Important: updated dates for oblate events 2022-2023

2022

Updated: 2nd Weekend of Lent: 11th-14th March (Friday - Monday) - Fr. Abbot

Summer: 29th July - 1st August (Friday - Monday) - Fr. Stuart Chalmers, oblate, spiritual director of the Scots College in Spain

2023

Lent: 24th-27th February (Friday - Monday) - Fr. Abbot

Updated: Summer: 18th-21st August (Friday - Monday) - Bishop Richard Moth, oblate

Additionally, we are posting the text of Canon Luke Smith’s conferences and homily given at the 2021 summer retreat. Click here to download.

Canon Luke Smith

Homily for the 8 o’clock Mass, Sunday 29B, 17 October 2021: Mark 10:35-45

As Jesus made his way to Jerusalem, and to his Passion and death, the Apostles James and John put to him a request. In doing so they put us all forever in their debt. Thank God for this instance of tactlessness and stupidity! Their ambitious striving for the top places in the coming Kingdom evoked from Jesus a response that gives us a privileged insight into into his own mind, into the Christian life; into God’s plan of salvation.

Homily for Sunday 28B, 10 October 2021 (Wisdom 7:7-11; Hebrews 4:12-13; Mark 10:17-30)

The story of the Rich Young Man we heard in today’s Gospel is such a divine word. We receive it as ever alive and active; not to be judged by us, but precisely to judge us; to scrutinise our secret thoughts and intentions (Hb 4:12). This is the passage that prompted the youthful Antony, father of all monks, to abandon all things in order to follow Christ, round about the year 269.