St.Augustine's Abbey
Guildford Surrey
GU4 8QR
Who we are
Welcome to St Augustine's Abbey, Chilworth
A living Roman Catholic Benedictine monastery near Guildford in southern England, United Kingdom, about an hour from London. We are under one mile south of The Pilgrims' Way.
We are an active and growing community of monastic brothers lovingly living the Rule of St Benedict. We very much welcome and encourage new visitors and guests; pilgrims and members of the public are welcome to join us for the celebration of Holy Mass and daily prayers. LOOK WITHIN: we welcome questions and visits from men wanting to know more about becoming a Benedictine monk.
*Christo omnino nihil praeponant - let them prefer nothing to the love of Christ
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A living Roman Catholic Benedictine monastery near Guildford in southern England, United Kingdom, about an hour from London. We are under one mile south of The Pilgrims' Way.
We are an active and growing community of monastic brothers lovingly living the Rule of St Benedict. We very much welcome and encourage new visitors and guests; pilgrims and members of the public are welcome to join us for the celebration of Holy Mass and daily prayers. LOOK WITHIN: we welcome questions and visits from men wanting to know more about becoming a Benedictine monk.
*Christo omnino nihil praeponant - let them prefer nothing to the love of Christ
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Location of worship
Sample Oak Lane
Chilworth
Guildford,
Surrey
GU4 8QR
Chilworth
United Kingdom
Phone: (0) 1483 899360
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Church Pastor
Rt Rev Dom Paulinus Greenwood OSB
Abbot
Sample Oak Lane
Chilworth
Guildford,
Surrey
GU4 8QR
Chilworth
United Kingdom
Phone: (0) 1483 899360
Click here to contact Rt Rev Dom Paulinus Greenwood OSB Â
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St.Augustine's Abbey Mass Times
MASS AND DIVINE OFFICE
No need to book
St Augustine's Abbey, Chilworth, UK
SUNDAY 10AM MASS - please join us in person
St Augustine's Abbey, Chilworth, Guildford, Surrey GU4 8QR
MASS TIMES - every day of the year (no need to book)
Mondays to Saturdays - 9am
Sundays - 10am
Coffee with the monks after Sunday 10am Mass is not available at present. When it is available, it's an informal and get together in the Assisi Room at the rear of the monastery. Coffee is provided as a gift to you.
First Saturday: Devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary
Members of the public are always welcome (currently suspended)
Please join us for 9am Mass every first Saturday of the month to do as Our Lady requested and honour her Immaculate Heart and recite the Joyful Mysteries of the Rosary, after Mass concludes. There is also the opportunity for Confession with one of the monks who is a priest.
ADORATION - the Lord calls you
Members of the public are always welcome in person - now available. No need to book.
Fridays - 8pm to 8.45pm
Sundays - 4pm to 5pm
DIVINE OFFICE - Mondays to Fridays
Members of the public are always welcome in person - now available. No need to book.
Divine Office takes place seven times throughout the day daily starting at 5.50 am with Vigils and ending at 8.30pm with Compline (see all times below).
Divine Office is the official set of prayers marking the hours of each day and sanctifying the day with prayer. It consists primarily of psalms supplemented by hymns, readings and other prayers and antiphons. Together with the Mass, it constitutes the official public prayer life of the Church.
Divine Office times are listed below. Please note that on the eve of Soleminities (Catholic celebrations and Feast Days of the highest importance), Vigils are anticipated to start at 8pm
All Masses, Divine Office and other prayers take place in the Abbey Church and all members of the public are always welcome.
It's been more than 2 years since the last mass times update. Please make sure to contact the church to confirm mass times.
Please contact the church to confirm Mass Times or SUBSCRIBE to updates below
No need to book
St Augustine's Abbey, Chilworth, UK
SUNDAY 10AM MASS - please join us in person
St Augustine's Abbey, Chilworth, Guildford, Surrey GU4 8QR
MASS TIMES - every day of the year (no need to book)
Mondays to Saturdays - 9am
Sundays - 10am
Coffee with the monks after Sunday 10am Mass is not available at present. When it is available, it's an informal and get together in the Assisi Room at the rear of the monastery. Coffee is provided as a gift to you.
