Here are the recent profession photos from Goma...More news to follow...
News
Sr. Hilda has now moved to Brownshill and we hope she has a great year in our other community. Julia will be joining us on the 19th August so please remember both of them in your prayers at these new stages in their Bernardine life. We re-open on the 21st August.
Card Making Day is Coming!!!
Farewell Mass for Touvet
On the feast of St.Benedict 2015, several of our sisters joined the Touvet community and the Christians of the Plateau in celebrating the Farewell Mass. The community will close in a few weeks time and the sisters will be moved to the other houses in the order. One of them. Sr.Anne Chantal will be joining us at Hyning. You will find Sr.Josephine Mary and Sr.Mary Bernard representing the Hyning community. Here are some pictures of the celebration. We ask you to pray for the French sisters at this time.
Junior pictures
As mentioned last week, here are a few pictures from the juniors' course..
News from the Junior course
At the end of June, Hyning hosted the Region of the Isles' junior course. The course explored the history of Medieval nuns and monks in the UK. The history began with the foundation of the Cistercian monastery at Waverley in Surrey in 1128 to the Dissolution of the Monasteries under Henry VIII. The course consisted of lectures, seminars, presentation and a trip to a Cistercian ruins at Furness. The course was given by Br.Colman, a Benedictine monk from Glenstal Abbey in Eire.
One of the highlights was the trip to Furness Abbey where the juniors visited the ruins while Br.Colman explained the details and the architecture. Most of the juniors were amazed by the alignment of the monastery to the movement of the sun. The group ended their visit by reciting Midday Office in the small chapel ruin and with the group singing the Cistercian Salve.
Explore more on Furness Abbey by clicking the link.
Pictures coming soon...
Cistercian Juniors' Course
This week we are hosting the Cistercian Juniors from the region of the isle which includes England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland and Norway. Most of the young monks and nuns in formation in the various monasteries will be studying about the History of the Cistercian Order in UK and Ireland.
More news will follow during the week!
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God as Light
Inspiration during a recent retreat - God as Flashlight....
The Crossing
Last year, Pope Francis encouraged all religious to "wake up the world" and to engage in different ways with people today. One of our responses to this call was to take part in the Morecambe Bay - Cross Bay walk. With the Augustinian Sisters at Boarbank, Grange at the other end of the bay, we organized a weekend for young people to share our understanding of the Consecrated Life. On the Friday night we had a talk from Dr.Warren of the AONB on the geology and nature of Morecambe Bay. On Saturday, we had the presentation of the two orders and time for prayer and reflection. The big event of the weekend was "The Crossing". We have uploaded some pictures of the walk for you to enjoy.
New videos added!
We've been adding several pieces of music over the past few days and now 2 more videos have been added. Have a look at the two new videos on the site on the Welcome Page or on the Hyning reflection page. You can also find them on YouTube.
Next event is the 16th June Card making day, places still available.
Bay walk on Saturday
Last chance, why not cross the Bay?
Next Card making day
The next Card making day is 16th June, all welcome. £10 with packed lunch, £16 Cooked lunch. 10 - 4 pm Art Studio. Please contact hyningbookings@yahoo.co.uk to book.
Pentecostal Gifts!
We have started uploading some of the Divine Office on different pages on the site. Feel free to explore the gifts of Pentecost! Here is the first one, composed by Sr.Mary Cecilia.
Talk on Morecambe Bay
Talk on Morecambe Bay 7:15 May 29th at Hyning. All welcome but need to confirm with Sr. Mary Bernard in advance!
Cross Bay Walk
Anyone interested in doing a Cross Bay Walk Saturday 30th May with priests, religious, young people and friends of Hyning and Boarbank? Ring Hyning for details! Balloons provided!
Vocation stories and links
If you click on the website link you will read some interesting stories about vocations and you might recognize one of the communities mentioned! vocation stories
Another site worth looking at is the UK Vocations channel on YouTube UKVoc
May Days
At the moment, we are preparing to welcome St.Peter's Primary School from Lancaster for a few days retreat. Last weekend we had St.Anne's from Royton for a retreat led by Sr.Michaela on the incarnation.
Irene was pleased to receive 3 Indonesian visitors over the past few weeks. Julia was also here with her family; so we have had some international visitors which always helps us to broaden our perspective on what's happening in the world.
We have praying particularly for the people in Nepal and of course for the new Royal Baby: Princess Charlotte Elizabeth Diana.
New Bernardine!
After the good news of a national surge in vocations across the country last week, the good news continues for us. Many of you will know Julia from Germany, who was with us as a volunteer for 2 years. This last year she has been working in Glasgow as a Vincentian volunteer. Julia will start her postulancy as a Bernardine on the 19th August. We will have 1 junior, 1 novice and 1 postulant! Please pray for all three of them on their formation journey and for more to join them...
Retreat time
It is a quiet time here at the moment as most of the sisters are in retreat. 5 of the Brownshill sisters are here and several of the oblates are sharing in some of the days. The retreat is being led by Fr. Terence O.S.B of Ampleforth Abbey.
Sr.Mary is 90 !!!
Today Sr.Mary celebrates her 90th birthday! Her brother, Terry (86) came with his family to celebrate with her. This was the cake made by Maureen Calnan, one of our oblates and we had tea and cake with them this morning. Ad multos annos!