The monastery and school welcomed the arrival this week of a new Chilean group. Four women representing the Manquehue Apostolic Movement (MAM) have moved into the Guest House, undergoing a two-week period of quarantine in preparation for their engagement with the community at Portsmouth through the remainder of the winter term. We examine the involvement of this MAM communidad within our spiritual life program.
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The passage from the Christmas season into Ordinary Time is marked visually here at the Abbey by the removal of Ade Bethune’s Theotokos banner, which watches over the sanctuary from the beginning of Advent. Alvaro Gazmuri shared with us recently a memory of Brother Francis Crowley’s “Benedictine” strategy in orchestrating the banner’s removal.
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