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April 8, 2025
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God's heart for answering prayer - Jane Atkinson

Jane Atkinson shares her experience of three life-changing retreats at St Beuno's that prompted her to write a book...
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February 27, 2025
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'A place where one can really meet God!' - Marvic Sammut

Marvic Sammut reflects on the many blessings she has received through making retreats at St Beuno's over the years...
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January 27, 2025
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A lump in her throat - Monika Tolmie

Monika Tolmie shares her experience of a surprise encounter while on retreat at St Beuno's...
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December 16, 2024
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Our Special Places - Roger Hagon

Friend of St Beuno's, Roger Hagon, reflects on some of the special places where he has met God on retreat and where he can return at any time in prayer...
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November 4, 2024
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In grateful memory of David Thomas - Hilary Thomas

St Beuno's held a special significance for David Thomas, a much loved spiritual director who gave retreats here for many years...
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November 4, 2024
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St Beuno's and St John Henry Newman - Alan Harrison SJ and Tim McEvoy

Did you know that St Beuno's held a special place in the heart of St John Henry Newman (1801-1890)?
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September 27, 2024
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Coming home to a 'spiritual hug' - Nia-Wyn Kilminster

Nia-Wyn Kilminster shares what St Beuno’s means to her and how it feels to be listened to and enveloped by God’s love in the silence...
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July 25, 2024
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Finding God in All Things - Sr Teresa Kennedy PBVM

In search of some summer reading? Friend of St Beuno's, Sr Teresa Kennedy, shares two books that have inspired her to live Ignatian spirituality more deeply...
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June 28, 2024
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My First Experience of St Beuno's - Siân Ap Dewi

Retreat Team Member Siân shares her first experience of coming on retreat to St Beuno's...
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May 22, 2024
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Experiencing the Love of God at St Beuno's - Sharon Hogg

Friend of St Beuno’s Sharon Hogg shares her moving experience of encountering God at work while on a silent retreat here at Beuno's...
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April 29, 2024
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A house where all are good to me - Sally Boyland

Friend of St Beuno's, Sally Boyland, writes in honour of a very special woman, Gladys Engledow, who loved St Beuno’s dearly...
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March 26, 2024
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Glad-gold heart - Leonie Martin

Leonie Martin shares a poem written while making the third stage of the Spiritual Exercises in 3 Stages retreat at St Beuno's last summer...
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February 29, 2024
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The dog ran in! - John Oldershaw

John Oldershaw invites us to see God in the lightness of a canine interruption to a silent retreat at St Beuno's...
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February 29, 2024
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The Gift of Silence - Dominique Dubois

Dominique Dubois shares how silence, while a challenge, allows him to listen more deeply to the leadings of God as well as to experience a greater sense of connection with others and the natural world...
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January 24, 2024
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My spiritual home - Linda Mary Edwards

Friend of St Beuno's, Linda Mary Edwards, writes about what St Beuno's means to her ...
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January 24, 2024
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In grateful memory of Sr Renate - Valerie Eker

Friend of St Beuno's, Valerie Eker, offers a thankful tribute to the memory of Sr Renate, who was on the retreat team here for many years ...
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December 20, 2023
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Just play in the snow - Annette Daly

Annette Daly invites us to stop and 'set things aside for a bit' as she contemplates falling snowflakes ...
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December 20, 2023
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On pilgrimage from Chester to Bardsey Island - John Williamson

Friend of St Beuno's, John Williamson, shares some of his experiences of walking the North Wales Pilgrim's Way ...
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November 28, 2023
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Acrostic: found whilst walking at St Beuno's - Jason Royce

A recent retreatant shares his experience of meeting God while on a walk at St Beuno's ...
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November 1, 2023
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'A house where all were good to me' - A Friend of St Beuno's

A Friend of St Beuno's reflects on the part that this house has played in their journey with God...
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November 1, 2023
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Days on retreat - Julie Cuthbert

Friend of St Beuno's, Julie Cuthbert, shares her experience of meeting God on retreat...
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September 30, 2023
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Impressions from St Beuno's - Jude Traharne

Jude Traharne shares her thoughts and impressions of our last Friends of St Beuno's Weekend...
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July 25, 2023
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Memories of Paul Edwards SJ (1922-1996) - Claire Christie

As part of our 'Faith History of St Beuno's' to celebrate our 175th anniversary, Claire Christie gives thanks for the memory of a dear friend and former member of the St Beuno's community ...
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June 25, 2023
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The Examined Life - by Catherine Mangham

Over the next year, we are inviting all those who have known and loved St Beuno’s to be a part of writing a collective Faith History to help us to celebrate our 175th anniversary. This month, Friend of St Beuno’s, Catherine Mangham shares with us a reflection on the impact on her life of making the Spiritual Exercises here under the guidance of Sr Anne Morris...
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May 29, 2023
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St Beuno's: A Faith History, 1848-2023

For 175 years, St Beuno’s has been a place of prayer and encounter with God. What part has St Beuno’s played in your faith journey? Is there a person, a place or an experience that has helped you to find God at work in your life? Help us to write a collective 'faith history' of St Beuno's...
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February 26, 2023
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'Come away to a quiet place' - Ged Johnson

Guest director, Ged Johnson shares with us his dream of building a retreat house in the grounds of his home, close to St Beuno’s, which was realised just before the pandemic.
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January 24, 2023
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Come, be with me - Hilary Earnshaw

Friend of St Beuno's, Hilary Earnshaw, looks back on an invitation that she heard as a refrain during our last Friends' weekend...
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December 21, 2022
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Finding God in all things - Ian Tomlinson SJ

This Christmas, as we prepare to celebrate the Mystery of the Incarnation, St Beuno’s team member Fr Ian Tomlinson SJ shares a reflection on what it means to contemplate God’s goodness and beauty in creation.
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November 26, 2022
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The Ignatian Connections of St Charles Borromeo - Tim McEvoy

On 4th November, the Catholic Church celebrated the feast day of that rather imposing figure of the Counter Reformation, St Charles Borromeo. What is perhaps less known is how much this energetic saint owed and contributed to the history and spirituality of the early Jesuits...
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November 26, 2022
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The Eye of the Storm - Marvic Sammut

For those times when the weather can seem wild and unforgiving in our lives, Friend of St Beuno’s, Marvic Sammut reminds us that our God continues to dwell with us, to be a refuge in difficult times, and that peace will return...
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August 24, 2022
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A tribute to Hopkins - Kerryn Penson

In her poem, recent retreatant Kerryn Penson lets us share in the moving sight of a sunset here at St Beuno's earlier this summer.
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July 26, 2022
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A weekend with Friends - Catherine Mangham

Catherine Mangham shares her perspective on some of the highlights of our Friends of St Beuno’s weekend last month:
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June 28, 2022
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A word from the Director

Director of St Beuno's, Ruth Holgate, explains her plan for involving the Friends of St Beuno's in advertising our new programme of retreats and courses to those who may not yet have come.
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May 30, 2022

Partners In Mission

We at St Beuno’s are part of a bigger family working together as Partners in Mission. To this end we share with you a reflection offered to a gathering of Jesuits recently by Bishop Nicholas Hudson, from Thinking Faith, in which he reflects on this theme and also encourages the seeking of ‘ever greater closeness with the poor and with Christ’.
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