Metanoia Retreats and Courses
That Detail Traditional Catholic Biblical Spirituality
David Torkington’s Metanoia Retreats for Clergy, Religious and the Laity, dedicated to Our Lady of Mount Carmel, use his books Passport to Perfection and Early Christian Spirituality as well as his free fifteen-part video series on prayer.
To show how this spirituality developed over the centuries, to include the Rosary, devotions to the Sacred Heart and other authentic Catholic spiritual practices, listen to his free audio presentations of his books How to Pray and The Hermit read by him on Radio Maria.
These retreats can also be followed as Lectures to re-introduce Traditional Catholic Spirituality, the sublime Spirituality that was introduced into the Early Church by Jesus Christ Himself.
Then follow the ten-part Lenten Retreat, The Lost Art of Prayer originally given on LifeSite News to introduce you to this long-forgotten Spirituality.
It begins with an introductory interview with John-Henry Westen and ends with an appendix on Quietism to show how this heresy destroyed Traditional Catholic Spirituality, up to the present day.
Also available on the websites.
If you are a Parish Priest who wishes to run parish retreats for your parishioners, or a lay person wishing to lead groups of likeminded Catholics, or making the retreat alone or with the rest of your family at home, please contact our director, Sr Bernadine for more details at info@metanoia.org.uk
Metanoia retreats are for schools too
Video produced for the Head Teachers’ Retreat Day at Belmont Abbey run by Fr Bernard Sixtus, Director of Religious Education (schools) in the Archdiocese of Cardiff.
Patron of Metanoia Retreats:
His Excellency Bishop Athanasius Schneider.
Bishop Athanasius Schneider, O.R.C., is a Kazakhstani Catholic prelate born in 1961 in Kyrgyzstan.
Now serving as an Auxiliary Bishop in the Archdiocese of Saint Mary in Astana, he is widely recognised for his unwavering commitment to traditional Catholic doctrine, the reverent celebration of the liturgy, and the importance of Eucharistic devotion.
Our Sponsor is Emily Embrey
Her generous support helps us to spread Metanoia Retreats throughout the world, enabling us to support those who lead them, and those who would otherwise find it financially impossible to follow them.
Back to Prayer, Forward with Christ the King
These Retreats/Courses show us how to live and practice the Spirituality that Jesus Christ Our Lord first practised Himself before introducing it into the early Church. It has four foremost features.
It is Royal, Contemplative, Redemptive, and Sacrificial.
As Christ the King, God has given him all power. However, that power is Love, so it cannot be forced on anyone without them choosing to receive it.
Prayer is the word used by the Catholic Tradition to describe how to receive it.
It is Contemplative because, as we persevere in prayer, the Holy Spirit draws us up into the Contemplative prayer of our Risen Lord that lovingly gazes upon God the Father. It is here, in doing this, that St Thomas Aquinas says that we receive the fruits of contemplation.
This infused love enables us to participate with Christ in our own redemption, and in the redemption of the world, that he now chooses to bring about through us. Hence it is a Redemptive Spirituality for ourselves and for others.
Finally, this Spirituality is Sacrificial, because it means making all the sacrifices that are necessary to follow this profound Spirituality in our daily lives that are then offered in with and through the Sacrifice of Christ every time we take part in the Sacrifice of the Mass.
The ever-increasing love that we receive in doing this, gives us the supernatural help and strength that we need to continue deepening the same spirituality that Christ himself practised bfore introducing it into the early Church.
“Thanks to this retreat our people are thirsting to discover and go more deeply into contemplative prayer” Very Rev Brian J. Welding, JCD, STL. St Michael the Archangel Pittsburgh Pennsylvania USA.
You can buy these books from the following Mercier Press website:
Click on the book covers to visit David Torkington Books on Mercier Press website.
