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YO61 4AY Tel: +44 (0)1347 868900 Fax: +44 (0)1347 869048 E-mail: secretary@stanbrookabbey.org.uk
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Under the Patronage of Our Lady of Consolation
In 1625 nine young English exiles, led by a great great granddaughter of St Thomas More, were professed at Cambrai, Flanders. Marked by Mores love of learning and spirit of hospitality, the new community followed Fr 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 communitys continuing development under the Rule of Saint Benedict. After surviving imprisonment during the French Revolution the impoverished nuns returned to England in 1795. A permanent home was found at Stanbrook in 1838. The nuns are dedicated to the service of God and the Church in the liturgy and in contemplative prayer fed by lectio divina. For some, praise of God and reverence for creation finds expression in art, literary work, music, printing or bookbinding. But for all, the love of Christ is to be found in the ordinary daily tasks of building up a way of life in which past, present and future generations may join with the communitys first abbess, Dame Catherine Gascoigne, in: the search for that one thing which our Saviour In May 2009, the community moved, once more, to a purpose built monastery at Wass in Yorkshire. |
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Vigils: |
Daily 6.00am |
| Lauds: | Daily 7.30am |
| Conventual Mass: | Sunday 12.00 noon weekdays 9.00am |
| Midday: | Daily 12.30pm ; Sundays 9.30am |
| Vespers: | Daily 6.00pm |
Compline:
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Daily 8.15pm
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