Quiet Days in 2025

Due to our planned building maintenance work, we will not be hosting any Quiet Days in the first half of 2025. However, we are planning to continue the program in the Autumn with the 6th of September, 4th of October and 8th of November as provisional dates. This page will be updated with speakers in … Read more

Access for All – Mynediad i Bawb

Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. + Matthew 7.7 WILL YOU HELP TYMAWR EXTEND ITS WELCOME? With a target to raise £250,000 in 2 years, Tymawr aims to make sure that no-one is prevented from coming to use the … Read more

Holy Week and Easter

You are welcome to attend any of the services. It would help us in our preparations if you could email Sr Elizabeth at to let us know. Thank you. Palm Sunday Fulfilling His Work 6.30 Silent Prayer 7.00 Morning Prayer 8.45 Terce 11.45 Procession of Palms and Eucharist 5.15 Evening Prayer 7.45 Silent Prayer 8.15 … Read more

Quiet Days in 2024

Please book your place for each Quiet Day by email to or by post to The Chaplain, Tymawr Convent, Lydart, Monmouth NP25 4RN. The date of the September Quiet Day has been changed to the 14th with a new speaker – the Right Reverend Graham James: ‘Cross and Cosmos’.

“God of sense and sensibility” in the Church Times

This is the full text of an article that appeared in the Church Times on 22 September 2023 For Creationtide, Sister Joanna Hollins makes the case for ecology as prayer I HAVE a confession. Like St Thérèse of Lisieux, I am prone to falling asleep during silent prayer. I arrive with good intentions: perhaps today … Read more