Holy Week Retreat

Easter Retreat.

Tuesday, 4 to Sunday 9 April (or join on Thursday, 6 evening).

Leader: Fr Robin Burgess.

Venue: Kairos Centre, Mount Angelus Rd Roehampton SW15 4JA .

Cost: £340 (ensuite) / £320 (standard) for five days or £280 (ensuite) / £260 (standard) for 3 days includes accommodation and all meals.

Contact: Fr Robin Burgess ( rmeburgess@aol.com), book with thekairoscentre.co.uk.

For some years I have been leading a retreat for meditators in Holy Week. It was originally intended for people who might like to keep this time in retreat, but would not be able to join Fr Laurence at Bere Island, or now at Bonnevaux. It has been held at various venues in the London area, beginning with the Kairos Centre at Roehampton, where it will return in 2023. This is an attractive, comfortable retreat house overlooking Richmond Park, with fine views of the park from the house.

During the retreat there are daily times of meditation, with talks to help enter the experience, alongside the major ceremonies of the Paschal Triduum, the Great Three Days of the Passover of Christ – the Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper on Maundy Thursday, the afternoon Passion liturgy of Good Friday, and the Resurrection Vigil in the early hours of Easter Sunday. The retreat then concludes with a festive celebratory breakfast, allowing people to rejoin their families for Easter. I know many prefer to spend this time in their home parishes, but it adds an extra and special dimension to be away in retreat and keep this heart and centre of the Church’s year in contemplative silence with fellow-meditators.

Anyone interested in taking part who would like further information please get in touch.

Fr. Robin Burgess