Parish Takes the Abbey Habit
28 August 2009
When parishioners of St John Fisher in Wellington, took a day trip to Buckfast Abbey in Devon, they had not expected the privilege of using the monks’ private chapel for their evening prayer.
The summer outing of eleven travelled by shared cars with parish priest Father Bob Rainbow on Tuesday (25 August), joining others for the recitation of The Rosary and Mass in the Abbey’s impressive Blessed Sacrament Chapel.
After enjoying lunch in the well-stocked visitors’ restaurant, they had plenty of time to admire the architecture of the abbey church, built 100 years ago by the Benedictine monks themselves on pre-reformation foundations, and to explore the very fascinating Christian bookshop, tourist shop and monastery produce shop, before the invitation to the monastic community’s crypt chapel for their final prayer.
A short drive then brought them to the historic old town of Ashburton, where a visit to the St Lawrence’s Chapel museum and a slap-up Devon cream tea in a sunny café garden rounded off a much enjoyed day of fellowship.
Continuing their tea and treats theme St John Fisher parish plans a series of Café and cake evenings on second Tuesdays starting on Tuesday 8 September, when over delicious homemade cakes and a cuppa, films on the Catholic faith will be screened. Visitors will be very welcome. The evenings will get under at 7.30 pm.
When parishioners of St John Fisher in Wellington, took a day trip to Buckfast Abbey in Devon, they had not expected the privilege of using the monks’ private chapel for their evening prayer.
The summer outing of eleven travelled by shared cars with parish priest Father Bob Rainbow on Tuesday (25 August), joining others for the recitation of The Rosary and Mass in the Abbey’s impressive Blessed Sacrament Chapel.
After enjoying lunch in the well-stocked visitors’ restaurant, they had plenty of time to admire the architecture of the abbey church, built 100 years ago by the Benedictine monks themselves on pre-reformation foundations, and to explore the very fascinating Christian bookshop, tourist shop and monastery produce shop, before the invitation to the monastic community’s crypt chapel for their final prayer.
A short drive then brought them to the historic old town of Ashburton, where a visit to the St Lawrence’s Chapel museum and a slap-up Devon cream tea in a sunny café garden rounded off a much enjoyed day of fellowship.
Continuing their tea and treats theme St John Fisher parish plans a series of Café and cake evenings on second Tuesdays starting on Tuesday 8 September, when over delicious homemade cakes and a cuppa, films on the Catholic faith will be screened. Visitors will be very welcome. The evenings will get under at 7.30 pm.
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