The nuns of Stanbrook Abbey
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- čas přidán 9. 11. 2009
- Riazat Butt visits the Benedictine nuns of the Conventus of Our Lady of Consolation, who have left their Victorian abbey in Worcestershire for an environmentally sensitive home in the North York Moors national park
I understand the need to move to a modern building, but the famous novel "In this House of Brede," was written with Stanbrook Abbey as the fictional Abbey, so I think it's a shame that the former Abbey, where hundreds of women lived their entire lives cloistered, has been turned into a wedding venue. However I wish these wonderful nuns nothing but the best. I hope many women will enter this monastery.Thank you, dear cloistered Benedictine Nuns!
I found this video because I’m reading ‘In This House of Brede’ and I wanted to learn more about the monastic life.
I am a monk in a religious order and I would love to live here! There is something very spiritually uplifting about the clean lines, the minimalism, no distractions to inner contemplation. Also, it's accessible to all of the older members. Please think of that before you begin criticizing.
Of course, sensible people realize this is a step in a great direction - one lots of other organizations would do well to emulate. Critical folk are... just that. Peace be, Brother. 🙏📿🌍💙
Sister Julian! Hello! The lodges are incredible, it is well worth going. I used to go to the monastery at Worcester and followed the order up to Yorkshire. They are amazing ladies!
I couldn't live in that building.
It does not matter what kind of building they live in, as long as they continue to keep their Benedictine traditions and its life styles. As long they are happy to live it for God. That's what it count.
Catholic modernist architecture is so profoundly ugly and despicable. Has anyone seen Liverpool Catholic Cathedral? Its like a huge bin! Really very sad.
cant understand this preoccupation with architecture when the poor and homeless are freezing and starving on the streets in 21st Century Britain. just what are your priorities? Imagine Christ's reaction to this, imagine His anger? Let's remember the sanctity of the temple....the temple as a human being...within which God resides.
Like I mentioned to someone else, it is not the buildings that make the community, it is the people!
I am sorry I have to completely disagree with you, it’s a wonderful statement and very much a missional place in the middle of the city. It’s fabulous two cathedrals with very different designs but one faith
The Metropolitan Cathedral in Liverpool is beautiful, the more you see inside will confirm this!
Rubbish😡
Matthew 13
52He said to them, “Therefore every teacher of the law who has become a disciple in the kingdom of heaven is like the owner of a house who brings out of his storeroom new treasures as well as old.”
The new monetary looks like an institution, not a monastery. It is beautiful though.
Sadly the old Stanbrook has now become a Hotel and they are registered to hold Civil Ceremonies. The Lady Elizabeth Sumner (Lady Abbess) who I met on a few occasions when I stayed with the Chaplain would be turning in her grave
Okay so they have a new modern looking Monastery that looks like some apartment complex. Some old traditional religious architecture could have easily been implemented along with the more modern. The look and feel of this altogether white-washed apartment complex looking monastery leaves these nuns who are still wearing the traditional garb look so out of place and awkward. Architecture can be an art form that inspires and communicates profound religious feeling. I just feel that they could have Incorporated some aspects of the traditional religious architecture. Now all we have here is just a bunch of nuns in traditional habits living in some kind of modern apartment complex.
It is not your hone but theirs! As one sister said, their monastic way of life has not changed!
Yuck. They left a majestic, noble monastic building for an ugly box.
It is not the buildings that makes the community, it is the people! Listen to their reasons for making the change!
I have visited the monastery and was very impressed with its starkness. Nothing to distract you from its beautiful setting. Hello to Sister Julian from a friend of your youth. Lovely to see you so content. A H
All things must change. And none of us truly owns anything, anyway. We just borrow it for a while. The spirit of religious life is within the heart, not within a building. Bless you sisters and I hope you are still enjoying your modern new home.
I cant believe they sold their old monastery, and built something so ugly! To contemplate God, you need somewhere beautiful, like their old convent. why on earth did they move? I bet they dont get many new vocations there.....
Awesome
Stanbrook Anney was the monestary that Rumer Godden visited for her research for the novel "In This House Of Brede" which I loved, but cannot find the movie online at all.
You can find it on CZcams. The quality is very good.
you can buy it at any HMV shop or at WHSmith stationary shop either at Waterstone's bookshop anywhere in England
Stanbrook Abbey was the basis for the famous nun novel, the classic "In The House of Brede," by Rumer Godden. It is a crying shame that it is now a wedding venue; I had thought it was going to be a retreat center. How sad that Catholic mass will never be held in their gorgeous chapel again. I applaud the nuns for being so eco-friendly and for giving their lives to God, (they are to be admired and revered) but I think most people would agree that the new building is appallingly ugly.
Great book, and a well-done t.v. movie w/Diana Rigg as the main character.
the correct title is "In This House of Brede" I have goth both novel and dvd of the film; the film actually was the first episode of a television series which never continued
Word.
How marevelous......
What a shame...:-/
Even though it was a different order, St. Teresa Avila would probably have a very different take on this “ eco-friendly” convent.
Wonderful women!
all the nuns look so pale,the planting of gardens around the building will break up the outline and add to its beauty
That Eco building is truly ugly, but all the modernists will rave over it saying it's so revolutionary. Nope. Characterless and pretentious. Looks horrendous in that beautiful park. The old abbey was majestic and regal. People have lost their minds.
You are 100 percent correct.
It is about sensible economics, which is a Christian trait and responsibility. I only hope they maintain a good body of nuns to keep it going.
Being ecologically sensitive totally makes sense. The selfless practicality of these sisters is mesmerizing!
greg harvey so you're mesmerised? Why? What is being mesmerised having anything to do with a real spiritual practice and path?
