We have moved!

At the end of May 2012 we left East Hendred and came here, to Howton Grove, Herefordshire, where we have purchased a lovely barn conversion on the edge of the Golden Valley.

Over the next few months we shall tell you more about the change and what it means. We continue to be dedicated to the Holy Trinity, so our community will continue to be the community of Holy Trinity Monastery but, in accordance with Benedictine custom, we are taking the name of the place to which we have come. Accordingly, the barn will henceforth be known as Howton Grove Priory.

We have come to an area rich in history and natural beauty. There are good Cistercian antecedents at Abbey Dore, just a couple of miles away; Kilpeck is on our doorstep, while those with Celtic connections will be interested to know that Wormbridge, our postal town, means 'bridge over the dark water.'

We shall have a new website ready for use when we can. In the meantime, we are updating some sections with current information. We apologize for the piecemeal nature of the updates, but it is a question of doing what we can, as we can.

There are photos of the new monastery on our Facebook page.

Resident retreatants
We have been pleased to welcome a few resident reatreants to the monastery, but please note that we shall not be receiving any more until after the end of June. We have a postulant entering in June (D.V.) and it is important that she has a few weeks of relative quiet in which to find her feet. We shall post details of availability in due course. The community will be endeavouring to make its annual retreat between now and Denise's arrival.

Sharing a Vocation . . .

We, the Benedictine nuns of Holy Trinity Monastery, formerly at East Hendred, now at Howton Grove Priory in Herefordshire, invite you to explore this web site to learn something about the monastic way of life.

For fifteen hundred years Benedictine monks and nuns have been seeking God through lives of prayer and service. In every generation that tradition has to be realised anew. Today we unite with us in the search for God all who touch our lives in some way:

• those joined to us by a special bond as Oblates, Associates and Friends;
• those who share our life as guests;
• the blind, visually impaired and housebound who make use of our Veilaudio service;
• those who surf our pages anonymously or ask our prayers through the Prayerline.

Whatever your reason for visiting our site, we hope you will find something that will be a blessing to you.

How to get the best from this site

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Mobile web site

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Online Retreats

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Blogs: Colophon and iBenedictines

Our old blog was called Colophon and had grown too big and unwieldy to be continued in its original form. We have retained it as an archive with an unchanged structure and permalinks, so you should still be able to find items you have bookmarked. You can reach it by going through the blog page, where you will also find a link to our new blog, iBenedictines. iBenedictines can be read on this site or at its standalone address, www.ibenedictines.org. There is also a version optimized for use on small screens.