Yes, we’ve been posting a lot about our Abbot lately… but today is his birthday. 😊
Happy birthday, Father Julian CFMD — ad multos annos! 🎉🙏
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No crown—only a staff. No triumph—only service.
Last Sunday our father Julian received the Abbatial Blessing, entrusted with the care of souls. Lord, make him gentle and steadfast.
#RuleOfStBenedict #MercifulLove #CFMD
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With grateful hearts we give thanks for today’s Solemn Pontifical Mass and the Abbatial Blessing of Abbot Julian CFMD, conferred by Bishop Paul. May the Lord who calls also sustain: in mercy, in humility, in fidelity to the Rule, for the life of the world. #CFMD #ECCUK
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Rain-speckled window view of the chapel with a cross on the wall, garden plants outside
Two printed booklets titled “Rite of Abbatial Blessing” with the CFMD crest on the cover, placed on a table under warm light.
Rain on the window. Quiet pages on the table.
Tonight the Church stands at the Jordan: Baptism of the Lord — 6.00pm.
Solemn Pontifical Mass & the Solemn Abbatial Blessing of Abbot-elect Julian (CFMD).
Celebrant: Bishop Paul. All welcome.
#CFMD #ECCUK
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Reminder: Sun 11 Jan • 6pm
Baptism of the Lord — Solemn Pontifical Mass & Solemn Abbatial Blessing of Abbot-elect Julian CFMD
Celebrant: Bishop Paul • Buffet supper after • All welcome
#CFMD
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ADVANCE NOTICE • Sun 11 Jan (Baptism of the Lord) • 6pm
Solemn Pontifical Mass + Solemn Abbatial Blessing of Abbot-elect Julian (CFMD)
Celebrant: Bishop Paul
Buffet supper after • All welcome
#CFMD #ECCUK
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A 13th-century manuscript illumination, the earliest known depiction of Thomas Becket's assassination in Canterbury Cathedral
St Thomas Becket didn’t die for “religion”. He died because Christ is Lord—and no power gets the final word over the Gospel.
On this Fifth Day of Christmas: let our tenderness be real, and our obedience unbought.
✠ #StThomasBecket #Christmastide #CFMD
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"The Holy Family," etching, by the Czech-English artist and printmaker Wenceslaus Hollar. Etching, dated 1642. 216 mm x 166 mm. Courtesy of the British Museum, London.
Today: the 4th Day of Christmas — Feast of the Holy Family.
After St Stephen’s witness and St John’s tenderness, we return to the quiet school of love: a home where God is welcomed.
May our houses — and our hearts — become Nazareth: prayerful, faithful, merciful.
#HolyFamily #Christmas #CFMD
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Collage from a small chapel: a bishop in gold vestments celebrates Mass amid candles and incense; congregation seated; a Nativity scene beneath a Christmas tree.
Yesterday: the solemn Pontifical First Mass of Christmas — candlelight, incense, and the manger close by. In that quiet adoration, gratitude became prayer. Christ is born; come, let us adore Him. ✨🎄 #Christmas #CFMD
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Four white candles in glass holders around a small nativity figure on moss, with miniature blue trees, lit in a dark oratory.
After Midnight Mass, the oratory returns to silence—but the world is not the same. The Word has taken flesh; Mercy has a face. For the unchurched, the weary, the far-off: you are not forgotten tonight.
#Christmas #MidnightMass #CFMD
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Christmas Eve in the St Benedict Urban Hermitage oratory: a small circle of light around the Child. In the silence, God chooses nearness—fragile, hidden, real. We keep vigil for the lonely, the weary, the unchurched. Come, Lord Jesus.
#ChristmasEve #Incarnation #CFMD
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✠ We’ve set the date: on the Sunday of the Baptism of the Lord (11 Jan 2026) we’ll celebrate the Abbatial Blessing of our Abbot-designate, Fr Julian. Please keep us in your prayers. #CFMD #Benedictine
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Advent mini-retreat (3/3): A desert in the heart of the city.
A tiny room, noise outside, unseen prayer. Humanly speaking it “gives nothing”, yet it becomes a place where God simply is.
God of stillness, teach us to remain with You.
#Advent #MiniRetreat #CFMD
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Advent mini-retreat (2/3): Vocation without fireworks.
Most of the Gospel life is not “big moments”, but small acts of faithfulness: prayer in a quiet room, simple service, hidden love.
