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24 nuns

115 lay oblates

English Congregation

email address

address:

Stanbrook Abbey
Callow End
Worcester
WR2 4TD
England, UK

	local time
	+44 (0)1905 830 209
	+44 (0)1905 831 737
	The number in parenthesis to be skipped when calling from abroad.
	secretary@stanbrookabbey.org.uk
	http://www.stanbrookabbey.org.uk/
	BHX
	Birmingham
	Worcester (Shrub Hill or Foregate Street)
	363/4
	M5 Junction 7 Worcester South

United Kingdom

cultural activities

craft work and other products: soap-making
shop
other: Bookshop, with mail/internet order service
Literary work
Liturgical texts and music
Translating
Our archives embody ou spiritual patrimony and our cultral heritage, ranging from sacred music, art and architecture, to historical books and documents

pastoral activities
newsletter guesthouse retreats

some useful info
patronale feast: Our Lady of Consolation (5/7)
• english • deutsch • français •
In 1625 nine English women exiles, led by a great-great-granddaughter of St Thomas More, were professed at Cambrai, Flanders. Marked by More's love of learning and spirit of hospitality, the new community followed Father Augustine Baker into the way of an interior search for God based on the training of will, mind and heart. Harmonization of this double inheritance is the challenge which stimulates the community's continuing development under the Rule of St Benedict. After surviving imprisonment during the French revolution the nuns returned to England in 1795 and in 1838 found a home at Stanbrook. The nuns are dedicated to the service of God and the Church in the liturgy and in contemplative prayer fed by lectio divina: to " the search for that one thing which our Saviour said to be necessary and which contains all things in itself - My God, to whom to adhere and to inhere is a good thing." (First Abbess, D. Catherine Gascoigne) Accommodation is available to anyone wishing to spend some time in retreat or reflection within the ambience of the monastery and to attend the liturgy. The community is currently expecting to move to a new location in North Yorkshire in spring 2009. See http://www.stanbrookabbeyfriends.org for 'Building Work in Progress' and other items.

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last updated: 17-09-2008 by secretary@stanbrookabbey.org.uk

Stanbrook (1625)