Lockdown Liturgy Lessons 2
Continuing to reflect on different online worship styles and possibilities in a Covid-19 world.
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Lockdown Liturgy Lessons 1
How is Covid-19 affecting Christian worship?
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Friday in Easter Week
If any day is to be called “Easter Friday”, that is today.
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Exsultet 2020
The Exsultet is good source of reflection during the Easter Season – especially when we are staying at home to break the chain of Covid-19 and save lives.
Holy Saturday in a Covid19 World
Many are saying this is the Lentiest Lent that we have ever Lented! We, staying at home to break the chain of Covid19 and save lives, we are in an extended Holy Saturday.
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Maundy Thursday Good Friday and Easter in a Covid19 World
Resources for households to celebrate Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Easter at home.
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Learning from Hermits in a Covid19 World
We, who live outside monastery walls, can learn a lot from those who live within them – especially at this time with so many of us staying in our homes as a world-wide attempt to break the chain of Covid-19 and save lives.
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Praying Rather Than Proselytising
[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”] [et_pb_row admin_label=”row”] [et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”] In the recent Tablet cover story, A struggle with the silence of the monastery, Sam Hickford, a self-confessed “nature-loving hippie” described his conversion to Christianity. He visited Bakonybél Abbey, a Benedictine monastery in Hungary, as a volunteer on a farming project. This introduction to the monastic life –
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Contemplative July
This month, we’ve been celebrating 6 July: Thomas Moore – spent some time combining the spiritual disciplines of the Carthusians with his training as a lawyer. He continued many of the Carthusians’ disciplines throughout his life, and drew on their love for gardens and their balanced approach to wealth. 11 July: Benedict of Nursia –
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Anthelm of Belley
26 June is the Feast of Anthelm of Belley. He was born near Chambéry in 1107. He would later receive an ecclesiastical benefice in the area of Belley. When he was thirty years old, he resigned from this position to become a Carthusian monk at Portes. Only two years after joining the order, he was