First Saturday: Devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary
Members of the public are always welcome (currently suspended)
Please join us for 9am Mass every first Saturday of the month to do as Our Lady requested and honour her Immaculate Heart and recite the Joyful Mysteries of the Rosary, after Mass concludes. There is also the opportunity for Confession with one of the monks who is a priest.
ADORATION - the Lord calls you
Members of the public are always welcome in person - now available. No need to book.
Fridays - 8pm to 8.45pm
Sundays - 4pm to 5pm
DIVINE OFFICE - Mondays to Fridays
Members of the public are always welcome in person - now available. No need to book.
Divine Office takes place seven times throughout the day daily starting at 5.50 am with Vigils and ending at 8.30pm with Compline (see all times below).
Divine Office is the official set of prayers marking the hours of each day and sanctifying the day with prayer. It consists primarily of psalms supplemented by hymns, readings and other prayers and antiphons. Together with the Mass, it constitutes the official public prayer life of the Church.
Divine Office times are listed below. Please note that on the eve of Soleminities (Catholic celebrations and Feast Days of the highest importance), Vigils are anticipated to start at 8pm
All Masses, Divine Office and other prayers take place in the Abbey Church and all members of the public are always welcome.
It's been more than 2 years since the last mass times update. Please make sure to contact the church to confirm mass times.
Please contact the church to confirm Mass Times or SUBSCRIBE to updates below
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St.Augustine's Abbey History
St Augustine's Abbey, Chilworth is one of four Benedictine monasteries from the Order of Saint Benedict in the UK forming the English Province of the international Benedictine Congregation of the Subiaco Cassinese Congregation. Other Benedictine monasteries from other Congregations exist in the UK, for example those of the English Benedictine Congregation (Ampleforth, Downside, Worth, etc). We are located within the Roman Catholic Diocese of Arundel and Brighton. Our community's foundation and first home was in Ramsgate (formerly St Augustine's Abbey, Ramsgate, 1856 - 2011) where we resided for over 150 years before relocating to our new home here in Chilworth in 2011.
Our Abbey community was founded as a result of the invitation made by Bishop Thomas Grant, the first Bishop of Southwark, to the Italian abbot Dom Pietro Casaretto, to send monks from St Benedict's own monastery at Subiaco to undertake a mission at Ramsgate.
By 1856, arrangements between Bishop Grant and Abbot Casaretto were concluded and the first monk, Dom Wilfrid Alcock, arrived to take charge at the Ramsgate mission and our initial community home which had been made possible thanks to the building of a Gothic church by the famous Gothic Revivalist architect Augustus Welby Pugin, which was donated to the Diocese of Southwark before his premature death in 1852.
The Community relocated to our current home (Chilworth near Guildford in Surrey) in November 2011 and we now live work and pray in what was a Franciscan Friary of the Order of Friars Minor (OFMs).
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By 1856, arrangements between Bishop Grant and Abbot Casaretto were concluded and the first monk, Dom Wilfrid Alcock, arrived to take charge at the Ramsgate mission and our initial community home which had been made possible thanks to the building of a Gothic church by the famous Gothic Revivalist architect Augustus Welby Pugin, which was donated to the Diocese of Southwark before his premature death in 1852.
The Community relocated to our current home (Chilworth near Guildford in Surrey) in November 2011 and we now live work and pray in what was a Franciscan Friary of the Order of Friars Minor (OFMs).
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Teach us to serve Thee
Teach us, good Lord, to serve Thee as Thou deservest: To give and not to count the cost; To fight and not to heed the wounds; To toil and not to seek for rest; To labour and not ask for any reward, save that of knowing that we do Thy will.
St.Augustine's Abbey listing was last updated on the 19th of October, 2021
