Featured Events
We have so much happening this year in 2023, that we wanted to give you a glimpse of some of what we have planned. You can view details of all our events here
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Living Prayer Podcast
In preparation for the 2025 Jubilee Year ‘Pilgrims of Hope’, 2024 has been designated a Year of Prayer by Pope Francis. So join us for a year long programme dedicated to prayer, where we will provide weekly podcasts, videos and materials to aid you in your prayer life.
Spiritual Direction Formation Programme (2024)
The Spiritual Direction Formation Programme (Carmelite Tradition) builds on an interpretation of the experience of journeying towards intimacy with God as expressed in the life of the Carmelite saints and deriving principles from this for the growth and flourishing of the spiritual life.
Upcoming Events
Podcasts
In preparation for the 2025 Jubilee Year 'Pilgrims of Hope', 2024 has been designated a Year of Prayer by Pope Francis. So join us for a year long programme dedicated to prayer, where we will provide weekly podcasts, videos and materials to aid you in your prayer life.
Enter by the Narrow Gate series
Starting January 2024 In this monthly online reflection series, Dr. Susan Muto and the Carmelite friars in Oxford will reflect and pray with the book Enter the Narrow Gate by Dr. Susan Muto over a one-year period.
Carmelite Reading Circle
Every year over a one year period we will become companions on a journey of profound faith deepening as together we will spend time with each other in friendship and prayer, reflecting on various books.
Practicing the Prayer of presence: A Retreat with Brother Lawrence of the Resurrection
Join us for the Carmelite Spirituality Network online Talk - Practicing the Prayer of presence: A Retreat with Brother Lawrence of the Resurrection. This day is devoted to unfolding the prayer of Presence, as taught by Brother Lawrence, a 17th-century Carmelite friar.
To believe in Jesus series
Starting February 2024 Immerse yourself in the transformative graces of Lent by participating in the CACS Online Lent Book Club. Over six weekly sessions, we will discuss together To Believe in Jesus by Ruth Burrows. This book explores what faith in Jesus really means and how it can grow and flower through our everyday lives.
Spiritual Direction Formation Programme 2024
Starting 2024 The Spiritual Direction Formation Programme (Carmelite Tradition) builds on an interpretation of the experience of journeying towards intimacy with God as expressed in the life of the Carmelite saints and deriving principles from this for the growth and flourishing of the spiritual life.
School of Prayer 2024
The School of Prayer is intended for those who realise the importance of prayer in their lives and are seeking a deeper relationship with God and support and encouragement in their search.
PILGRIMAGE WITH THE CARMELITES
Pilgrimage is about transformation. It’s about making us more like Jesus Christ. This is what both Saint Teresa and Saint John of the Cross set out to do in their writings such as Teresa’s Way of Perfection and John’s Living Flame of Love. Indeed, there’s no more powerful way to understanding their life transforming teaching than...
School of Prophets
The School for Prophets aims to hear and heed God’s voice from within the tumult of this time. Practicing the prayer, study, and silent receptivity exemplified by the prophets, school-participants will examine the world as God sees it, and discern ways to speak God’s truth, for both what is needed and possible.
Prayer, Virtue and Discipleship
May 9th, 23rd and June 6th 2024 This course aims to enrich the pastoral ministry of participants and to make accessible to them the formative wisdom of Christian mystics and spiritual masters. The short course is therefore, suitable for a wide range of people and those who are simply interested in understanding more about the spiritual...
School of Scripture
School of Scripture will take a comprehensive look at the structure and contents of the Bible, i.e., both the Old and the New Testaments, their historical background and the centuries-old tradition of Biblical interpretation (aka 'exegesis').
Pentecost Retreat 2024
The gifts of the Holy Spirit are seven, but what are gifts if they do not bear fruits? During these twelve days leading to Pentecost, we shall be unwrapping each day, the twelve gifts of the Holy Spirit as a guide to empowering you to live a spirit-filled life in your daily activities.
Waiting on the Word (Advent through the Psalms)
Starting off with a selection of Psalms, this retreat will explore the poetic form of the Psalms, and their imagery that touch the emotions and engage the mind in longing and waiting for the Word made flesh. With the Psalmist we express our deepest yearning for the Word that gives life, and dispels the darkness and...
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