Congregatio Fratrum Misericordis Dei
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Congregation of Brothers of the Merciful Love of God - a Benedictine religious order within the Ecumenical Catholic Church in the United Kingdom
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
Baptism of the Lord — Solemn Pontifical Mass & Solemn Abbatial Blessing of Abbot-elect Julian CFMD
Celebrant: Bishop Paul • Buffet supper after • All welcome
#CFMD
January 8, 2026 at 7:19 PM
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
Baptism of the Lord — Solemn Pontifical Mass & Solemn Abbatial Blessing of Abbot-elect Julian CFMD
Celebrant: Bishop Paul • Buffet supper after • All welcome
#CFMD
Know, dear brothers and sisters,
that by God’s mercy we announce the joy of Christ’s Resurrection 2026:
✠ Ash Wednesday — 18 February
✠ Easter Sunday — 5 April
✠ Ascension of the Lord — 17 May
✠ Pentecost — 24 May
Christ is Lord of time and history — yesterday, today, and for ever. Amen.
that by God’s mercy we announce the joy of Christ’s Resurrection 2026:
✠ Ash Wednesday — 18 February
✠ Easter Sunday — 5 April
✠ Ascension of the Lord — 17 May
✠ Pentecost — 24 May
Christ is Lord of time and history — yesterday, today, and for ever. Amen.
January 6, 2026 at 5:36 PM
Know, dear brothers and sisters,
that by God’s mercy we announce the joy of Christ’s Resurrection 2026:
✠ Ash Wednesday — 18 February
✠ Easter Sunday — 5 April
✠ Ascension of the Lord — 17 May
✠ Pentecost — 24 May
Christ is Lord of time and history — yesterday, today, and for ever. Amen.
that by God’s mercy we announce the joy of Christ’s Resurrection 2026:
✠ Ash Wednesday — 18 February
✠ Easter Sunday — 5 April
✠ Ascension of the Lord — 17 May
✠ Pentecost — 24 May
Christ is Lord of time and history — yesterday, today, and for ever. Amen.
Today we keep the Feast of the Epiphany.
Some mark their doors with chalk.
Some can only pray in silence.
When no sign can be written on wood,
Christ still writes His sign in the heart.
Christus mansionem benedicat.
#Epiphany #CMB #Mercy #MonasticLife
Some mark their doors with chalk.
Some can only pray in silence.
When no sign can be written on wood,
Christ still writes His sign in the heart.
Christus mansionem benedicat.
#Epiphany #CMB #Mercy #MonasticLife
January 6, 2026 at 1:27 PM
Today we keep the Feast of the Epiphany.
Some mark their doors with chalk.
Some can only pray in silence.
When no sign can be written on wood,
Christ still writes His sign in the heart.
Christus mansionem benedicat.
#Epiphany #CMB #Mercy #MonasticLife
Some mark their doors with chalk.
Some can only pray in silence.
When no sign can be written on wood,
Christ still writes His sign in the heart.
Christus mansionem benedicat.
#Epiphany #CMB #Mercy #MonasticLife
Year’s end: one body present in the small oratory.
New Year’s Day: one heart present through a screen.
The hermitage stays simple — but grace crosses thresholds we cannot.
#OraEtLabora #Eucharist #MonasticLife
New Year’s Day: one heart present through a screen.
The hermitage stays simple — but grace crosses thresholds we cannot.
#OraEtLabora #Eucharist #MonasticLife
January 1, 2026 at 1:57 PM
Year’s end: one body present in the small oratory.
New Year’s Day: one heart present through a screen.
The hermitage stays simple — but grace crosses thresholds we cannot.
#OraEtLabora #Eucharist #MonasticLife
New Year’s Day: one heart present through a screen.
The hermitage stays simple — but grace crosses thresholds we cannot.
#OraEtLabora #Eucharist #MonasticLife
Closing 2025 with a simple prayer: Lord Jesus, teach me fidelity without an audience, love without applause, and courage for the next small step.
Happy New Year to all who walk the quiet road.
For the unseen ones: peace.
#YearEnd #NewYear #Gratitude #Prayer #Faith
Happy New Year to all who walk the quiet road.
For the unseen ones: peace.
#YearEnd #NewYear #Gratitude #Prayer #Faith
December 31, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Closing 2025 with a simple prayer: Lord Jesus, teach me fidelity without an audience, love without applause, and courage for the next small step.
Happy New Year to all who walk the quiet road.
For the unseen ones: peace.
#YearEnd #NewYear #Gratitude #Prayer #Faith
Happy New Year to all who walk the quiet road.
For the unseen ones: peace.
#YearEnd #NewYear #Gratitude #Prayer #Faith
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
On this Fifth Day of Christmas: let our tenderness be real, and our obedience unbought.
✠ #StThomasBecket #Christmastide #CFMD
December 29, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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
On this Fifth Day of Christmas: let our tenderness be real, and our obedience unbought.
✠ #StThomasBecket #Christmastide #CFMD
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
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
December 28, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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
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
Come to the manger.