Lord, be present in our grey, everyday hours.
#Advent #MiniRetreat #CFMD
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Advent mini-retreat (1/3): Christianity without fireworks.
Advent doesn’t begin with carols and lights, but in the dark. God comes quietly, like a still small voice.
Jesus, teach us to find You in silence and in the ordinary.
#Advent #MiniRetreat #CFMD
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Laudetur Iesus Christus!
Advent doesn’t begin with carols but with a call to wake up. The Church meets us not with celebration, but with watchfulness. Advent begins in the dark so our eyes may learn again how to look for the Light.
– Fr Julian CFMD #Advent #CFMD
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Today we give thanks for the 18th anniversary of priestly ordination of Fr Julian.
For every Eucharist, confession, word of counsel and quiet presence along the way – thank you.
Please keep him in your prayers.
#priesthood #prayer #CFMD
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“To God, the honour; to my sisters, the benefit; to myself, the burden.”
Bl. Helena Stollenwerk teaches us to carry others in prayer, even when our own path is narrow and unseen. A good patron for our small CFMD community today. #CFMD #BlessedHelena #QuietHoliness
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A small joy in our little CFMD community today: a simple set of chasubles with our cross, for the Eucharist we quietly offer for the Church and the world.
May every Mass celebrated in them draw us deeper into the Merciful Heart of God.
#CFMD #monasticlife #Catholic
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St. Cecilia
Today we honour St Cecilia, who freely gave her virginity to Christ. In our Church celibacy is never imposed – but when someone chooses this path in love, like Cecilia, it is a beautiful, equal road to holiness alongside marriage and other vocations. #StCecilia #vocation #celibacy #CFMD #ECCUK
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The Presentation of the Virgin Mary in the Temple of Jerusalem
World Day of Contemplative Life 🙏
As CFMD we live a mostly hidden Benedictine vocation in small urban hermitages: prayer, work, silence and hospitality at the heart of daily life. Please keep our brothers in your prayer today.
#CFMD #Benedictine #Catholic
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Sharing a glimpse of our tiny St Benedict urban hermitage: brick, icon, candle, silence in the middle of a housing block.
Pray that this little corner may become a place of mercy for many.
#CFMD #Benedictine #Catholic #urbanhermitage
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Saint Mechtildis. Gouache.
Today we keep the memoria of Mechthild of Hackeborn, a Benedictine mystic of Helfta. Her life was hidden, yet Christ’s Heart was her whole world. May we, like her, learn to rest in the love of Jesus and quietly intercede for the Church and the world.
#MechthildOfHackeborn #Benedictine #CFMD #Mystic
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An update from fr Chris: I live with my dad, but my world is mostly one 11 m² room – oratory, cell, desk, tiny refectory. I’ve started calling it “St Benedict’s Urban Hermitage”. Please pray for this little hermitage in a Polish town. #Benedictine #MonasticLife #UrbanHermitage #CFMD
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Wondering who we are, how our vows work, or what “Benedictine Old Catholic” even means?
You can always drop us a DM or ask in the comments. No pressure, no recruitment tricks, just honest conversation.
#AskAMonk #CFMD #ECCUK
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We are a Catholic Benedictine community within the Ecumenical Catholic Church in the UK – with valid sacraments, real vows and very ordinary lives.
If you’ve ever felt on the edge of Church life: there is a place for you in God’s merciful love.
#EcumenicalCatholic #InclusiveCatholic #CFMD
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If you sometimes catch yourself longing for prayer, simplicity and brotherhood more than for success and noise…
maybe God is whispering.
We’re a tiny community, but the door of our hearts is open.
#Vocations #MonasticLife #CFMD
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Quiet on our feed doesn’t mean quiet in our hearts.
We remain a small Benedictine-inspired community, praying in our scattered homes and carrying you before the Merciful Love of God.
#CFMD #MercifulLove #ECCUK
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2 November — We remember the faithful departed. No one is forgotten in the Merciful Heart of God. We pray today for all who have died alone, unprepared, or unloved. May Christ receive them with tenderness!
Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord.
#AllSouls #CFMD #MercifulLove
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1 November — All Saints. Today we thank God for the hidden saints: those who keep loving quietly in hospital beds, night shifts, small rooms, loneliness and pain. This is the path we try to walk in CFMD: mercy, fidelity, hope. Pray for us as we pray for you.
#AllSaints #CFMD #MercifulLove
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