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Themed weekend retreats

Although we mostly provide for individual retreats, this year some of the brothers and sisters at Mucknell are offering five...

22/03/2019

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Prayer & Gardening Days

This year we are pleased to be able to offer three Prayer & Gardening days at the monastery. The dates...

21/03/2019

prayerhands

On Lent

Br Anthony, in a sermon given at Mucknell Abbey, reflects on the meaning of Lent. Benedict in his Rule, Chapter...

11/03/2019

Prayer

Prayer 101: Some thoughts on prayer

Not that we love God, but that God loves us… Another short reflection on prayer written by Friend and Oblate...

02/03/2019

bird singing

O Lord, open thou our lips

A friend of mine was recently telling me about the abundance of grace in his life. Since his retirement in...

28/02/2019

Willow Catkin

Monthly Digest: February 2019

“Teach me, my God and King, In all things Thee to see, And what I do in anything To do...

27/02/2019

Sundial

The Rhythm of the Kingdom

We are still within Christmastide, forty days from Christmas Day to Candlemas (2 February). Part of the personality of Christmas...

30/01/2019

Epiphany

Monthly Digest: January 2019

A happy New Year to everyone reading this. Christmas already feels like a very distant memory, but celebrations went on...

28/01/2019

Baby Jesus

Monthly Digest: December 2018

A Happy Christmas to everyone – yes, it’s still Christmas! We hope you are having a joyful and peaceful holiday...

31/12/2018

November book review

Mealtime books: November 2018

Extra Ordinary Eating in silence while listening to a book being read aloud is a practice found in Chapter...

26/12/2018

oak tree painting

Love bade me welcome

A good friend of mine died a year and a half ago. I recently gathered with his family to plant...

22/12/2018

stillness

In search of stillness…

Immediately I arrive at Mucknell Abbey, I pick up its rhythms, its pace, its quiet activity. I am here for...

30/11/2018

Travel light this Christmas with Discovering Prayer

‘Travelling Light’ in the run up to Christmas Christmas can be a really stressful time. Many of us would like...

28/11/2018

Winter sloes

Monthly Digest: November 2018

“So dull and dark are the November days. The lazy mist high up the evening curled, And now the morn...

26/11/2018

books

Make your hearts glad as you are able

Advent is looming: time, in the words of one of my favourite Advent carols (‘People, Look East’) to ‘trim the...

09/11/2018

Prayer

Prayer 101: Imagination in Scriptural Prayer

Now, let your mind and heart to seek the Lord your God The fourth in a series of short...

31/10/2018

Conch

Like listening to the sea

I like to think of my friends at Mucknell speaking or singing the daily office during my working day. I...

31/10/2018

Michael's profession ring

Monthly Digest: October 2018

The month began with our week-long Community Retreat. During this time the guesthouse is closed and we observe silence at...

30/10/2018

Manchester cathedral

Br Stuart’s September Diary

When one of our guests recently asked a Sister “Where is Br Stuart?”, she answered “Who?” In recent weeks, it...

29/09/2018

Late summer veg

Monthly Digest: September 2018

Good morning on this sunny Feast of St Michael and All Angels. Our patience-making internet connection notwithstanding, here is our...

29/09/2018

Prayer

Prayer 101: Praying for Others

Lord, the one you love is sick The third in a series of short articles about prayer written by...

25/09/2018

Treehead

Mealtime books: September 2018

At best a monkey shaved? Eating in silence while listening to a book being read aloud is a practice...

25/09/2018

Whitethroat

Br Anthony’s summer bird report

Now that we have arrived at the Autumn Equinox it seems like a good time to review the summer wildlife....

25/09/2018

Prayer

Prayer 101: Silent Prayer

Be still and know that I am God… The second in a series of short articles about prayer written...

04/09/2018

Jessica-kitchen

Jessica’s Journey

When asked to share one’s journey with God, it can sometimes be hard to know where to begin, especially as...

30/08/2018

Jessica and Thomas

Monthly Digest: August 2018

In a simple rite of reception on 7th our Alongsider Jessica was clothed in the habit and became our latest...

28/08/2018

Prayer

Prayer 101: The Jesus Prayer

Jesus, have mercy on me… This is the first in a series of short articles we’ll be posting on...

15/08/2018

July

Monthly Digest: July 2018

Nothing hidden from its heat… It feels like it’s been a slow, quiet month here at Mucknell – not least...

28/07/2018

Beatitude

Some 21st Century Beatitudes

This take on the Beatitudes originated with US Lutheran pastor Nadia Bolz Weber, founder of the House for All Sinners...

21/07/2018

Yuval Noah Harari

Mealtime books: July 2018

Histories of the Church and humankind: rise and progress? Eating in silence while listening to a book being read...

16/07/2018

FAQ

FAQ: What is your work?

30/06/2018

FAQ

FAQ: What do you do all day?

