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

“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

Photographs in Granta Magazine

Suzie Howell is a photographer based in London. Since 2019 she has visited Tymawr a number of times to pursue a photographic work exploring “themes of belonging, choice, feminism, our connection to space, land and time and how much of ourselves we’re willing to reveal to other people.” The sisters have sat for portraits for … Read more

Photos from the Centenary

The sisters with their 100th birthday cake after the Centenary Celebration Eucharist at St. Woolos Cathedral, Newport, on 20 May. The service was live-streamed and is available to view on YouTube. The group on the St. Melangell Pilgrimage, 22-24 May 2023.

“All Things Considered” on BBC Radio Wales

“A life of prayer, silence, space and time”, recorded at Tymawr Convent in August 2021First broadcast on BBC Radio Wales on 19th September 2021Presenter: Mary StallardProducer: Stuart Robinson Sr Joanna SSC adds: We recorded this in late August, 2021. At the time of recording there were three novices and five solemnly professed sisters – I … Read more