On Tuesday, 21st March, we celebrate our principal Feast of St Benedict as a Solemnity The Conventual Mass that day will be with the whole school at 16:30. So there will be no Mass at 17:30 as would be usual...
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Easter Liturgy Times 2023
Over Easter there are special Liturgy Times that are different to the rest of the year. The full details can be found: HERE. The usual times HERE. The most significant ones are: Sunday 2nd April, 09:30 – 10:50 Palm Sunday...
Easter Triduum Retreats and Cross Walk available to book
Easter Triduum Retreats are proving very popular at Worth Abbey. This Easter we are offering two retreats from Thursday 6-Sunday 9 April 2023. Celebrate the Easter Triduum as part of the community at Worth. Receive a very warm welcome, and...
Message from Crawley Open House
A huge Thank -You from Crawley Open House to all those who gave generously at the Worth Abbey Advent Carol Service “Thank you for your amazing donations at your Advent Carol Service. You raised £1405.31 for those experiencing homelessness and...
Enjoy the Rhythm of Monastic Prayer
Self-guided retreat at Worth Abbey Time Out individual self-guided retreats 6th–9th February, 6th–9th March and 5th–18th May Cost: £90 per person, per night (min 2 nights). Spend a few days at Worth Abbey enjoying the rhythm of the monastic prayer...
Chants for St Benedict
The Benedictine Monks of Worth Abbey The CD that Worth’s monastic community recorded back in 1994 is available to stream online once again. The ‘Chants for St Benedict’ CD previously clocked up more than 1.5 million listens on Spotify alone,...
Worth-breathing with two lungs Read Abbot Mark Barrett’s recent interview with The Tablet
Vocations might have stalled but the abbot of Worth is looking outwards rather than inwards, with several initiatives launched to reconnect the monastic community with the Catholic world and beyond / By ELENA CURTI Full article available here Interview with The...
Finding the Language of Grace: Rediscovering transcendence by Christopher Jamison just published
Finding the Language of Grace: Rediscovering transcendence by Christopher Jamison published on 15 September 2022 “Finding the Language of Grace: Rediscovering transcendence focuses on the transcendent experiences of grace that we struggle to talk about in today’s very business-like culture. Abbot...
Monastic Internship Programme
Monastic Internships at Worth Abbey Worth Abbey, a Benedictine monastery in Sussex, is inviting applications from men between the age of eighteen and thirty-five for a limited number of monastic internships. Successful candidates will live alongside the monastery for two...
Worth Abbey Pilgrims
Abbot Mark has invited a group of us to consider how the different parts of the Worth family might connect more fully and how the beauty and spiritual resources of Worth could best serve others and support us all on...