Benedictines, Oulton Abbey, England

[Gemma]

[url="http://www.carehomesuk.net/oultonabbey/pages/amenities.html"]http://www.carehomesuk.net/oultonabbey/pages/amenities.html[/url]

One of our women in discernment list members plans to enter here. She has been searching for years.

Blessings,
Gemma

[Stacey]

One of their sisters - Sr Peter - comes here (Colwich) for her retreats, she is a lovely, prayerful and smiling person and a joy to have with us. She told us someone was entering soon and we have been praying for her, they are very much looking forward to her entry and we are so pleased for them all. Please tell her we are praying for her and wish her well, sr marie-therese.

[Gemma]

[quote name='Stacey' post='1568472' date='Jun 11 2008, 04:20 PM']One of their sisters - Sr Peter - comes here (Colwich) for her retreats, she is a lovely, prayerful and smiling person and a joy to have with us. She told us someone was entering soon and we have been praying for her, they are very much looking forward to her entry and we are so pleased for them all. Please tell her we are praying for her and wish her well, sr marie-therese.[/quote]

Cloister Outreach just received the news on Tuesday or thereabouts. Perhaps she's the same one?

Blessings,
Gemma

[Stacey]

They only have one entering so it must be the same one, we do hope it all goes well for her, perhaps she may even be on retreat here sometime. pax

[jkaands]

I hope that the new entrant can get a website and a blog going fast, as Puella Paschalis did at Colwich! This small group at Oulton needs help, and the sooner the better. I am surprised at how many English communities who are in trouble, don't have a web presence, let along blogs, videos, etc.

[jkaands]

Another small habited Benedictine order in the UK, a branch of Stanhope, is Turvey Monastery, which, I am sure, has no upper age limit is;

[url="http://www.benedictinenuns.org.uk/"]http://www.benedictinenuns.org.uk/[/url]

They seem delightful.

[Stacey]

[quote name='jkaands' post='1579089' date='Jun 21 2008, 11:00 PM']I hope that the new entrant can get a website and a blog going fast, as Puella Paschalis did at Colwich! This small group at Oulton needs help, and the sooner the better. I am surprised at how many English communities who are in trouble, don't have a web presence, let along blogs, videos, etc.[/quote]

Sr Peter has recently got a computer and they are going online - maybe once they are used to it a website will come. I have been asked to suggest some sites for her to look at and will include this one, maybe she will come on. pax

[Digitaldame]

[quote name='jkaands' post='1579096' date='Jun 22 2008, 06:14 AM']Another small habited Benedictine order in the UK, a branch of Stanhope, is Turvey Monastery, which, I am sure, has no upper age limit is;

[url="http://www.benedictinenuns.org.uk/"]http://www.benedictinenuns.org.uk/[/url]

They seem delightful.[/quote]

Slight mix-up here! Holy Trinity Monastery East Hendred (http:/www.benedictinenuns.org.uk) is not part of Turvey or any other community but an autonomous monastery of Benedictine nuns in the RC diocese of Portsmouth, about thirteen miles from Oxford. As to being delightful . . . how could nuns not be?????

[Stacey]

[quote name='Digitaldame' post='1592599' date='Jul 6 2008, 01:23 AM']Slight mix-up here! Holy Trinity Monastery East Hendred (http:/www.benedictinenuns.org.uk) is not part of Turvey or any other community but an autonomous monastery of Benedictine nuns in the RC diocese of Portsmouth, about thirteen miles from Oxford. As to being delightful . . . how could nuns not be?????[/quote]

These three nuns were actually solemnly professed at Stanbrook but left to live a stricter form of the life. They are automomous with no links to other communities or congregations. Turvey are either Subiaco or Solemnes congregation - I can't remember off hand. They have a monastery one side of a chapel and monks of the congregaton have a monastery the other side, each house is separate but they do share chapel and some offices i think, thay have their own website - again not at hand but type in Turvey and you will find them easily. pax

[Digitaldame]

[quote name='Stacey' post='1592645' date='Jul 6 2008, 11:29 AM']These three nuns were actually solemnly professed at Stanbrook but left to live a stricter form of the life. They are automomous with no links to other communities or congregations. Turvey are either Subiaco or Solemnes congregation - I can't remember off hand. They have a monastery one side of a chapel and monks of the congregaton have a monastery the other side, each house is separate but they do share chapel and some offices i think, thay have their own website - again not at hand but type in Turvey and you will find them easily. pax[/quote]

[Digitaldame]

Er, not quite sure you are accurate in all details about the Hendred nuns; but as I happen to be one of them, it may be I know a little more . . . it is not a question of living a "stricter" or "less strict" form of Benedictine life but of being true to what one has professed, cost what it may.

[puellapaschalis]

[quote name='Digitaldame' post='1592707' date='Jul 6 2008, 06:29 PM']Er, not quite sure you are accurate in all details about the Hendred nuns; but as I happen to be one of them, it may be I know a little more . . . it is not a question of living a "stricter" or "less strict" form of Benedictine life but of being true to what one has professed, cost what it may.[/quote]

Sr., Sr. Marie Therese may be passing on info from someone else she knows who also knows Stanbrook a little.

