rev. Peter Moran, Bishop of Aberdeen, granted faculties to Fr. Michael Mary and to Fr. Anthony Mary, FSsR (Sons of the Most Holy Redeemer) at Golgotha Monastery on Papa Stronsay(?). These faculties include jurisdiction for the sacrament of Penance in both Papa Stronsay as well as the monastery chapel on Stronsay.
