Led by Fr David Marsden SCJ, Dr Christine Ward and Dr Andrew Kaethler - from £478 per couple including a 3-course meal on St Valentine’s Day.
Growing in Love - Do you want to deepen your understanding of the theological meaning of marriage and enrich your marriage? Learn, love, and build your marriage over St Valentine's weekend. The course also includes three online or in person (hybrid) Theology of the Body sessions preceding the retreat. The pre-weekend online sessions will be held on Tuesday nights:
Marriage is anything but mundane; ‘marriage and the family are rooted in the inmost nucleus of the truth about man and his destiny. Sacred Scripture reveals that the vocation to love is part of the authentic image of God which the Creator has desired to impress upon his creature, calling them to resemble him precisely to the extent in which they are open to love’ (Pope Benedict XVI). The marriage relationship between a man and a woman reflects who God is and what redemption is. It is a testimony to love. It is prophetic evangelism. In the words of St John Paul II, ‘Spouses are therefore the permanent reminder to the Church of what happened on the Cross… witnesses to the salvation in which the sacrament makes them sharers. Of this salvation event marriage, like every sacrament, is a memorial, actuation and prophecy.’
Do you want to deepen your understanding of the theological meaning of marriage and enrich your marriage? At Buckfast Abbey we are offering a four-part series on St John Paul II’s Theology of the Body that begins online and culminates with an in-person marriage retreat at the Abbey. Learn, love, and build your marriage over the Valentine weekend.
We offer a choice of accommodation, our Southgate Retreat House or Northgate House Hotel. A continental breakfast and 2 course evening meal is included in the price, as well as the special 3 course meal on St Valentine's Day (all excluding drinks). Please notify us of any special dietary requirements at time of booking.
