At Christmas, even the monastic routine changes a little. Here are the Mass and other prayer times in the Abbey Church for the Christmas period.
Saturday 24th December (Christmas Eve)
6:30 am
Matins
7:00
Mass
7:35
Lauds
9:15
Monastic Conventual Mass
3:00 pm
Blessing of the Crib
6:00
Vespers
8:00
First Mass of Christmas
11:00
Matins
11:30
Carols
00:00
Midnight Mass
Sunday 25th December (Christmas Day)
8:00 am
Mass
9:00
Mass
10:30
Monastic Conventual Mass
12:15
Mass
6:00
Vespers
Note that there is no evening Mass on Christmas Day.
Monday 26th December (Feast of St Stephen)
6:30 am
Matins
7:00
Mass
7:35
Lauds
9:15
Monastic Conventual Mass
5:15 pm
Vespers
6:00
Mass
Tuesday 27th December (Feast of St John)
6:30 am
Matins
7:00
Mass
7:35
Lauds
9:15
Monastic Conventual Mass
5:15 pm
Vespers
6:00
Mass
Wednesday 28th December (Feast of the Holy Innocents)
6:00 am
Matins
7:00
Monastic Conventual Mass
7:35
Lauds
9:15
Mass
5:15 pm
Vespers
6:00
Mass
Thursday 29th December (Feast of St Thomas Becket)
6:00 am
Matins
7:00
Monastic Conventual Mass
7:35
Lauds
9:15
Mass
5:15 pm
Vespers
6:00
Mass
7:45
Confessions
NB: No Exposition on Thursday or Friday.
Friday 30th December (Feast of the Holy Family)
6:00 am
Matins
7:00
Monastic Conventual Mass
7:35
Lauds
9:15
Mass
5:15 pm
Vespers
6:00
Mass
NB: No Exposition on Thursday or Friday.
Saturday 31st December
6:30 am
Matins
7:00
Mass
7:35
Lauds
9:15
Monastic Conventual Mass
10:00
Confessions
4:00 pm
Confessions
5:15
Vespers
6:00
Mass (1st Mass of Sunday)
10:00
Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament
10:00
Confessions
11:30
Mass
Sunday 1st January (Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God)
(As normal for Sunday.)
9:00 am
Mass
10:30
Monastic Conventual Mass
12:00
Mass
6:00 pm
Vespers
7:00
Mass
Monday 2nd January to Wednesday 4th January
As normal weekdays except no Compline in the church.
6:00 am
Matins
7:00
Monastic Conventual Mass
7:35
Lauds
9:15
Mass
5:15 pm
Vespers
6:00
Mass
Thursday 5th January
6:00 am
Matins
7:00
Monastic Conventual Mass
7:35
Lauds
9:15
Mass
5:15 pm
Vespers
6:00
Mass
Friday 6th January (Solemnity of the Epiphany)
6:00 am
Matins
7:00
Mass
7:35
Lauds
9:15
Mass
5:15 pm
Vespers
6:00
Monastic Conventual Mass
8:00
Mass
Feasts this Week
All are memoria unless otherwise stated.
This Friday, the Feast of St Benedict, Patron of Europe, is our Parish Patronal Feast and the Conventual Mass will be at 6 pm.
Week beginning 6th July 2025
Sunday
14th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
St Benedict, Patron of Europe (Feast)
Saturday
Daily Reading from the Rule of St Benedict
CHAPTER 30: HOW YOUNG BOYS ARE TO BE CORRECTED
EVERY age and understanding ought to have its own proper treatment. And so whenever boys or youths, or any who cannot appreciate how great a penalty excommunication is, commit an offence, they are either to be punished by severe fasting or else corrected by sharp strokes, for their own good.
To provide the best experiences, we may use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behaviour or unique IDs on this site. Not consenting or withdrawing consent, may adversely affect certain features and functions. We do not collect or store these data ourselves and only use the minimum of cookies to enable functionality.
Functional
Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes.The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
