Downside Vocation

#Catholic #Benedictine #Monks

@downsideabbey

Posting on all things monastic and vocation-related.

[Downside Vocation @DownsideMonks]

We will be there too!

[Buckfast Abbey @Buckfast_Abbey]

Maundy Thursday - Join us in the Abbey Church or online at 18:00 hrs today for Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper Sung by the Abbey Choir.
Music is central to all worship in the Abbey Church. The respected Abbey Choir has a wide ranging repertoire of sacred music. #MaundyThursday

[Downside Abbey @downsideabbey]

1st Sunday of Lent. Listen to today's homily from @DownsideMonks
https://t.co/uZLhviliD7

[Sr Miriam McNulty @BirgitteUna]

Hey, #nunsoftwitter, so you see this?! https://t.co/21A1fYtLh6

[Sr Augustina OSB @osb_sister]

The community of our sisters from Zhytomyr have decided to evacuate. They will arrive to us. The road is not safe, please pray for them!
#PrayForUkraine

[Downside Abbey @downsideabbey]

The 1st reading from Isaiah & the inscription over our front door remind us of God's constant care for us through thick and thin. Listen to today's Mass sung by @DownsideMonks
https://t.co/Z8SSg9fO6Z

[Downside Abbey @downsideabbey]

St David and his monks spread the Gospel throughout Wales, the southwest and Brittany. Monks and mission go together, and this is one of the features of the English Benedictine Congregation.
Happy feast to our own Dom David!
https://t.co/9ikhEAi2KF

[Downside Abbey @downsideabbey]

It was a great talk, so definitely worth watching it! Many thanks @ammorrey

[Downside Abbey @downsideabbey]

Lent is well and truly here and there is a real feeling of spring in the air at Downside today.
https://t.co/JQQ0rs901X

[Alexis Walkenstein @walkenstein]

Carmelite Sisters in Kiev have remained in their monastery.

Pray for them.

[Downside Abbey @downsideabbey]

8th Sunday of the Year & Feast of Bl Mark Barkworth, priest & oblate of our Congregation martyred at Tyburn in 1601. He had a vision where St Benedictine told him he would die in the Benedictine habit; and so it was.
https://t.co/332dXcrD5b

[Buckfast Abbey @Buckfast_Abbey]

Buckfast Abbey offers rare opportunity for 12 Men to join its Holy Week Vocations Discernment Retreat - Absolute PR and Marketing https://t.co/E9MgNRvbwP

[Curia Generalizia dei Carmelitani Scalzi @ocdcuria]

🇬🇧 Ukraine : The nuns of Kharkiv have decided to evacuate the monastery. They move to a city in western Ukraine, in a column of cars (photo from Kharkiv).
The nuns of Kiev remain, and the friars stay with them.

[Downside Abbey @downsideabbey]

Mass and lunch with our oblates today, Great people who give such support to @DownsideMonks behind the scenes. Thank you!
https://t.co/Hc3SLGJGtD

[Fr. Patrick Hyde, OP @frpatrickop]

Why I wear a habit on a plane: Today, I met a woman who told me, “Father, I was on my first flight as a mom with my son. I was so nervous. Then, you got on the plane & I knew it would be alright.”

Priests point others to Jesus.

[Downside Abbey @downsideabbey]

Prayers for peace between Russian and Ukraine from @DownsideMonks. Today's Mass was offered for peace. St Benedict is one of the patrons of Europe & the motto of the Order is sometimes shown as 'peace' in a crown of thorns.
https://t.co/KyYRAYnnaW

[Downside Abbey @downsideabbey]

7th Sunday of the Year and another plainchant Mass from @DownsideMonks. Happy Sunday!
https://t.co/bG4f4HzTa4

[Downside Abbey @downsideabbey]

Storm Eunice has toppled a number of trees, cut off the power 3 times, & there are candles in the choirstalls - just in case! Today was a Mass of Our Lady as Mother & Image of the Church. Listen to Dom Leo's homily on this title.
https://t.co/pTqfITwbsm

[Downside Abbey @downsideabbey]

#StormEunice is battering the monastery as I write, trees bending in the wind: prayers for those suffering.
The Letter of James at Mass is full of practical advice for life. Today: faith is not purely interior. It must have practical consequences.
https://t.co/RT7VQrmQgO

[Downside Abbey @downsideabbey]

Back after a few days' "break", getting ready for our move. Today's Gospel reminds us of the central question: who is Jesus for me? What do we really think?
https://t.co/wM2jd43tDY