St Benedict Week 2025
5-13 July 2025 Programme organiser: Adam Simon leader@lcsb.uk
St Benedict Week 2025 has now concluded. We spent the week celebrating the spiritual and cultural legacy of St Benedict through a variety of activities, prayers, blogs, podcasts and gatherings. Abbot Primate Jeremias Schröder OSB, delivered a keynote address at Worth Abbey on 12 July, exploring how Benedictine values remain relevant today.
The Abbot Primate’s talk, “St Benedict’s Message for Europe in 2025,” came as we mark 60 years since Pope St Paul VI declared St Benedict Patron of Europe.​
"St Benedict's legacy as Patron of Europe is not merely historical; it is a living inheritance impacting both secular and religious landscapes. In 2025, his guidance on leadership, a balanced life, hospitality to all, and human organisational structures, continue to offer essential inspiration for fostering a more just and spiritually enriched Europe."​​
​Please visit our Talks page here to listen to the three St Benedict Week talks.
"I warmly endorse the celebration of the Benedictine way of living the Gospel. Blogs, talks and podcasts will highlight the inspiration that St Benedict brings to people's lives today, while community events and times of prayer will enable active participation in this way of life. St Benedict says that guests are to be received with humanity and humility, two qualities that I hope will characterise the experience of those taking part in the week."
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Dom Christopher Jamison, Abbot President of the English Benedictine Congregation
Benedictine communities throughout the UK invite you to pray the Office of the Church in person or online - details are available on the Divine Office page.
A novena to St Benedict is available
to be prayed throughout the nine
days of St Benedict week.
Share the joy of Community​
Click here for ideas for a Benedictine celebration
Every Benedictine community is a unique flowering of the Holy Spirit - we invite all Benedictine communities to share photos of how they celebrate the feast of St Benedict.
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The LCSB is a lay-led, inter-generational, ecumenical and inclusive Benedictine community engaged with the world, with a mission to inspire people with the Gospel of Jesus and create a new generation of fans of St Benedict. We invite you to celebrate St Benedict Week in the company of a rich diversity of Benedictine communities, around the feast on 11th July.
