Friday, December 10, 2010

UK Monastic Updates

Poor Clares:

Neath closed, and the nuns moved to the monastery of Bothwell, Scotland.

Darlington closed. The nuns joined their sisters at Much Birch.

Southampton closed, the nuns moving to the Poor Clare monastery at Dublin, Ireland.

Carmels:

Darlington lost their Discalced Carmelites, also.

The nuns of the Golders Green Carmel moved to that of Preston.

Redemptoristines:

The Liverpool community has unpublished their website. We have not been able to find another webpresence.

Benedictines:

Stanbrook Abbey moved into their new monastery:
http://www.stanbrookabbeyfriends.org/

Visitation:

A new website for the Visitandines:
http://www.visitationmonastery.co.uk/index.html

Thanks to the discerners from our Catholic Vocations UK/Europe group for the above information. They are also helping us with the contents of the website by the same name:
http://cloisters.tripod.com/vocations_UK/

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