Other than that...YAY another Benedictine nun on Phatmass! Welcome

[HolyHearts]

Just noticed that the Hereford Benedictines do not even pray all the Hours of the
Divine Office - just the 5X a day instead of 7; no mid-morning of mid-afternoon.
Normally Benedictines pray the full Office in Common....Now why would they cut
down on the prayer-life if they are from Stanbook?

[EJames2]

opps, double post

Edited July 6, 2008 by EJames2

[EJames2]

[quote name='Stacey' post='1592645' date='Jul 6 2008, 03:29 AM']...Turvey are either Subiaco or Solemnes congregation - I can't remember off hand. They have a monastery one side of a chapel and monks of the congregaton have a monastery the other side, each house is separate but they do share chapel and some offices i think, thay have their own website - again not at hand but type in Turvey and you will find them easily. pax[/quote]
Turvey are defenitely not Solesmes (nor Subiaco), but of the more progressive/ecumenist (Vita et Pax Foundation) Olivetan family of Benedictines.
PAX

[Digitaldame]

[quote name='HolyHearts' post='1592831' date='Jul 6 2008, 09:52 PM']Just noticed that the Hereford Benedictines do not even pray all the Hours of the
Divine Office - just the 5X a day instead of 7; no mid-morning of mid-afternoon.
Normally Benedictines pray the full Office in Common....Now why would they cut
down on the prayer-life if they are from Stanbook?[/quote]

The Belmont Benedictines in Hereford are not from Stanbrook and are monks. The Hendred Benedictines follow the same pattern of prayer as the Stanbrook Benedictines. The Hendred Benedictines and the Stanbrook Benedictines are nuns; if you want to know why the Little Hours were subsumed into one lengthy Midday Office, you will find quite a long liturgical "audit trail" in the work that was done after Vatican II when Stanbrook acted as a kind of liturgical clearing-house for translating liturgical texts into English. Benedictines actually show a remarkable variety in the form of the Divine Office. For example, many communities follow a two week psalter or omit the cursing psalms (like the Roman Office) even though they may continue to pray the Little Hours. We follow St Benedict in having all 150 psalms in the course of a week (even though we do not say the Little Hours mid-morning and mid-afternoon). We also have a considerable daily commitment to personal contemplative prayer and lectio divina in addition to the Divine Office, so "cutting down on the prayer-life" is an odd way of describing what we do. Would you like to guess how many hours it amounts to every day of the year? But this really deserves another thread all to itself.

[the lords sheep]

Welcome Sister!
I don't know how we were so blessed that you stumbled onto our little community, but thank you for taking the time to post thus far. There are many woman and men seeking the will of the Lord on this forum, so please pray for us! Be assured of my prayers as you are founding (are you still in the founding stages?) I hope you receive many holy and generous vocations!
In Jesus and Mary, Lauren

[Stacey]

[quote name='Digitaldame' post='1592707' date='Jul 6 2008, 10:29 AM']Er, not quite sure you are accurate in all details about the Hendred nuns; but as I happen to be one of them, it may be I know a little more . . . it is not a question of living a "stricter" or "less strict" form of Benedictine life but of being true to what one has professed, cost what it may.[/quote]

I'm sorry Sister, no offense meant, Puella is right, I was told that by someone who had been at Stanbrook and seemed very knowledgable about it, she is the only reason that I know of your existence at all, pax sr marie therese.

[Stacey]

[quote name='EJames2' post='1592836' date='Jul 6 2008, 02:58 PM']Turvey are defenitely not Solesmes (nor Subiaco), but of the more progressive/ecumenist (Vita et Pax Foundation) Olivetan family of Benedictines.
PAX[/quote]
...again it seems i stand corrected, i wrote off the top of my head and in a rush before, but now i have the Benedictine handbook with me so ... Turvey are the Olivetan Congregation - this Congregation was founed by Blessed Bernard Tolomei who joined with two companions to live as hermits in 1313. They were joined by others and a community formed near Siena. In 1960 the Olivetan congregation joined the Benedictine Confederation and now has houses over the world. Their habits are white in honour of Our Lady. pax

[Digitaldame]

[quote name='the lords sheep' post='1592991' date='Jul 7 2008, 01:03 AM']Welcome Sister!
I don't know how we were so blessed that you stumbled onto our little community, but thank you for taking the time to post thus far. There are many woman and men seeking the will of the Lord on this forum, so please pray for us! Be assured of my prayers as you are founding (are you still in the founding stages?) I hope you receive many holy and generous vocations!
In Jesus and Mary, Lauren[/quote]


Thank you for your prayers. We pray for everyone who uses the Phatmass site. We are canonically established and now open to accept vocations but there's a lot still to do. We are currently drawing up a FAQ for our web site and we'd like to make sure it deals with what people want to know — rather than what we assume others want to know — which is my main reason for keeping an eye on the phorum.