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HOLY ROOD HOUSE RETREAT

Men staying grounded, staying sane and centred in a crazy world
Friday 10th October 4pm to Sunday 12th October 2pm 2025
A Residential Retreat for Men
With Revd Paul Golightly, Urs Mattmann & the Holy Rood House Community

‘The warrior unlike the soldier is a lover. The warrior is so much in touch with his heart that he can give it to the world’ – Matthew Fox in The Hidden Spirituality of Men

Come and enjoy Holyrood House, a lovely home which includes a large garden, wildlife and pets, a library and home-cooked food and welcomes you into its community.

In this retreat we will use movement, meditations, worship, discussions and reflective time to help us live day to day in this time of so many overlapping crises that seem to challenge our being, faith, and even life itself. We discover and share as Men on a spiritual journey Resources for Resilience, Stillness and Strength.

Paul Golightly – Methodist Minister is Director of St Bede’s Pastoral Centre, York,and National Coordinator and trainer for the Capacitar Wellness network, running several weekly groups that seek to integrate body, mind and spirit, to help us stay healthy and engaged in life.

Urs Mattmann is a Lay-Chaplain, Supervisor,Psychotherapist and Spiritual Director and is further developing our Men’s work. Urs is the author of COMING IN, published some years ago by Wild Goose Publications at www.ionabooks.com and for which Richard Rohr wrote the foreword.

Holy Rood House & Juliet House
Centre for Health and Pastoral Care and The Centre for the Study of Theology and Health
10 Sowerby Road
Thirsk North Yorkshire YO7 1HX
Please click here for further information and a booking form