iBenedictines
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This is a blog written by Benedictine nuns from Holy Trinity Monastery, formerly of East Hendred, now at Howton Grove Priory, U.K. We prefer to call ourselves cloistered rather than enclosed because the word ‘enclosed’ may suggest a closed mind. We have a special interest in using contemporary technology to reach out to people who would never otherwise come to the monastery.
Digitalnun
Jun 05 2017, 09:38
Three terrorist attacks in as many months, and those who like to shout are shouting loudly. ‘It has nothing to do with Islam’ cry some. ‘It has everything to do with Islam’ yell others. The only point on which they (…)
Digitalnun
Jun 03 2017, 07:45
From time to time someone will ask whether I have done such-and-such — usually, have I finished the book I’m writing, or updated the web site, or done any of the thousand and one things they regard as important and (…)
Digitalnun
Jun 02 2017, 07:50
‘Be kind to yourself,’ we are told, meaning, I suppose, that many of us are rather severe on ourselves when we ought not to be. Yet St Benedict, for all his compassion, never, for one moment, suggests that we should (…)
Digitalnun
May 31 2017, 09:31
One never tires of this lovely feast of the Visitation! I seem to have written about it endlessly, as the blog archive will attest. Is there anything new to say? No, but perhaps we can ask a new question — (…)
Digitalnun
May 30 2017, 09:17
In an age when individualism is prized, it is odd how few people actually dare to be different. By that I don’t mean the boorish rejection of social norms that is all too common, but the willingness to adopt a (…)