To book a place on any of these events, download a booking form from HERE.
Teenagers*
Youth team and Fr Roderick Jones OSB
Cost for weekends: £72 per person
For Younger Teenagers: Ages 11-13 (School Years
7-9)
2009 June 5th - 7th
2009 December 4th - 6th
These are fun packed weekends offering the chance for spiritual and personal growth through the experience of friendship and community. Our time together includes a healthy balance of reflection, sport, creative activities and times of prayer with the monks.
For Older Teenagers: Ages 14-18 (School Years
10+)
The weekends for older teenagers take place mostly in a weekend in half
term
2009 February 13th - 15th
2009 October 23rd - 25th
One of the main aims of the older teenage weekends is to provide a space for them to engage with their faith and ask the important questions about life, the universe and everything! Prayer, reflection and discussion, time for sport, creative activities, relaxing and making friends are all part of the weekend.
Summer Activities Week: Ages
11-18 (School Years 7-13
2009 August 16th - 23rd (7 days, Sunday to Sunday)
This retreat provides an opportunity for teenagers to spend a longer
period of time together. As with the other retreats, it will be a balance
of games, activities and prayer. A great way to round off the summer!
Cost: to be announced.
Other Events for Teenagers
Other events do take place from time to time, not all at Worth
Abbey. Please enquire.
See also: Family ‘HolyDays’ for Teens for whole families with at least one child aged between 12 and 16.
Teenagers with Young Adults*
‘Life, the Universe and Everything’*
- a weekend for 16 -20 year olds in Compass House
The Elm
Grove Community and Monastic Team.
2009 December 11th - 13th
Donations per person between £56 and £84
Young Adults*
Youth team and Fr Roderick Jones OSB
2009 March 13th - 15th
2009 June 12th - 14th
2009 September 11th - 13th
These retreats offer a space for reflection, fellowship and deepening
faith. They include talks, discussion, reflection, and experiencing
something of the monastic way of life.
Open to those aged between 18 and 30.
Donations per person between £50 and £76
Young Adults Summer Activities Week
2009 August 16th - 23rd (7 days, Sunday
to Sunday)
This retreat provides an opportunity for young adults to spend a longer
period of time together, exploring the call of the Gospel including
formation, creative activities and prayer with the monastic community.
Cost: to be announced
An Advent Retreat for Adults
aged 25-45: ‘Return of the King’
Fr Roderick Jones OSB
2009 November 27th - 29th
Advent is a time when the liturgy of the Church calls us to look towards
the coming of the Lord. This retreat will be an opportunity to reflect
on the significance of the Incarnation but also Jesus’ return
in glory at the fullness of time. What might it actually mean to live
in expectation of the returning King? How does Christ’s coming
in glory impact on our day to day lives?
Donations per personbetween £56 and £152
University Chaplaincies
Chaplains and Monastic Team
2009 January 30th - 1st February (Birmingham)
2009 February 6th - 8th (Roehampton)
2009 February 13th - 15th (Goldsmiths & London South Bank)
2009 February 20th - 22nd (Portsmouth, Southampton & Reading)
2009 November 20th - 22nd (Sussex & Brighton)
For over thirty-five years Worth has hosted student groups. If you are interested in finding out more or booking a weekend or week, either for a chaplaincy retreat or as an individual please contact The Open Cloister.
Donations per person between £28 and £42 per day.
Some Chaplaincies offer further subsidies.
* These youth events
are organised in conjunction with the Lay
Community of St Benedict, a community dedicated to the Gospel and
the spirituality of St. Benedict as lived out by lay people.
www.laybenedictines.org
Tel.: 0845 4582994
and particulalry the Elm
Grove Community, in Brighton
Tel.: 01273 245096
youth@laybenedictines.org