Come with your hopes and your fears, your joys and your disappointments, your faith and your questions.
Come as the shepherds came — just as you are.
@bishoppaulmk.bsky.social
Come with your hopes and your fears, your joys and your disappointments, your faith and your questions.
Come as the shepherds came — just as you are.
@bishoppaulmk.bsky.social
December 25, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Come to the manger.
Come with your hopes and your fears, your joys and your disappointments, your faith and your questions.
Come as the shepherds came — just as you are.
@bishoppaulmk.bsky.social
Come with your hopes and your fears, your joys and your disappointments, your faith and your questions.
Come as the shepherds came — just as you are.
@bishoppaulmk.bsky.social
Christmas has reached our little corner of Scotland too. At St Aidan’s Mission in Kincardine we gathered around Word and Table, candlelight and prayer—rejoicing that God chooses to dwell with us. Peace to all, and a blessed Nativity. ✨🕯️ #Christmas #ECCUK
December 25, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Christmas has reached our little corner of Scotland too. At St Aidan’s Mission in Kincardine we gathered around Word and Table, candlelight and prayer—rejoicing that God chooses to dwell with us. Peace to all, and a blessed Nativity. ✨🕯️ #Christmas #ECCUK
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
December 25, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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
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
#Christmas #MidnightMass #CFMD
December 25, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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
#Christmas #MidnightMass #CFMD
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
#ChristmasEve #Incarnation #CFMD
December 24, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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
#ChristmasEve #Incarnation #CFMD
✠ 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
December 23, 2025 at 2:24 PM
✠ 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
CFMD Advent IV: Mercy first. Joseph protects Mary before he understands. The angel doesn’t hand him control—only Presence: Emmanuel. If your plans are breaking, let mercy be your obedience today. God is with us, not from a distance, but within the mess.
December 22, 2025 at 4:59 PM
CFMD Advent IV: Mercy first. Joseph protects Mary before he understands. The angel doesn’t hand him control—only Presence: Emmanuel. If your plans are breaking, let mercy be your obedience today. God is with us, not from a distance, but within the mess.
Today’s Rule of St Benedict hit hard:
“the more he is raised above the rest, the more carefully should he observe the precepts of the Rule.”
Not a prior—but in an urban hermitage, fidelity matters more, not less.
Ancient words. Current medicine.
“the more he is raised above the rest, the more carefully should he observe the precepts of the Rule.”
Not a prior—but in an urban hermitage, fidelity matters more, not less.
Ancient words. Current medicine.
December 17, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Today’s Rule of St Benedict hit hard:
“the more he is raised above the rest, the more carefully should he observe the precepts of the Rule.”
Not a prior—but in an urban hermitage, fidelity matters more, not less.
Ancient words. Current medicine.
“the more he is raised above the rest, the more carefully should he observe the precepts of the Rule.”
Not a prior—but in an urban hermitage, fidelity matters more, not less.
Ancient words. Current medicine.
Advent’s joy is not loud.
It’s the kind that survives ordinary days: work, fatigue, unanswered messages, and waiting that feels slow.
This week we light the rose candle: a small defiance against despair.
Christ is coming—also into the quiet places we thought were empty.
#Advent #Gaudete
It’s the kind that survives ordinary days: work, fatigue, unanswered messages, and waiting that feels slow.
This week we light the rose candle: a small defiance against despair.
Christ is coming—also into the quiet places we thought were empty.
#Advent #Gaudete
December 15, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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
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
December 11, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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
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
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
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
December 10, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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
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
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
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
December 9, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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
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
Small candles, growing light.
In this little oratory I wait with the Church for the mercy that is coming.
#Advent #ComeLordJesus #contemplative
In this little oratory I wait with the Church for the mercy that is coming.
#Advent #ComeLordJesus #contemplative
December 7, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Small candles, growing light.
In this little oratory I wait with the Church for the mercy that is coming.
#Advent #ComeLordJesus #contemplative
In this little oratory I wait with the Church for the mercy that is coming.
#Advent #ComeLordJesus #contemplative
Advent has already begun in Fr Chris's little urban hermitage: a handmade wreath, one small flame in the dark, and a quiet promise of prayer for all who feel far from church, far from home, or far from hope. Christ is already on the way. 🕯️
#Advent #UrbanHermitage #Catholic #Prayer
#Advent #UrbanHermitage #Catholic #Prayer
December 1, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Advent has already begun in Fr Chris's little urban hermitage: a handmade wreath, one small flame in the dark, and a quiet promise of prayer for all who feel far from church, far from home, or far from hope. Christ is already on the way. 🕯️
#Advent #UrbanHermitage #Catholic #Prayer
#Advent #UrbanHermitage #Catholic #Prayer
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
For every Eucharist, confession, word of counsel and quiet presence along the way – thank you.
Please keep him in your prayers.
#priesthood #prayer #CFMD
November 30, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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
For every Eucharist, confession, word of counsel and quiet presence along the way – thank you.
Please keep him in your prayers.
#priesthood #prayer #CFMD
“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
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
November 28, 2025 at 9:09 AM
“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
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