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Are you discerning a contemplative vocation? Would you like to share our monastic life? The life of a Benedictine nun is one rooted in prayer, work and reading, living in a community in which the essence of Benedictine Spirituality is one of living the 'common life'.
We are a small community within the English Benedictine Congregation, founded in exile in Paris in 1651. Our nuns survived imprisonment in the French Revolution, and in 1836 settled here at Colwich in rural Staffordshire living an enclosed monastic life. We sing Mass daily and the full Divine Office, mostly in English. There is Eucharistic Adoration every week. To arrange a visit, please contact Mother Abbess Davina or Novice Mistress Sister Anne. Come and See . . . |
Exposition at Colwich |
A long weekend from Thursday 12th August till Sunday 15th August will be held for anyone who is discerning a possible vocation to the Religious Life and would like to come for a few days and experience Monastic Life.
With us you will be able to sing the Divine Office and Mass. Alongside our private prayer, work, studying the Holy Rule of St. Benedict, there will be a chance to chat with a few Sisters over their way of life. Time is also available to relax and go for a walk on your own along the canal, and take in some of Staffordshire countryside, or a visit to Shugborough Hall just a mile or so from the Abbey. For further details please contact Mother Abbess Davina either through the Blog at: HTTP://colwichnov.wordpress.com/ or email: novblog@googlemail.com or Tel: 01889 881282 Postal address: St. Mary's Abbey, Colwich, Stafford ST18 0UF Please could you contact Mother Abbess by July 31st |