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The Feast of Benedict
The European project has, and will continue to have, a significant part to play in our lives. Though most people would consider it has...
Abbot David Charlesworth
16 minutes ago3 min read


The Cross, the Book and the Plough
St. Benedict of Nursia (ca. 480-ca 547), is considered the father of “western monasticism” and the author of the “The Rule,” a simple set...
Chris Walker
22 hours ago3 min read


The Rule in the Modern Day
I remember as a young adult being amazed by my first encounters with St Benedict and the Rule he wrote. I was visiting Worth Abbey in...
Patrick Cleary
2 days ago2 min read


Brought Together by Benedict
It is an honour to be invited to contribute to the blog for this week celebrating the impact and legacy of St Benedict patron of Europe....
Canon Jane Winter
3 days ago4 min read


The Woody Swamp: Benedict's Silent Revolution
I was intrigued when it was suggested that I might write a blog post on a quote from Pope Paul VI's Letter Pacis Nuntius : 'Benedict...
Fr Mark Kenny
4 days ago2 min read


Our Patrimony
In September 2023, I attended the International Oblates Congress in Rome at Sant’ Anselmo. The week included a visit to the monastery at...
Neil Zoladkiewicz
5 days ago3 min read


Peace Amongst Many Voices
Does St Benedict have a ‘word’ for us today? ‘Peace’ would certainly be one. War threatens the whole of Europe now, as the Cold War did...
Sr Laurentia Johns
6 days ago3 min read


End of Life?
I seem to have reached an age where gathering with family and friends is prompted more often by funerals than weddings, baptisms, or any...
Discipleship and Digital Coordinator
May 163 min read


Lenten thoughts from Stanbrook Abbey
For the second year in a row, and more by accident than design, Lent began for us at Stanbrook Abbey in North Yorkshire. Celebrating Ash...
Adam Simon
Apr 163 min read


Living hope
“As it is, these remain: faith, hope and love, the three of them; and the greatest of them is love.” 1 Corinthians 13 This seems a...
Adam Simon
Apr 113 min read


Pilgrim of hope
In this Jubilee Year as a pilgrim of hope, I sit and reflect on where I have come from and where I am going to on my journey through...
Adam Simon
Apr 42 min read


Faith, Hope and Love
When Jerome invited me to write a blog on the theme of “Living Hope", I misread his email and thought that the theme was “Living in ...
Discipleship and Digital Coordinator
Mar 223 min read


Hope Amidst The Busyness of Life
I found myself responding to a friend not long ago saying ‘My life is full of church’. Even as I said it, I thought of how superficial it...
Discipleship and Digital Coordinator
Mar 103 min read


Opening our Eyes to Hope
A few days ago, a friend recommended a video of Bishop Erik Varden, a Cistercian monk bishop, speaking about ‘Healing Wounds’ to the St....
Adam Simon
Feb 283 min read


Searching for Justice and Peace for All People
Life in Bethlehem Today For us, our journey into the issues of Justice and Peace in the Holy Land started with a Holy Land Pilgrimage...
Discipleship and Digital Coordinator
Dec 30, 20243 min read


In Lourdes with the HCPT
Lourdes has been a place for pilgrimage since 1858 when Our Lady appeared on 18 occasions to a poor 14-year-old girl called Bernadette...
Discipleship and Digital Coordinator
Dec 19, 20245 min read


Caring For Humanity: "For You Were Foreigners in Egypt"
This picture hung in the bedroom that my sister and I shared when we were very small. When one of us couldn’t sleep my mother would pick...
Discipleship and Digital Coordinator
Dec 12, 20243 min read


Caring For Humanity: Prison Fellowship
Prison Fellowship is an organisation which comprises of an ecumenical group of Christians who support prison chaplains in their work. Its...
Discipleship and Digital Coordinator
Dec 5, 20243 min read


The Space Between Us
Last week, I came across a podcast interview with the writer and psychotherapist Francis Weller ( https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/6...
Discipleship and Digital Coordinator
Nov 22, 20243 min read


Ora et Labora - A Beautiful Balance
For thirty years of my life, I was given the immense gift by the monks of Worth Abbey to be able take some part in their daily routine of...
Discipleship and Digital Coordinator
Oct 11, 20242 min read

Everything the abbot or abbess teaches and commands should, like the leaven of divine justice, permeate the minds of his disciples.
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