A new website is available offering online resources to help people live through the coronavirus pandemic. These come from those with experience of social distancing or isolation, people who have lived this reality either intentionally like monks and nuns or against their will like hostages or the housebound. This is a new and difficult journey
for most people, but experienced guides give us hope along the way. Please visit www.alonetogether.org.uk to access these resources.
Pope Francis’s message for Vocations Sunday is now available to read. Vocations Sunday this year will be celebrated on 3rd May, which is the day the universal church asks the Lord to help people hear God’s call in their lives.
Please click here to read the Pope’s message to us.
On Sunday 2nd February, the World Day for Consecrated Life, nine religious spent the day with students of Manchester Universities’ Chaplaincy. You can read the homily given by Sr. MaryAnne, an FCJ sister, by clicking here.
You can also find photos and further details at www.facebook.com/brojimhayes (scrolling down to Feb 5th).
Dolgellau Carmelites have always tended to rely on word of mouth, personal introductions and a good old fashioned letter or phone call when women have wanted to test their vocation. However this year they are breaking with tradition and launching a series of ‘Come and See’ weekends, to enable single women who feel they might have a vocation to get a taste of the sisters’ life of prayer.
A new feature documentary about the monks of Mount St Bernard Abbey, called “Outside the City”, is being premiered on November 9th at Cinecity Brighton Film Festival. This artistic film documents the lives and deaths of the monks living behind the walls of this closed monastic community in Leicestershire, as they transition from dairy farming to brewing the UK’s first Trappist beer, the world famous Tynt Meadow.
The premiere of the film will be an afternoon screening at 2pm at the Depot Cinema in Lewes. The bar will be serving Tynt Meadow and there will be a chance to discuss the film after the screening with filmmaker Nick Hamer. For more details and to book your ticket please click here.
In this fast-paced world, rife with distractions, there’s an opportunity for religious young people to “establish a lasting spiritual foundation” for their lives. An eight-week monastic internship is available to 18 to 25-year-olds at Quarr Abbey, a Catholic Benedictine Monastery on the Isle of Wight.
Josh Caminiti, a 23-year-old from Canada, who is about to start a new job as a business consultant in London, took part in the programme and shares his experience with the BBC in this video.