Are they anglicans or roman catholics?
Solch' humorvolle, gebildete, nachhaltig wirtschaftende Frauen. Redet mit Euren Mitmenschen, bleibt in der EU.
what happened to the old building near Worcester? I bet it had been built by Pugin, it looks like Saint Augustine's Abbey in Ramsgate, Kent; this abbey too has been left by the Benedictine monks because it had become too expensive to keep, but then the National Trust took over and mantained it through the heritage fund; now it's the National Shrine of Saint Augustine's in England and Vincentian Fathers live there and opened a retreat centre there
I think it is a luxury hotel now, sadly. I was blessed to stay there for 5 days when I visited England.
Bless you sisters of our Holy Father St Benedict. Pax
Are these women Roman Catholic or C of E? I'm always dubious of this kind of thing. The old location was beautiful and spoke to the worship of God. The new place looks hideous. The environmentalist movement is full of pagans and is steeped in earth worship. If the old place was too expensive, fine. But if we're trying to be good environmentalist here than I've got a problem with it.
You obviously have missed the beauty of creation that surrounds this monastery!
the inspiration of these ladies was there already and the love of God inside them means this place could never be bleak!
plant buckwheat a cheap food source for wild life an cheap reseeds itself, you can make buckwheat flour an make a few bucks
This has nothing to do with the subject of this video.
Omg, it’s hideous, it looks like a correctional facility....
Does the chirch take care of the nuns financially when they retire,like they do the priests and bishops
No, they do various things to make an income. I don’t know if they still have it but they used to run a printing press. And they don’t retire. This is a commitment for life which lasts until death.
It's more like the religious community takes care of each other. When a nun is too elderly or ill to contribute much physically, then she would be taken care of by the rest of the sisters, in whichever way they support themselves.
Yes, each diocese raises money through collections every year for the retirement fund of religious men and women.
@@ryanhilliard1620 Perhaps in the UK, not in the US.
What lovely Christian women
HORRIBLE , UGLY buildings . At least they could have taken some of the beauty from the old...and incorporated it into the new.
It’s not beautiful but I can see why they didn’t want to deal with the cost and up keep of the older monastery.
🇮🇪Dia Duith
Love the habit, hate the environment wackos and ugliest building
Case of misplaced priorities.
They sound like the Democrats of the U.S.A.
@@chelamaeEr, um, I don't think they meant that as a compliment...
@@ryanhilliard1620 But it is.
Eco friendly meets completely uninspired. Common Sisters! People want to be inspired! How did we lose that common sense understanding in our present day culture?
Vatican II
@@toffeenut1336 I was thinking the exact same response.
The new abbey at Wass reflects so beautifully the spirituality and charism of this incredible order of nuns. It has a plain simplicity on the exterior, but the interior is so well-made, incredibly functional, long lasting and looks out upon God's wonderful creation of the North York Moors. What concerns the religious is not the external appearance, but rather the internal reality, and they have certainly created a really good place of prayer that they as a community can live, work and pray in. I'm really impressed with how committed they are to good stewardship of resources, both financial and ecological!
Fat bloke on a bicyle Really? We must be living on different planets.
I personally prefer , Roman , Gothic & Italianaid architecture. Of course an individual can serve God without that. I admire St. Theresa of Avila , religious statues meant a great deal to deepen her spiritual life , I guess what Im honestly saying is the religious look really deepens my spirituality and others . Glad this works for these beautiful nuns, I think it STINKS 😇
sustainable sustainable sustainable dominus deus sabaoth.......SMH
Thank you so much, sisters, for loving the environment as a creation of God. There are so many Christian people, and religious people in general, who refuse to respect the environment for whatever reason, and it makes me so upset. It's part of the universe created by the Lord, and it deserves our respect and care.
Ah, so well said at 4.10. These women did not enter the monastery so to have their vocation taken over by the maintenance demands of an ageing building. They entered such a life for their love of God. Now they are in a building which frees them for their actual vocation.
The maintenance was actually probably good for them. Work is good for the soul. Order and routine and hard work produces spiritual benefits. Bet they get older faster in the new building.
If it comes down to that, why join monastic life at all? Just stay home.
well done sisters. religious women are much better at coming up with sustainable solutions the us men religious.
those habits look incredibly uncomfortable. Hard to believe they wear those things day and night.
I'm a nun. Pretty sure they don't wear their habits to sleep in. You get used to a veil after a few weeks and you normally have a thicker habit for winter and thinner for summer. The sleeves can be a bit impractical though!
Thanks for responding sister, I have some music on You Tube that many nuns and monks seem to like (my mother is always giving out my CDs at retreats etc.) You might want to listen to a couple, I compose them to give people peace and joy as I'm sure you give much of to the world.
By the way, never use power tools while wearing a nun's habit.
Sincerely,
Thomas Tereszkiewicz
Ugly building!
Misguided nuns!
who pays for this...the poor and homeless are freezing and starving and dying in shop doorways on the streets. Respect these women's beliefs and ideals....but maybe they could serve Christ and His beloved children more by engaging more with the harsh physical realities of life.....earn your keep....give your spare earnings to the needy.....celebrate God's love in a more practical way.....earn some money....give some of it to the freezing, starving, and desperate homeless of God's children.
@Leonardo's Truth … Yes, what does Sandra Clark give to the poor each week from her paycheck? Always easier to condemn others, even without knowing the facts and presuming the worst motives in others. Her judgment and condemnation is only a reflection of her own inner darkness.
If it’s such a great idea why don’t you do it then?