Ampleforth Abbey Podcast

Home Retreat: Fr Henry ' 'St Augustine' 12.09.2026 15:43 ↓

'A retreat is always an invitation to conversion. It would be difficult to find a better guide on the way of conversion than the greatest of concerts, perhaps also the greatest of Christian theologians, St Augustine of Hippo.'

Home Retreat: Fr Cedd - 'Fear and Fear' 09.09.2026 18:52 ↓

Link to the Discourse of St Dorotheus of Gaza: https://www.ampleforthabbey.org.uk/sites/default/files/2026-09/dorotheus-discourse-4.pdf 

Home retreat: Fr Bede "The only difference is that now I know the answer to the question.." the sting of Obedience 29.08.2026 29:12 ↓

Download the text of this Home Retreat: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QekKn_LA17OUOiI2CPje0jbaJA7DYjJ6/view?usp=drivesdk

Home Retreat: Fr Phillip - ' Too clever by half...or humbly wise?' 15.08.2026 11:08 ↓

Fr Phillip delivers this weeks Home retreat titled: ' Too clever by half... or humbly wise?' 

Home Retreat: Fr Wulstan - ' Where is Life?' 08.08.2026 12:10 ↓

Fr Wulstan delivers this weeks home Retreat titled: ' Where is Life?' 

Home Retreat: Fr Luke - 'The Annunciation' 01.08.2026 21:14 ↓

Fr Luke gives this weeks Home Retreat titled: 'The Annunciation' Reference picture: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AYfNVyRxz7wZyQKfj4IxESR1Yj_FXDxo/view?usp=sharing

Home Retreat: Fr Chad - 'The wedding homily never given' 25.07.2026 13:50 ↓

'Over the years I've preached homilies at about fifty weddings. There are things I've thought of saying, decided to avoid, but still saved. This is an attempt to bring all those together in one imagined homily.'

Home Retreat: Fr Christopher - ' The Holiness of Falling in Love' 18.07.2026 14:52 ↓

'St Francis invites us to see nature as a magnificent book in which God speaks to us and grants to us a glimpse of his infinite beauty and goodness. Beyond the language of mathematics and biology he takes us to the heart of what it is to be human….. just as happens when we fall in love with someone.' -  Laudato Si 12 Suggested Timetable: (But do make your own) 11.00 Talk – 11.30 Read thr...

Home Retreat: Abbot Robert - 'Who do you think you are?' 11.07.2026 13:26 ↓

Abbot Robert gives this weeks Home Retreat titled: 'Who do you think you are?'

Fr Richard - 'Thoughts on Magnifica Humanitas' 03.07.2026 19:44 ↓

On Monday 25th May Pope Leo released his first encyclical entitled: Magnifica Humanitas. In this Home Retreat Fr Richard shares his reactions.

Fr Wulstan 'To Prefer Nothing to the Love of Christ' 24.01.2026 7:40 ↓

The Passing of Our Holy Father St Benedict, as described by St Gregory the Great in his Dialogues, reminds us of what is central to our lives as Christians and specifically to any such life guided by the teaching of St Benedict, namely learning to prefer nothing whatever to the love of Christ, so that in purity of heart we might be brought to the vision of God.

Home Retreat: 'The Desire for God and the Gift of His Peace' by Fr Wulstan 02.08.2025 10:03 ↓

This Home Retreat explores how we might come to find true rest in God.

Home Retreat: ‘An Astonishing Secret - Daniel O’Leary’ by Fr Christopher 14.07.2025 12:58 ↓

I would like to reflect with you again on the message of Laudato Si on its 10th Anniversary – but from a different angle. Daniel O’Leary has written a book called An Astonishing Secret, using quotes from Laudato Si. It has 40 Chapters. I will probably not read all of them, but certainly the most relevant. The first is called: Loving the Earth – God’s Living Body. (Daniel wrote during Pope Francis’...

Home Retreat: 'Pentecost Eve' by Fr Henry 07.06.2025 20:53 ↓

Tomorrow is Pentecost or Whit Sunday, the celebration of the coming of the Holy Spirit on the apostles, all huddled together in fear in the Upper Room in Jerusalem. It transformed them from being wretched fugitives into being courageous missioners of the Good News..