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Press Release — the LCSB announces today - Abbot Primate Headlines St Benedict Week 2025 - it returns this summer, with a series of major events from 5–13 July 2025 celebrating the spiritual and cultural legacy of St Benedict. lcsb.uk/st-benedictweek

Mike Woodward, an LCSB member, gifted Abbot Jeremias Schroeder with a linocut of the Abbey of Montecassino, to say thank you for his fantastic study day. Thanks to those who joined in with Benedict Week! Go to our webpage for any bits you've missed: lcsb.uk/st-benedict-we…

Here's a picture from our study day with Abbot Jeremias Schroeder on July 11th! Thanks to all those who came along, and to Abbot Jeremias for leading it! To see any blog posts and podcast episodes you might have missed from this year's Benedict Week, go to lcsb.uk/st-benedict-we…

Thanks to all those who participated in Benedict Week last week! Here's one last blog post in case you haven't already read it - Abbot Cuthbert Brogan on how the peace that Benedict brought to Europe continues to be relevant. Go to lcsb.uk/blog to read it!

PAX! Today we warmly welcome the monks of The Community of St Gregory The Great (formerly at Downside) to live with us at Belmont. We pray that this time of discernment together may be blessed by an openness to the Holy Spirit and guided by the Rule of our Holy Father Benedict.

Blog number seven is up! In our penultimate Benedict Week blog, Alain Anderton looks at Benedict's desire to balance lenience and firm guidance in The Rule. To read it, click the following link: lcsb.uk/blog

Our third podcast for St Benedict Week is an interview with Fr David Foster, who teaches at St Anselm's College in Rome. He shares his thoughts on living a Benedictine life, and on the importance of Lectio Divina. To listen, click the following link: lcsb.uk/podcasts

Happy Feast of St Benedict! Our seventh blog of Benedict Week is up on our website, and in it, Abbot David Charlesworth (one of our podcast guests) reflects on Benedict's influence on the history of Europe. To read it click the following link: lcsb.uk/blog

Our sixth blog post is up! Chris Walker looks at Pope Paul VI's famous words about Benedict - that he changed Europe "through the book, the cross and the plough". How could this idea influence our world today? To read it, click the following link: lcsb.uk/blog

Blog five is up! Patrick Cleary reflects on the ways in which The Rule of St Benedict has influenced his life in different stages, and continues to be important for our world today. To read it, go to our bio and click the following link: lcsb.uk/blog

Today on @radiomaria at 10am and 10pm our community leader Adam Simon will be talking about the celebrations for St Benedict Week - in anticipation of the feast of St Benedict on 11th July

Blog four is up! Reverend Canon Jane Winter reflects on the impact of Benedict on both the individual and the community, both in the past and the present. Click here to read it: lcsb.uk/blog Photo Credit: Jed Villejo on Unsplash

Our second podcast of Benedict Week is up! Adam Simon, our community leader, speaks to Fr Brendan Coffey, the prior of St Anselm's College in Rome. Fr Brendan reflects on our theme, and the importance of The Rule in our lives today. Go to lcsb.uk/podcasts to listen!

Blog three is up! Fr Mark Kenny reflects on the writings of Pope Paul VI and St John Henry Newman, and explores the revolutionary ideas that Benedict has to offer. To read it, click the following link: lcsb.uk/blog

We're looking forward to Baroness Sheila Hollins' talk tonight at 8pm on living St Benedict's rule in a lay community. Last chance to sign up! For more info and to sign up for this talk please visit: lcsb.uk/st-benedict-we… #peace #family #Politics

What a great start to #StBenedictWeek! Abbot Jeremias Schröder spoke on @BBCOxford about #StBenedict and the 2029 Jubilee (Foundation of Abbey of Monte Casino). Come to Worth Abbey on Saturday at 2.30pm for his keynote talk- you're very welcome! For info: lcsb.uk/st-benedict-we…

Blog two of Benedict Week is now up! Neil Zoladkiewicz, an Oblate from Ealing Abbey, writes about encountering the brokenness of the world - and of ourselves - through a Benedictine eye. To read click the following link: lcsb.uk/blog

Rule of St Benedict Teaches with Enduring Clarity. Find out at @CatholicUnionGB summer gathering @LCStBen @worthschool & Rt Rev. Jeremias Schröder OSB, Abbot Primate of the Benedictine Confederation catholicunion.org.uk/eventslist/cat…

What a fantastic line up for St Benedict's Week @LCStBen lcsb.uk/st-benedict-we…

Abbot Jeremias Schröder was invited this morning for St Benedict Week to speak on @BBCOxford. He spoke about St Benedict and the upcoming 2029 Jubilee. This is in preparation for his talk next Saturday at 2.30pm at Worth Abbey dropbox.com/scl/fi/qnmc1pp…

Our first podcast of Benedict Week is up! Go to our website to listen to Abbot David Charlesworth, Abbot of Buckfast Abbey, reflect on this year's theme. To listen, click here: lcsb.uk/podcasts