Today was our first full day at Belmont, and given over to our Retreat. We all turned up for Matins at 6.30 this morning and followed the monastic regime through the day.
Belmont Abbey church from the north
Image: Jason Pacey Photography
Fr Jerome is giving his retreat addresses on the links between the Days of Creation, the Ages of the World and the Virtues.
For these we meet in a book lined room adjacent to the abbey church and its Holy Door, but otherwise read or walk as we wish in the buildings or grounds.
I have been reading John Cassian's Monastic Institutes - which consists of two parts, On the Training of a Monk and The Eight Deadly Sins - and which was translated by Fr Jerome and published in a very attractive edition by the Saint Austin Press in 1999.
Grace before a meal in the refectory at Belmont
Image:benedictines.org.uk
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