CHRISTIAN RETREAT
listening to the spirit today
This site is about our life in the community of the Christian Retreat - a life which is challenging, radical and different. We hope it will give you a glimpse of our life of prayer, meditation, community and commitment.
The Christian Retreat was founded in 1789 by Fr. Anthony Sylvester Receveur. In an age when faith and morals were in decline, he offered to ordinary people a means of drawing closer to God. Through practising meditation and making spiritual retreats, their lives were transformed.
Today, we witness an even greater breakdown in society, resulting in loss of faith, disorientation, loneliness and fear. Meditation and spiritual retreats are as relevant and as needed in the 21st Century as they were in the 18th.
Jesus said: “If you knew
the gift of God and who it is that is saying to you, 'Give me to drink',
you would have been the one to ask and He would have given you living
water”
(Jn 4:10)