Stanbrook Abbey, Wass 400th Anniversary

05/01/2025

THE EPIPHANY OF THE LORD

There will be NO PUBLIC MASS AT STANBROOK ABBEY, WASS today because of the weather.

19/12/2024

These are the Carmelite Sisters our community shared imprisonment during the French Revolution. They were taken to Paris and guillotined. Not long after their martyrdom Robespierre fell from power. Our community were allowed to return to England as long as we did not wear our habits. We had no money to buy clothes so the guards brought us the lay clothes of the Carmelites to wear. They went to their martyrdom wearing their habits. One of our community's most precious relics are those clothes.

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13/12/2024

04/10/2024

At long last our 2025 Calendar has arrived.
Beautifully printed by G H Smith & Son Ltd in Easingwold, N Yorkshire.

29/05/2024

As part of our 400th jubilee celebrations, the community is raising funds to finish building our guesthouse. The shell is complete but the inside needs fitting out and furnishing.
We are running a small auction to help raise funds. If you would like to aid our jubilee fund please place a bid on any of the items below. Please then email: [email protected] with your bid and your postal details and we will contact you in due course if successful. Please, mark subject line Jubilee auction.
Unfortunately because of postage and customs costs, the auction needs to be open to those in the United Kingdom only.
The auction will finish at midnight on July 5, Our Lady of Consolation, our patronal feast.
OR if you would like to just make a donation, you can go on to our website and make a donation at www.stanbrookabbey.org.uk