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Monastery
Development
Golgotha
Monastery Appeal at work -
renovation of the hay barn being carried out by
Father Clement Mary, C.SS.R. and postulants.
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Monks
of the Order of Camaldoli, founded by St. Romuald in 1012 AD,
live on a diet of bread, water, vegetables, cheese and fruit.
They lived in separate cells in a monastic laura or village. Here
they are seen leaving their cells for prayer in the laura church.
The proposed monastery on Papa Stronsay takes its inspiration
from this early form of monastic layout; individual cells were
also used by the early monks who inhabited Papa Stronsay before
800 AD; it is the most ancient form of monastic arrangement, economic,
rustic and perfectly in keeping with the traditional Orkney style
of small stone houses. |
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Monastery, Papa Stronsay: Please note the new footpath! Thanks
to your generosity it was laid by the Fathers and Brothers from
the door of the house to the boat shed. The path will accommodate
processions three abreast; built from tens of tonnes of concrete
and island boulders it represents the end of daily muddy trudges
in rubber boots from the house to the boat pier carrying one’s
shoes in a plastic bag. |
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October 2001
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Mr and Mrs
Crowe from Devon. They are pictured in our guest house, St Cormac’s,
on Stronsay. |
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Mr and Mrs
Crowe in the newly refurbished lounge at St Cormac’s. |
November 2001
The
Fife barge Forth Boxer delivers a load of
building materials to the Papa Stronsay pier.
“So
Solomon built the house, and covered it with beams and boards.”
(3 Kings 6) Father Anthony Mary, C.SS.R.
leads the team of Brothers and postulants in tiling the roof of the
new refectory.
As the weather forecast predicted autumnal gales, it was necessary
to complete the roof as soon as possible,
lest the winds take it off in one piece. Stonsay joiner and foreman
John Friel can be seen on the ladder.
December 2001
The
Brothers and postulants have been busy putting the finishing touches
on the inside of the new refectory.
Six skylights now let the sunshine into the once dark and dreary cowshed.
Before
permission could be given for the construction of the new Monastery,
archaeologists had to come and dig up the fields in search of artefacts.
Fortunately they found nothing of interest, and the Monastery of the
Most Holy Redeemer on Golgotha can begin at last!
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