The aim of this eight day course, which runs twice a year, is to introduce participants to the basic principles of Ignatian Spiritual Accompaniment.
It will include: listening skills, discernment of spirits, a model of Ignatian accompaniment, spiritual conversation and ways of praying. The course will help deepen and improve one-to-one pastoral ministry, using Ignatian principles based on the Spiritual Exercises which will be valuable in a variety of pastoral settings. This course will also introduce some of the skills necessary for spiritual direction, but while the course may reveal a gift for spiritual direction, it does not provide sufficient training for people to offer spiritual direction.
Course requirements:
Commitment to one’s own prayer life
Experience of receiving spiritual accompaniment on directed retreats or ongoing spiritual direction
To book, please register with St Beuno's.
Through Lent with St Matthew is a daily online Lenten retreat from the Jesuit-run Ignatian Spirituality Centre in Glasgow, offering guided Gospel reflections in the Ignatian tradition to help you grow closer to Christ through prayer each day of the season.
Start the first stage of the Full Spiritual Exercises at St Beuno’s Jesuit Spirituality Centre in St Asaph (north Wales), 20 Feb – 3 Mar 2026, and explore St Ignatius’ timeless path of prayer and spiritual growth.
Deepen your spiritual life this Lent with a flexible retreat—pray daily, meet weekly, and discover the ‘sacred within the ordinary,’ run in collaboration by the Edinburgh Jesuit Church, Ps & Gs Church, and the Epiphany Group.
