Events this month
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| View the progress of the monastic library being built. |
Fr Gervase gave a Retreat Day for the parish of Our Lady & St John, Goring-on-Thames, in the Conference Centre.Mar 6
Fr Hugh led a Pastoral Programme Day of Recollection in the Conference Centre.Mar 5 - 7Frs Alban & Oliver gave lectures to the Students from St Mary's University, Strawberry Hill in the Guesthouse Conference Room.
Monteverdi's Vespers were performed in an Abbey Church concert.
Teams of Our Lady from Fareham held a retreat in the Guesthouse.Mar 3 - 5
The Anglican diocese of Oxford is holding a training session in the Conference Centre and Guesthouse for clergy appointed for the first time to positions of responsibility.Mar 2
A performance entitled 'Step into the Picture' was given in the Abbey Church this afternoon. The production was inspired by the paintings of Paul Forsey telling the life of Christ, which were exhibited in the Abbey Church in 2002, and have been made into a book 'The Life of Jesus through the eyes of an artist' published by BRF. It was created and conducted by June Boyce-Tillman of the University of Winchester, and involved Southern Sinfonia,and children from St Nicholas Church of England School, St John the Evangelist School, Fair Oak Junior School and the Winchcombe School. The music was composed or arranged by Martin Reilly, Composer in Residence to Southern Sinfonia. It included music by Hildegarde of Bingen. The metal props were constucted by Camelia Botnar Foundation, which trains disadvantaged young people to become craftsmen.Mar 1
Fr Alban Hood returned from Rome where he has been following an intensive course on the Rule of St Benedict given by Sr Dr Aquinata Bockmann OSB at the Casa Sancto Spiritu the Generalate of the Missionary Benedictine Sisters of Tutzing.
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