To book a place on any of these events, download a booking form from HERE.

Teenagers*
Youth team and Fr Roderick Jones OSB

The Teenage Weekends are run to give young people the space they need to explore their faith and also build valuable friendships. There are opportunities for private reflection, prayer, games, music, chocolate and marshmallows!
Cost for weekends: £64 per person

For Younger Teenagers: Ages 11-13 (School Years 7-9)

2007 December 7th-9th
2008 May 9th - 11th
2008 December 5th - 7th

These are fun-packed weekends offering a 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.

2008 February 15th - 17th
2008 June 27th - 29th
2008 October 24th - 26th

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
2008 August 10th - 17th (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: May Family HolyDays for 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.
2008 September 26th - 28th

A retreat weekend especially aimed at 6th formers, those taking a gap year and people beginning university. The weekend will offer space in which to question and discover, reflect and pray.
Donations per person between £50-£76

Joel’s Bar
(School year 13 to age 25)
2008 March 25th - 29th

A continuation of the Youth section of CELEBRATE, a Holiday Conference for Christians, organised by a team from Catholic Charismatic Renewal. The vision combines good Christian teaching and celebration with an opportunity to relax after the winter. About 200 are expected. Further details and online booking can be found (from December) at: www.celebrateconference.org.

Young Adults*
Youth team and Fr Roderick Jones OSB
2008 March 7th - 9th
2008 June 20th - 22nd
2008 August 29th - 31st

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
2008 August 10th - 17th (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 Younger Adults:
20-35 ‘Return of the King’
Fr Roderick Jones OSB
2008 November 28th - 30th

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 Christmas 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 person between £50 and £76

 

University Chaplaincies
Chaplains and Monastic Team
2007 November 16th-18th (Sussex & Brighton)
2008 February 15th - 17th (Birmingham)
2008 February 22nd - 24th (Portsmouth, Southampton and Reading)
2008 April 14th - 17th (Cambridge)
2008 November 21st - 23rd (Sussex & Brighton)

Students and Chaplaincies welcome!
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 £25 and £38 per day.
Some Chaplaincies offer further subsidies.

'Welcome to Life'
A retreat for 20 - 35 year olds within the diocese
of Arundel and Brighton.
Organised by the Diocesan Vocations Group.
2008 February 1st-3rd

A weekend exploring your path in life: how God is calling you to live life to the full. An opportunity to reflect upon vocation, identity and how to discern God’s plan for you.
www.calledbyname.org.uk
Donations per person between £50-£76

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* 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