...News reaches us that Prinknash [for pronunciation try 'spinach' with appropriate amendment] Abbey is to close - or at least the community is to move elsewhere - there no longer being sufficient monks to make a go of the place.
This is terribly sad news. Not so much in the loss the place - the external aspect of the Abbey is that of an ugly block of flats jammed into a pretty hill - but that there are clearly no longer enough men willing to have a crack at the monastic life.
In the report it is said that the building is to be converted into 'sheltered housing.' Very worthy no doubt and a local asset in that regard. But as a sheltering house of the living spirit of worship and witness that was much more the thing.
If ever the world needed monks it needs them now.
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