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Part 1:
The Imitation of Christ

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A woman in a white hooded robe stands in a gothic church, hands clasped in prayer. Sunlight streams through tall stained-glass windows, casting soft light across empty pews. The scene is in black and white.

Part 2:
Learning to Repent with Christ

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Part 3:
Learning to Pray with Christ

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A woman in a white hooded robe stands in a gothic church, hands clasped in prayer. Sunlight streams through tall stained-glass windows, casting soft light across empty pews. The scene is in black and white.

Part 4:
Learning to Sacrifice with Christ

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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.

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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.

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Passport to Perfection
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Book cover for Early Christian Spirituality by David Torkington, featuring an illustration of Mary, Joseph, and baby Jesus under a golden dove, on a dark blue background with gold lettering.
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Never to late to Love
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Inner Life
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A New Beginning
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