30/06/2018

Hay Bailing

Monthly Digest: June 2018

We kicked off June with our patronal Feast of the Visitation. The Community was founded as the Society of the...

30/06/2018

Christ Pantocrator June 2018

Br Michaël on The Iconostasis Programme

A year ago exactly (well, more or less) I had the privilege of attending a week-long Icon course led by...

29/06/2018

New/Trad Monastics

New and Traditional Monasticism: A Dialogue

In March 2018 a small group of leaders of new monastic and emerging communities met with the Mucknell Abbey Community...

20/06/2018

lake

The Lake of Beauty

A poem by Edward Carpenter (1844-1929), the socialist utopian, poet and “LGBT” activist, from his Whitman-esque Towards Democracy (1883). Let your mind...

14/06/2018

Chalice

Receive What You Are

Another shot of St Augustine taken from a sermon on the eucharist, read at Office of Readings for the feast...

31/05/2018

Canon Mark and Br Michael

Monthly Digest: May 2018

Br Michaël made his monthly trip to Canterbury for the third week of his icon writing course. On Monday...

30/05/2018

Pentecost

Br Stuart’s thoughts on Pentecost

One of my friends was 50 a few weeks ago. The day of her birthday was celebrated in a modest...

26/05/2018

Empty Oratory

Thrones for the Mystery: Timothy Radcliffe OP on monasteries

An excerpt from a talk given by Fr Timothy Radcliffe OP to the Congress of Abbots at San Anselmo in...

26/05/2018

Sacha Slavic

Being a Benedictine outside the monastery

What does it mean to be a Benedictine outside the monastery? We asked the Rev’d Sacha Slavic, a close friend...

21/05/2018

Drake brick

The Builders of Mucknell

On Sunday evenings the Community has its only talking meal of the week (that’s not an oblique reference to cannabalism;...

12/05/2018

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Just Let Me Love You

This silent prayer was a surprise. We had just finished Vespers, the sixth time of prayer that day, and frankly...

06/05/2018

Abide in Me

Abide in my love

From today’s Office of Readings: an extract from St Augustine’s homilies on St John’s Gospel (15:9-17) Augustine reminds us...

06/05/2018

Katy at Mucknell

The ‘Better Part’: Katy’s reflections

During the month of April, the community at Mucknell Abbey hosted three members of the Community of St Anselm for...

30/04/2018

Let’s talk of worms…

Worms have had a very bad press in the Christian faith as a symbol of death, decay and judgement. But looked...

26/04/2018

Monthly Digest: April 2018

After all the excitement of Easter the Community enjoyed a relaxing Octave together. Some of the highlights included a few late mornings...

26/04/2018

Bee hive

The tents-royal of abbesses

Here at Mucknell we have recently joined in a long tradition of monastic beekeeping. It has often been said that the hive models something of the ideal...

25/04/2018

Rose Window, West Malvern

Work by Sr Joyce Mary

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21/04/2018

Margaret Jarman

Remembering Sr Margaret Jarman (1932-2018)

A leading figure in the British Baptist Church and a close friend of Mucknell Abbey, Sr Margaret Jarman CPP BD...

16/04/2018

Rowan Williams

Apatheia and the Passions: audio talks by Rowan Williams

With the kind permission of Mother Mary Luke CHC and Lord Williams of Oystermouth we are pleased to make available...

10/04/2018

St Benedict post

New Icon

Br Michäel has finished writing a new icon of St Benedict (pictured). The icon has been commissioned by St Mary’s...

29/03/2018

snow at mucknell

Monthly Digest: March 2018

At the February meeting of the Church of England’s General Synod a motion was passed which paves the way for...

28/03/2018

74 Tools for Good Living

Mealtime books: March 2018

Goshawks and Good Living Eating in silence while listening to a book being read aloud is a practice found in...

20/03/2018

Sr Joyce Mary

Biography: Sr Joyce Mary (1892-1962)

Sr Joyce Mary (1892-1962) Sr Joyce Mary (Joyce Meredith) was born in Wavertree, Liverpool in August 1892, the only daughter...

26/02/2018

Statue of Our Lady of Iraq

Our Lady of Iraq

When I mentioned to Br Stuart that I was putting together a post on the statue we have in our...

22/02/2018

Br Stuart

Br Stuart on vocation

Br Stuart on his vocation & monastic life This text originally appeared in Frank Monaco’s Brothers and Sisters: Glimpses of...

12/02/2018

Adrian's Clothing as a Novice

Adrian’s Next Step

Adrian’s Next Step This piece was originally appeared in the Harpenden parish magazine, Link. Adrian has recently taken his next...

12/02/2018

Casteller Ring

CIR Gathering 2017

In August 2017 Br Aidan joined a contingent of Anglican Religious at the Interconfessional Congress of Religious (CIR) hosted by...

11/01/2018

Sue Gillingham

Talks on Old Testament theology

On Tuesday 13th March we were privileged to have Professor Susan Gillingham join us for the day to give the...

11/01/2018

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