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St Beuno's held a special significance for David Thomas, a much loved spiritual director who gave retreats here for many years...

Did you know that St Beuno's held a special place in the heart of St John Henry Newman (1801-1890)?

Nia-Wyn Kilminster shares what St Beuno’s means to her and how it feels to be listened to and enveloped by God’s love in the silence...

In search of some summer reading? Friend of St Beuno's, Sr Teresa Kennedy, shares two books that have inspired her to live Ignatian spirituality more deeply...

Retreat Team Member Siân shares her first experience of coming on retreat to St Beuno's...

Friend of St Beuno’s Sharon Hogg shares her moving experience of encountering God at work while on a silent retreat here at Beuno's...

Friend of St Beuno's, Sally Boyland, writes in honour of a very special woman, Gladys Engledow, who loved St Beuno’s dearly...

Leonie Martin shares a poem written while making the third stage of the Spiritual Exercises in 3 Stages retreat at St Beuno's last summer...

John Oldershaw invites us to see God in the lightness of a canine interruption to a silent retreat at St Beuno's...

Dominique Dubois shares how silence, while a challenge, allows him to listen more deeply to the leadings of God as well as to experience a greater sense of connection with others and the natural world...

Friend of St Beuno's, Linda Mary Edwards, writes about what St Beuno's means to her ...

Friend of St Beuno's, Valerie Eker, offers a thankful tribute to the memory of Sr Renate, who was on the retreat team here for many years ...

Annette Daly invites us to stop and 'set things aside for a bit' as she contemplates falling snowflakes ...

Friend of St Beuno's, John Williamson, shares some of his experiences of walking the North Wales Pilgrim's Way ...

A recent retreatant shares his experience of meeting God while on a walk at St Beuno's ...

A Friend of St Beuno's reflects on the part that this house has played in their journey with God...

Friend of St Beuno's, Julie Cuthbert, shares her experience of meeting God on retreat...

Jude Traharne shares her thoughts and impressions of our last Friends of St Beuno's Weekend...

As part of our 'Faith History of St Beuno's' to celebrate our 175th anniversary, Claire Christie gives thanks for the memory of a dear friend and former member of the St Beuno's community ...

Over the next year, we are inviting all those who have known and loved St Beuno’s to be a part of writing a collective Faith History to help us to celebrate our 175th anniversary. This month, Friend of St Beuno’s, Catherine Mangham shares with us a reflection on the impact on her life of making the Spiritual Exercises here under the guidance of Sr Anne Morris...

For 175 years, St Beuno’s has been a place of prayer and encounter with God. What part has St Beuno’s played in your faith journey? Is there a person, a place or an experience that has helped you to find God at work in your life? Help us to write a collective 'faith history' of St Beuno's...

Guest director, Ged Johnson shares with us his dream of building a retreat house in the grounds of his home, close to St Beuno’s, which was realised just before the pandemic.

Friend of St Beuno's, Hilary Earnshaw, looks back on an invitation that she heard as a refrain during our last Friends' weekend...

This Christmas, as we prepare to celebrate the Mystery of the Incarnation, St Beuno’s team member Fr Ian Tomlinson SJ shares a reflection on what it means to contemplate God’s goodness and beauty in creation.

On 4th November, the Catholic Church celebrated the feast day of that rather imposing figure of the Counter Reformation, St Charles Borromeo. What is perhaps less known is how much this energetic saint owed and contributed to the history and spirituality of the early Jesuits...

For those times when the weather can seem wild and unforgiving in our lives, Friend of St Beuno’s, Marvic Sammut reminds us that our God continues to dwell with us, to be a refuge in difficult times, and that peace will return...

In her poem, recent retreatant Kerryn Penson lets us share in the moving sight of a sunset here at St Beuno's earlier this summer.

Catherine Mangham shares her perspective on some of the highlights of our Friends of St Beuno’s weekend last month:

Director of St Beuno's, Ruth Holgate, explains her plan for involving the Friends of St Beuno's in advertising our new programme of retreats and courses to those who may not yet have come.

We at St Beuno’s are part of a bigger family working together as Partners in Mission. To this end we share with you a reflection offered to a gathering of Jesuits recently by Bishop Nicholas Hudson, from Thinking Faith, in which he reflects on this theme and also encourages the seeking of ‘ever greater closeness with the poor and with Christ’.