On Saturday  &  Sunday  June  10th/11th  The Anglican Monastery of Our Lady and St John in Beech will be open for visitors from      12noon – 5pm   each day.

Entrance £3    Teas £3

There will be beautiful plants for sale, and the grower will be there to give information.

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Please note that for the foreseeable future Mondays Mass will be at 19.30. There will not be a Mass in the morning.

Sorry for any inconvenience caused.

You could use this to your advantage if you cannot make a weekday morning Mass. Join the community at 19.30.

An Evening with Rudyard Kipling by Philip Geddes & Friends

to be held in Alton Abbey church, GU34 4AP

onSaturdayMay 6th 2017

at7.30pm

This will tell the story of Kipling’s life with readings from his poetry and prose. It takes Kipling from his early days as the chronicler of Britain’s Indian Raj, through to his high point as poet of Empire for Edwardian England and as voice of the nation in the First World War. The show includes many Kipling favourites – “If”, regularly voted Britain’s favourite poem “The White Man’s Burden”, and extracts from “Plain Tales from the Hills” and the “Just So stories”.

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There will be a special Ascension Day Concert at Alton Abbey onThursday May 25th

by the Maria Magdalena Chamber Choir, from Stockholm

who will perform Northern music from Sweden, and their neighbouring Countries.

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At Alton Abbey, Beech, Alton,  GU34 4AP

April 8th  Saturday 2017

The day starts at 10.15am with a welcome, followed by the first of two talks by a member of the Community of Our Lady and St John – and Anglican Benedictine Monastery near Alton.

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A cappella Group

VOZ LUCIS

EARLY MUSIC and READINGS for LENT

TALLIS, BYRD, VICTORIA,

PALESTRINA, LOTTI,

& others

SATURDAY, 1^st APRIL 2017

Tickets:     £7.50   (Incl. Refreshments)

Available from “Tickets” Friends of Alton Abbey,

Abbey Road, Beech, Alton. Hants, GU34 4AP

Cheques made payable to “Friends of Alton Abbey”

Please include a SAE and a telephone number and / or email address.

A wonderful event not to be missed !

The Guest House will be Closed from – Thursday 1^st December 2016 – until – Wednesday 1^st February 2017.

As the birth of our Blessed Lord approaches this time allows the brethren to join in the waiting for the coming of the Messiah

Mark 13:33-37

³³ Beware, keep alert; for you do not know when the time will come. ³⁴ It is like a man going on a journey, when he leaves home and puts his slaves in charge, each with his work, and commands the doorkeeper to be on the watch. ³⁵ Therefore, keep awake—for you do not know when the master of the house will come, in the evening, or at midnight, or at cockcrow, or at dawn, ³⁶ or else he may find you asleep when he comes suddenly. ³⁷ And what I say to you I say to all: Keep awake.”

Icon painting is a meditative, prayerful, and somewhat ritualized art form, in which the materials and processes as well as the image have symbolic meaning.   “God’s whole creation gathers to create the icon, in the form of the all-natural animal, vegetable, and mineral products used for the board, gilding, painting, and oiling.”  “A blessed icon completed by this “liturgically correct” process is considered sacred, regardless of the quality of its art work.”

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