Downside Abbey

Happy Feast of St Gregory the Great! Since we are @BelmontAbbeyUK now, we have celebrated it a second time this year!

We have been absent from here since we moved - still thinking about how best to use social media. However, here is the homily from today's Mass @BelmontAbbeyUK soundcloud.com/downsideabbey/…

Here is the recording of our last Mass at Southgate House. We are grateful to the community @Buckfast_Abbey for giving us the use of the house as we continued our discernment. We won't be uploading the Mass again, but will look at other ways to be here. soundcloud.com/downsideabbey/…

@SisterWalburga Many thanks!

Prayers for you all and a smooth and peaceful move 🙏

@carolyn_ra @BelmontAbbeyUK Many thanks!

@downsideabbey @BelmontAbbeyUK Wishing blessings on your new project and mission with the community in Belmont Abbey. May it be a time of abundant grace and peace for you all. 🙏🙏🕊️

St Bonaventure, Franciscan theologian known as the Seraphic Doctor. We move to @BelmontAbbeyUK tomorrow, so we won't be able to upload our last Mass from Southgate House until Thursday pm or Friday. Pray for us and for Belmont! soundcloud.com/downsideabbey/…

@BirgitteUna @BelmontAbbeyUK Many thanks indeed!

@downsideabbey @BelmontAbbeyUK All blessings on your move.

There arose a new king in Egypt, who did not know Joseph. Seemingly innocuous words from Exodus that start of a whole series of events... to put it mildly! soundcloud.com/downsideabbey/…

@SisterWalburga @ClerkofOxford Happy Feast!

Today we are celebrating the Solemnity of our Patron Saint Mildred 😇🥳 She was the 2nd Abbess here at Minster Abbey You can read more about her in this wonderful blog by @ClerkofOxford aclerkofoxford.blogspot.com/2011/07/st-mil… Pic is an icon of St Mildred, written by Amanda De Pulford

Feast of St Benedict, patron of Europe. Happy Feast to all the Benedictines! @BirgitteUna @osb_sister @SisterWalburga and countless others! soundcloud.com/downsideabbey/…

It was a great occasion, and lovely to be with you

After a week's absence, we are back! The story of Joseph (Gen 37-50) is a fine story, worth reading in full. It has compelling characters, drama, intrigue & the guiding hand of God in the midst of it all. soundcloud.com/downsideabbey/…

The conflict between Sarah & Hagar comes to a head, but God assures Abraham that both his sons will be blessed. We won't be uploading the Mass for the next week, since Dom Anselm will be in Drogheda for the St Oliver Plunkett celebrations. soundcloud.com/downsideabbey/…

@riyeff If you send me your email address in a private message, I can forward it to the person at Downside who looks at these things.

@downsideabbey hi! i wrote the abbey a while back but hadn't received an answer: i've been wondering if you have third-class relics of st. oliver that the faithful might receive? if so, i'd love to send you my address to do so. happy to cover postage.

Feast of St OIiver Plunkett, whose relics are kept at Downside. In Drogheda next weekend there are events to celebrate 400 years since his birth & 50 years since his canonisation. He was a true pastor, appreciated by Catholics & Protestants alike. soundcloud.com/downsideabbey/…

Icon Workshop Retreats at Belmont Abbey. Last few laces remaining belmontabbey.org.uk/icon-workshops

@ArchbishopEamon Happy Feast!

Beautiful gathering to celebrate Mass for the feast day of #SaintOliver Plunkett in Armagh, especially in this 400th anniversary of his birth, and 50th anniversary of his canonisation.

Ferial Mass where we continue with the story of Abraham, and we see some of the larger group of disciples approach Jesus about following him in due course... soundcloud.com/downsideabbey/…

St Irenaeus was bishop of Lyons, author of 'Against the Heresies', that we see read at matins. A disciple of St Polycarp, who was a disciple of St John. He was martyred around 200 AD. soundcloud.com/downsideabbey/…

The Solemnity of the Sacred Heart today. Click on the link to hear our Mass and Abbot Nicholas' homily. soundcloud.com/downsideabbey/…